Our Cookie Policy

This page is meant to help you understand who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This Policy should be read together with the Cohabs™ Privacy Policy.

Cohabs™ Cookie Policy

Please read this cookie policy (“Policy”) carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This Policy should be read together with the Cohabs™ Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal data generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

Who we are

This website is operated by Cohabs Services SA (referred to as Cohabs™, us, our, we in this Policy). Cohabs™ is a provider of a new co-living experience centered around flexibility, convenience and happiness. For more information please visit our Vision page.

Our website

This Policy relates to your use of our website, which is available at: www.cohabs.com (the “Website”), and our app Cohabs ™ (the “App”), which is available in the Apple Store and Google Play.

Throughout our Website and our App we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

We store your customer data in our storage tool named Segment.io, Inc.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. Cookies are widely used to make websites work or to work in a more efficient way, as well as to provide information to website owners.

Different types of cookies

Cookies come in several formats, which can be described as follows:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Consent to use cookies and changing settings

We will ask for your explicit permission (Consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.

You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by using the icon on our website. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.

Cookies used by Cohabs™

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

Third party cookies

Sometimes, other third-party websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter place cookies on our website without our consent (for example when you are logged in as a user of those third party platforms which "follow" your internet movements). We do not authorise third-party cookies placed without our consent and are not responsible for unauthorised third-party cookies. Indeed, all third-party cookies suppliers are solely responsible for the cookies they set on our website. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and encourage you to check the cookie policy of all the websites that you visit. To disable or reject third party cookies you must go to the relevant third party's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites (including our website), visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How to turn off all cookies and the consequences of doing so

If you do not want to accept any cookies, as well as using our icon tool which will control the cookies on our website, you may also be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted when you use the Internet generally.

You can find out how to manage cookies for the following browsers by visiting the links below:

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Internet Explorer Apple Safari If you need information about other browsers, please visit the browser developer's website. In the event that you disable certain cookies, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

How to contact us

François Samyn is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this cookie policy. If you have any questions about this cookie policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact François Samyn using the details below:

Full name of legal entity: Cohabs Services SA Email address: gdpr@cohabs.com Postal Address: Avenue Louise 222, box 13, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Registered Office: Avenue Louise 222, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Autorité de protection des données (APD), the Belgian supervisory authority for data protection issues or to your local supervisory authority.

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the APD, or any other such supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.