Solicitors

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 15 April 2025

1. About Cookies

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are used by website operators to enable functionality, remember preferences, analyse site usage, and support advertising. Cookies cannot execute programs and cannot deliver malicious software to your device.

TrustGuard Solicitors uses cookies on our website at trustguard-solicitors.eu in compliance with EU Directive 2009/136/EC (the ePrivacy Directive) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This policy explains which cookies we use, why, and how you can manage your preferences.

2. Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • To ensure the website operates correctly and efficiently for all visitors.
  • To remember and store your cookie consent preferences.
  • To understand how visitors navigate and use our website, so we can improve the user experience and content.
  • To enable advertising measurement and retargeting functionality where you have provided your explicit consent.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Type Purpose Retention
Strictly Necessary These cookies are essential for the website to function correctly. They enable navigation between pages, access to secure areas, and the storage of your session state. Without these cookies, certain features of the website cannot function and your cookie consent choice cannot be saved. Session to 12 months
Functional / Preference These cookies remember choices you have made on our website — such as your cookie consent preference and display settings — and allow the website to provide enhanced and personalised features on your return visits. Up to 12 months
Analytics We use analytics cookies to collect aggregated, anonymised information about how visitors use our website — including which pages are viewed most frequently and how visitors navigate through the site. This information helps us improve the website's content and functionality. Analytics cookies are placed only with your consent. Up to 26 months
Advertising / Marketing These cookies track your browsing activity and are used to display relevant advertisements on other websites and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. They help prevent you from seeing the same advertisements repeatedly. Advertising cookies are placed only with your explicit consent. Up to 90 days

4. Third-Party Cookies

Certain third-party services integrated into our website may also set cookies. These include:

  • Google Analytics: Used to collect anonymised data about website traffic and user behaviour to help us improve our website. Subject to Google's Privacy Policy.
  • Google Ads (via Google Tag Manager): Used to measure advertising campaign performance and to enable conversion tracking where consent has been granted.
  • Google Maps: Our contact page embeds a Google Maps component that may set cookies related to Google's mapping service when the map is loaded.

TrustGuard Solicitors does not control third-party cookies. For information on how these services handle your data, please consult their respective privacy and cookie policies.

5. Your Consent and Cookie Preferences

When you first visit our website, you are presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept all cookies, accept only strictly necessary cookies, or decline optional cookies. Your preference is stored for up to 30 days, after which you may be asked again.

You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser's cookies and revisiting our website. You may also manage cookies through your browser settings.

6. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website. Instructions are available for:

  • Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
  • Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data
  • Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
  • Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions

You can also opt out of Google Analytics across all websites by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

7. Legal Basis for Cookie Use

Strictly necessary cookies are placed on the legal basis of legitimate interests, as they are essential for the basic operation of our website. Analytics and advertising cookies are placed on the basis of your explicit consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of any processing based on consent prior to withdrawal.

8. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. The current version, with the date of the most recent update, will always be available on this page.

9. Contact

For any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy:
office@trustguard-solicitors.eu
TrustGuard Solicitors, Avenue Louise 65, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

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