Cookie Policy

This website is operated by:

DUXCHA BV, trading as YŌKO Café, Vorstermanstraat 4A, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Enterprise/VAT number: BE 1033.736.819. Email: info@yokocafe.be.

Cookies are small data files that can be stored on your device when you visit a website. We may also use similar technologies that allow information about your device or your interactions with our website to be collected or transmitted.

Some of these technologies are necessary for the website to work properly. Others may be used for purposes such as advertising and measuring the effectiveness of our campaigns.

In this Cookie Policy, we use the term “cookies” to refer to cookies and similar tracking technologies unless stated otherwise.

Strictly necessary

Strictly necessary technologies are required for the basic operation, security or functionality of our website. They may, for example, be necessary to:

• maintain the security and integrity of the website;
• remember your cookie preferences;
• provide functionality that you explicitly request; or
• ensure that forms and essential website features function correctly.

Where these technologies are strictly necessary to provide the website or a service you have requested, they do not require your consent. You cannot disable strictly necessary technologies through our cookie preference centre where they are required for the website to function.

Marketing and advertising

With your consent, we use marketing and advertising technologies to measure our advertising campaigns and understand actions taken after someone sees or interacts with a YŌKO advertisement.

This includes technologies provided by Meta Platforms, such as the Meta Pixel and Meta Conversions API. These technologies may allow information about your interactions with our website to be linked to advertising activity on services such as Facebook and Instagram.

Marketing and advertising technologies are disabled by default and are only activated after you give your consent where consent is required.

With your consent, our website uses the Meta Pixel, provided by Meta. The Meta Pixel helps us:

• measure visits and actions on our website;
• understand whether someone took an action after seeing or clicking a YŌKO advertisement;
• measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns;
• improve our advertising; and
• where enabled and permitted, create or use advertising audiences.

Depending on the configuration and your consent, information processed through the Meta Pixel may include information about pages you visit, actions taken on our website, browser and device information, IP address, cookie or similar identifiers, referral information, and information relating to advertising interactions.

Information collected through Meta’s technologies may be transmitted to and processed by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and other Meta entities in accordance with Meta’s applicable terms and privacy information.

The Meta Pixel is not activated for marketing or advertising purposes until you provide the required consent.

We also use the Meta Conversions API (“CAPI”). CAPI allows certain website events or conversion information to be transmitted from our systems directly to Meta rather than relying solely on information sent through your browser.

We use CAPI to help measure advertising performance, attribute website conversions to advertising campaigns, improve the reliability of conversion measurement, and optimise our advertising campaigns.

Depending on our technical configuration, information transmitted through CAPI may include information relating to website events and identifiers used to match those events with Meta services.

Where consent is required for the relevant advertising or tracking activity, we respect your cookie and tracking choice when determining whether information is transmitted to Meta for these purposes. CAPI is not used as a means of bypassing your cookie or privacy choices.

When you first visit our website, you will be shown a cookie banner. You can choose to:

• Accept all – allow both strictly necessary and optional marketing technologies;
• Reject non-essential – use the website without optional marketing technologies; or
• Manage preferences – view more information and choose which optional categories you want to allow.

Strictly necessary technologies remain active because they are required for the website or services you request to function. Optional marketing and advertising technologies remain disabled unless and until you actively consent to them.

Refusing optional cookies will not prevent you from accessing the YŌKO website or participating in YŌKO promotions when we run them.

You can change your cookie choices or withdraw your consent at any time. A Cookie settings link is available on our website and allows you to reopen the cookie preference centre.

Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn. When you withdraw your consent, we will stop using optional technologies for the purposes to which you no longer consent.

Please note that cookies or information already stored on your device may need to be removed or expire separately depending on the technology concerned.

Our website uses the following categories of technologies:

Strictly necessary

Technologies required for website functionality, security and remembering your cookie preferences. Provider: YŌKO Café and relevant website infrastructure providers. Purpose: website operation, security and consent management. Consent required: No, where strictly necessary.

Meta advertising technologies

Provider: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited / Meta Platforms. Technologies: Meta Pixel and Meta Conversions API. Purpose: advertising measurement, conversion attribution and advertising optimisation. Category: Marketing / Advertising. Consent required: Yes, where required by applicable law.

The exact cookies, identifiers and retention periods used by these technologies may depend on their configuration and may change over time. We periodically review the technologies used on our website and update this Cookie Policy where necessary.

Some technologies used on our website are provided by third parties. In particular, Meta may process information received through Meta Business Tools for its own purposes in accordance with its applicable privacy terms.

For more information about how Meta processes personal data and the choices available to Meta users, please consult Meta’s own privacy information.

Some of our technology providers operate internationally. As a result, information collected through cookies or similar technologies may be processed outside Belgium or the European Economic Area.

Where required, appropriate legal safeguards or transfer mechanisms must be used in accordance with applicable data protection law. Further information about international data transfers is available in our Privacy Policy.

We may update this Cookie Policy when the cookies or technologies used on our website change, we add or remove service providers, the purposes for which technologies are used change, or legal or regulatory requirements change.

The latest version will always be available on our website. The “Last updated” date at the top indicates when this Cookie Policy was most recently revised.

If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, you can contact:

DUXCHA BV / YŌKO Café, Vorstermanstraat 4A, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Enterprise/VAT number: BE 1033.736.819. Email: info@yokocafe.be.