Privacy & Cookies

Last updated: 10 November 2026

Who is responsible?

This website (vintagefootballshirts.be) is the personal website of a private collector of vintage football shirts. It is not a webshop and nothing here is sold. You can also reach us through Instagram.

Cookies and similar technologies

Apart from what you choose to allow below, this website places no cookies on your device.

Name	Purpose	Duration	Consent needed?
`vfs_admin`	Keeps the site owner logged in to the admin panel. Visitors never receive it.	12 hours (up to 90 days if the owner chooses to stay logged in)	No, strictly necessary
`vfs-consent` (browser storage)	Remembers your choice about statistics, so we don't ask again on every page.	12 months	No, it only stores your choice
`_ga`, `_ga_*` (Google Analytics)	Tell visits apart so we can count visitors and pages. Contain a random number, no name or email.	Up to 2 years	Yes: set only if you accept statistics

Statistics (Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager)

With your consent we measure how the website is used, for example which shirts and pages are viewed, so we can see what visitors find interesting. This is our legitimate wish to improve the website, but because it uses cookies we only do it with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and the Belgian Electronic Communications Act).

What is measured: pages viewed, time on the site, the website you came from, approximate location (country and region), type of device, browser and language, and a random cookie identifier. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses.
What we do not do: no advertising, no remarketing, no profiling, no sharing with advertisers, no Google signals and no combining with other data. We do not try to identify you.
Retention: statistics are kept for a maximum of 2 months.
Before you choose: until you click “Accept statistics”, no connection to Google is made and no cookies are set. If you decline, nothing changes for you and you can use the whole website.
Who processes it: Google Ireland Limited acts as our processor. Data may be transferred to Google LLC in the United States, which is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and bound by standard contractual clauses. See Google's privacy policy.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time, as easily as you gave it:

Instagram

This website contains links to our Instagram profile, but no Instagram content is loaded here and no connection to Instagram or Meta is made until you click such a link. From then on Instagram's own privacy policy applies.

What else we collect

Server logs. Like any website, our hosting provider's servers briefly record technical data such as your IP address, the page requested and the time. This is used to keep the site secure and working (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) and is not used to profile you.
Messages. When you contact us via Instagram or email we receive what you send. We use it only to answer you, to discuss a shirt or a swap, or to give an authenticity opinion. Photos you send are used only for that purpose and deleted on request. Messages on Instagram are also processed by Meta under its own policy.
This website has no forms and no accounts for visitors and no advertising.

Who else processes data?

Our hosting provider, which runs the website for us as a processor.
Instagram (Meta Platforms), when you message us there or follow our profile.
Google, for the statistics, only if you accept them.

We do not sell your data.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, correct or delete your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, to withdraw consent at any time and to data portability. Contact us to use these rights. You can also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit), Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be.

Changes

If we add something that processes data, we will update this page and ask for your consent first where required.