What is a cookie?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent with the pages of this website and saved on your computer’s hard drive by your browser. The information saved in it can be sent back to our servers on a future visit to the website.

How we use cookies

Cookies enable a website to function effectively and provide an insight into visitor behaviour on the website. This information can be used to improve web services and your user experience on a website. Cookies do not pose a threat to the security of your computer.

What types of cookies do we use?

Use of permanent cookies

We can recognise you on a future visit to our website with the aid of a permanent cookie. The website can therefore be tailored especially to your preferences. Cookies also help us remember if you have given permission for the use of cookies. You therefore need not keep repeating your preferences, so you save time and have a better user experience on our website. You can delete permanent cookies via your browser settings.

Use of session cookies

We can see which parts of the website you viewed on this visit with the aid of a session cookie. We can therefore adapt our service to the surfing habits of our visitors as much as possible. These cookies are automatically removed as soon as you close your web browser.

Use of our own tracking cookies

With your permission, we place a cookie on your device, which can be retrieved as soon as you visit a website in our network. This way, we can ascertain that you also visited other relevant website(s) in our network in addition to our website. The profile that is developed as a result is not linked to your name, address, email address, etc. but serves only to tailor advertisements to your profile, so these are as relevant to you as possible.

Tracking cookies from our advertisers

Our advertisers place tracking cookies on your device with your permission. They use these cookies to monitor which pages from their network you visit in order to build a profile of your online surfing habits. This profile is developed partly based on similar information they get from your visits to other websites in their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address, etc. which are known to us, but serves only to tailor advertisements to your profile so these are as relevant to you as possible.

Google Analytics

Our website places a cookie from American company Google as part of the Analytics service. We use this service to monitor and produce reports on how visitors use the website. Google can provide this information to third parties if Google has a legal obligation to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence over this. We have not given Google permission to use the analytics information obtained for other Google services. 

The information that Google collects is anonymised as much as possible. Specifically, your IP address is not provided. The information is transferred by and to Google and stored on servers in the United States. Google states that it abides by the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the United States Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield programme. This means an appropriate level of protection is in place for the processing of any personal data.

Social media buttons

Our website has social media buttons for promoting (liking) or sharing (tweeting) web pages on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. These buttons work by means of pieces of code that come from Facebook and Twitter themselves respectively. Cookies are placed by means of this code. We have no influence over this. Please read the privacy policies of Facebook and Twitter respectively (which may change regularly) to find out what they do with your (personal) data which they process via these cookies.”

“The information they collect is anonymised as much as possible. The information is transferred by and to Twitter, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn and stored on servers in the United States. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google + state that they abide by the Privacy Shield principles and are affiliated with the United States Department of Trade’s Privacy Shield programme. This means an appropriate level of protection is in place for the processing of any personal data.

The right to view your data or have it corrected or deleted

You have the right to make a request to view and or have your data corrected or deleted. See our contact page for this. We may ask you for appropriate identification to prevent abuse. If it relates to personal data linked to a cookie, you need to send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find it in your browser settings.

Enabling, disabling and deleting cookies

You can find more information about enabling, disabling and deleting cookies in the instructions and/or with the aid of your browser’s Help function.

Deleting tracking cookies placed by third parties

Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties who show you advertisements via our website, amongst others. You can delete these cookies centrally via Your Online Choices so they are not sent back to third party websites.

More information about cookies

You can find more information about cookies on the following website:

www.aboutcookies.org

Amendments to cookie policy

This cookie policy may be amended in the interim to announce changes and subsequent implications in respect of the collection and management of data. If changes are made to this document, you will be able to see when changes were last made by the date at the bottom of the document. We reserve the right to make changes to the way in which we handle data and to amend the conditions as described in this cookie policy and to apply those changes to all your data. By visiting our website, you agree to the conditions of the cookie policy as they apply at that time.

 

December 2019