COOKIE POLICY

What is a cookie?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages from this website [en/of Flash-applicaties] and is stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers during your next visit.

Use of permanent cookies

A permanent cookie allows us to recognize you when you visit our website again. The website can therefore be adjusted to your preferences. Even if you have given permission for the installation of cookies, we can remember this by means of a cookie. This saves you having to repeat your preferences each time you visit, thus saving you time and making our website more enjoyable to use. Permanent cookies can be deleted through the settings of your browser.

Use of session cookies

A session cookie allows us to see which parts of the website you have viewed with this visit. This enables us to adapt our service as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser. Tracking cookies from ourselves With your permission, we place a cookie on your equipment, which can be retrieved as soon as you visit a website from our network. This enables us to know that, in addition to our website, you have also visited the relevant website(s) from our network. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, e-mail address and the like, but only serves to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant to you as possible.

Tracking cookies from our advertisers

With your permission, our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your equipment. They use these cookies to track which pages you visit from their network in order to build up a profile of your online surfing behavior. This profile is built partly based on similar information they get from your visits to other websites from their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address and the like as known to us, but only serves to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant to you as possible.

Google analytics

Through our website a cookie is set by the U.S. company Google, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and receive reports on how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. We have no influence on this. We do/do not allow Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.

The information collected by Google is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is expressly not given. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

Our website includes buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work by means of pieces of code that come from Facebook and Twitter respectively. Cookies are placed by means of this code. We have no influence on this. Please read the privacy statements of Facebook and Twitter (which may change regularly) to read what they do with your personal data that they process via these cookies.

“The information they collect is anonymized as much as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by Twitter, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn on servers in the United States. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google + claim to adhere to Privacy Shield principles and are members of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield program. This implies an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.”

Right to access and correct or delete your data

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. Please see our contact page. To prevent misuse we may ask you to provide adequate identification. When it comes to access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in the settings of your browser.

Enabling, disabling and deleting cookies

More information regarding enabling, disabling and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or using your browser’s Help function.”

Removal of tracking cookies placed by third parties

Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties who, among other things, display advertisements to you through our website. You can delete these cookies centrally via Your Online Choices so that they are not placed back at a third-party website.”

More information about cookies?

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

– ICTRecht: Background Cookie Law
– Consumers’ Association: “What are cookies?”
– Consumers’ Association: “What are cookies for?”
– Consumers’ Association: “Deleting cookies”
– Consumers’ Association: “Disabling cookies”
– Your Online Choices: “A guide to online behavioral advertising