What is a cookie?
Our website makes use of cookies. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages of this website [and/or Flash applications] and stored by your browser onto the hard disk of your computer. The information stored in the cookie can be sent back to our servers during your next visit.
Different types of cookies
We distinguish between functional and non-functional cookies. We always store functional cookies. These are required for the proper functioning of the website. For example, they keep you logged in on the website, if you wish to be. In addition to functional cookies, we also use standard analytical cookies. This is an example of a non-functional cookie. It is not required for the proper functioning of the website. It lets us know which website components are popular and which areas of our website need improvement. Only if you agree to us using cookies, we will also store a number of other non-functional cookies. They each serve a different purpose, but they all allow us to improve our service. We use cookies to show online surveys on our website, to test improvement to our website, to display social media buttons or to show relevant ads for our services on other websites.
Use of permanent cookies
By using a permanent cookie, we can recognize you when you next visit our website. This allows the website to be configured to your preferences. If you have given permission for the use of cookies, we can remember this preference through a cookie. This makes it so you do not have to repeatedly indicate your preferences, saving you time and giving you a more pleasant experience of our website. Permanent cookies can be deleted using your browser settings.
Use of session cookies
By using a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you viewed during that particular visit. This allows us to customize our service to the browsing behaviour of our visitors. These cookies are deleted automatically after you close your web browser.
Our tracking cookies
With your permission, we store a cookie on your device. This cookie can be requested when you visit a website from our network. This allows us to find out if you visited any of the other website(s) from our network, in addition to our own website. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, email address and such, but only serves to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are relevant to you.
Tracking cookies from our advertisers
With your permission, our advertisers store tracking cookies on your device. They use these cookies to keep track of which pages you visit from their network and to create a profile of your online browsing behaviour. This profile is partly based on similar information they receive from your visits to other websites from their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address and such, but only serves to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are relevant to you.
Google Analytics
Our website stores a cookie from the American company Google as part of their Analytics service. We use this service to keep track of and receive reports on how visitors use the website. Google can make this data available to third parties if Google is legally obligated to do so or insofar third parties process the data on behalf of Google. We have no influence on this. We have not permitted Google to use the obtained analytics data for other Google services.
The data collected by Google is depersonalised as much as possible. Your IP address is expressly not collected. The data is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google undertakes to comply to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield programme of the American Ministry of Trade. This means they offer an adequate protection level for the processing of any personal data.
Social media
Our website included buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work thanks to pieces of code belonging to Facebook and Twitter, respectively. This code stores cookies. We have no influence on this. Please read the privacy statements of Facebook and Twitter (which may be updated regularly) to read about how they use the (personal) data they process through these cookies.
The data collected by them is depersonalised as much as possible. The data is transferred to and stored by Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn on servers in the United States. Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn undertake to comply to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield programme of the American Ministry of Trade. This means they offer an adequate protection level for the processing of any personal data.
Right to access and correction or deletion of your data
You have the right to request access to and correction of or deletion of your data. Please see our privacy statement, which can be found on the website. To prevent misuse, we may ask you for adequate identification. If the case concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, we ask you to include a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings.
Deletion of cookies
If you do not wish our website to use cookies, you can indicate your preference in the cookie notification shown upon your first visit to our website. If you have previously accepted our cookies, you are no longer shown this notification and you have to remove our cookies first. For more information regarding turning cookies on and off and deleting them, please see the instructions below and/or use the Help function of your browser.
Delete tracking cookies stored by third parties
Some tracking cookies are stored by third parties to show you advertisements, among other things, on our website. These cookies can be deleted centrally through Your Online Choices, which prevents them from being re-used on a third-party website. Please see below for more information.
More information on cookies?
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