Cookies

1. What is a cookie?

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

2. Use of permanent cookies

With the help of a permanent cookie, we can recognize you when you visit our website again. The website can therefore be specially set to your preferences. Even when you have given permission for the placement of cookies, we can remember this by means of a cookie. This means that you do not have to repeat your preferences every time, which saves you time and makes using our website more pleasant. You can delete permanent cookies via the settings of your browser.

3. Use of session cookies

With the help of a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you have viewed during this visit. This allows us to adapt our services as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

4. Tracking cookies

With your permission, we place a cookie on your device. This can be requested as soon as you visit a website from our network. This allows us to know that, in addition to our website, you have also visited the relevant other website(s) from our network. The profile that is built up as a result is not linked to your name, address, email address and the like, but only serves to tailor content to your profile, so that it is as relevant to you as possible.

5. Tracking cookies from our advertisers

With your permission, our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your device. They use these cookies to keep track of which pages you visit from their network, in order to build a profile of your online surfing behavior. This profile is also built up on the basis of comparable information that they receive 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.

6. Google Analytics

A cookie from the American company Google is placed via our website, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track how visitors use the website and to receive reports on this. Google may provide this information to third parties, if Google is legally obliged to do so, or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence on this. The information that Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not provided. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the American Department of Commerce. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

7. Social media

Our website includes buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks. These buttons work by means of pieces of code that originate from the social media themselves. Cookies are placed by means of this code. We have no influence on this. Please read the privacy statement of the social media to read 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 to and by Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn and stored on servers in the United States. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google+ state that they adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are affiliated with the Privacy Shield programme of the US Department of Commerce.

8. Right to access and correct or delete your data

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. See our contact page for this. In order to prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself adequately. When it concerns 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.

9. Enabling and disabling cookies and deleting them

More information about enabling and disabling and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or by using the Help function of your browser.

10. Removing tracking cookies placed by third parties

Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties who, among other things, show you advertisements via our website. You can remove these cookies centrally via Your Online Choices, so that they are not placed back on a third-party website.
Your Online Choices: “A guide to online behavioural advertising"