Cookies

What is a cookie?
We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent with pages from this website [and / or Flash applications] and stored by your browser on your hard drive from your computer. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit.

Different types of cookies
We distinguish between functional and non-functional cookies. We always place functional cookies. These are necessary for the website to work properly. For example, they ensure that you can stay logged in on the website if you wish. In addition to functional cookies, we also place standard analytical cookies. This is an example of a non-functional cookie. He is not required for the proper functioning of the website. This way we know which website parts are popular and in which places we can improve our website. Only when you agree to the placing of cookies, we also place a number of other non-functional cookies. These all have different purposes, but enable us to improve our services. For example, we use cookies to display online surveys on our website, to test improvements on our website, to show social media buttons or to show relevant advertisements for our services on other websites.

Use of permanent cookies
With the help of a permanent cookie we can recognize you at a new visit on our website. The website can therefore be specially tailored to your preferences. Even when you have given permission for the placing of cookies, we can remember this by means of a cookie. Because of this you do not have to repeat your preferences, so you save time and make a better use of our website. You can delete permanent cookies via the settings of your browser.

Use of session cookies
Using a session cookie we can see which parts of the website you have viewed with this visit. We can adjust our service as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your web browser.

Tracking cookies of ourselves
With your consent we place a cookie on your equipment, which can be requested as soon as you visit a website from our network. This allows us to find out that you have been on our other website (s) in addition to our website. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, e-mail address, etc., but only serves to match advertisements to your profile, so that they are as relevant as possible for you.

Tracking cookies from our advertisers
With your permission our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your equipment. They use these cookies to keep track of which pages you visit from their network, in order to build up a profile of your online surfing behavior. This profile is also built on the basis of comparable information that they receive from your visit to other websites from their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, e-mail address and the like as known to us, but only serves to match advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant as possible to you.

Google Analytics
Through our website a cookie is placed from the American company Google, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and get reports on how visitors use the website. 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. We have not allowed Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.

The information that Google collects is anonymised as much as possible. Your IP address is emphatically not given. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google maintains the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data. ”

Social media
On our website buttons are included to promote web pages (“like”) or share (“tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work through pieces of code that come from Facebook or Twitter itself. Cookies are placed through this code. We have no influence on that. Read the privacy statement of Facebook or Twitter (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies.

The information they collect is anonymised as much as possible. The information is transferred to and through Twitter, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn stored on servers in the United States. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google + adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

Right to inspect and correct or delete your data
You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. See our privacy policy that can be found on the website. To prevent abuse we can ask you to adequately identify you. When it comes to access to personal data linked to a cookie, you need to send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find it in the settings of your browser.

Removal of cookies
If you do not want to have cookies from our website, then you can choose this in the cookie notification that you will see when you visit our website for the first time. If you have previously accepted our cookies, you will no longer see this message and you must first delete our cookies. More information about switching on and off and removing cookies can be found in the instructions below and / or using the help function of your browser.

Removing tracking cookies posted by third parties
Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties that show advertisements to you via our website. These cookies can be centrally removed via Your Online Choices, so that they are not returned to a third-party website. See below.

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

Consumentenbond: “What are cookies?”
Consumers’ association: “Delete cookies”
Your Online Choices: “A guide to online behavioral advertising”