Cookie statement

1. What is a cookie?

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

2. Use of permanent cookies

Using a permanent cookie allows us to recognise you during a new visit to our website. This enables the website to be tailored to your preferences. If you have given consent for cookies, we can remember this using a cookie. As a result, you don't have to repeat your preferences each time, saving you time and making our website easier to use. Permanent cookies can be removed through your browser settings.

3. Use of session cookies

Session cookies allow us to see which parts of the website you viewed during this visit. This enables us to adapt our services as much as possible to our visitors' browsing behaviour. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your web browser.

4. Tracking cookies from us

With your permission, we place a cookie on your device that can be accessed when you visit a website in our network. This allows us to learn that you have also visited the relevant other website(s) in our network in addition to our own. The profile built as a result is not linked to your name, address, email address, and so on, but is solely used to tailor ads to your profile so that they are as relevant as possible to you.

5. Tracking cookies from our advertisers

With your permission, our advertisers place "tracking cookies" on your device. They use these cookies to track which pages you visit in their network to build a profile of your online browsing behaviour. This profile is also partly constructed based on comparable information they receive from your visits to other websites in their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address, and such as known to us but is solely used to tailor ads to your profile so that they are as relevant as possible to you.

6. Google Analytics

Our website places a cookie from the American 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 obliged to do so, or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence over this. We have allowed/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 explicitly not shared. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is a member of the Privacy Shield programme of the US Department of Commerce. This means there is an adequate 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 such as Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). These buttons work through pieces of code provided by Facebook and Twitter themselves. This code places cookies. We have no influence over this. Please read the privacy policies of Facebook and Twitter (which may change regularly) to learn what they do with your (personal) data processed through these cookies.

The information they collect is anonymised 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+ adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are members of the Privacy Shield programme of the US Department of Commerce. This means there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

8. Right to access, correct, or delete your data

You have the right to request access to, correction, or deletion of your data. Please refer to our contact page for this. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. If it concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must include a copy of the relevant cookie. You can find this in your browser settings.

9. Enabling and disabling cookies and their removal

More information about enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies can be found in your browser's instructions or by using its Help function.

10. Removing tracking cookies placed by third parties

Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties that display advertisements to you via our website. You can delete or permanently block these cookies through your browser settings.

11. More information about cookies?

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

• Consumentenbond: What are cookies?
• Consumentenbond: How to delete cookies: step-by-step guide
• Consumentenbond: Blocking tracking cookies with an ad blocker