What is a cookie?
We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages from this website [and/or Flash applications] and is stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit.
Functional cookies
With the help of a functional cookie we can recognize you when you visit our website again. The website can therefore be specially set to your preferences. We can also remember this by means of a cookie if you have given permission for the placing of cookies. In this way you do not have to keep repeating your preferences, which saves you time and allows you to use our website more pleasantly. Functional cookies can be removed via the settings of your browser.
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies are used to see which parts of the website you have viewed during this visit. In this way we can adapt our service(s) as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
Google Analytics
We use the ''Analytics'' service of the American company Google. A cookie from Google is placed via our website. In this way we can keep track of 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 insofar as third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We have no influence on this. We have not allowed Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.
Google anonymises the collected information as much as possible. Your IP address is 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 US Department of Commerce. In this way there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Social networks
We have included buttons on our website to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The buttons work by means of pieces of code that come from Facebook or Twitter respectively. Cookies are placed with this code. We have no influence on that. Read the privacy statement of Facebook and Twitter respectively (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies.
These parties anonymize the collected information 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 affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. In this way there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Right to view and correct or delete your data
You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. Our contact details can be found on our contact page. We may ask you to identify yourself, we do this to prevent misuse. If you want to inspect personal data linked to a cookie, we ask you to send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in the settings of your browser.
Switching cookies on and off and deleting them
More information about enabling and disabling and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or using the Help function of your browser.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES?
You can find more information about cookies on the following websites:
Your Online Choices: “A guide to online behavioral advertising"
Consumers Association: “What are cookies and What are cookies for?"
Consumers Association: “Delete Cookies and Disable Cookies”