Cookies

The Cookie Law is an important part of the new Privacy Law, or the AVG (General Data Protection Regulation) which will come into effect in May 2018 as the successor of the Personal Data Protection Act. Read what the General Data Protection Regulation still has more influence on your online marketing activities.

What does the Dutch Cookie Law exactly mean?

Websites must request permission from visitors for the placement of cookies. Cookies are small files that websites place on your computer during visits. The Cookie Act makes an exception for cookies that are not privacy-sensitive. For example, for cookies that track visitor numbers.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that stores a website on your computer or mobile device when you visit that site. For example, the website remembers the pages you have visited and your preferences (such as username, language, font size and other preferences) so that you do not have to fill them out every time you visit the site.

What do cookies do?

Cookies make it possible to recognize your web browser. Handy, because then you do not have to enter your data again and again, indicate preferences or adjust your settings. In this way we can also make our website work better, we can gain insight into the visitor behavior on the website and other parties can gain insight into your surfing behavior so that they can show personalized advertisements about multiple websites and can leave non-revelant advertisements. Cookies do not jeopardize the security of your computer.

Different cookies

Cookies can be divided into functional and non-functional cookies.

• Functional cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the website or ensure that the desired information is shown to you quickly and correctly every time you visit our website. Handy, because then you do not have to enter your data again and again, indicate preferences or adjust your settings. These are for example files that keep track of what is in a shopping cart or applications that secure the website.
• The non-functional cookies serve to inform us about the number of visitors to the website and the way in which these visitors use the website. We can use this information to further improve the website.

We distinguish between different types of non-functional cookies:

• Analytical cookies
  We use this to analyze how our website is used, for example how often our website is visited, on which page you arrive on our website, on which pages the most is clicked. If the analytical cookies do not have a major impact on privacy, permission does not need to be asked, otherwise it is. Our website places a cookie 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 / 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. “
• Tracking cookies
  These are cookies that can follow your surfing behavior on our website. In this way, advertisers can display personalized online advertisements based on your surfing habits. Permission is always required to place these cookies. By continuing to use this website you automatically accept these cookies. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, e-mail address and the like, but only serves to match advertisements to your profile, so that they are as relevant as possible for you.We do not use cookies on other sites display appropriate advertisements or to make targeted offers to you. 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 berry
• Social media plug-in cookies
  Social media plug-in cookies are used to display content from social media on our website. To place these cookies we ask for your permission. 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.

Right to inspect and correct or delete your data

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. 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

More information about switching on and off and removing cookies can be found in the instructions and / or using the help function of your browser. These files automatically disappear as soon as you close your internet browser or stay on your computer for up to 1 month after your last visit.

Switching cookies on and off

You can of course also disable our cookies and JavaScript. Keep in mind that our websites do not work optimally. How you can disable or delete cookies is explained here:   

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Edge
• Safari (iOS)
• Safari (macOS)

Please note: refusing or removing cookies only affects the computer and browser on which you perform this operation. If you use multiple computers and / or browsers, you must repeat the above mentioned action (s) as often as necessary.

Functional cookies

These are necessary for the website, without these cookies certain functionality on the website will not function properly

Wordfence uses cookies for three tasks:

• Uniquely identify visitors that appear in Wordfence Live traffic.
• To keep track of a user previously logged in to WordPress, but logged out to ensure that the Falcon cache does not display those pages in the cache.
• If a user has visited a unique page that can bypass these landblocks, a cookie is set to identify that user, so that blocking countries does not prevent the user from viewing the site.

Analytics

We gain knowledge with the analytical cookies. We use this information to make these sites function better every day.

Analyzing website statistics, such as the number of unique visitors, sessions and campaign data. This script assigns your device a randomly generated identification number (ID). The ID is sent with every hit and sent to Google. This ID is used on Google’s servers to calculate the statistics.

Do we request permission?
No, we have set up Google Analytics privacy-friendly according to the guidelines of the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

Is the information passed on?
Yes, the ID is passed on to Google but not used by Google for its own purposes. They do not associate the ID with other data they have about you.