Privacy declaration

What is a cookie?

We make use of cookies on this 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.

Use of persistent 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. We can also remember this by means of a cookie if you have given permission for the placing of cookies. As a result, you do not have to keep repeating your preferences, which saves you time and allows you to make more pleasant use of our website. You can delete permanent cookies via the settings of your browser.

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. We can therefore adapt our service as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

Tracking cookies from ourselves

With your permission, 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 in addition to our website, you have also visited the relevant other website(s) from our network. The profile built up as a result 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 to you as possible.

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 a profile of your online surfing behavior. This profile is partly built up on the basis of comparable information that they receive from your visit to other websites in 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 to you as possible.

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 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 behalf of Google. We have no influence on this. We have/did not allow Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.

The information that Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is expressly 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. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

Social media buttons

Our website may contain buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work using pieces of code that come from Facebook or Twitter respectively. Cookies are placed through 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.

The information they collect is anonymized 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. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

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. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself adequately. When it comes to access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must also send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in the settings of your browser.

Enabling and disabling cookies 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.

Remove tracking cookies placed by third parties

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

More information about cookies?

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