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Collection Company uses cookies on its website. In this document, Collection Company provides clarification and explanation about why it uses certain cookies and what this means for you.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone during your visit to our website. Information is stored in this text file, which can be recognized by the website on a subsequent visit.
How long do cookies last?
Cookies have a lifespan. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Others (such as those with login details) can remain on your computer for years if you don’t delete them.
Why cookies?
You often cannot see exactly what a cookie is used for. As mentioned earlier, cookies are text files, but their content is usually unreadable computer code. Therefore, we provide more explanation.
Collection Company uses cookies to:
- Ensure that our website functions properly;
- Identify users: this gives us insight into the number of visitors to our website and which parts of our website they visit;
- Place advertisements that are relevant to you.
For more information on how we handle your personal data, please refer to our privacy statement.
Which cookies?
Permanent cookies
On a new visit to our website, Collection Company recognizes you using permanent cookies. This allows our website to be tailored to your preferences. If you have given permission for cookies, we can remember this through a cookie. This saves you time and improves your experience on our website. You can delete permanent cookies via your browser settings.
Session cookies
With session cookies, we can see which parts of the website you have visited during your session. This helps us tailor our services to your browsing behavior. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser.
Tracking cookies
With your permission, we place tracking cookies on your devices. These cookies can be retrieved later when you visit a website from our network. This allows us to know if you have also visited other websites from our network. Tracking cookies can also be used by advertisers within the same network.
A profile is built with tracking cookies. This profile is not linked to your name, address, or email address. It is used solely to tailor advertisements to your profile, ensuring their relevance to you.
You can delete tracking cookies via your browser settings. Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties that display advertisements via our website. These cookies can be centrally removed, preventing them from being re-placed on third-party websites.
Google Analytics
A cookie from the American company Google is placed on our website as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and obtain reports on how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties if legally required or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence on this. However, we have permitted Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.
The information collected by Google is anonymized as much as possible. We have also requested Google to mask your IP address and entered into a data processing agreement with Google.
Social Media
Our website includes buttons for promoting or sharing web pages on social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. These buttons work through code provided by Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Through this code, cookies are placed, and we have no control over this. Please read the privacy policies of Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn (which may change regularly) to understand how they handle your personal data obtained via these cookies.
The information collected is anonymized as much as possible. It is transferred to and stored by Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn on servers in the United States.
Right of access, rectification, or deletion
You have the right to request access to, rectification of, or deletion of your data. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. If your request concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must include a copy of the specific cookie. You can find this in your browser settings.
Enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies
Cookies can send your personal data to various companies. If you no longer wish this to happen, you must delete the cookies from your computer, tablet, or smartphone. Deleting cookies is not very difficult, but please note that after clearing cookies, you may need to log in again on websites, and your passwords may no longer be remembered. It is also possible that you will need to reconfigure certain pages.
Your consent
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