What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or tablet. These small text files contain certain information that tells us more about you, your use of our websites and apps, or your preferences and interests. You determine what we may do with this information yourself through the privacy settings.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies are used to make the websites or apps work. These cookies are necessary for the websites and apps to function properly. You cannot therefore refuse or disable them.
This includes, for example, cookies that:
- Passing information from one page to the next, for example when completing a long survey or when you have to enter a lot of information when ordering online;
- Saving preferences, such as language, location, desired number of search results to be shown, etc.;
- Saving settings for optimal video playback, such as the desired buffer size and your screen resolution data;
- Reading your browser settings to optimally display our website on your screen;
- Detecting misuse of our website and services, for example by registering a number of consecutive failed login attempts;
- Evenly loading the website, so that the website remains accessible;
- Providing the ability to save login details so that you don’t have to re-enter them each time;
- To enable you to respond on the website.
Statistical cookies
With statistical cookies we map the general use of our websites and apps. This is done on the basis of anonymous data. More specifically, we use statistical cookies to determine which parts of the websites or apps are most interesting to users. We do this by measuring how many people visit a website or an app and which pages, items or articles are viewed the most. You cannot refuse or disable statistical cookies.
Statistics are created from the information we collect in this way. These statistics give us insight into how often certain web pages or parts of an app are visited and where visitors and users generally spend the most time. This enables us to make the structure, navigation and content of the website or app as user-friendly as possible. We cannot trace these statistics and other reports back to individual persons.
We use statistical cookies for example for:
- Keeping track of the number of visitors to our web pages and parts of an app;
- Keeping track of the amount of time each visitor spends on our web pages and parts of the app;
- Determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages of our website or parts of an app;
- Assessing which parts of our websites and apps need adjustment;
- Optimizing websites and apps.
Personalization cookies
We use these cookies to map individual surfing and usage behavior on our websites or in our apps and to personalize the website, app or our communication with you based on this. When you have an account and are logged in, we link your surfing and usage behavior to your account and can thus personalize your user experience on all your devices. We also use your rough geolocation to personalize our website and apps based on your estimated location. For example, you will be shown articles that are relevant to the region where you are located.
The purpose of these cookies is to provide each visitor and user with information that is as relevant as possible to him or her. That is why we try to adapt the content of our websites and apps as much as possible to each visitor or user. We do this by recommending interesting articles, videos or topics based on what you have previously read or viewed. Our direct marketing communication, such as newsletters and push messages, is also personalized in this way.
Marketing cookies
We use these cookies to track your surfing behavior on our websites and in our apps for our own marketing purposes. Thanks to these cookies, you can see advertisements for our own products and services on other websites and apps.
This category also includes cookies that are used to improve our websites, apps, products and services (for example, cookies to collect user feedback or cookies that map where users drop out in a registration process).
Social media cookies
When we integrate content from social media into our websites or apps, these parties place cookies to learn more about your surfing behavior. In addition, you can share the articles and videos that you view on our websites or in apps by means of buttons via social media. For the functioning of these buttons, cookies from the social media networks involved are used, so that they recognize you when you want to share an article or video.
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