Cookies

Publication date 13-04-2023

On this website we use cookies to make the website more user friendly and to analyse site visits.

What are cookies?

Many of the websites you view place small text files in the memory of your computer, phone or tablet. This allows these websites to recognise you during your visit and any later visits. We call these files 'cookies'.

What cookies does this website set?

There are 3 types of cookies.

1. Essential cookies
2. Website usage analysis cookies
3. Cookies from third-party websites

Essential cookies

Certain cookies are needed to remember settings or preferences during a visit to the website or a later visit. Suppose you decide you do not want to receive any cookies from a certain website. That website can 'remember' this by placing a cookie. Without cookies, you will be asked the same questions every time you visit.

The following cookies are used to record your settings and preferences:

Name	Validity	Purpose
_rspkrLoadCore	Until the end of your visit.	Ensures correct functioning of the read-aloud function.
comment_author_*	348 days	Set when you choose to have your information remembered when posting a comment under a post.
comment_author_email_*	348 days	Set when you choose to have your information remembered when posting a comment under a post.
dcc*	Until the end of your visit.	Ensures the performance and availability of the website
gpoll-timezone	Until the end of your visit.	Set to prevent a survey from being completed more than once. Contains the time zone of the user's browser.
gpoll_form_*	1 month	Set to prevent a survey from being completed more than once.
ReadSpeakerSettings	4 days	Ensures correct functioning of the read-aloud function. Registers user-modified settings.
TS01*	Until the end of your visit.	Ensures the performance and availability of the website
wp-postpass_*	Until the end of your visit.	Set to access a password-protected page
wt-announcement-*	90 days	Ensures that a closed notification block is no longer displayed for 90 days.

Website usage analysis cookies

These cookies tell the website which pages you view, in what order, and for how long. This makes it possible to collect web statistics that tailor the website closer to the visitors' needs. Similar cookies are used to conduct online surveys, for example.

We collect the following data in our web statistics programs::

• equipment and software used (devices, browsers, operating system)
• links used to acces sour website
• links used within the website
• search terms used in the search engine on the website itself
• when and for how long visitors visit this website
• which pages visitors view on this website

The following cookies are used for research purposes:

Name	Validity	Purpose
_pk_ses.*	30 minutes	Registers visits to web pages for web usage analysis tool.
_pk_id.*	13 months	Registers visits to web pages for web usage analysis tool.
_pk_ref.*	6 maanden	Registers visits to web pages for web usage analysis tool.

Cookies from third-party websites

If you make use of extras on our website that originate from YouTube, Google, Facebook or X, for example, those websites will place a cookie on your computer. We have no influence over what parties do with their cookies. You can refuse these cookies.

Do you want to refuse all cookies?

For this you can change the settings of your browser (internet program). You can do so via your web browser settings. For more information about cookies and deactivating cookies, go to the website veiliginternetten.nl (only available in Dutch). For professionals: Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (Dutch website).