What is a cookie?

This website makes use of cookies. A cookie is a small file that is sent along with pages from this website and is stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. The information stored in the cookie can then be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit. This website uses functional cookies; these cookies are indispensable for the proper functioning of our website. We also use cookies to track web statistics, using Google Analytics.

Permanent cookies

A permanent cookie allows us to recognize you when you revisit our website. This means that the website can be adjusted to your preferences. If you have given us permission to place cookies, we can remember this by storing a cookie. This prevents you from having to repeat your preferences each time you visit, saving you time and ensuring a smoother experience on our website. Permanent cookies can be deleted via your browser settings.

Session cookies

Session cookies allow us to see which sections of the website you viewed during your visit, enabling us to adapt our services as much as possible to our visitors’ browsing habits. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your browser.

Tracking cookies

Naturalis tracking cookies
With your permission, we will place a cookie on your device that can be accessed when you visit a website in our network. This tells us that, in addition to our website, you have also visited the relevant other website(s) in our network. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, email address and the like, but serves only to match ads to your profile to ensure that they are as relevant to you as possible.

Third-party tracking cookies
With your permission, our advertisers will place tracking cookies on your device. They use these cookies to keep track of which pages you visit in their network, in order to build a profile of your online browsing behavior. This profile is partly built on the basis of similar information that they receive from your visits to other websites in their network. The profile is not linked to your name, address, email address and other information in our possession, but serves only to match ads to your profile to ensure that they are as relevant to you as possible.

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

Google Analytics
The American company Google places a cookie on your device through our website as part of the Analytics service. We use this service to keep track of and get reports on how visitors use the website. Google may also pass on this information on to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or if third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We have no influence over this. We have/have not given Google permission to use the analytics information obtained for other Google services. The information collected by Google is made anonymous as much as possible. Your IP address is expressly not shared. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google undertakes to adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means that an appropriate level of protection for processing any personal data is in place.

Right to inspect, correct or delete your data

You have the right to request inspection, correction or deletion of your data. To find out more, see our contact page. In the interests of preventing misuse and fraud, we may ask that you provide proper identification. If you wish to inspect personal data linked to a cookie, please make sure to include a copy of the relevant cookie. You will find the cookie in your browser settings.

Further information about cookies

For more information on activating, deactivating and deleting cookies, see the instructions and/or Help function in your browser. If you want to know more about cookies, such as which cookies have been placed on your device and how to manage and delete them, go to veiliginternetten.nl (in Dutch).