Cookies

Introduction

Websites use smart and useful techniques to enhance user-friendliness and to make the site as interesting as possible for each visitor. The best-known techniques are cookies and scripts (collectively called “cookies” here). Cookies can be used by website owners or third parties - such as advertisers - who communicate through the website you visit.

Using cookies is safe. It is impossible to trace personal information such as a phone number or e-mail address by using cookies. Cookies cannot be used by e-mail sellers or telemarketers.

We feel it is essential for you to know what types of cookies our website uses and for what purpose. We want to provide optimum privacy and user-friendliness. Read on to find out more about the cookies used on and through our website and what their purposes are.

This cookie statement applies to www.dvdw.nl/en and has been drafted with input from with members of the industry and OPTA. As a result, the explanation about cookies on the industry members' websites is essentially similar. Nevertheless, since the texts have been modified to reflect the actual use of cookies, not all websites will depict the exact same text. 

Statistics

Cookies used to measure the website's use

We use Google Analytics software to continuously try to measure how many people visit our website and what parts of the website they visit most. This tells us which parts of the website draw our visitors' interest most.

The information that we gathered is used for statistics. These statistics provide show us how frequently our webpage is visited, where exactly visitors spend most of their time, etc. This enables us to make the website's structure, navigation and contents as user-friendly as possible. We will never trace the statistics or other reports to individuals.

We use cookies for:

• Recording the number of visitors to our webpages;
• Recording how much time each visitor spends on our webpages;
• Determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages of our website;
• Assessing which parts of our website should be updated;
• Optimising the website.

The list below shows what cookies we use to collect statistics, what data that they collect and how long they are used.

For the cookies placed by third parties and the data they might collect with those cookies, see the statements on those parties’ own websites by following the links below. Please note that these statements may change regularly. DVDW Advocaten cannot influence this.

• Google

Social media

Cookies to share the contents of our website through social media

You can use buttons to share articles that you read on our website through social media. These buttons are controlled by social media cookies that are installed by the social media platforms to recognise you when you want to share an article. Our website only installs a social media cookie when you actually click the button.

These cookies are used:

• To allow logged-in users of selected social media to instantly share specific content from our website

For the cookies that the social media platforms install and the data that they might collect with those cookies, see the statements on those platforms’ own websites. Please note that these statements may regularly change. DVDW Advocaten cannot influence this.

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Other/unforeseen cookies

Given how the internet and websites work, we do not always know what cookies third parties are placing through our website. This particularly applies to pages with embedded elements: texts, documents, pictures or short videos that are shown on, in or through our website but are stored elsewhere.

If you come across such cookies on this website that we have not listed above, please let us know. Alternatively, contact the third party directly and inquire about what cookies they have placed, what their reason is for doing so, for how long cookie will be saved and how they guarantee your privacy.

Browser settings

If you do not want websites to place cookies on your computer at all, you can change your browser settings to be notified before any cookie is placed. Likewise, you can change your settings to refuse all cookies, or to refuse third-party cookies only. You can also remove any cookies that have already been placed. Note that you must change the settings for each browser and computer that you use.

Please be aware that if you do not want cookies we can no longer guarantee that our website will function optimally. Some of the website’s functionality may be lost, and some websites might be entirely invisible.

Each browser has a different process for changing your settings. If necessary, use your browser's Help function, or click the appropriate icon below to go to your browser's manual. To deactivate cookies of specific parties, visit www.youronlinechoices.eu.

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Opera

Final remarks

We might have to update these statements from time to time, for example due to changes in our website or the rules for cookies. We may amend the substance of the statements and the cookies listed at all times and without prior warning. We recommend that you visit this webpage for the latest version.

If you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact us via info@dvdw.nl.

Version 1.1, September 2013