WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a piece of text that is given by a web server to a visiting browser, in the hope and expectation that the browser will return it on a subsequent visit. The cookie is an addition to the HTTP specification. The HyperText Transfer Protocol is used by everyone who visits a website: it controls the communication between a web server and a browser. However, it is not designed to view consecutive page visits as a whole. This means that it is not simply possible to retrieve data or settings during a follow-up visit. To make this possible, the cookie and the set-cookie headers for HTTP were introduced in 1997. This specification was last updated in April 2011 and is currently known as RFC 6265 HTTP State Management Mechanism.
HOW DO COOKIES WORK?
Contrary to what politicians sometimes claim, cookies themselves are neither programs nor files, and technically nothing is stored by the web server on the visitor’s computer. The browser can decide the latter completely itself. Ultimately, cookies are often stored as a file, but a web server cannot force a browser to actually store cookies or return them on a later visit. A cookie is always tied to a specific domain or subdomain. Examples of a domain and a subdomain are: website.nl and beautiful.website.nl. Cookies are therefore only sent back to the same domain from which they came. You can therefore be sure that only the servers of this website receive the cookies that were previously obtained via this website. The cookies placed by this website can also be accessed via JavaScript only on this website.
An important point about cookies is that they can be received with every HTTP request and that all known, relevant cookies are sent with every request. This also applies to requests that request images, JavaScript and CSS files for a web page. Naturally, domain control is also applied.
FIRST-PARTY COOKIES
Cookies that you receive for the same domain that you are visiting are called first-party cookies. When viewing this page, the cookies from this website are first-party cookies.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
It is also possible that a website contains elements from third parties. Well-known examples are embedded videos, advertisements and social media buttons. If cookies are sent with these elements from their own servers, these are called third-party cookies. It is therefore possible that when you visit this website you will receive third-party cookies for Facebook.com, Youtube.com and other third-party websites. Due to the operation of HTTP and the security surrounding cookies, it is not possible for the broker to influence the sending of third-party cookies.
WHAT OTHER STORAGE IS THERE FOR WEBSITES?
In addition to cookies, more storage options have emerged in the browser since 1997. Since these are hardly used, they are only briefly mentioned. Flash applications have their own form of cookies, similar to those for HTTP. Except for recording user preferences such as image quality and the Autoplay function in the video player, the website does not do anything with these types of cookies. HTML5 local storage is a recent development. Web applications can use this to store quite large amounts of data – compared to cookies. Due to the limited support in browsers, this website does not use it.
WHAT ARE COOKIES USED FOR ON THIS WEBSITE?
Cookies make it possible to retrieve information from previous visits during subsequent visits. If you have made certain settings and that you have seen certain site elements before. Cookies that adapt the functioning of the site to your wishes are called functional cookies. In addition, cookies can also be used to let the site know that a visitor has previously been to the site. In this way, statistical data about the use of the website can be collected. A well-known example of this is Google Analytics. This only uses anonymized statistical information that we use to analyze and improve the operation of the site. This website currently uses Google Analytics and Hubspot to collect statistics.
Information about your visiting behavior can also be used to tailor advertisements to your interests. This broker only uses anonymized information about pages that you have previously visited on this website.
DO THIS WEBSITE’S COOKIES CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT MY PERSONAL DATA
No. Your name, age, gender and other personal information are never stored in a cookie.
HOW CAN I REFUSE COOKIES?
Without cookies it is almost impossible for us to give you as a visitor the best experience when visiting the site. This has to do with analyzing web statistics to determine how the site should look and navigate, but also to determine which content is popular and what our visitors do not actually read. Although we are not obliged to request permission for these third-party cookies (the responsibility for this lies with the third party, such as YouTube), we are obliged to remove the content when it appears that the third party has failed to request permission. . This would mean that if even a single person complains about an image or video, we would have to remove it for everyone, or develop technology that makes it possible to filter individual content per individual user. From a practical point of view, this is almost impossible.
DELETING COOKIES IN INTERNET EXPLORER
- Go to the Tools menu > Internet Options > General tab. Under Browsing History, click Delete.
- You may not want to delete everything. Make sure that Cookies is checked and click Remove.
DELETE COOKIES IN FIREFOX
- Go to Tools > Options > Privacy tab. Click on Clear your recent history.
- Under Details you can indicate exactly what you want to delete. In any case, check Cookies. You can also indicate how old the cookies should be. Here, choose All.
DELETE COOKIES IN CHROME
- Click on the 3 lines at the top right. Click Options > Advanced Options tab. Under Privacy, click Clear browsing data…
- In any case, make sure that Delete cookies and other site data is checked. You can also indicate how old the cookies should be. Here, choose All.
QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS
If you have any questions regarding this cookie notification, you can of course contact us.
This cookie overview was last updated on May 22, 2023.