Privacy statement

Privacy & cookies

The personal data you enter on this site is used solely for the stated purpose, such as responding to requests for information or sending you our newsletter. In doing so, we comply with data protection law (the GDPR).

Newsletter

You can sign up for our newsletter on this website. For this purpose we process your email address [and your name]. We use this data solely to send you the newsletter. The legal basis for this is your consent, which you give when you sign up. After signing up you will receive a confirmation email; we only add you to the mailing list once you have confirmed.

We use Mailchimp to send and manage the newsletter, a service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC (part of Intuit Inc.) in the United States. Mailchimp processes your data solely on our instructions; we have concluded a data processing agreement to this effect. When Mailchimp is used, your data is transferred to and stored on servers in the United States. We base this transfer on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

We retain your data for one year after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every newsletter; your data will then be removed from the mailing list.

Cookies and consent

This website places functional cookies that are necessary for the site to work properly. For cookies and tracking technologies that are not strictly necessary — including Google Analytics — we ask for your consent in advance via the cookie notice. These cookies are only placed after you have given your consent. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time via the cookie settings.

Usage statistics (privacy-friendly, no consent required)

This website uses a privacy-friendly web analytics service provided by Schuttelaar & Partners. We use it to analyse, at an aggregated level, how visitors use the site. The user information collected is anonymised and stored on servers in the Netherlands. Schuttelaar & Partners uses this information solely to monitor how the website is used and to compile reports on website activity for internal use. We only provide this information to third parties if we are legally required to do so. The data collected is not combined with data from other websites or sources available to Schuttelaar & Partners.

Google Analytics (only with your consent)

If you give your consent, this website also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited (and Google LLC in the United States). Google places cookies that record how you and other visitors use the website. We use this information to compile reports on website activity and to improve the website. The legal basis for this is your consent.

When Google Analytics is used, information about your visit is transferred to and stored by Google on servers that may be located, among other places, in the United States. Google may also process this data for its own purposes and provide it to third parties where Google is legally required to do so, or where third parties process the data on Google’s behalf. Unlike our privacy-friendly statistics, we have limited influence over this further processing by Google.

For the transfer of data to the United States, Google relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, for which it is certified, and, where applicable, on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. The data collected is retained in accordance with the retention period we have set in Google Analytics (2 months).

You can withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie settings. From that moment on, no new data will be collected via Google Analytics.

Opt-out of privacy-friendly statistics

Separately from the consent for Google Analytics, you can also choose not to be tracked at all by our privacy-friendly statistics. We honour the “do not track” setting of your web browser: if you have enabled it, your data will not be stored. If you only wish not to be tracked on this website, you can indicate this below. A cookie will then be placed on your computer indicating that you do not wish to be tracked.

YouTube videos

Some pages contain embedded YouTube videos. We load these videos in YouTube’s privacy-friendly mode (via youtube-nocookie.com). In this mode no tracking cookies are placed and YouTube does not build a profile of you for advertising purposes based on cookies.

In order to display the video on the page, however, your browser already connects to Google’s servers (Google being the owner of YouTube) when the page loads — for example to retrieve the preview image and the video player. During that connection, technical data such as your IP address and information about your browser is provided to Google. Google can infer from this that your device has opened the page. When you then play the video, Google processes additional data about the playback. This data is transferred to servers that may be located, among other places, in the United States. We have no influence over this processing by Google.

Privacy on other websites

If you wish to use this and other websites without third-party trackers (such as Google’s), we recommend installing a privacy-enhancing browser plugin such as  Disconnect.me, Do Not Track Me en Ghostery. With these plugins you can set for every website which trackers you want to allow. Some websites may suffer from degraded functionality when using these plugins.

Last edited on 16-07-2026