Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners. Cookies help us recognize your device and remember certain information about your visit.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for various purposes including:

• Ensuring our website functions properly
• Remembering your preferences and settings
• Understanding how you use our website
• Improving your browsing experience
• Providing relevant content and advertisements
• Analyzing website traffic and performance

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, secure areas access, and shopping cart functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Examples:

• Session management cookies
• Security cookies
• Cookie consent preferences

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They allow us to measure and improve the performance of our website.

Purpose:

• Count visitors and traffic sources
• Understand which pages are most and least popular
• See how visitors move around the site
• Identify technical issues

Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user. They also limit the number of times you see an advertisement.

Purpose:

• Deliver personalized advertisements
• Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
• Remember products you have viewed
• Share information with advertisers

4. First-Party vs Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by our website and can only be read by our website.

Third-party cookies are set by external services we use, such as analytics providers and advertising networks. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites.

5. Cookie Duration

Session cookies: Temporary cookies that are deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: Cookies that remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences in several ways:

Our Cookie Settings

When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie banner that allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings link in our website footer.

Browser Settings

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

• View the cookies stored on your device
• Delete all or specific cookies
• Block all cookies or specific types
• Receive notifications when cookies are set

Here are links to cookie management instructions for common browsers:

• Google Chrome: chrome://settings/cookies
• Mozilla Firefox: about:preferences#privacy
• Microsoft Edge: edge://settings/privacy
• Safari: Preferences > Privacy

7. Impact of Disabling Cookies

If you disable certain cookies, some features of our website may not work properly. For example:

• You may not be able to save items in your shopping cart
• Your preferences may not be remembered
• Some pages may not display correctly
• You may see more irrelevant advertisements

8. Cookies We Use

Below is a list of the main storage items and technologies used on our website. Please note that some consent choices may be stored using browser storage (such as local storage) rather than cookies.

Strictly Necessary

• cookie_consent (localStorage key): Stores your cookie preferences (until deleted by you or cleared by the browser)

Analytics and Marketing (only if enabled)

If we use analytics and/or marketing technologies, they will only be activated after you provide consent via our cookie banner (unless the technology is strictly necessary). If we introduce new third-party cookies or similar technologies, we will update this Cookie Policy accordingly.

9. Withdrawal of Consent

If you previously consented to analytics and/or marketing cookies, you can withdraw your consent at any time by reopening cookie settings from the footer and changing your preferences. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

10. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our business operations. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting a notice on our website.

11. Legal Basis

Our use of cookies complies with:

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679
• ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC (as amended)
• Dutch Telecommunications Act (Telecommunicatiewet)