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Introduction
On our website, https://newnorth.nl (hereinafter: “the website”), cookies and other related techniques are used. (Hereafter, all techniques will be referred to as “cookies” for convenience). Cookies are also placed through third parties that we have engaged. In the document below (hereinafter: “the cookie policy”), we inform you about the use of cookies on our website. The cookie policy applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit the website. These cookies store information about your website visit. With cookies, a website can, for example, recognize you on a subsequent visit. This is convenient if you don’t want to log in again each time.
Why do we use cookies?
We place cookies and similar techniques to:
- ensure that our websites, apps and emails work properly and securely;
- provide you with the best possible user experience;
- and improve our websites through analyses.
What cookies do we use?
Functional cookies
We always place functional cookies without consent because they are necessary for the website to function properly. These cookies have little impact on your privacy and are used anonymously. This allows us to carry out our online services.
Analytical cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 to gain insight into how the website is used by visitors. We use this information to improve the website and our services. For this purpose, cookies are used which we call analytical cookies. Analytical cookies are always placed, even without consent.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics records information about visitors to the website. This way we know, among other things, how users end up on our website, how long users stay on the website and how often certain pages are viewed. We have concluded a processing agreement for the use of Google Analytics. The IP addresses of website visitors are anonymized. Google may provide information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence on this. We have not allowed Google to share and use the obtained analytics information for other Google services. The information obtained is stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
| Cookie name | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_{property- id}. |
| _ga_{container-id} | 2 years | Used to persist session state. |
| _gac_gb_{container-id} | 90 days | Contains campaign related information. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. |
Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we show a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on ‘Accept’ or ‘Save preferences’, you give us permission to use the categories of cookies that you have selected in the pop-up. You can disable the placement of cookies via your browser; however, this may mean that our website may no longer work optimally.
Rights regarding personal data
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what happens to it, and how long it is kept.
- Right of access: you can submit a request to view the data we process about you.
- Right to rectification and addition: you have the right to supplement, correct, delete or block your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us permission to process your data, you have the right to withdraw that permission and have your personal data deleted.
- Right to data portability: you have the right to request all your personal data from the Data Controller and transfer it in its entirety to another Data Controller.
- Right to object: you can object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, we invite you to contact us. Also, if you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear about it. You are always free to file a complaint with the data protection authority.
Blocking or deleting cookies
You can automatically or manually delete cookies via your internet browser. You can also indicate that certain cookies may not be placed. You can find more information about these options in the instructions of the Help function of the relevant browser.