Cookie Statement

Cookie Statement

Last modified January 25, 2021

 

Topicus uses cookies on the www.topicus.com website. Cookies are small text files which are placed on a pc, tablet or mobile phone by a webpage.

 

Under Dutch and European privacy legislation, every website that measures visitor behavior and records this data, for example, by using cookies (which is almost all websites), must inform these visitors about it and, in some cases, has to obtain permission in advance.

 

In this cookie statement, you can read which cookies we place by category, why we do this and how long these cookies are stored. For more information about the way we handle your personal data, please refer to our privacy statement.

 

Strictly necessary

We place functional cookies to make the website work properly and safely. This concerns the following cookies:

Necessary

Name Provider Storage period Function

Topicus_platform_session

Topicus

Session

Keeps track of the session of a visitor.

XSRF-TOKEN

Laravel

2 hours

Security of the website.

Preferences

We use cookies to store your preferences, which means you only have to inform us once a year which cookies you do or do not accept when you visit our website. This concerns the following cookies:

Preferences

Name Provider Storage period Function

CookieConsent

Topicus

1 year

Stores the visitor’s cookie preferences.

Statistics

We use analytical cookies to improve our website based on the behavior of our visitors and the use of our website. With the information obtained we can see, among other things, which parts of the website are viewed the most. This means we can ensure that these parts are also easy to find.

 

Some analytical cookies may be placed without your consent. Other analytical cookies may only be placed after you have given permission. 

 

This concerns the following cookies:

 

Statistics

Name Provider Storage period Function

_gat_UA-ID

Google

1 minute

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

_rollupGa

Google

1 day

Stores anonymous visitor statistics using a randomly generated ID. 

_rollupGa.gid

Google

2 years

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

Third parties

The cookies which Topicus places are partly from third parties. Below is a brief summary of each third party explaining the purpose of the cookies and which agreements apply.

 

Google

Google Adwords

Google Adwords cookies provide insight into which media used by Google Adwords is effective. Based on this, the owed advertising costs are determined.

 

Google Analytics

Topicus uses this service to track and obtain reports on how visitors use the website including visitor numbers and popular pages, etc. This allows Topicus to better tailor communication to the needs of website visitors. Google can provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so, or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence over this.

 

Topicus has set up a data processing agreement with Google Inc. and Google Analytics to be privacy-friendly in accordance to the advice of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens). In addition, Topicus has opted to mask the last octet of the IP address, disable the option ‘share data’ and does not use other Google services in combination with the Google Analytics cookies.