Cookie Statement

Cookie Statement

Last modified December 20, 2023

 

On our website, we use cookies. Cookies are small text files placed on a PC, tablet, or mobile phone by a web page. 

In accordance with Dutch and European privacy regulations, every website that measures visitor behavior and records data in cookies must inform these visitors and, in some cases, obtain their prior consent.

If you have given your consent through the cookie banner when you visit our website, cookies are used to: 

  • Process data regarding the pages you have visited in order to build a profile based on your online browsing behavior. With this data, we can tailor Topicus' advertisements as closely as possible to your profile.
  • Process data that we obtain from third parties, including social media companies. With this data, we can show you relevant content on our website through profiling.
  • Process data by third parties mentioned in our cookie statement. The privacy policies of these respective parties apply to these processes.
  • Set your preferences by placing functional cookies. Read more about this under 'functional cookies' below.

Below, you can read about the categories of cookies we use, why we use them, and how long these cookies are retained.

 

Functional cookies

We place functional cookies to make the website work properly and safely. These cookies are technically necessary and, therefore, do not require consent.

 

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 so that you only need to inform us once a year about which cookies you accept or reject when you visit our website.

The following cookies are placed:

Preferences

Name Provider Storage period Function

CookieConsent

Topicus

1 year

Stores the visitor’s cookie preferences.

Analytical cookies

We use analytical cookies to improve our website based on our visitors' behavior and the use of our website. With the information obtained, we can see which parts of the website are viewed the most, ensuring that these parts are easily accessible. Some analytical cookies can be placed in a ‘privacy friendly’ way so that your consent isn’t needed, while other analytical cookies do require your consent.

 

The following cookies are placed:

 

Statistics

Name Provider Storage period Function

_pk_id.<appID>.


<domeinHash>

Piwik Pro

13 months

Stores anonymous visitor statistics using a randomly generated ID. 

_pk_ses.<appID>.<domainHash>

Piwik Pro

13 months

Stores anonymous visitor statistics using a randomly generated ID. 

stg_traffic_source_priority

Piwik Pro

30 minutes

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

stg_last_interaction

Piwik Pro

1 year

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

stg_returning_visitor

Piwik Pro

1 year

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

stg_fired__<conditionID>

Piwik Pro

Untill the end of the session

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

stg_utm_campaign

Piwik Pro

Untill the end of the session

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

stg_externalReferrer

Piwik Pro

Untill the end of the session

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

_stg_optout

Piwik Pro

1 year

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

_pk_cvar.<appID>.<domainHash> (deprecated)

Piwik Pro

1 year

Collects information about how visitors use the website.

Third parties

Many of the cookies placed by Topicus come from third parties. Below, we briefly outline the purpose of the cookies and the agreements in place for each party.

 

Piwik Pro

Piwik Pro places cookies on our behalf to collect and use data to improve the website. You can find an up-to-date overview of the cookies placed by Piwik Pro on their website: https://help.piwik.pro/support/privacy/cookies-created-for-visitors-by-piwik-pro/. We have entered into a data processing agreement with Piwik Pro.

 

Laravel

The Laravel cookie ensures the security of our website and is purely functional, processing no personal data.

Enabling and Disabling Cookies

You can configure your browser to accept cookies only when you agree. However, many websites do not work optimally when cookies are disabled. For more information, consult your web browser's manual.

 

Please note: withdrawing your consent regarding the placement of certain cookies does not affect the lawfulness of the prior processing of your data when consent was still given.

Deleting Cookies

Many cookies have a retention date. If an retention date is set, the cookie will be automatically deleted when the retention date is reached. You can also choose to manually delete cookies before the retention date. Consult your browser's manual for instructions on how to do this.