Cookie Policy for Polder Knowledge

This is the cookie policy for Polder Knowledge, available at https://www.polderknowledge.nl

What are cookies

As is quite common on many professional Web sites, our Web site uses cookies, which are small files placed on your computer, to improve the user experience. This page describes what cookies we set, what information we collect, what we do with that information, and with whom we share it. We also explain how you can prevent cookies from being stored, although this may cause parts of our website to stop functioning properly. For more information about cookies, please refer to a Wikipedia explanation of HTTP Cookies.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for various purposes, as described below. Unfortunately, in many cases it is not possible to disable cookies without losing functionalities or not functioning properly. We recommend that you accept our cookies to ensure the best possible functioning of our website.

Disabling cookies

You can disable/remove cookies completely through the browser settings (check your bowser’s help on how to do this). Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functioning of this, as well as other websites you visit.

The Cookies We Use

  • Email newsletter related cookies
    Our website provides the option to subscribe to our newsletter, by setting a cookie our website remembers if you have already subscribed or not.
  • Research related cookies
    In order to improve our website we may ask you questions during your visit. The settings for this (whether you have already participated or rated) are stored in a cookie. This allows us, for example, to display the results if you have already participated.
  • Forms related cookies
    When you fill out a form on our website, we can save the data for you so you don’t have to fill it out every time.
  • Website settings
    To improve the ease of use of our website, we may store settings in a cookie. This will use the setting you have specified on your next visit.

Third Party Cookies
In some cases, our website uses third party cookies. In the following passage we indicate which cookies we use and why.

  • Our site uses Google Analytics to build user statistics of our visitor. These statistics help us better understand what visitors do on our website and help us improve our website. Google Analytics cookies record, among other things, how long you spend on our website and which pages you view. We have set our Google Analytics cookies to anonymous, which means that your full IP address is not stored. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
  • Third party analytics are used to track you on our website so that we can continuously improve our website.
  • We also use a number of social media buttons and plugins to provide interaction with our website. In order for these functionalities to work, we use the following:
    • Hotjar – a heatmap and analytics tool;
    • Social share – This allows visitors to easily share our website content on various social media platforms;
    • Twitter – This allows visitors to easily share and like our tweets.

    These parties place their cookie through our website, but may also improve their own services with it. For the coockie policy and privacy policies of the mentioned parties, please refer to website.

Data retention period

Our cookie data retention period is set to 26 months. After this period the data is deleted.

Learn more

Hopefully it is clear what and how we use cookies and what data we collect. If you have any questions about our cookie policy please contact us using the methods below.