COOKIES
This Cookie Policy of Easyfairs explains how cookies are placed on and information is read from your computer, tablet, and/or mobile phone (hereinafter: “Peripheral Equipment”) via the Easyfairs website. This Cookie Policy also indicates for which purposes this collected information is used. We therefore recommend that you read this Cookie Policy carefully.
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small pieces of (text) information that are sent to your browser when you visit the website. They are then stored on the hard drive or in the memory of the Peripheral Equipment. The browser can return this information on your next visit to the website. The cookies placed via this website cannot damage your Peripheral Equipment or the files stored on it.
2. WHICH COOKIES DOES EASYFAIRS USE AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
2.1 COOKIES FROM EASYFAIRS
This paragraph relates to the cookies that Easyfairs itself places and reads. No third parties are involved in placing and reading these so-called first-party cookies. First, Easyfairs places functional cookies. These cookies are necessary to provide the service you have requested. For instance, functional cookies ensure that after logging into the website, you do not have to log in again on every page. They also remember the products you place in your shopping cart and the (order) forms you fill in on the website.
In addition to functional cookies, Easyfairs places cookies that are stored on your Peripheral Equipment for only a limited period of time. As soon as you close the web browser, these cookies are automatically deleted. These so-called session cookies are used to map your browsing behavior on the website during a particular visit. Using this data, Easyfairs can adjust the website to the visitors’ needs.
Easyfairs also places cookies that remain on your Peripheral Equipment for a longer period of time. Based on these so-called permanent cookies, your Peripheral Equipment is recognized during your next visit to the website. These cookies allow Easyfairs to present a website tailored to your preferences. Because your preferences are already stored, you save time during your next visit and your use of the website becomes more convenient.
Furthermore, Easyfairs uses permanent cookies to track your browsing behavior. Using these so-called tracking cookies, Easyfairs registers your navigation on the website in order to make targeted offers based on this information. Tracking cookies may also be used to keep track of which other Easyfairs websites you visit. Easyfairs can use this information to display advertisements specifically tailored to you.
2.2 READING INFORMATION WITHOUT COOKIES
In addition to placing cookies, Easyfairs also reads information from your browser and peripheral equipment without a cookie being placed. In this way, Easyfairs collects (technical) characteristics of your device and the software you are using, such as the type of operating system, browser settings, installed plug-ins, time zone, and screen resolution. Easyfairs uses this information to follow your browsing behavior.
2.3 COOKIES FROM THIRD PARTIES
Besides the cookies Easyfairs places itself, cookies from third parties are also placed on your Peripheral Equipment via the website. This paragraph concerns these so-called third-party cookies. Easyfairs has no control over or authority regarding the use of these cookies and/or how third parties use the information collected through these cookies. It only provides the platform that enables the placement of these third-party cookies. Easyfairs points out that additional conditions of these third parties may apply to their use of the collected information. Below you will find an overview of the types of third-party cookies placed via the website.
2.4 GOOGLE ANALYTICS
To collect web statistics about the use and visitation of the website, Easyfairs uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics places a permanent cookie on your Peripheral Equipment through which your use of the website is registered. This data is subsequently analyzed by Google, and the results are provided to Easyfairs. This gives Easyfairs insight into how the website is used, allowing it to improve the website or its services if necessary. Google may provide this information to third parties if it is legally obliged to do so and/or if these third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google may or may not use the information for other Google services.
2.5 SOCIAL PLUG-INS
The website provides access to various social media platforms, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Using these so-called social plug-ins, you can share or recommend information on the website to others. Through these social plug-ins, third parties place cookies on your Peripheral Equipment. These may be cookies intended to optimize your user experience, but tracking cookies may also be placed. These are used to follow your browsing behavior across multiple websites and to build a profile of your online behavior.
In addition to access to these social media platforms, the website also displays videos originating from third-party websites, including YouTube. These third parties place cookies that make it possible to show the videos to you. Additionally, tracking cookies may be placed that are used to follow your browsing behavior across multiple websites and to build a profile of your online behavior.
3. CHANGES
This Cookie Policy may be amended at any time. Changes to this Cookie Policy will be announced via the website.
4. QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, you can send an email to info-infrarelatiedagen@easyfairs.com. You can also find additional information about the use of cookies on the website of the Dutch Consumers’ Association (Consumentenbond).