Cookie policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are stored in your browser or locally in your computer or other device.

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies to offer you a good browser experience and to distinguish you from other users of our website. Cookies enable our website to remember your actions while browsing our site, allowing us to offer you suitable content on your next visit.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer or device when you close the web browser. Persistent cookies continue to be stored until they are deleted or until they reach their expiration date. We use the following cookies:

Analytics/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to keep count of the number of visitors to our website. They track how visitors move through our website and how they use the site. This enables us to improve the performance of our website, such as by ensuring visitors can easily find what they are looking for.
Functional cookies. These cookies are used to recognise visitors when they return to our website.
Marketing cookies. Marketing cookies collect information on the use of websites, visitors’ search queries, and how visitors reached a website. These data are used for reporting purposes, to improve websites, and to facilitate a better and more relevant offering to users of our website and those of partners (advertising, retargeting, etc.). These cookies can be placed by both websites you visited and third-party domains.

What information do we collect by using cookies?

The following cookies are used on grootstemuseum.nl/en:

Google Tag Manager

Used to load Google script in our website and for analytical purposes

Google Analytics

Registers website visits and the sources of website traffic. It also enables us to analyse visitor behaviour on our website. All collected data is aggregated and anonymised.

Readspeaker

Enables visitors to have text on our website read out to them.

How do you block cookies?

Most browsers enable you to refuse cookies. So you can block our cookies by setting your browser to refuse all our cookies.

Changes and updates to our cookie policy

Changes in technology, legislations and guidelines of the authorities may require us to change our policy. In that event, we will obviously publish these changes on this page as soon as possible.