Privacy policy
This privacy policy applies to the HBvK website, the Masterpieces blog, and the Images of The Hague blog.
Third parties
The guest book is hosted by write2me. The blogs are hosted by blogger. Their respective privacy policies apply.
Cookies and web beacons
What are cookies?
A cookie is a text file placed on your computer by your browser, on behalf of a website you visited. Cookies are harmless: They cannot contain viruses or other malicious code. They are typically used to store information you entered earlier, so that you don't have to enter it again, or to obtain information about how often you visit a website.
Cookies can only be read by the websites that placed them, and contain only information that website placed in them, so they cannot be used to obtain personal information like e-mail addresses.
What are web beacons?
Web beacons are invisible elements (often tiny pictures) on a website. They are usually placed by third parties to track visits and collect statistical information.
Use of cookies and web beacons
Our websites do not use cookies or web beacons themselves, but third parties do. Third parties placing and reading cookies or using web beacons include website statistics packages like Statcounter or Google Analytics, advertisers, and hosting platforms like guest book or blog hosts.
It is possible to configure your browser not to accept cookies. You can also configure it to refuse cookies from this website, or to receive a warning whenever a site places a cookie. Your browser also has an option to delete cookies that are already placed on your computer. See your browser's online help for details.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our sites. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Collection of personal data
When you disclose personal data, like your name or e-mail address, we will only use it to reply to your queries, or to send you the information you subscribed to (e.g. a blog).
Personal data will only be shared with third parties if:
- You subscribed to one of the blogs by e-mail. All subscriptions are handled by Feedburner, and their privacy policy applies.
- You leave a message in the guest book. The guest book is hosted by write2me, their privacy policy applies.
- You comment on one of the blogs. The blog is hosted by Blogger, their privacy policy applies.
Contact
Contact us if- you have any further questions about our privacy policy;
- you want to access the information we have stored about you;
- you want us to update or remove information we have stored about you.
