COOKIES This Cookie Policy explains how cookies are placed on, and information read from, your computer, tablet and/or mobile phone (hereinafter: “Peripheral Equipment”) via the Easyfairs website. This Cookie Policy also states the purposes for which 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 disk or in the memory of the Peripheral Equipment. The browser can send this information back the next time you visit the website. The cookies placed through 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 of Easyfairs This paragraph concerns the cookies placed and read out by Easyfairs itself. No third parties are involved in the placement and readout of these so-called first party cookies. Easyfairs first and foremost places functional cookies. These cookies are necessary to provide the service you have requested. Functional cookies, for instance, ensure that after logging in to the website you do not have to log in again on every page. Moreover, these functional cookies remember the products you put in the shopping cart and the (order) forms you filled in on the website. In addition to functional cookies, Easyfairs places cookies that are only stored on your peripherals for a limited time. As soon as you close the web browser, these cookies are automatically deleted. These so-called session cookies are used to map your surfing behaviour on the website during a specific visit. Easyfairs uses these data to adjust the website to the needs of its visitors. 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 will be recognized during a subsequent visit to the website. These cookies enable Easyfairs to display a website tailored to your preferences. Since your preferences are already set, you save time during a new visit to the website and its use is more pleasant. Easyfairs also uses permanent cookies to track your surfing behaviour. By means of these so-called tracking cookies, Easyfairs registers your surfing behaviour on the website in order to make targeted offers on that basis. Tracking cookies may also be used to track which other Easyfairs websites you visit. This information can be used by Easyfairs to show you advertisements specifically designed for you. 2.2 Reading out information without cookies Apart from placing cookies, Easyfairs also reads information from your browser and peripherals without placing a cookie. In this way, Easyfairs collects (technical) data of your peripherals and the software you use, such as the operating system type, the browser settings, installed plug-ins, time zone and screen size. Easyfairs uses this information to track your surfing behaviour. 2.3 Cookies of third parties Apart from the cookies placed by Easyfairs itself, cookies of third parties are also placed on your peripheral equipment through the website. This paragraph refers to these so-called third party cookies. Easyfairs has no control or authority over the use of these cookies and/or the use that the third parties make of the information collected by means of the cookies. It merely provides the platform that enables the placement of these third party cookies. Easyfairs points out that the use of the collected data may be subject to further terms and conditions of the third parties. The types of third party cookies that are placed through the website are indicated below. 2.4 Google Analytics For the purpose of collecting web statistics on the use of and visits to the website, Easyfairs uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics places a permanent cookie on your peripheral equipment by means of which your use of the website is registered. These data are subsequently analysed by Google and the results are communicated to Easyfairs. In this way, Easyfairs gains an insight into how the website is used. Based on this information, Easyfairs can, if necessary, make adjustments to the website or its services. Google may provide this information to third parties if legally obliged to do so and/or if 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 offers access to various social media, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. With the help of these so-called social plug-ins you can share information on the website with others or recommend it. Cookies are placed on your peripherals by third parties via the social plug-ins. These cookies may be intended to optimise your user experience, but tracking cookies may also be placed. These are used to track your surfing behaviour across multiple websites and to build up a profile of your surfing behaviour. In addition to access to these social media, the website also displays videos from third-party websites, including YouTube. These third parties primarily place cookies that make it possible to show the videos to you. In addition, tracking cookies may be placed that are used to track your surfing behaviour across multiple websites and build a profile of your surfing behaviour. 3. AMENDMENTS This Cookie Policy can be amended at all times. Amendments to this Cookie Policy will be announced on the website. 4. QUESTIONS Should you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please send an email to entree@easyfairs.com. Furthermore you can find, amongst others, additional information about the use of cookies on the website of the Consumentenbond.