Privacy, Protection and cookies

• The Dutch Personal Data Protection Act
• Personal Information
• Cookies

The information you provide will be used solely for the purpose intended.  If the web site is used to commit an offense or make remarks which are punishable by law, your information may be used for investigative purposes.

The Dutch Personal Data Protection Act
All processing of personal data will take place in accordance with the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act (Wet Beveiliging Persoonsgegevens, or WBP).  This law helps protect the privacy of citizens.  All personal information which by means of the internet is gathered, saved, used, protected, made available, or linked with other data falls under this legislation.
The WBP requires that prior to processing personal data, the individual to whom it relates must first be informed what will be done with their data and for what purpose it has been gathered.  Personal information is thus only processed if that has been explicitly communicated and if the reason for saving the information has been indicated.

Personal information
Personal information is taken to mean information that can be traced back to an “identified or identifiable person”, meaning that the name of the individual to whom the information refers is known or can be determined.  Examples of personal information include an individual’s name or home address, but an email address can also be personal information.    

Cookies
The Dutch police, and Nedstat on their behalf, use cookies to obtain statistical data on this web site. Theinformation obtained is then used to organize the web site in such a way that users can find the information they are looking for quickly and easily.

In practical terms, a cookie is a small amount of information that a web site you are browsing sends to your hard disk.  This small saved file enables the web site to ‘recognize’ you as a returning visitor when you go to the same site again. 

In order to block the use of cookies, you can do the following: 

• select the “cookies off” setting in your browser, or
• click the “cookies off” button.

Disabling the use of cookies may limit your access to our web site and services.  Accepted cookies will be stored on your hard disk for a period of five years, unless you delete them periodically.