What is a cookie? A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer, tablet or smartphone during your visit to a website. This file stores information that is recognized during future visits. This makes it possible, for instance, that you can remain logged in on a website or that your language settings are remembered.

There are three types of cookies:

• Functional cookies: these are cookies that are necessary for the website to function. Think of a webshop that remembers which products you put in your shopping cart.
• Analytical cookies: these cookies collect statistics, such as the number of visitors to the website and the click pattern of those visitors.
• Tracking cookies: these cookies make it possible to track your behavior online. For example, after viewing a particular product on a webshop, you may come across this product again in an advertisement on another website.

Cookies on this website VluchtelingenWerk Nederland uses functional, analytical and tracking cookies. The functional cookies are used for purposes including the integration of social media on our website, such as Twitter and Facebook. We use the analytical cookies to improve the quality of our website. By looking at how visitors use our website and which links are frequently clicked on, we can determine which parts of our website are most interesting for our visitors.

We also use cookies to see if a page that we think is interesting for you can be found easily. For example, if you are looking for certain information on our website but cannot find it, we can see this in the statistics collected by the cookies. This way we know how to make the structure, navigation and content of our website more user-friendly.

We also regularly use the cookies for A/B testing. These are tests in which we make two versions of one page and see which leads to the best results. The data we store for these tests is not linked to personal data and is therefore anonymous.

The cookies we use to advertise through Google Adwords, we do see the demographic data of the Adwords visitors, but this data cannot be traced back to an individual person. We make use of a so-called 'Third party cookie'. You can read more about these cookies here.

Finally, our tracking cookie from Facebook keeps track of how often promotional content has been viewed and gives us insights into the advertising campaign on Facebook. This prevents you from seeing the same ad too often. Advertisers and third parties can use these tracking cookies to create a visitor profile. Want to know more about the use of Facebook's tracking cookies? Then read more about it on Facebook's website.

How to delete cookies It is possible to delete cookies. How to do so depends on the web browser you use to view web pages. Well-known web browsers are Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari. In addition, you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to block cookies. It is possible that the website will not function optimally as a result. For more information about the settings relating to cookies and specific browsers, it is best to consult the help function of your web browser.