Cookies
Our websites uses cookies to provide you with the best possible service.
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit our websites. Functional cookies are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the websites. We also make use of cookies to record information about your website visit and to be able to structure our websites in a convenient manner. When you return to our websites, cookies will recognise your previous visit and your set preferences.
Use of analytical cookies
We place cookies from the Danish company Siteimprove BV to analyse website visits. We have concluded a processing agreement with this company, in which it is laid down that this party processes data in accordance with the legal requirements. We use this data to acquire insight into how visitors use our websites. IP addresses are stored in anonymised format, which means they cannot be traced back to an individual in any way.
Social cookies
We also place a number of social cookies, which enable you to share, like or respond to our messages and articles. We occasionally make use of embeds, which enables us to show third-party content, such as a YouTube or Vimeo video. We are not responsible for the use of cookies placed by social media parties and the possible data collected by them, and we refer to the statements of those parties in this respect on their own websites.
List of cookies
Below is a list of the cookies used by our website.
| Name of cookie | Type | Valid | Description |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinity | Necessary | Session | This is a session cookie for Azure (i.e.: website background infrastructure), to ensure that a user stays on the same server. |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS | Necessary | Session | This is a session cookie for Azure (i.e.: website background infrastructure), to ensure that a user stays on the same server even if requests have different points of origin. |
| ARRAffinity | Necessary | Session | This is a cookie used to associate website visitors with a particular instance of the web application in Azure. This means that the user has to stay on a specific instance they are using until their state is interrupted, upon which data are saved. |
| sxa_site | Necessary | Session | This session cookie is used to identify the visitor's session state on page requests on the server. |
| .AspNet.Cookies | Necessary | Session | This is an authentication cookie used to identify the visitor's session state, starting when you log in and ending when you log out. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Necessary | Session |
This is a session cookie used to identify the visitor's session state on page requests on the server. |
| privacy-notification-tracking | Functional |
350 days |
This records which cookies the user has accepted and/or rejected. |
| privacy-notification |
Functional | 350 days |
This records whether the cookie notification has been accepted by the user. |
| Nmstat |
Analytics |
750 days |
This is a cookie specific to Siteimprove to measure information about the use of the website. With the help of this information we can further optimize the website. |
| Siteimproveses | Analytics | Session |
This cookie is placed by the web analysis package SiteImprove. It is used to record the order in which pages are viewed. |
| PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, APISID, NID, SID, HSID, SSID, APISID, SAPISID | third party | 2 years | Embedded video cookies placed by YouTube and/or Google. They collect visitor information and adjusted preference settings. |
Disabling cookies
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