Cookiedeclaration

Cookie law

The Telecommunications Act, which entered into force on 1 June 2012, places every website under a legal obligation to inform its users about 'cookies' and to ask for permission to use them. The Netherlands Open Air Museum's websites also make use of cookies.

What is a cookie? Is it safe?

A cookie is a small text file that a website places on the hard disk of your computer when you visit the site. The purpose of cookies is to offer the user various products and services, to gain an insight into them and to improve them. Cookies only remember your preferences and interests based on your surfing behaviour (e.g. the text size with which you prefer to view the site). They do not store your name, address, age or other personal details. Cookies can never be used to read out private data from your computer or to intercept passwords. It is also not possible for them to infect your computer with a virus. They are therefore completely safe and have been used on virtually all websites worldwide since the 1990s without incident. We and other parties may place cookies on your computer.

You can find out more about cookies on the Consumentenbond (Dutch Consumers' Association) website.

What does the Open Air Museum use cookies for?

Cookies help us to remember your preferences and interests – for your convenience and also for our own website statistics. They make it easier to surf our website. Cookies mean that you do not have to enter the same settings repeatedly, such as the text size with which you prefer to view the website. We also use cookies so that you can promote (like) or share (tweet) pages on our website via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

What cookies does the Netherlands Open Air Museum use?

The www.openluchtmuseum.nl website makes use of the following cookies:

1. Functional cookies
Essential cookies: we sometimes use cookies to help you navigate through the sites properly. Your computer remembers the settings that you have made yourself. We do not need to ask permission from the government to use these cookies.

2. Cookies for our own website statistics
The Netherlands Open Air Museum uses cookies for purposes including analysing how often our website is visited and for how long, allowing us to improve our website and make it faster.

3. Cookies via Google Analytics
A cookie is placed on users' computers via our website by the US company Google as part of its Analytics service. We use this service to keep up to date with, and receive reports on, how visitors are using the website so that we can improve our website and make it faster. Google may supply this information to third parties if it is legally obliged to do so or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We do not have any influence over this. The information gathered by Google is anonymised as far as possible.

4. Cookies of external parties such as Twitter and Facebook
Our website includes buttons which allow users to promote (like) or share (tweet) web pages via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work using little pieces of code that originate from Facebook or Twitter itself. Cookies are placed on users' computers using this code. We do not have any influence over this. Read the privacy statement of Facebook and Twitter to find out what they do with your data processed via these cookies. The information that they gather is anonymised as far as possible.

How can I disable cookies?

Disabling cookies only affects the computer and browser on which this action has been performed. If you use several computers and/or browsers you will need to repeat this action as often as necessary.

Disable cookies:

• Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Safari

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