Trace your Dutch roots

Privacy policy

Privacy policy

This privacy policy applies to the Trace your Dutch roots website, blog, and newsletter, and the Graveyard rabbit of Utrecht and Het Gooi and Roots blogs.

Orders in the book and gift shop are handled by Amazon, their privacy policy applies.

Third parties

The guest book is hosted by write2me. The Trace your Dutch roots blog, the Roots blog, and the Graveyard rabbit of Utrecht and Het Gooi blog are hosted by blogger. Their respective privacy policies apply.

Cookies and web beacons

What are cookies?

A cookie is a text file placed on your computer by your browser, on behalf of a website you visited. Cookies are harmless: They cannot contain viruses or other malicious code. They are typically used to store information you entered earlier, so that you don't have to enter it again, or to obtain information about how often you visit a website.

Cookies can only be read by the websites that placed them, and contain only information that website placed in them, so they cannot be used to obtain personal information like e-mail addresses.

What are web beacons?

Web beacons are invisible elements (often tiny pictures) on a website. They are usually placed by third parties to track visits and collect statistical information.

Use of cookies and web beacons

Our websites do not use cookies or web beacons themselves, but third parties do. Third parties placing and reading cookies or using web beacons include website statistics packages like Statcounter or Google Analytics, advertisers, and hosting platforms like guest book or blog hosts.

It is possible to configure your browser not to accept cookies. You can also configure it to refuse cookies from this website, or to receive a warning whenever a site places a cookie. Your browser also has an option to delete cookies that are already placed on your computer. See your browser's online help for details.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our sites. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Collection of personal data

When you disclose personal data, like your name or e-mail address, we will only use it to reply to your queries, or to send you the information you subscribed to (e.g. a newsletter).

Personal data will only be shared with third parties if:

Contact

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