Previous update: 15-05-2022

This is the cookie statement of De Tester. This statement is about the placement and reading of cookies and similar techniques such as web beacons, tracking pixels, fingerprint devices, mechanisms for our app and Javascripts (hereafter collectively: cookies). Hereafter 

It is possible that we adapt the cookie statement if new developments require it. You can always download the latest version to stay informed of changes.

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Cookies are required, among other things, to make our shop work properly and be more user-friendly for you. It works like this: your computer, smartphone or tablet stores small files when you use our website and/or app. An advantage of this is that we can recognize you and make sure you don’t have to fill in your details again and again.
Don’t want cookies? You can always change your settings or delete cookies yourself. If you disable cookies, you can no longer use certain features of our site and the website may not work as well.

To give or not to give permission

We do not need to ask your permission to place and read out certain cookies. This applies to cookies that are necessary for communication via the Internet, cookies that are only used to provide our services or analytical cookies that have no or minimal impact on your privacy. For other cookies we ask your permission before we place them and read them out. We do this through the cookie banner in our shop. It states that you accept cookies by continuing to click in our shop. Do you not want to accept cookies? Then you can choose to go to another website or app with similar content. For the tagging of specific content in our shop, we use Google Tag Manager. This helps us determine which cookies we can place and which content we can save. Because as we explained above, for some cookies we do need to ask your permission and for some cookies we don’t. When using Google Tag Manager, we adhere to the guidelines of the GDPR.

Cookies in our app

For our app, we use direct integrations with third parties via an SDK. An SDK stands for Software Development Kit. This is the software we integrate into the De Tester app to provide chat functionality, for example.

These cookies we use:

Functional cookies

These cookies make sure our shop works properly. For example, logging in, remembering information so you don’t have to fill in everything over and over again, putting items in your shopping basket and remembering your shopping basket. In our app, these cookies are needed for example to send push messages or offer a chat with our customer service.

Analytical cookies

With these cookies we measure and analyze how you use our shop and what we can change to improve your experience. Both on the website and in our app. For example, we measure how many customers use our app and which parts are most interesting to our visitors. We also use third-party software for this, such as Google Analytics, which we have set up to be privacy friendly. Good to know: the statistics and reports cannot be traced back to individuals.

Marketing cookies

We place ads on other websites and in other apps. To match these ads with your interests as closely as possible, we collect data from your visit to get an idea of possible interests. These cookies also enable us to keep track of which advertisements you have already seen, so that you don’t keep seeing the same banners, for example.

Social media marketing cookies

These allow us to remember your preferences and interests. This is useful because it allows us to provide our website and app with information that is as relevant as possible to you. We try to tailor the website and De Tester app to you as much as possible. In addition, based on your behavior, we can, for example, show you in advertisements articles that we think will suit you better, instead of articles that you probably have less interest in.

About third party cookies:

the cookies that social media and third parties place and the possible data they collect with them, we refer you to the statements of these parties on their own websites. Please note that these statements can change regularly: De Tester has no influence on this.

Here is an overview of third parties and links to their policies:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
Google; https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=nl
Bing/Microsoft; https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/PrivacyStatement
Tradetracker; https://tradetracker.com/nl/privacy-policy/how-we-use-cookies/
Daisycon; https://www.daisycon.com/nl/privacy/

Google Analytics https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
Google TAG Manager https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/
Firebase https://www.firebase.com/terms/privacy-policy.html

Robin HQ (Support/Chat); https://www.robinhq.com/privacy-policy
Surfly Cobrowsing; https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/605791/legal
Microsoft Application Insights; http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/DocumentSearch.aspx?Mode=3&DocumentTypeId=46

Branch.io; https://branch.io/gdpr/

Emarsys; https://www.emarsys.com/en/privacy-policy/

Please note that links can become obsolete. If a link does not work anymore, please inform us by sending an email to info@the-tester.com so we can replace the link.

Other cookies

Some pages of our website contain so-called ’embedded elements’. These are texts, documents, images or movies that are stored at another party and are shown on our website. We do not always have insight into other cookies. If you encounter other cookies than those described in our current cookie list, please let us know at info@the-tester.com. You can also contact the parties in question to ask what cookies they place, why they do so, what the lifespan of these cookies is and how they deal with your privacy.

Remove yourself, adjust settings

Do you want to disallow (certain) cookies or remove them? Below we explain how you can do that in which browser. The instructions we give can change with an update or new version of your browser. Therefore always look at the settings or ‘Help’ text in your browser.

Important notice:

If you disable cookies our shop may not work as well as it should. It is possible that you can no longer use certain functions on our site. Please note: even if you disable cookies, you will continue to see advertisements outside our site. These are just not relevant to you anymore and are repeated more often. If you delete all cookies in your browser, you will automatically be logged out everywhere (including other websites you use).

On desktop:

In Internet Explorer

Go to Tools > Internet Options > General. Click on ‘Delete’ under Browse data, check ‘Cookies and website data’ and click ‘Delete’. You can also choose ‘Keep data from favorite websites’ here.

In Firefox

Go to Preferences > Privacy. Click ‘Remove individual cookies’ > ‘Remove all’ (or select which cookies you want to remove). You can also choose here whether you want to allow only functional cookies or block all cookies. This can be done via so-called blocking lists.

In Chrome

In the menu, go to Clear Browse Data, select a period and check ‘Cookies and other site data’. Click on ‘Clear Browse Data’.

In Safari

Go to Preferences > Privacy. There, choose what you want to do with the cookies or click ‘Clear all site data’.

Are you using another browser? Then go to your browser settings to adjust your cookie settings.

On your mobile devices:

In the default browser of your Android phone/tablet

Open your browser and tap the three dots at the top right of your screen. Go to Settings > Privacy. Here you can turn ‘Accept cookies’ on and off.

In the default browser (Safari) of your iPhone/iPad

On your iPhone, go to Settings > Safari. Here you can delete your cookies and block cookies in the future. You can always turn ‘Block cookies’ on or off.

Are you using another browser on your phone or tablet/iPad? Then go to your browser settings to change your cookie settings. In our app you can’t change your cookie settings. If you want to remove the cookies from your phone or tablet at once, you can do this through the settings of your phone or tablet. You can either ‘clear the cache’ or delete our app.

Third party cookies

Through our website and app, third party cookies are also placed after your consent. These are often called ‘third party cookies’. Do you want to delete third party cookies? Follow the instructions in the cookie and privacy statements of these parties to remove the cookies or adjust your settings. Please note that these statements can change regularly: De Tester has no influence on this. Also, we are not responsible or liable for any damage caused by the acts or omissions of third parties.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Google: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=nl

Additional information about Google Analytics and Google Adwords:

(1) Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses a specific type of “cookie” or text file that is stored in your computer and allows an analysis of your website use. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Please note that on this website Google Analytics has been extended with the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized registration of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). Thanks to IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the European Union and the European Economic Area treaty countries. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on our behalf in order to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide additional services to the website operator relating to website and internet usage. The IP address sent by your browser to Google Analytics will not be consolidated with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by enabling this via the relevant setting of your browser, see section 5 c), above. In addition, you can prevent Google from recording the data collected by the cookies and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) and processing them by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at

http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy

(2) Google AdWords

This website uses Google AdWords, a web analytics service provided by Google, as well as Conversion Tracking, a component of Google AdWords. This works as follows: When you click on an advertisement displayed by Google, Google AdWords saves a conversion tracking cookie (a “conversion cookie”) on your computer’s hard drive. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and prevent you from being personally identified. If you visit certain pages on our website, Google and we see that you have clicked on the advertisement and have been forwarded to this page.

The information obtained using the conversion cookies serves to generate statistics for AdWords customers who use conversion tracking. These statistics inform us of the total number of users who have clicked on the advertisement displayed by Google and visited a page provided with a conversion tracking tag.

With Google’s remarketing function, we reach users who have previously visited our website. This enables us to present our advertising to target groups that are already interested in our products or services. AdWords additionally determines, based on user behavior on websites within Google’s advertising network (“display network”) during the past 30 days and with the help of the context related search engine, which common interests and characteristics the users of our website have. Based on this information, AdWords then finds new potential customers for marketing purposes whose interests and characteristics are similar to those of our website users. The target group specific remarketing occurs through the combined use of cookies, such as e.g. Google Analytics cookies and Google DoubleClick cookies.

For more information on the terms of use and data security in the context of Google AdWords, please go to: http://www.google.de/policies/technologies/ads/

Current list of cookies:

We will make this list available soon.

Also read our privacy statement

By using cookies with the aim of collecting, combining or analyzing data about your use of our shop and app, so that we can serve you better, we are processing your data. This way we can keep track of which pages of our shop you visit and link this data to your account or transaction information for marketing purposes, for example. Would you like to know what information we process from you, on what basis, for what purposes, how long we keep this information, how we protect your data and what your rights are? Take a look at our privacy statement. In addition, you will find more information in this statement about the parties we work with.

What can I do if I have questions?

If you still have questions after reading this Cookie Policy, you can contact us at info@the-tester.com.

Changes

We may unilaterally amend this Privacy and Cookie Policy. We therefore recommend you to check this policy regularly for changes. If we make major changes, we will notify you. For example, by placing a notification on our websites or apps, by e-mail, or by asking for your permission again.