Cookies Policy
Welcome to the Van Gogh Museum's Cookies Policy. This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at vangoghmuseum.nl . It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How We Use Cookies
At the Van Gogh Museum, we use cookies for several reasons, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use both first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are set by our website, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than our website. We use the following types of cookies:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser. They are used to track your activity during a single browsing session.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a set period of time, even after you close your browser. They are used to remember your preferences and settings for future visits.
- Analytical Cookies: These cookies help us analyze how users interact with our website. We use tools like Google Analytics to collect and process this data.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | Google Analytics | 24 hours |
| cookieConsent | Remembers user's cookie consent preferences. | Van Gogh Museum | 1 year |
| PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests. | Van Gogh Museum | Session |
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the cookie consent tool provided on our website. You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org .
Specifically, you can usually modify your browser settings to:
- Notify you when you receive a new cookie;
- Disable cookies altogether;
- Delete existing cookies.
Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Van Gogh Museum
Museumplein 6
1071 DJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email:
privacy@vangoghmuseum.nl
Phone: +31 82 374 8776
Our Data Protection Officer is Dr. Annelies de Vries, who can be contacted via the email address provided above.
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Last updated: October 26, 2023
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