Cookie Statement

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This website is property of Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation). The website was made by Kentaa, a Kentaa B.V. product (www.kentaa.nl). Kentaa acts as a processor for Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation), who acts as a Controller.

Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) uses cookies on this website. A cookie is a simple, small file that is sent with pages of this website (and/or Flash applications), and that is saved to the harddrive of your computer or device by your browser. Upon your next visite, the information contained in these cookies may be sent back to Kentaa's servers. The cookies used on this website are divided into functional, analytical, and marketing cookies. This Cookie Statement explains the purpose and functioning of the different categories of cookies. A detailed overview of the cookies used on this website can be found at the bottom of this page. Summarising, Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) uses cookies of the following categories on this website:

Social Media Cookies and Pixels

The website contains buttons to be able to promote ("like") or share ("tweet") web pages on social networks like Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp. Videos on the website are shown through the services of YouTube and/or Vimeo. These buttons and video players work with bits of code that also place cookies. Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) cannot control this. Please read the privacy statements of these social networks and video players (which may be changed regularly) to learn how they process your (personal) data that they obtain from these cookies and how you can disable the cookies of these third parties.

Session Cookies

Session cookies help Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) and Kentaa to see which parts of the website you visited during this session. Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) and Kentaa can use this information to tailor their services to web visitors' behaviour. These cookies are deleted automatically as soon as you close your browser.

Google Analytics

A cookie of the American company Google is placed through this website, as part of the “Analytics” service. Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) uses this service to monitor how visitors use the website and to receive reports about this. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so, or as far as third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) cannot control this. Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) has granted Google permission to use the obtained Analytics information for other Google services. The information that Google collects shall be anonymized to the extent possible. Your IP address shall explicitly not be sent with the information. The information is transferred and stored to servers located in the United States by Google. Google is a party to the EU-U.S. and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and shall comply with the Privacy Shield Principles of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This means, among other things, that Google safeguards the integrity of the (personal) data and that there is an appropriate and adequate security level for the processing of (personal) data.

Personalizing advertisements

Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) uses retargeting for its websites. Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) uses this technology to make the online offer even more interesting for you. This enables Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) to offer internet users who have shown interest in Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation)'s campaigns or products relevant advertisements on other websites. Amsterdam UMC Foundation (AMC Foundation) believes that personalized advertisements are more interesting for you than advertisements that are not relevant for you. These advertisements are shown on partners' pages with the help of cookies and an analysis of earlier user behaviour.

Inspection

You have the right to access your personal data and to have them corrected or erased. You can also object to the processing of your personal data, file a request to 'be forgotten', or ask for a copy of your data in machine-readable form, so that you may transfer them to a third party. For more information about your rights with regard to the processing of your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Statement. In order to prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself. The personal data that we receive following the identification request, are processed in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and our Privacy Statement. In case it concerns access to personal data connected to a cookie, you are required to send a copy of that cookie with your request. You will find such cookies in your browser settings. Please send your request to foundation@amsterdamumc.nl.

Enabling and disabling cookies on this website

You can easily enable or disable cookies on this website via the so-called 'cookie bar' at the bottom of the website. Have you already done this and do you want to change your cookie settings? Click here or click the button at the bottom of this page to change your cookie settings for this website.

More information about cookies

More information about cookies can be found on the following Dutch websites:
Consumentenbond: “Wat zijn cookies?”
Consumentenbond: “Cookies verwijderen”

Language

This Cookie Statement was drawn up in the Dutch language and translated into the English and French language. In case of conflict between the French or English version of this Cookie Statement and the Dutch version, the Dutch version shall prevail. All terms used in this Cookie Statement shall be understood to be Dutch legal terms, and shall be interpreted in accordance with the GDPR.

Necessary

Name cookie External domain Duration Description
_kentaa_session No 1 day Used to keep a user's session
cookie_consent No 1 year Used to keep the cookie setting choice

Preferences

Name cookie External domain Duration Description
locale No 1 year Used to keep the language setting
dashboard_locale No 1 year Used to keep the language setting

Statistics

Name cookie External domain Duration Description
_ga No 2 years Used by Google Analytics for statistical information how the visitor uses the website
_ga_<container-id> No 2 years Used by Google Analytics for statistical information how the visitor uses the website

Marketing

Name cookie External domain Duration Description
NID .google.com 6 months Used to store preferences, such as preferred language and number of search results
ENID .google.com 13 months Used to store preferences, such as preferred language and number of search results
CGIC .google.com 6 months Used to improve searches
CONSENT .google.com 2 year Used to store cookie choices
SOCS .google.com 13 months Used to store cookie choices
IDE .google.com 13 months Used to show Google ads on sites outside of Google
PREF .youtube.com 8 months Used to keep statistics on how the visitor uses YouTube videos on different websites
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com 179 days Try to estimate user bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos
YSC .youtube.com session Used to keep track of which videos of YouTube the user has seen
SID .youtube.com 2 years Contains encrypted user data, and is used in combination with other cookies to protect the user online
HSID .youtube.com 2 years Contains encrypted user data, and is used in combination with other cookies to protect the user online
DSID .youtube.com 2 weeks Used to recognize a logged in user
pm_sess .youtube.com 30 minutes Used to track a user session
AEC .youtube.com 6 months Used to track a user session
player .vimeo.com 1 minute Used to keep settings of the vimeo player
vuid .vimeo.com 1 minute Used to keep statistics on Vimeo videos
__cf_bm .vimeo.com 30 minutes Used to read and filter requests from bots
OptanonConsent .vimeo.com 1 year Used to keep track of the cookie setting choice