Cookie statement

This cookie statement describes which cookies Connection Mental Healthcare uses on its website and what these cookies are used for.

Why does Connection Mental Healthcare use cookies:

• to ensure the website functions properly and you have an optimal user experience
• to gain insight into the number of visitors to our site and the pages they view
• to enable the integration of social media on the website
• to generate advertisements tailored to your needs

A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by the browser on the hard drive of your computer. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit.

By means of a permanent cookie, we can recognise you on a new visit to our website. The website can thereby be specially tailored to your preferences. If you have given consent for the placement of cookies, we can also remember this by means of a cookie. This means you do not need to repeat your preferences each time, saving you time and allowing you to enjoy a more pleasant experience on our website. Permanent cookies can be deleted via the settings of your browser.

By means of a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you have viewed during this visit. This allows us to adapt our service as much as possible to the browsing behaviour of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

With your consent, our advertisers place "tracking cookies" on your device. They use these cookies to keep track of which pages you visit within their network, in order to build up a profile of your online browsing behaviour. This profile is also built on the basis of comparable information they receive from your visits to other websites within their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address and suchlike as known to us, but serves solely to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant as possible to you.

Via our website, a cookie is placed by the company Google, as part of its "Analytics" service. We use this service to track and obtain reports on how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so or insofar as third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We have no influence over this. We have not permitted Google to use the Analytics information obtained for other Google services.

The information collected by Google is anonymised as far as possible. Your IP address is expressly not included. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Safe Harbour principles and is a participant in the Safe Harbour programme of the US Department of Commerce. This means that an adequate level of protection is in place for the processing of any personal data.

Facebook pixel

Our website contains a Facebook pixel. This pixel works by means of a piece of code originating from Facebook itself. Cookies are placed by means of this code. We have no influence over this. Please read the privacy statement of Facebook (which may change regularly) to learn what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies. The information they collect is anonymised as far as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by Facebook on servers in the United States. Facebook is required to adhere to the Safe Harbour principles and is a participant in the Safe Harbour programme of the US Department of Commerce. This means that an adequate level of protection is in place for the processing of any personal data.

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. You can send your request via the contact form. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself adequately. Where it concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, you are required to send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in the settings of your browser.

More information about enabling and disabling and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or by using the Help function of your browser.

The privacy statement of Connection Mental Healthcare can be found here: Privacy statement.