HeadFirst Cookie Terms
These are the Cookie Terms of HFBG Holding B.V. (HeadFirst Group, we, our, us). Herein we explain how we use cookies on our website www.headfirst.nl (the Website).
Background use of cookies
We use cookies and similar techniques (cookies) for technical, functional, analytical, and marketing purposes. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device during the use of the Website. In a cookie, data is stored and read for various purposes in connection with the use of the Website. In these Cookie Terms, we explain what (type of) cookies we use, for what purposes, and how long the information is retained.
Functional cookies can always be used. Analytical cookies can also be used unless they pose a risk to the visitors of the Website. In that case, and for the use of other cookies, permission will first be requested.
Below is an overview of the different types of cookies that HeadFirst Group uses, along with an explanation of them. Then follows an explanation of how the use of certain cookies can be refused and how certain cookies can be deleted.
Functional (necessary) cookies
We use functional cookies that are necessary to display the Website and make navigation possible. We also use functional cookies to enable the chat function on the Website. This way you can easily keep in touch with us. To remember your choice to accept or refuse our non-essential cookies, it is also necessary that we place a functional cookie. This cookie is valid for a maximum period of two years. These are our own cookies that are read by our employees on a need-to-know basis. HeadFirst Group does not share the data collected with this with third parties, except where there is an obligation to do so.
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies record how visitors use the Website. With this information, we can improve the Website.
We use the service Google Analytics, which places analytical cookies from Google Inc. Based on the data collected with these cookies, Google creates anonymous reports regarding the use of the Website for HeadFirst Group. For more information (in English) about these cookies and their validity, click here. Google also offers the option to opt out of data collection as part of Google Analytics, click here to use that option. Click here for more general information about how Google uses cookies.
In addition, we use the analysis tool of Hotjar among others, so that we know where visitors of the Website click the most and to place polls and surveys on the Website. Click here for more information (in English) about Hotjar's cookies.
Preference cookies
Preference cookies ensure that a website can remember information that affects the behaviour and layout of the website, such as your preferred language or the region where you live.
Marketing and social media cookies
We use cookies from social media providers, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or YouTube. Social media cookies are placed by the social media providers themselves. These cookies are placed when you click on a social media button or a YouTube video on the Website. The social media provider can recognise your IP address when you want to share a part of the Website, apps, or a video. Social media providers can also place marketing cookies. These are used to show you relevant advertisements within the social medium.
For the cookies that the social media providers place and the data they collect with them, we refer to the statements that these parties provide on their own websites. The information can be found at: YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Consent, refusal, and deletion of cookies
For the placement of analytical cookies that impact your privacy and for marketing and social media cookies, we ask for your prior consent. If you do not give consent for these cookies, we will only place functional cookies and analytical cookies that do not impact your privacy. It is possible that in that case, you may not be able to use all functionalities of the Website or that the Website will not be fully displayed.
You can set your browser so that no cookies are stored, you can allow or refuse each cookie, or that all cookies are deleted when you close your browser. A handy step-by-step plan for managing your cookies can be found on the website of the Consumentenbond.
Cookies are placed on each device you use to visit websites. If you no longer want to receive any cookies, you will need to adjust the settings on all the computers you use. Note, if you refuse and/or delete cookies, this will also affect the strictly necessary cookies. In that case, it is possible that not all offered functionalities will work and the full Website cannot be displayed.