Houthoff Coöperatief U.A. and its affiliated entities (hereinafter referred to as “Houthoff” or “us” or “we“) uses cookies and similar technologies, both our own and those of other parties. We use cookies to improve our website’s functionality, to analyse how visitors use our website, to personalise content and advertising, and to assess and improve our campaigns.
This statement sets out which cookies we use and how you can manage your cookie settings. This cookie statement is part of Houthoff’s privacy statement. Our privacy statement provides more information on the processing of your personal data, as well as other information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are simple text files that your browser stores on your device. They enable us to collect information on how you use our website, for example which pages of the website you visit, how long you stay on our website and which preferences you have set.
We use the following types of cookie on our website:
- Functional cookies: these are cookies that are necessary for optimum performance of our website, allowing you to use our website’s features. They do not collect any personal information. If you decide to disallow or disable these strictly necessary cookies, certain features of the website may not function properly.
- Analytical cookies: these cookies tell us how our website is used. We can use this information to enhance our website. We use Google Analytics to collect and analyse data on how our website is used. We do not allow Google to use the collected information for other Google services. The information collected by Google is anonymised as much as possible. Your IP address is not provided to Google.
- Marketing/tracking cookies: subject to your consent, we use marketing cookies for the following purposes:
- To identify users who have signed up for marketing emails, for the purpose of managing their preferences.
- To collect information on our website visitors’ activities so we can offer them a more efficient user experience and personalised content.
- For targeted adverts on houthoff.com and third-party websites.
- Social media cookies: if you visit our social media pages on LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Instagram or YouTube via a plug-in on our website, these parties can also place cookies as independent administrators. Please note that we have no control over these cookies, the data stored by these cookies or the purposes for which the social media providers use the cookies. We advise that you read the relevant privacy and cookie statements of these social media websites for this information.
Web beacons
Aside from cookies, Houthoff uses web beacons. A web beacon is a single-pixel HTML-embedded electronic image added to a website, an application or an email. It provides information about your device, for example whether you have opened a particular email or clicked a particular link in an email.
Personal data
Cookies allow us to collect data about you, including the following:
- Name
- Login information
- Screen display options
- IP address
- Cookie content
- Website and click behaviour
- Referrer URL
- Other data about your equipment and software settings on your device.
The processing of the above personal data is carried out in accordance with our Privacy Statement. For more information on how we process personal data, including through AI applications, please refer to our Privacy Statement and our AI statement on our website.
Which cookies do we use?
Our cookie settings page lists the specific cookies that we use.
Cookie management
Withdrawing your consent
You can withdraw the consent you have given at any time. You can do this through this page.
Enabling and disabling cookies
Please read your browser’s user instructions for more information on how to enable and disable cookies.
Deleting cookies
Most cookies have an expiry date. Cookies are automatically deleted when the expiry date passes. You can also choose to delete cookies manually before the expiry date has passed. Please consult your browser’s manual for this purpose. Please note that refusing and/or deleting cookies may also affect the functioning of our website.
Amendments to the cookie statement
We reserve the right to update or amend this cookie statement at any time by modifying this page. This cookie statement was last amended on March 2026. We recommend that you consult this page regularly to stay informed of any changes. If we make material changes to this cookie statement, we will inform you via our website or through another appropriate method.
Contact
You have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict the processing of your personal data by Houthoff. In addition, in some cases you have the right to receive your data in a structured format.
If you would like to receive more information about this cookie statement, please contact our Privacy department.
Finally, you are also entitled to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.