Cookie statement

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  Remembers whether you read the Dutch or the English version, and is only set when you click the language switch yourself. Without it the site would forget your language on every page.

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  Not cookies but localStorage in your own browser: your chosen theme (light or dark) and your cookie choice. This never leaves your device and never reaches our servers.

If you accept, we load Google Analytics 4. It sets cookies (_ga and _ga_*) recording which pages are visited and whether a visitor returns. Your IP address is anonymised. If you do not accept, nothing from Google is loaded at all: no script, no pixel, no request.

For this processing Google Ireland Limited acts as our processor under the Data Processing Terms attached to the Google Analytics agreement.

Clear this site's data in your browser, or use a private window, and the question returns. We do not keep your choice on our servers, so there is nothing at our end to withdraw.

• No advertising cookies and no profiling.
• No social media trackers, no embedded video watching you.
• No cookie wall: declining gives you exactly the same site.
• No contact form data in a database. Your message is emailed and not otherwise stored.