Cookie Policy
The website postillionhotels.com uses various types of cookies. In the context of GDPR, Postillion Hotels BV would like to inform data subjects as comprehensively as possible about which cookies are used and their purposes.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, tablet, or mobile phone when you visit the website. Information about website visits and usage is stored in these cookies. Personal data is processed by placing cookies. By using cookies, a website can recognise you on a subsequent visit to the website.
Different types of cookies
Postillion Hotels BV makes a distinction between functional and non-functional cookies. We always place functional cookies. These are necessary for the website to work properly. In addition to functional cookies, Postillion Hotels BV also places standard analytical cookies. These are examples of non-functional cookies and are not necessary for the website to function properly. They allow Postillion Hotels BV to know which parts of the website are popular and where improvements can be made. Only when the person concerned agrees to the placing of cookies does Postillion Hotels BV also place a number of other non-functional cookies. These all have different purposes but enable Postillion Hotels BV to improve its services. For example, cookies are used to test improvements on our website, to display social media buttons, or to display relevant advertisements for our services on other websites.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. These cookies are therefore placed by default and are not deleted even if the user does not accept the cookies. Functional cookies, for example, ensure that products remain in the shopping cart when the user wants to purchase something via the booking engines.
Cookies to measure visits
Analytical cookies enable Postillion Hotels BV to measure website visits. These statistics provide insight into how often the website is used, what information visitors are looking for, and which pages are visited most often. This allows Postillion Hotels BV to know which parts of the website are popular and where it can be improved. Postillion Hotels BV continuously analyses and improves the website to make the experience for visitors as pleasant as possible. The statistics that Postillion Hotels BV collects cannot be traced back to individuals. This data is therefore always used anonymously. We use Google Analytics to gain insights from the data. Postillion Hotels BV always places the analytical cookies when you visit the website.
Analytical cookies collect, among other things, the following data:
- Keeping track of the number of visitors to the web page.
- Keeping track of the duration of the visit.
- The searches performed on the website.
- Information about your browser and device used to visit the website, such as the operating system and screen size.
- The way in which the person concerned arrived at the website.
For more information about what Google does with the collected data, Postillion Hotels BV refers to Google’s privacy statement. This statement may change regularly.
Postillion Hotels BV never provides the personal data entered by the person concerned (such as name, email address, and interests) to Google. Read more about how we handle personal data in our privacy statement.
Cookies for social media integration
On the website, Postillion Hotels BV shows videos and other content that you can promote and share via social networks through a button. For these buttons to function, social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google place cookies, so that they can recognise the person concerned when they are logged in to that social network. They also collect data about the page that the data subject shares. For more information about the data that social media companies collect, Postillion Hotels BV refers to the privacy statements of these companies. These can change regularly.
Cookies to display postillion advertisements on other websites
Postillion Hotels BV uses online advertisements to promote its services. Postillion Hotels BV prefers to do this as targeted as possible to keep costs low and avoid showing you unnecessary advertisements. We use Google AdWords, Google Dynamic Remarketing, Facebook Custom Audiences (Postillion Hotels BV does not share its customer base with Facebook), Microsoft Bing Ads, and DoubleClick (from Google). In this way, Postillion Hotels BV can advertise in a targeted manner and keep costs low.
These cookies make it possible to:
- Keep track of which advertisements the person concerned has already seen. This prevents Postillion Hotels BV from showing the same advertisements too often.
- Keep track of how many visitors click on the advertisements.
- Keep track of how many visitors purchase a service from Postillion Hotels BV after they have clicked on an advertisement. This is necessary to analyse the effectiveness of advertisements.
- Keep track of whether the person concerned has already purchased certain services from Postillion Hotels BV. The data subject will then not see any unnecessary advertisements.
- Even if the person concerned does not accept cookies, they may still encounter advertisements from Postillion Hotels BV online. Not all its advertisements use cookies. Cookies make it possible to show advertisements that are more relevant to the person concerned and avoid unnecessary advertisements.
For more information about what Google does with stored data, Postillion Hotels BV refers to Google’s privacy statement. This can change regularly. Postillion Hotels BV has not given Google permission to use the information obtained for other Google services.
For more information about what Microsoft does with stored data, Postillion Hotels BV refers to Microsoft’s privacy statement. This can change regularly. Postillion Hotels BV has not given Microsoft permission to use the information obtained for other Microsoft services.
For more information about what Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter does with stored data, Postillion Hotels BV refers to the privacy statements of Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. These can change regularly. Postillion Hotels BV has not given Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter permission to use the information obtained for other Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter services.
Block and delete cookies
If the person concerned does not want cookies placed from our website, they can choose to do so in the cookie notification that they see when they first visit the website. If the person concerned has previously accepted the cookies, they will no longer see this message and must first delete the cookies.
The data subject can also choose to block the placing of cookies via their browser. If the person concerned blocks all cookies, websites may not work as well. It is better to selectively disable only unwanted cookies. The person concerned can do this in the browser under the settings. They also immediately block cookies from other websites that they visit.
For more information about this, Postillion Hotels BV refers to the Consumers’ Association: about blocking cookies.