Cookie Statement

What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you visit a website. We use them, for example, to remember passwords, to recognize users and to collect statistical information about the use of our website.  

Purposes

The municipality of Son en Breugel uses cookies to make its website function (functional cookies). We also use a statistics program to analyze how often visitors come to our website, the length of time and which pages are visited. With this information we can improve and optimize the website in terms of form and functionality. 

Privacy

The cookies, which we place, do not store any personal information (for example, your name or e-mail address).We store in cookies the first two bytes of the IP address of a visitor to our website. The stored data is therefore not traceable to a person.  

Turning off cookies


We appreciate it when you allow the municipality of Son en Breugel to place cookies. If you want the municipality to stop placing cookies on your equipment, you can block the placing of cookies. Click on the link of the browser you are using for information on how to block the placing of cookies on your equipment.

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What cookies do we use?

Govmetric

Through the "Your Comment" button, you can rate the website or web pages of our website and make suggestions on how to improve our site. To do this, we use the services of Govmetric. They use 'Awasalb' and 'Awasalbcorp' cookies to manage user connection to their servers and survey sessions. Read more about this in Govmetric's privacy statement. 

My virtual municipal assistant (GEM)

Our chatbot GEM we use data to answer your questions in the best possible way. We use the content of chat conversations to improve the chatbot. Our GEM uses the cookie 'Sess#' to store user statuses on page requests. 

Analytical cookies

We use statistics programs to analyze website visits. For example, we measure how often visitors visit our website, how long they stay there and which pages they visit. 

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Social media and other references to third-party websites


The social media plugins at the bottom of our website "Follow us on social media" or the "plan your route" button do not use cookies. The moment you click on one of these buttons, you will be redirected to the corresponding site. However, these sites may place cookies that collect your personal data. For more information please refer to the privacy statements of these parties We are not responsible for the content of these sites and the cookies these parties place.