WHAT COOKIES ARE

A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer when you visit a website. Both MRS BEE and other parties may place cookies. Cookies do not store personal information about you, do not damage your computer, and they are automatically deleted when the expiration period lapses.

WHY WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies to facilitate the use of our e-store, to facilitate logging in on our website, and to remember your settings and preferences. You can disable these cookies through your browser, but this can have a negative effect on the functioning of our website and your experience with it.

We also place cookies on your computer to prevent you from seeing certain advertisements too often, and to record the number of times an advertisement is displayed. These cookies are not linked to your personal profile.

With your consent, we also place tracking cookies on your computer. We use these cookies to keep track of the pages you visit and your preferences, so we can build up a profile of your online behaviour. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email, or other personal data. We use these cookies to analyse your behaviour and remember your preferences regarding a questionnaire on a specific topic, for example. Cookies ensure that certain software (see below) can work properly, which allows us to improve our website and our service. This in turn optimises the user experience of our website.

Which cookies we use and why

Functional cookies: These cookies ensure the website works properly.

We use functional cookies to:

• Remember products you add to your shopping cart when shopping online
• Remember information you enter on the various ordering and checkout pages, so that you do not have to re-enter all your details
• Forward information from one page to the next, such as when you must fill in lots of details to place an online order
• Save preferences, such as your language, location, the number of search results you want displayed, etc.
• Read your browser settings to optimally display our website on your screen
• Offer the option of saving login details, so that you do not have to re-enter them each time
• Determine which version of the website you will see

Statistics / analysis – cookies that allow us to measure website usage

We continuously monitor the use of the website to determine which parts of the website users find the most interesting.

We use the information we collect to generate statistics. These statistics provide us with insight into how often visitors come to our web page, where they spend the most time, and so on. This allows us to make the structure, navigation and content of the website as user-friendly as possible for you. We do not use the statistics and other reports to identify users.

We use cookies to:

• Track the number of visitors on the website and our web pages 
• Track the amount of time each visitor spends on our web pages
• Determine the order in which a visitor visits the various pages of mrsbee.nl
• Assess which parts of our site need changing
• Optimise the website

Advertisements – cookies that allow us to show advertisements

MRS BEE’s core activity is selling products. To encourage sales, we place advertisements on various other websites. We try to make the advertisements as relevant as possible. We buy advertising space from media agencies and advertising networks that function as intermediaries between website owners and advertisers.

The cookies allow us to:

• Track which advertisements you have already seen to prevent you from constantly seeing the same one
• Track how many visitors click on an advertisement, which we use for the financial settlement with the party from which we have purchased the advertising space
• Track how many orders the advertisement generates, which we use for the financial settlement with the party from which we have purchased the advertising space

Interests – cookies that make the website relevant to the visitor

We aim to provide website visitors with information that is as relevant as possible, so we try to adapt our site to every visitor’s needs as much as we can. We do this by adjusting both the content of our website and the advertisements displayed outside of the website.

To be able to make these adjustments, we try to get an idea of your probable interests based on your visit to mrsbee.nl. Based on these interests, we then adjust the content and offers on mrsbee.nl to different customer groups.

Third parties that place cookies via our website may also use the same method to learn about your interests. In that case, the information about your current visit can be combined with information from previous visits to websites other than ours.

If such cookies are not used, it does not mean that you will no longer see any advertisements from us, merely that the advertisements will no longer be tailored to your interests.

The cookies allow us to:

Register the websites you visit, to gauge your interests

• Check whether you clicked on an advertisement
• Forward information about your online behaviour to other websites
• Use third-party services to be able to show you advertisements
• Show you more relevant advertisements based on your social media activities

Other / unforeseen cookies

Because of the way the internet and websites work, we may not always have an insight into the cookies that third parties place via our website. This is particularly true where our web pages contain embedded elements, such as texts, documents, pictures or videos stored by another party, but which are shown on, in or via our website.

If you encounter cookies on this website that fall into this category that we have not mentioned above, please let us know. Alternatively, you may contact the third party directly and ask which cookies they have placed, the reason, the lifespan of the cookie, and how they have guaranteed your privacy.

YOUR RIGHTS CONCERNING THE USE OF COOKIES

You have the right to request access to your data, to correct or remove it. See our contact page for this. To prevent abuse, we may ask you to provide proper identification. If it concerns personal data linked to a cookie, you must also send a copy of the cookie in question.

DISABLING COOKIES

By default, most browsers – such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome – are set up so that you allow websites to place cookies on your computer. How you adjust the settings varies per browser. If necessary, consult your browser’s help function.

By default, most browsers – such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome – are set up so that you allow websites to place cookies on your computer. How you adjust the settings varies per browser. If necessary, consult your browser’s help function.

Be aware that if you disable cookies, we can no longer guarantee that our website will work properly. It is possible that you will lose some of the site’s functions, or that you cannot see certain websites at all. In addition, refusing cookies does not mean that you will no longer see advertisements. The advertisements will simply no longer be adapted to your interests and will be repeated more often.