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What are Cookies and how do we use them?

Enza Zaden uses cookies on its website. A cookie is a small text file sent with pages of a website and stored by your browser on the hard disk of your computer, smartphone or tablet.

Cookies help Enza Zaden to optimise your visit to our websites. Your privacy and the user friendliness of our website are of paramount importance. We cannot identify who is visiting our website from the cookies. We believe it is important that you know which cookies our website uses and for which purposes.

Below, you can read about the various types of cookies that are used by, and via, our website and for which purposes.

Permission

When you visit our website for the first time, you will see a pop-up that states that if you continue to visit the website, you agree to the placement of cookies on your computer. You also agree to the processing of the data obtained through these cookies by us and the third parties described below for the purposes described below. We use a cookie that registers that you have given this permission.

Functional cookies

These are cookies that are technically required for the operation of the Enza Zaden website. They relate to information that must be stored in order for the website to operate properly.

Analytical cookies

Cookies are placed via our website by Google and Sitecore as part of their services. We use these services to monitor and receive reports on how visitors use our website. Google and Sitecore place cookies to obtain the following information:

  • how often and when a visitor has visited our web pages (these cookies expire two years after placement);
  • to monitor from which other site a visitor arrived, which device was used (desktop, mobile or tablet), which search engine was used, which link was clicked, which keyword was used and the region you were in when you accessed the website (these cookies expire six months after placement).

We use the following Google statistical tools: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager (to allocate pixels) and Google Data Studio. These cookies are kept for 90 days at most. Google uses this information to keep track of how you use our website. Google may provide this information to third parties if it is under a legal duty to do so or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google may use the statistical information it has obtained for its other services. Sitecore does not have access to the data.

Advertisement cookies – Remarketing cookies

Enza Zaden uses Google Adwords and Google Adwords Remarketing/Doubleclick remarketing cookies to offer advertisements on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors of our website. This may be done through an advertisement in the Google search results or an advertisement on one of the websites affiliated with the Google Display Network. These cookies are kept for 90 days at most.

For more information on the Google policy on the handling and the protection of personal data, please see the Google support page. You can manage the Google settings and change them if required via the following Link. You can manage the Google Doubleclick settings and change them if required via the following Link.

More information on Sitecore Analytics can be found on the Sitecore support page.

Session cookies

Enza Zaden uses session cookies, which provide insight into the online behaviour of visitors to our website so that we can adapt your services accordingly. These cookies are automatically removed once you have ended your internet visit.

Social media

Our website includes buttons to promote or share web pages on social networks and platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook. These buttons work using pieces of code that originate from these networks and platforms themselves. Cookies are placed using this code. Enza Zaden has no control over this.

Please read the privacy statements of the companies to check what these companies do with your information that they process via these cookies.

Removing and blocking cookies

Via your internet browser, you can remove cookies that have already been placed. It is also possible to block cookies entirely. You can find more information on enabling, disabling and removing cookies in the instructions and/or with the aid of the help function of your internet browser.

Amendments

Enza Zaden may amend the content of this statement and the cookies it has placed. Changes will be announced on the website.

Questions?

Questions and/or comments? Send an email to the Communications Department in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands: communications@enzazaden.nl.