Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

During your visit to the Standplus website, cookies may be used. Cookies are small files that a website sends to your computer when you visit the site and that are stored on your computer. These files allow you to be recognized as a user on a later visit to the Standplus website. Standplus uses these cookies to make your browsing experience easier and more enjoyable and to better tailor the content to your needs and preferences by taking your previous visits into account. A cookie is completely passive and does not contain any software programs, viruses, or spyware.

2. Which cookies does Standplus use?

Standplus uses different types of cookies, both files that disappear automatically after you close your browser and files that are used again on a later visit. Standplus sends some cookies itself (“first-party cookies”) which it manages, including the processing of the collected data. This allows Standplus to improve your user experience on its website, for example by saving your chosen language settings or by preventing you from repeatedly seeing the same advertisements.

Partners of Standplus also place cookies (“third-party cookies”) that were developed by or for them, and only these partners have access to these cookies and the information collected. Standplus therefore has no control over or knowledge of the content and functioning of these cookies. Advertisers can add cookies to their ads on the Standplus website to gain insights into your interests and to show you only relevant advertisements.

In addition, Standplus relies on third parties such as Google Analytics to analyze website usage. These services also place cookies on your computer to track how visitors use the website. This analysis is necessary for Standplus to adapt the website to visitors’ preferences, thereby increasing ease of use. Other third parties that can place cookies on your computer through our website include social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. This happens via buttons from these services that you see on the website to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) content. This includes Facebook’s well-known ‘Like button’ and ‘Like box’ (Friend 1, Friend 2, and x people like this), whereby Facebook can recognize visitors based on cookies.

3. Refusing or deleting cookies

If you want to continue visiting the Standplus website without adjusting cookie settings and click the “continue” link, the installation of cookies is accepted. It is possible to refuse the installation of cookies via your computer’s browser settings. However, some parts of our websites may then not function properly or may be inaccessible, which is obviously not desirable.

You can also delete cookies already installed on your computer or mobile device at any time. After disabling and/or deleting cookies, you will still see advertisements, but these will no longer be tailored to your previous use of the Standplus website.