Cookies
What are ‘cookies’?
We use ‘cookies’, i.e. small files stored by your browser, to collect and analyse data about the way in which our website is used.
Analytical cookies only
We do not use cookies to collect personal data or pseudonymised data. We do not use remarketing or personalisation (‘profiling’) and we do not store IP addresses. In other words, we do not use tracking cookies, i.e. cookies that can follow visitors during their visits to other websites.
The only cookies we use are analytical cookies, i.e. cookies for research and statistical purposes. We do this in order to see how visitors use our website. This information helps us to improve the website and make it more user-friendly (for example, by remembering which menu item you chose and which search terms you used, in case you wish to use them again during a later visit).
These types of cookies do not affect your privacy. Because we satisfy all the various requirements (i.e. we do not collect data for advertising purposes and we do not share data with Google or any other third parties), we do not need to ask you for permission to place analytical cookies.
No Google Analytics
This website uses Matomo rather than Google Analytics for measuring website visits. Matomo is an open-source web analysis application. Only our own staff have access to the data collected in Matomo. For more details about Matomo, see https://matomo.org.
Cookies on our website
The following table shows the cookies that may be placed during your visit to our website.
| Placed by | Name | Purpose |
| Erasmus MC | JSESSIONID | Starting a new session (visit) |
The following non-functional cookies are used on our website:
| Placed by | Name | Purpose |
| Piwik | _pk_id.3.1fff | Tracking (after acceptance by visitor) |
| Piwik | _pk_ses.3.1fff | Tracking (after acceptance by visitor) |
Rejecting and deleting cookies
You can refuse to accept cookies by changing the settings in your browser. You can delete the cookies manually, delete or reject them automatically, and do so either all at once or only for specific websites.
Microsoft’s support website contains instructions on how to manage and delete cookies in various browsers.
If you have any queries, please contact us.