PRIVACY AND COOKIE STATEMENT STICHTING NLNET LABS

What data will be collected?

NLnet Labs only collects the information necessary to show you the website. Like any website, we collect general information about visitors to our website. With regard to personal data, we only collect the IP address of your computer.

The general visitor information is used to show you the website and to analyse how many visitors our website gets, which web pages are visited and where the visitors come from. With this information, we can analyse and improve the website in a privacy-friendly manner.

We do not in any way pass on the data collected by us to third parties, unless we are legally obliged to do so (for example, if the authorities request data from us). Up until the revision date of this document, no request to hand over data has ever been submitted. If this were to happen we will report it here immediately.

Data retention period

The general visit data shall not be retained for more than 120 days.

Data security

We have enabled encryption on our website to prevent misuse of the website’s data. Encryption makes the data traffic between you and the web servers unreadable, so that outsiders do not have access to it.

Inspection, correction and deletion of data

Pursuant to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right of access to your personal data upon request and, if necessary, to amend it or have it deleted. You can find out how to contact us at the bottom of this privacy statement. Because we do not log your full IP address in our analytics software and webserver log (more on that below), you will need to supply us with additional information such as your device and browser, as well as the date and time of your visit for us to be able to honour your request.

Cookies

We put analytical cookies on your device to analyse the use of our website and how visitors have arrived at it. We run Matomo (formerly Piwik) on our own privately held en hosted webservers. Matomo is the most privacy-friendly analytical tool currently available. The statistics generated with these cookies are used only to improve our website. The data will not be shared with third parties.

Because the impact of these analytical cookies on your privacy is very limited in light of the GDPR and Section 11.7a of the Dutch Telecommunication Act, you do not need to give your consent for this.

To safeguard your privacy even further we have obscured various data points, which are:

• The last 16 bits of each IPv4 address and last 80 bits of each IPv6 address are anonymised (we only see 198.51.xxx.xxx or 2001:db8:ac10::)
• Log files are not saved for longer than 120 days
• We support Do Not Track
• Tracking cookies are disabled, so that we will not track you when you go to other websites

We collect the following information via cookies:

• IP address (anonymised)
• User agents (used browser, operating system, language settings, type of device, etc.)
• Pages visited and times of their visits
• Links used to access our website
• Links used on our website that refer to external websites
• Downloaded files
• Other information, such as screen resolution and the speed of the website

If you don't want us to place cookies on your device, we recommend that you turn on the “Do Not Track” function in your browser. Matomo will not follow you and will not place cookies. For more information about Do Not Track and how to turn it on in your browser, see the website All About Do Not Track.

Update privacy statement

We may change our privacy statement. We will announce this change on our website. Older versions of our privacy statement will be stored in our archive. Send us an email if you want to consult it.

Our contact details

Questions about this privacy statement or about our services can be addressed to labs@nlnetlabs.nl. We can be reached by post via the address listed in the footer of this page.