Privacy and cookies at BiteStreams.com

Saving personal information

This website contains a contact form that sends the personal information added to the form to our form service through a secure connection. We solely use this information for the purpose as described in the contact form. The information is saved in our form service to be able to respond to any requests.

Deletion personal information

You have the right to see the stored personal information, to change this information and to request permanent deletion of this information.

Cookies

This website solely uses analytics cookies to analyse website performance.

Privacy legislation and Analytics

As described in the next section explains, we use Google Analytics. This allows us to track statistics about the visitors of our site, the pages they visited and essential information about site usage that we can leverage to improve our website. These statistics are anonymous and cannot be tracked back to an individual user of visitor. We do not use ‘behavioural targeting’, with which you get a personal website experience based on the clicking behaviour. Your surfing behaviour will stay completely anonymous. Information from contact forms is never saved in Analytics.

What are cookies?

Google Analytics uses Cookies. Cookies are small (text) files that your computer, tablet, smartphone or other electronic device (hereinafter: “device”) stores when you use the Website. By using cookies, your device can be recognised. This enables us to measure how our Website is being used and helps us to make improvements. The use of cookies is safe: a cookie cannot start programs or spread viruses.

Cookies have a certain period of validity, starting from the moment they are placed on a device. Some of the cookies we place are valid for the duration of a session. This means that cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your browser. here are also cookies that remain valid for a longer period of time, so that they can also be read on your next visit to the Website. We have adapted Google Analytics to conform to the privacy legislation, so we do not have to ask permission from the user beforehand.

IP addresses are masked and information is not shared

The cookie from Google Analytics is a “first party cookie”, which means that it is owned by BiteStreams and not by Google. It is not used for adds or commercial purposes. BiteStreams has a processing agreement with Google.

Besides that, Google Analytics has been set up such that IP addresses are anonymised. This way data can never be traced back to your IP address. From the Analytics account of BiteStreams, no information is shared with other parties. Hence, the Analytics cookie of BiteStreams is not a non-privacy sensitive first-party cookie that is needed to guarantee the quality and safety of bitestreams.com. The Analytics cookie will stay active for 6 months.

Always block Google Analytics

If you completely want to block the Analytics script, you can download an opt-out plugin here at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. With this plugin your visit does is not used in the statistics for all websites using Google Analytics.