Cookie policy (EU)
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 16 September 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://louwersmediagroep.com/en (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
5.4 External media
On our website we show content from other services, such as podcast episodes via Spotify. We only load that content after you have allowed external media, for example by clicking Play. Until then you see a placeholder with a link to the episode on Spotify.
Once the content has loaded, the service concerned may place cookies and process data. Please read the Spotify privacy policy (which can change regularly) to find out what Spotify does with your (personal) data. Spotify is based in Sweden.
6. Placed cookies
Below are the cookies the website may place, by category. This is the same list as in the Cookie settings window. Cookies outside the necessary category are only placed after you have given your consent.
Necessary
Required to make the site work and to remember your cookie choice. You cannot disable these cookies.
| Name | cc_cookie |
|---|---|
| Provider | Louwers Mediagroep |
| Purpose | Stores your cookie choice and the version of the cookie policy |
| Retention | 6 months |
Statistics
Data on how visitors use the site, so we can improve pages.
| Name | _ga |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google Analytics |
| Purpose | Distinguishes visitors for visitor statistics |
| Retention | 2 years |
| Name | _ga_* |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google Analytics |
| Purpose | Stores the session state for visitor statistics |
| Retention | 2 years |
Marketing
This lets us see which companies visit our site and which campaigns work.
| Name | _gcl_au |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google (Tag Manager) |
| Purpose | Measures the results of adverts |
| Retention | 3 months |
| Name | _li_id.* |
|---|---|
| Provider | Leadinfo |
| Purpose | Recognises a returning visit, so we can see which companies visit the site |
| Retention | 2 years |
| Name | _li_ses.* |
|---|---|
| Provider | Leadinfo |
| Purpose | Tracks the current visit |
| Retention | 30 minutes |
External media
Content from other services we display on the site, such as podcast episodes via Spotify. These services may place cookies.
| Name | sp_t |
|---|---|
| Provider | Spotify (spotify.com) |
| Purpose | Recognises your device when playing episodes |
| Retention | 1 year |
| Name | sp_landing |
|---|---|
| Provider | Spotify (spotify.com) |
| Purpose | Remembers how you arrived at Spotify |
| Retention | 1 day |
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we show you a notice explaining cookies. Accept gives consent for all categories, Reject only for necessary cookies. Under Settings you choose per category; Save settings records that choice. Until you make a choice, we only place necessary cookies.
We remember your choice for 6 months in the cc_cookie cookie. If this cookie policy changes in substance, we will ask for your choice again.
You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via Cookie settings. This link is also at the bottom of every page.
If you withdraw consent for statistics or marketing, we delete the related cookies on our own domain and reload the page. Cookies that other parties such as Spotify have placed on their own domain can be deleted via your browser (see section 8).
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
- Louwers Mediagroep, Schatbeurderlaan 6, 6002 ED Weert, Netherlands
- Website: https://louwersmediagroep.com/en
- Email: info@louwersmediagroep.nl
The cookie list in section 6 comes from the same source as the cookie notice on this website and always matches it.