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This Cookie Policy was last updated on March 5, 2025 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

The short version: this website sets no tracking, advertising or analytics cookies, and nothing at all is stored on your device when you read these pages, send us your CV or brief us. The cookies listed below are the ones our own colleagues receive when they sign in to our staff system. That is why you have not been asked to accept anything.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://ddg-people.com (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 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.

6. Placed cookies

Every cookie this website places is listed here. All of them are strictly necessary for a member of DDG staff to sign in and stay signed in, all are set by us rather than by a third party, and none of them is used to profile you or to follow you to another site.

NameCategoryExpiresWhat it does
authjs.session-tokenStrictly necessary8 hoursHolds the signed session of a signed-in DDG staff member. Without it the admin area cannot tell one colleague from another.
authjs.csrf-tokenStrictly necessarySessionProtects the sign-in and sign-out requests against cross-site request forgery.
authjs.callback-urlStrictly necessarySessionRemembers which page to return to after signing in.
authjs.pkce.code_verifierStrictly necessary15 minutesPart of the OpenID Connect handshake with Microsoft Entra ID. It proves the sign-in that comes back is the one that was started here.
authjs.stateStrictly necessary15 minutesTies the response from Microsoft Entra ID to the sign-in request that began it.
authjs.nonceStrictly necessarySessionSingle-use value that stops a sign-in response being replayed.

7. Consent

We do not ask you for consent to place cookies, because we place none that need it. Every cookie in the list above is strictly necessary for our staff sign-in to work, and none is set for you as a visitor. If we ever add analytics or any other non-essential cookie, we will ask you first and this page will change on the same day.

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:

DDG Europe
Baarnsche Dijk 4-B, 3741 LR Baarn, Netherlands
Website: https://ddg-people.com
Email: info@ddg-europe.com