Your own privacy

This page was last updated on 2025-02-27

As of February 2025, we use Matomo to track the usage of the (online version of the) Data Privacy Handbook. We do this, because we want to see how often the Data Privacy Handbook is being visited, how users find it, and which pages are most useful. When you click “OK” in the cookie banner, Matomo places an analytics cookie in your web browser. The following information is collected about you:

  • Which pages you visit and for how long, and how long the page loads
  • Generic aspects of your behaviour on the page (e.g., files downloaded and links clicked)
  • How you found the page (e.g., directly or via another website)
  • From what location you are accessing the page
  • What language your browser is in
  • Details about your device (e.g., operating system, browser, screen size)
See the detailed list of data collected
  1. Anonymized user IP address
  2. Date and time of the request
  3. Title of the page being viewed (Page Title)
  4. URL of the page being viewed (Page URL)
  5. URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page (Referrer URL)
  6. Screen resolution being used
  7. Time in local user’s timezone
  8. Files that were clicked and downloaded (Download)
  9. Links to an outside domain that were clicked (Outlink)
  10. Pages generation time (the time it takes for webpages to be generated by the web server and then downloaded by the user: Page speed)
  11. Location of the user: country, region, city, approximate latitude and longitude (Geolocation)
  12. Main Language of the browser being used (Accept-Language header)
  13. User Agent of the browser being used (User-Agent header)

We do not collect your detailed location, and use IP address “anonymisation” to prevent other unnecessary details from being collected. This ensures that we cannot directly lead your data back to you.

This information is stored for 1 year at a university server in the Netherlands. The analytics are only shared with the maintainers of the Data Privacy Handbook and communication professionals employed at Utrecht University. We do not share any analytics with external parties, and you are not tracked across websites.

If you do not wish your visit to be counted, you can disable or block tracking in your browser settings. How you can do this depends on your specific browser. You can read more about preventing tracking on http://donottrack.us/.

If you have questions or comments about analytics cookies, please consult the Matomo documentation or contact us.

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The information presented here is provided as is, with no guarantees of accuracy or completeness. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to your privacy officer, the university website or intranet. We cannot be held responsible for any negative consequences due to incorrect interpretation or use, and inconsistencies with policies/views of other institutions.

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