Privacy Policy for KatinkaHesselink.net

The privacy of our visitors to KatinkaHesselink.net is important to us. 

At KatinkaHesselink.net, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit KatinkaHesselink.net, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include  your IP (internet protocal) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. 

Cookies and Web Beacons

While we don't collect information through cookies or web beacons ourselves, we do use third party advertisements on KatinkaHesselink.net to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Dutch ads on English pages to a visitor from The Netherlands, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing spiritual ads to someone who frequents spiritual sites).

Google also gathers information about what interests you in it's cookies by collecting information off youtube and websites like this one with adsense advertisements. This means that you might see advertisements related to religion and spirituality, meditation and Buddhism on sites which are not at all about that - because you are a regular visitor here. If you think this is a bad thing, you can turn it off by going to: Advertising and Privacy (the page will turn up in the language of the country where you live).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.