Understanding how we use cookies and how you can control them
Last Updated: April 27, 2025
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device by websites, apps, online media, and advertisements. They are used to remember your preferences, to understand how you use our website, and to personalize your experience.
At museum-amsterdam.com, we use cookies and similar technologies to provide, secure, and improve our services, including by remembering your preferences, recognizing you when you visit our website, and personalizing your experience.
We use different types of cookies for various reasons. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons for our website to operate. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website.
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. These cookies cannot be turned off.
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Performance | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Performance | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Performance | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
| cookieConsent | Essential | Stores your cookie consent preferences. | 1 year |
| cookieSettings | Essential | Stores your specific cookie settings preferences. | 1 year |
| session | Essential | Maintains your session state across page requests. | Session |
| language | Functionality | Remembers your language preference. | 1 year |
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website, deliver advertisements on and through the website, and so on.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors engage with our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about website use. You can learn more about Google Analytics cookies by visiting Google's Cookie Usage on Websites.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.
You can delete cookies that are already on your computer by clearing your browsing history. Most browsers make it easy to delete cookies, but you will need to do this separately for each browser and device you use.
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We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookie Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
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