Cookies

National Tree Company makes use of ‘cookies’ when offering its electronic services. A cookie is a small file stored on your computer’s hard drive so that we can recognise you when you revisit the site. These cookies are only used to make the website easier to use. You can set your browser to notify you when a cookie is placed or to prevent the collection of cookies. However, you will then not be able to use all the features of the site. Please use the following guides: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The domain name under which the cookies are stored is www.vdg.be. National Tree Company is the owner of this domain name. The period of validity of the cookies varies from the length of your visit to unlimited. The storage and transmission of your data via the internet is secured. You have the right to access, correct and/or delete personal data collected through cookies by sending an e-mail to christmas@vdg.be. National Tree Company does not collect personal data via cookies.

If you complete and submit a digital form, then this form is stored digitally in our backup for 1 month. The reason for this is that we want to be sure that we have actually received your form. If this is not the case, we can still request your form via this backup. You do not have to fill it in again.

There are no functional cookies.

No tracking cookies are set.

Analytical cookies.
Through our website, a cookie from the US company Google is placed as part of the “Analytics” service. National Tree Company uses this service to track and receive reports about how visitors use the website, in order to improve user-friendliness. National Tree Company does not see who (or which PC) visits the website. Google, as provider of the service, can Google can provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so, or to the extent that third parties process the information on behalf of Google. National Tree Company has no influence on this. National Tree Company has not authorised Google to use the analytics information obtained for other Google services.
The information that Google collects is anonymised as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not provided. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google claims to adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated to the Privacy Shield program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.”
National Tree Company has entered into a processor agreement with Google, masked the last octet of the IP address, turned off ‘data sharing’ and does not use other Google services in conjunction with the Google Analytics cookies.
You can find more information about the Google Analytics cookies on the Google Analytics website.

Third party content:
Our website does not contain any direct third-party content, such as widgets, plug-ins or embedded content.

“Our website contains buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work through pieces of code that originate from Facebook and Twitter respectively. Cookies are placed by means of this code. We have no influence on this. Please read the privacy statements of Facebook and Twitter (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies.
“The information they collect is anonymised as much as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by Twitter, Facebook and Google + on servers in the United States. Twitter, Facebook and Google + claim to adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are affiliated with the Privacy Shield programme of the US Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.”