Cookie statement Fontys Hogescholen

To determine which parts of the website is the most interesting for our visitors, we continuously try to measure, with the help of software from a third party, how many people visit our website and what they pay most attention to. This is why we use cookies. By collecting information in this way statistics are made. These statistics give us insight into how often our website is visited and where our visitors spend most of their time et cetera. By doing so we are able to make the structure, navigation and content of the website as user-friendly as possible for you.
The statistics and other reports are not traced back to individuals.

Why cookies ?

To be able to offer a higher level of service while visiting websites, most sites use cookies. These are handy techniques that collect and use information. Websites then become easier to use. Cookies make sure that for instance you can stay logged in on a website, or that your preferences, such as location and linguistic map are saved.
Also, thanks to cookies, website owners can see how often their sites - and which pages - are looked at.

Removing cookies

Cookies are stored on your computer and you can delete them at any time. That goes very easy. Click on one of the browsers below to go directly to your browser's manual. Remember, after deleting cookies on some websites, you will need to reset your preferences or log in again.

If you want to block your computer completely from websites placing cookies, you can adjust your browser settings so that you receive a warning before the cookies are placed. You can also adjust your settings in such a way that all cookies or only third party cookies are declined.
Also you can remove the cookies that have already been placed. Keep in mind however, that the settings for each browser and computer need to be adjusted separately.


Be aware that if you do not want cookies, we can no longer guarantee that our website is working well. It may be that some of the features of the site may be lost or even you may not see certain websites at all.

Use of cookies by Fontys

Fontys also uses cookies. We would like to inform you about the different types of cookies that will be posted when visiting one of our websites.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies are used to provide you with the right functionality and experience. Thus, functional cookies store your preferences for language and login status, among other things. Functional cookies are always placed, as these are essential for the proper functioning of our websites. Failure to give cookies permission does not affect functional cookies.

Analytical cookies

To determine which parts of the website are the most interesting for our visitors, we constantly try to measure, with help of software from a third party, how many visitors see our website and what they view the most. This is why we use cookies. By collecting this type of information statistics can be made. These statistics give us insight into how often our website is frequented and where our visitors spend most of their time, et cetera. In this way we are able to make our website as consumer-friendly as possible in structure, navigation and content. The statistics and other reports are not traced back to individuals.


Fontys has an editing agreement with Google with reference to Google Analytics. This agreement states that only Google can act as editor in the processing of personal data of our website visitors.

We use a Google Analytics cookie for:

  • Up-date of the number of our webpage visitors.
  • Up-date of de duration that each visitor spends on our webpages.
  • To determine the order in which a visitor frequents the different pages of our website.
  • To optimize of our website.

We use Google Analytics to measure our fontys.nl-domain.

Analystic cookies are always placed. There are no consequences for not giving permission for analytic cookies.

Social media cookies

When reading articles or watching video's on our website, you can use share buttons via social media. For the functioning of these buttons we use cookies from social media parties so that they recognize you when you want to share and article or a video.


To use the cookies that are placed by social media parties and the possible data that they collect by doing this, we refer you to the explanation that these parties put on their websites: see the links below. Keep in mind that these explanations can change regularly. Fontys has no influence on this.

Cookies Advertisements

Fontys uses third party services, such as Google AdWords, for reproducing relevant advertisements for among other things our training courses, tuned in to your visiting our websites and thereupon visited pages.

Not accepting cookies on our websites can lead to the fact that you may not see interesting adverts on the Fontys sites, so far as these are based on your visits to our websites. This however, doesn't mean that you will see no Fontys advertisements whatsoever as Fontys now also uses generic adverts that are not based on surf behaviour.

Other

Because of the way that internet and websites work, it's possible that we will not always have insight into the cookies that are placed by third parties on our website. Especially if our websites have embedded elements in them: these can be texts, documents, illustrations or clips that are stored by a third party, but are shown, on, in or via our website.

Privacy Statement for Fontys.nl

Personal data is protected and processed in a meticulous manner. We save and use only the exclusive personal data that is sent directly from you or from which, when requested it is clear that it is supplied by you. Herewith we adhere to the requirements of the Law Protection Personal details.

Do you have any questions or comments?

For questions or remarks about using your data for sending student selection information, please contact our Customer Contact Center.

E-mail: klantcontactcentrum@fontys.nl, telefoon 08850 80000.