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The purpose of cookies

Enable the site to remember your preferences for a certain period of time. So that you don’t have to re-enter information when browsing around the site during the same visit or later visit. For example when you search for accommodation on certain dates these dates are stored so you dont have to input them again.

To establish anonymised statistics about number of visits to our pages, links clicked, advertisements seen and similar. These statistics help us determine which parts of our website we should focus on.

Amsterdam.info essential persistent cookies

When you visit the amsterdam.info website for the first time you will be shown a banner which will ask you to choose if you consent to the use of cookies on your device. This choice is remembered and stored in a cookie on your device. Therefore when you browse to other pages on our website or you visit our website later you are not asked again, but your choice from before is used.

This choice determines whether you are shown some advertisements which might use tracking technologies for advertisement purposes. If you accept then you will be shown these advertisements. If you deny then you will not be shown these advertisements.

On some pages we use a form to search for accommodation. These forms can be filled with dates which are used to search for accommodation in Amsterdam. These dates are also saved in a cookie so that if visit a page with such form later, the dates are already there.

Google AdSense cookies

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Google Analytics cookies

We use statistics services to determine how many people visit which pages, which links are clicked how many times and similar statistical measurements. We use these to know which pages to focus on and tune our cooperation vith our partners. These statistics are anonymous and we use it only for statistical reasons.

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https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
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Links to other sites that use cookies

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https://www.booking.com/content/privacy.en-gb.html#cookie-statement
https://www.tiqets.com/en/privacy-policy/

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