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Cookie Statement

To ensure you have the best experience on our website and its subdomains, we use cookies.


What are cookies and their use?


Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet or mobile phone) via your browser primarily to enhance the convenience of using the site, to enable certain functions and to make visiting our website attractive. It enables us to remember your actions and preferences (such as language, font size and other display preferences), so you don’t have to keep re-entering them when you return to our website or browse from one page to another. 

Personal data may be collected using cookies; such information will only be processed in accordance with this Cookie Statement and our Privacy Policy.


How do we use cookies?

Arcadis uses cookies to provide website functionality and to help Arcadis analyze how users use the site. The type of personal data collected as a result of a cookie is specific to your device and activity and may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the date and time you access our website, what parts of the website you visited and your personal preferences.

Cookies can be placed directly by our website or by third parties with whom we cooperate to help us diagnose technical problems, analyze the traffic to our website, analyze trends, observe and measure how our visitors engage with our website and identify preferences. For some cookies we will ask for your consent before we place them.  For ease, we group the cookies we use into three distinct categories as listed below.

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. These cookies do not store any personally data. We don’t have to ask your permission to place these kinds of cookies.


  • Functional cookies

This category of cookies includes cookies that are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features.  It also includes cookies to enable the website to provide enhanced functionality, for example to remember choices you make like language, geography, etc. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites and they can be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. We don’t have to ask your permission to place these kinds of cookies..


  • Analytics cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from website. These cookies also help us to test various parts of the website and improve your browsing experience. The analytics cookies that we use include use of Google Analytics, provided by Google, Inc. Google will use this information solely to enable Arcadis to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and to provide Arcadis with technical assistance. Arcadis has disabled Google's ability to use such information for its own purposes or to provide such information to third parties, except to the extent required by law. In addition, the IP addresses collected by the Google Analytics cookies have been anonymized by removing the last three digits. For placing these Google Analytics cookies we don’t have to ask your permission. For other analytics cookies, we do ask for your permission..


  • Marketing cookies

These cookies are used to deliver targeting efforts and content that are more relevant to you and your interests. These help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. They are usually placed by networks with the website operator’s permission. Quite often targeting cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization including social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content on social networks. These third parties may use cookies for their own purposes. We have no influence over how these social media networks make use of your data. For more information regarding the cookies set by the social media networks please refer to their own privacy and cookie policies. .

The information collected by the Google Analytics cookie tells us about your use of the website and will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The data transferred will include your IP-address from which the last three digits have been removed to protect your privacy.

Google will use this information solely to enable Arcadis to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and to provide Arcadis with technical assistance. Arcadis has disabled Google's ability to use such information for its own purposes or to provide such information to third parties, except to the extent required by law.

You may refuse the use of cookies by using our Cookie Management Tool above. However, please note that if you choose to refuse, the functionality of the website may be affected.

 

How to control cookies

You can use our Cookie Management Tool on this page (under Cookie Declatation) to opt in or out of our various cookie categories. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on Change consent.

You can also adjust your browser settings to block cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent to your device. There are several ways to manage cookies. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about how to adjust or modify your browser settings. If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on the Arcadis site, for example you may not be able to view embedded content.

If you use different devices to view and access the Arcadis sites (e.g. your computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.


Transfer, storage and processing of data

Your personal data collected through the website is treated strictly confidential and Arcadis has taken appropriate technical and organizational measures against loss or unlawful processing of this data. Arcadis uses third parties for certain processing, such as the hosting of the website. As far as these third parties have access to personal data to execute these processing, Arcadis has taken the required organizational and contractual measures to ensure that your personal data is exclusively processed for the purposes mentioned above. Arcadis will not provide your personal data to any other third parties, unless there is a legal obligation to do so.


Changes to the cookies statement

We may update the Cookie Statement at any time. You can see the date on which the last change was made below in this statement. We advise you to review our Cookie Statement on a regular basis so, that you are aware of any changes.


Contact us

If you have any questions about this statement or any privacy concerns, or would like to exercise your rights, or obtain further information about the safeguards we have in place so that your personal data is adequately protected please contact us at privacy[at]arcadis.com.

This statement was updated on: 30 March, 2021