Privacy

Personal Information

The Aruban government respects your privacy and is committed to the protection of personal information you share with her. In general, you can browse the website without providing information about yourself. In case your personal information is required to provide services you request or in case you opt to provide your personal information, you will find in this privacy statement information on how your personal information is collected and used.

"Personal data" means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including but not limited to, a first and last name, email address, home, postal or other physical address, other contact information, title, date of birth, gender, occupation, industry, personal interests and other information needed to provide a service requested by you.

Browsing our website is done anonymously. We do not automatically collect personal information. We only collect personal information if you have a login name and apply for a password, use certain products or services, register for or participate in an online survey, request to be placed on an email list or mailing list, participate in forums or if you provide your personal information to us for any other reason

When personal information is collected, we will inform you of its purpose at the moment it is being collected. If necessary, in the particular circumstances of the case, we will give you further information in order to ensure a proper and careful processing of your personal data. We will not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent.

Your data is protected for your privacy and security with a password. We ensure the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic and managerial procedures. To enhance security of the transmitted data, we use for certain parts of our website, the SSL-encryption, which is customary in the industry. While we strive to protect your personal information maximally, we can not guarantee the security of any information you send us. Therefore, you are emphatically advised to take precautions to protect your personal information when surfing the internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and use a secure browser.

Cookies

Like many other websites, on our website a standard technology can be used, the so-called "cookies" , to collect information about how you browse the site. A cookie is a small data file that is written to your hard drive when you visit certain websites. A cookie can contain information such as a user name that the site uses to track the pages you visit, but may only contain information that you provide yourself. A cookie can not read data from your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. At certain parts of our website cookies are used to track user patterns of usage. We do this in order to determine the usability of the information provided on our website for our users and to see how effective our navigational structure allows users to reach that information.

If you do not want to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser so that you receive a warning before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning off the cookie function in your browser, but then you might not make full use of our website. Accepting cookies may be necessary in particular to perform actions on our website. A large portion of our website, however, can be used without cookies.

External links

Our website contains links to other websites. We will not disclose your personal data to these websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We advise you to read the privacy policies of such sites. 

Changes to Privacy Policy

We will change our privacy policy periodically. In the case of a significant change in the way we use your personal information, this will be announced on this website.