NS uses cookies on its websites. Cookies are small (textual) files. When you visit NS websites, small textual files are stored on your peripheral equipment (computer, tablet, etc.), or small textual files that NS previously stored can be accessed again.

Many of the cookies - ones known as functional session cookies - are used to make your visit of the site go smoothly. Cookies may for instance be used for supplying services or remembering settings. These cookies are used for (1) remembering the products that you purchase during online shopping; (2) remembering and passing on the information that you provide during the login process or that you leave on the various web pages during the ordering process, so that you do not have to keep entering the same data again each time; (3) saving your preferences and (4) detecting misuse of our websites.

We will only use what are known as optimization cookies if you have given consent beforehand. These cookies are used primarily to analyse your website visit. For instance, we look at the numbers of visitors who go to our websites, the length of the visits and the order in which they visit the pages. We also analyse which of the website pages need to be modified. The information that is gathered allows us to optimize our websites. Secondly, these cookies are used for resolving any problems there might occur on the websites. Finally, the information obtained using these cookies lets us offer relevant products and services on our websites. Some of these cookies are stored by third-parties, namely Comscore, LivePresence, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Mopinion, Doubleclick, Visual Web Optimizer, Adtech, Ilse Media,  Krux, Metrixlab, MediaMind, Click Tale, Turn, Twitter and Facebook. For information about the cookies stored by these third parties and the information they may be gathering, please refer to the statements issued by these third parties on their own websites. See the links below. These statements are regularly subject to changes over which we have no control.

If you do not want our websites to store cookies, you can say so using 'Your cookie settings'.