What we do and do not know about you
Deelautowijzer.nl is deliberately kept simple. The goal is to help you choose, not to map your behaviour. Below, first in plain language how that works, then the details for those who want to read everything. All in accordance with the GDPR.
Short summary
- No account, no password, no email required to use Compare.
- No tracking cookies, no advertising networks, no third-party pixels.
- What you enter in Compare stays locally in your browser (localStorage).
- Anonymous statistics (pages visited, time on the site, type of browser) without your IP address being stored.
- No sale of data to third parties.
- Privacy by design: the site has been built from the start to require as little data as possible to function.
1. Controller
Deelautowijzer.nl is an independent initiative by Hans van der Klok. For questions about this privacy policy: .
2. What data is processed?
Deelautowijzer.nl is deliberately set up to require as little personal data as possible. Here is an overview:
| Type | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Compare input | City name, car class, hours, kilometres, number of trips, selected providers | Locally in your browser (localStorage). Never sent to the server. |
| Preferences | Dark or light mode, language (NL or EN) | Locally in your browser. |
| Statistics | Page visited, time, how you arrived on the site (through Google or a link elsewhere, for example), type of browser, operating system, type of device, and how long the visit lasted | In a database on this site's own server. Your IP address is not stored. |
| Email correspondence | The email address you use when you get in touch, and the content of your message | In the email inbox, used only to answer your question. |
| Click-through event | Which plan or provider you clicked on (link with affiliate identifier, without personal data) | Further processed by the provider itself, under their own privacy policy. |
Visitor figures are counted by a small script of our own, running on this site. That script sets no cookie and uses no localStorage. To tell whether two page views belong to the same visit, the server builds a code from your IP address, your browser details, today's date, and a secret key. That code cannot be turned back into your details, the IP address itself is never kept, and because the date is part of it the code changes every day. So you cannot be followed from one day to the next either.
3. Purpose and legal basis
Processing is limited to what is necessary to operate and improve the site. The legal bases under the GDPR are:
- Legitimate interest: for anonymous page statistics, security, and preventing abuse.
- Consent: not separately requested, because no tracking takes place. Storing your preferences in your own browser is functionally necessary.
- Performance of a contract: not applicable. There is no contract between you and Deelautowijzer.nl. Any contract is concluded directly between you and the provider.
4. Cookies and local storage
Deelautowijzer.nl places no tracking cookies. The site does use:
- Functional localStorage to remember your preferences (theme, language, last-entered comparison) in your own browser. This data is never sent to a server. You can clear it via your browser settings.
- No advertising cookies, no pixels from Google, Meta, or X, and no scripts that identify your device.
- The counting script itself uses no cookie and no localStorage. It only sends the data in the table above to this site's own server.
Because no tracking cookies are placed, Deelautowijzer.nl does not need to show a cookie banner. This is in line with the Dutch Telecommunications Act and the European ePrivacy Directive.
5. Disclosure to third parties
Personal data is not sold and not shared for marketing purposes. There are a few situations where third parties are involved:
- Hosting: the site is hosted by a Dutch hosting provider. The policy for server logs lies with the hosting provider. Because the site is deliberately built to use as little personal data as possible (privacy by design), these logs typically contain very little personal data.
- Statistics: visitor figures are counted by the site itself, on its own server. No other party is involved in that. Alongside it, a script from Plausible Analytics, a cookieless analytics service, is still running at the moment; that is the only outside party that sees anything of your visit. Plausible places no cookies, stores no IP addresses and builds no profiles.
- Clicking through to a provider: when you click through to a provider, you arrive on their website and their privacy terms apply. The click-through itself contains an affiliate identifier, not your personal data.
- Font: the Manrope typeface is loaded from this site itself, not via Google Fonts or any other external service. No request is therefore sent to a third party.
6. Retention periods
- Server logs: in accordance with the hosting provider's policy. Personal data is deliberately not recorded.
- Email messages: up to 24 months after last contact, then deleted.
- Statistics on our own server: kept for as long as the site exists. Nothing is cleared out automatically. They hold no IP address and the daily visitor code cannot be reversed, so they cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Statistics at Plausible: in accordance with that service's policy.
- Browser localStorage: until you clear your browser cache or the site requests its removal.
7. Your rights under the GDPR
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of rights regarding data processed about you. To the extent that Deelautowijzer.nl processes your personal data (in practice only email correspondence), you can exercise these rights:
- Access to what data is stored about you.
- Rectification of incorrect or incomplete data.
- Erasure of your data (right to erasure), unless a statutory retention obligation applies.
- Restriction of processing.
- Objection to processing based on legitimate interest.
- Portability of your data in a readable file format.
- The right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) (autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl).
A request for access or erasure can be sent to .
8. Security
The connection to the site runs via HTTPS (TLS), which encrypts the traffic between your browser and the server. Access to the email inbox is protected by two-factor authentication. No payment data is processed, as Deelautowijzer.nl does not receive payments from visitors.
9. Questions and complaints
Questions about this privacy policy or about how your data is handled? Send an email to .
If we cannot resolve it together, you always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens), the Dutch supervisory authority. Please contact us first if possible, as we can often resolve things more quickly that way.