Privacy policy
Version dated August 14, 2018

Services Goose B.V.

I. General
What is personal data?
Legal basis for the use of personal data Security measures
Disclosing of personal data to third parties
Retention policy
Your privacy rights

II. Privacy on the website goosevpn.com
Processing personal data – website
Use of your personal data – website
Cookies and other technologies – website
Security measures – website

III. Privacy on GOOSE VPN’s secure VPN server network
Processing personal data – VPN services
Use of your personal data – VPN services
Cookies and other technologies – VPN services
Security measures – VPN services
Questions about privacy?

Services Goose B.V.
The service GOOSE VPN provided by Goose BV. (referred to hereafter as: “Goose”) concerns the security and protection of data sent via the internet and allows users to browse the internet unrestricted. Goose owns and administers the website, goosevpn.com, and all the information that is collected on the website, advertises for the services of Goose, maintains the Goose CMS-system, processes payments and administers refunds for the services of Goose that have been purchased through the website goosevpn.com and offers pre-sales and aftersales support to all customers of Goose.

We consider the protection of your personal information extremely important. In this privacy policy, you can read how we handle your personal data: (I) general, (II) when you visit our website; and (III) when you use GOOSE VPN.

I. General

What is personal data?

The term personal data encompasses all information about an identifiable, natural person, including, but not limited to, first and last name, house- and work address, credit card data, e-mail address and other contact details. For the sake of this privacy policy, we will consider IP-addresses (internet-protocol) personal identifiable information as well.

Legal basis for the use of personal data

Goose processes your personal data exclusively on the basis of the legal grounds referred to hereafter as intended in article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation:

Security measures

Goose ensures that – taking the level of the technology into account – appropriate technical and organisational security measures are taken to guarantee a level of security appropriate to the risks.

Disclosing of personal data to third parties

Goose does not sell, rent or trade your personal data to third parties. Goose shares your personal data only insofar as it is necessary for providing the services while taking the purposes mentioned above into account. If Goose employs the services of a party who processes your personal data in Goose’s name and at Goose’s behest, a processor’s agreement will be made with that party.

Retention policy

Your personal data will not be stored any longer than is necessary for the purposes described in this privacy policy.

Your privacy rights

You have numerous privacy rights. A request to insight, correction, limitation, protest and transferal of data, removal of your personal data or withdrawal of permission granted earlier can all be made via our contact form. Within 4 weeks of receiving your request, you will receive word from us. We may ask you – to be certain that you were the one to file the request – to send a copy of your ID along as well. In this copy, blacken out your passport photograph, MRZ, passport number and social security number.

If you are displeased with our treatment of your personal data, you can file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority.

II. Privacy on the website goosevpn.com

Processing personal data – website

Should you be visiting our website, Goose processes your personal data in the following cases:

Goose does not intend to process personal data or processing data on visitors to the website that are younger than 16 years of age. For this reason, Goose requests that this data not be sent.

Use of your personal data – website

Your personal data can be used for the following purposes:

Cookies and other technologies – website
The website, e-mails and advertisements of Goose may employ the use of ‘cookies’ and other technologies such as pixeltags and web beacons. Using these technologies, Goose can gain better insight into user behavior, knowledge of which parts of our website have been visited and the effectivity of advertisements and internet searches can be facilitated and measured. All information that is collected with cookies and other technologies, is stored and treated as personally non-identifiable data. Goose also makes use of cookies and other technologies to store information when you visit our website. Our goal in these instances is the improvement of your experience with Goose.

Should you wish to deactivate cookies, go to the security settings of your browser and turn cookies off. On a mobile device, go to the section marked cookies at settings or preferences. With specific browsers, contact your provider on how to disable cookies.

Keep in mind that certain functions of Goose’s website are not available when cookies are turned off.

In certain e-mails, we make use of a ‘click-through URL’, that refers you to content on the website goosevpn.com. When customers click on a URL such as this, it is possible that they are first routed through a separate GOOSE-webserver before they reach designated page. We collect this clickthrough-data to ascertain the interest in certain subjects as well as the effectiveness of our customer communication. If you would rather that this clickthrough data is not collected in this manner, do not click on textual or graphic links in e-mail messages.

Pixeltags allow us to send e-mails in a format that is legible to our customers. We can use this information to limit or eliminate messages for our customers.

Security measures – website
The online cash registers, my account-pages and the helpdesk portal of Goose use SSL-encryption (Secure Sockets Layer) on all webpages where personal data is collected. To make use of an SSL-encryption of personal data that is transferred through the internet to these pages, you will have to use an SSL-browser.

When you use Goose’s online chat-helpdesk, the personal information that you share will be visible to the helpdesk employee and can be read and/or used by him/her. You yourself are responsible for the personal data (such as your name and e-mail address) that you provide in such instances.

III. Privacy on GOOSE VPN’s secure VPN server network

Using Goose’s services encompasses the sending of data through the internet via servers and IP-addresses from the server network of Goose by means of the VPN software application: GOOSE VPN. The server network of Goose is property of and is administrated and monitored by Goose BV in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. GOOSE VPN is developed, maintained and administrated by Goose BV in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Processing personal data – VPN services

When you use GOOSE VPN, Goose processes personal data in the following instances:

Use of your personal data – VPN services

Your personal data can be used for the following purposes:

Cookies and other technologies – VPN services

Goose does not use any cookies or other technologies on the servers of Goose. Not a single outgoing server of the server network of Goose contains information on the server, on the network or of users. The operating system of the servers is turned off except for modules that are necessary for the transferal of internet traffic.

Security measures – VPN services
All servers of Goose are secured with Linux hardening, firewalls and software is installed against spam, viruses and DDOS-attacks to prevent third-parties from carrying out malicious attacks on the server network of Goose. We maintain our servers and networks to offer as much privacy as possible.

Goose does its utmost to protect information about bandwidth use of users and all related data from loss, theft or unauthorized access, abuse, disclosure, alteration and destruction. This includes, but is not limited to, the beneficial application of bandwidth use of users between the server network of Goose and the network maintenance system of Goose.

Questions about privacy?
Should you have questions or comments on Goose’s privacy policy, please contact us through the contact form.

GOOSE VPN can actualize the privacy policy at set times. If we thoroughly adjust the policy, a message will be placed on our website along with the updates to our privacy policy.

Cookies and other technologies – website

Necessary cookies

Name Placed by Expires after What purpose
lang_switch GOOSE VPN 1 year Stores the language of the user to show the correct website
lang_switchToENG GOOSE VPN 1 year Saves language of choice
_hjIncludedInSample GOOSE VPN 1 year Maintains users’ statuses on page views
__cfduid GOOSE VPN 1 year Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic
show_not GOOSE VPN 1 year Used to save the first visit.

Analytical cookies

Name Placed by Expires after What purpose
_ga Google Analytics 2 years Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_gid Google Analytics End of session Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_gat Google Analytics End of session Used by Google Analytics to slow down request speed.

Marketing cookies

Name Placed by Expires after What purpose
ACT Facebook End of session Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
C_USER Facebook 6 months Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
DATR Facebook 2 years Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
FR Facebook 6 months Measures conversions and provides targeted offers on sites of third parties. The used conversion information is anonymous.
PL Facebook 6 months Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
PRESENCE Facebook End of session Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
SB Facebook 2 years Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
WD Facebook 1 week Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
XS Facebook 6 months Should a visitor be logged onto Facebook, Facebook can store cookies on his/her computer that are necessary to like messages and to update his/her status.
1P_JAR Google 1 month These cookies are used by Google to show adjusted advertisements on Google-sites, based on recent searches and other interactions.
AID Google 1,5 year These cookies link your activities on other devices that you have logged onto earlier with your Google account.
APISID Google 2 years These cookies are used by Google to show adjusted advertisements on Google-sites, based on recent searches and other interactions.
HSID Google 2 years Ensures that Google can collect user information for video’s hosted by Youtube.
NID Google 6 months These cookies are used by Google to show adjusted advertisements on Google-sites, based on recent searches and other interactions.
OGPC Google 3 months Google places a cookie to measure clicks and requests to optimise our advertising campaigns.
S Google End of session
SAPISID Google 2 years Ensures that Google can collect user information for video’s hosted by Youtube.
SID Google 2 years These cookies are used by Google to show adjusted advertisements on Google-sites, based on recent searches and other interactions.
SIDCC Google 6 months Cookies placed by Youtube to create a link to various Google services
SSID Google 2 years Ensures that Google can collect user information for video’s hosted by Youtube.
OTZ Google 1 year Is used by Google Analytics to keep track of website visits.
UULE Google 1 day Is used by Google Analytics to keep track of website visits.
AID Google 1,5 year Helps advertisers to determine how many people that clicked their advertisement convert.
_utma Google 2 years Collects data on the number of times that a user has visited the website, as well as data for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.
_utmb Google 1 hour Registers a timestamp with the exact point in time that the user visited the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the length of a stay on a website.
_utmc Google End of session Registers a timestamp with the exact point in time that the user visited the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the length of a stay on a website.
_utmt Google 10 minutes Is used to manage the speed of requests to the server.
_utmv Google End of session Is used for analytical purposes
_utmz Google 6 months Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics
APISID YouTube 2 years Cookie that provides insight into which media used by Google Adwords is effective
HSID YouTube 2 years Cookie that provides insight into which media used by Google Adwords is effective
PREF YouTube 6 months An enclosed Youtube-video collects visitor information and adjusted preference settings.
SAPISID YouTube 2 years Cookie that provides insight into which media used by Google Adwords is effective
SID YouTube 2 years Protects user data from unauthorised access
SSID YouTube 2 years Cookie that provides insight into which media used by Google Adwords is effective
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YouTube 6 months Attempts to estimate the bandwidth of users on pages with integrated Youtube-videos.
YSC YouTube End of session An enclosed Youtube-video collects visitor information and adjusted preference settings.
GPS YouTube End of session Registers a unique ID on mobile devices that makes tracking possible based on geographical GPS-location.
_livechat livechatinc.com 3 years Is used to hide the personal adjustment of the user to LiveChat.
__livechat_lastvisit Livechatinc.com 3 years Registers when the user used LiveChat last.
3rdparty Livechatinc.com Is used to hide the personal adjustment of the user to LiveChat.
PAPCookie_Imp_* postaffiliatepro.com Is used to track referrals.
PAPVisitorId postaffiliatepro.com Is used to save the visitor’s ID for tracking referrals.
TP.uuid Trustpilot.com 20 years
__auc Trustpilot.com 16 months
__zlcmid Trustpilot.com 1 year
amplitude_id_* Trustpilot.com 1 year
__zlcprivacy Trustpilot.com 2 years