Cookie Statement
OnlineMarketingMan.com – A Trade Name of OnlineMarketingMan.net
Version 2.0 | October 19, 2026
This Cookie Statement explains how OnlineMarketingMan.com uses cookies and similar technologies, the purposes for which website usage data may be processed, and the choices and rights available to visitors. It applies to OnlineMarketingMan.com and its Dutch, US English, and German language versions.
OnlineMarketingMan is a business based in the Netherlands that independently develops, operates, and optimizes digital business models and e-commerce concepts. Our activities include market research, affiliate marketing, dropshipping, online marketing, automation, and collaboration with commercial and operational partners. OnlineMarketingMan.com is not a traditional consulting practice with its own client portfolio. Website data is processed primarily to operate, secure, and improve our own website and support our business initiatives.
Data minimization is a guiding principle. We do not collect more personal data than is necessary for a lawful purpose, nor do we use cookies by default to identify individual visitors or build commercial profiles. Where prior consent is required for nonessential cookies and similar technologies, we obtain that consent before using them. We take into account the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Dutch Telecommunications Act, and other applicable laws.
1. Who Is Responsible?
OnlineMarketingMan.com is operated by OnlineMarketingMan.net, a Dutch sole proprietorship doing business as OnlineMarketingMan.com. OnlineMarketingMan.net is the data controller for website data processing for which it determines the purposes and means.
Trade name: OnlineMarketingMan.com
Legal business: OnlineMarketingMan.net (sole proprietorship)
Dutch Chamber of Commerce registration: 83950834
VAT identification number: NL003895276B38
Address: Zwanebloem 3, 5803 LW Venray, the Netherlands
Email: privacy@onlinemarketingman.com
Website: https://onlinemarketingman.com/
OnlineMarketingMan.net may be involved in multiple independently or jointly developed digital ventures. Such involvement does not automatically mean that all websites, online stores, and commercial partners fall under the same data protection responsibility. Actual control over the processing and the applicable legal and contractual arrangements determine the relevant roles.
2. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small data files that a website can store on or read from a computer, tablet, or smartphone through a browser. They may be necessary for a website to function properly, manage a session, remember a language preference, support security measures, or collect general website usage statistics.
In addition to conventional cookies, similar technologies include local browser storage, pixels, scripts, technical identifiers, and other mechanisms that store or access information on a device. Not every technology uses a separate cookie file. Rules governing storage of or access to information on a visitor's device may still apply.
Cookies may be placed by the website itself or by external providers supplying functionality such as analytics, video playback, or affiliate marketing. Some cookies are deleted when the browser closes. Others remain available for a defined period unless the visitor deletes them sooner.
Cookies do not necessarily contain personal data. However, cookies and similar technologies can process information that directly or indirectly identifies a person, such as certain IP addresses, unique identifiers, or online behavioral data. Where personal data is processed, the relevant GDPR requirements also apply.
3. Our Principles for Cookies and Website Data
OnlineMarketingMan uses its website to present its own business initiatives, expertise, digital concepts, and potential collaborations. The website is not primarily intended to build a commercial visitor database or systematically track individuals across multiple websites.
We distinguish between technical features necessary for the operation and security of the website, limited statistical analysis, and other technologies that may create additional privacy risks. Our assessment focuses on the data actually processed, whether the processing is necessary, and whether the law requires prior consent.
The business-oriented nature of this website does not diminish visitors' privacy rights. Data concerning a person who visits on behalf of a company, supplier, or potential partner may still be personal data under the GDPR.
Where possible, we use aggregated or nonidentifiable information to evaluate website performance. We do not sell or rent website visitors' personal data as a separate commercial product. An affiliate or partnership relationship does not automatically authorize the sharing of personal data with other businesses.
4. Which Cookie Categories Do We Distinguish?
To assess cookies and similar technologies, we distinguish between essential functions, limited website analytics, and uses that may require additional consent. The actual classification depends on the purpose, technical operation, parties involved, and privacy implications. The table below outlines the applicable requirements.
| Category | Purpose and Use | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Functional and essential cookies | Support for essential website functions, security, session management, and remembering necessary settings. | Not required when the conditions for a statutory exemption are met. |
| Limited analytics cookies | General statistics on website usage and performance with no or only minor privacy impact. | Not required where compliance with all conditions of the statutory exemption can be demonstrated. |
| Other analytics cookies | More extensive analysis of visitor behavior, interactions, and usage patterns outside the statutory exemption. | Prior consent is required. |
| Marketing and affiliate tracking cookies | Ad measurement, remarketing, affiliate attribution, and tracking of commercial interactions using tracking technologies. | Prior, specific, and informed consent is required when the technology is subject to consent requirements. |
| Cookies from external media and platforms | Support for embedded videos, third-party content, social features, and other external services. | Depends on the purpose and technical operation; prior consent is required if no statutory exemption applies. |
The categories in this table describe possible functions and the associated legal requirements. They do not mean that every listed technology is actually enabled on OnlineMarketingMan.com. Information on cookies actually in use, their providers, and retention periods must match the website's current technical configuration.
5. Functional Cookies and Website Security
Functional cookies may be necessary to operate the website and enable features expressly requested by a visitor. Examples include technical session data, security settings, or remembering a previously selected language preference.
Content management systems may also use cookies for administration and authentication. Such cookies do not automatically apply to every visitor. For example, cookies used to administer a restricted WordPress environment serve a different purpose from cookies used for public website analytics.
Cookies that are technically necessary to provide an expressly requested service, or that qualify for another applicable statutory exemption, do not require prior cookie consent. This does not mean that personal data may be processed without further assessment. A valid GDPR legal basis is still required when personal data is processed.
We limit essential cookies to functions for which they are genuinely needed. The exemption for essential cookies cannot automatically be extended to additional analytics, commercial profiling, or other independent purposes.
6. Analytics Cookies and Visitor Statistics
Understanding overall website usage can help us improve our information, technical performance, and the visibility of our business initiatives. Relevant statistics may include pages visited, devices used, technical errors, referring websites, and general visitor flows.
Analytics cookies may be used without prior consent if all conditions of a statutory exemption can demonstrably be met and the privacy impact is nonexistent or minor. Prior consent may be required when analytics technologies process more extensive personal data or create privacy-sensitive visitor profiles.
Using an analytics platform such as Google Analytics or a comparable service does not automatically make the processing anonymous or exempt from consent. The assessment depends, among other things, on the actual configuration, the data collected, any disclosure to third parties, and whether visitors can be identified or tracked.
Where analytics technologies are used on OnlineMarketingMan.com, their configuration must meet these requirements. Whenever possible, we limit and aggregate the data collected and do not use it for unnecessary linkage to individual visitors or advertising profiles.
7. Affiliate Marketing and Commercial Referrals
OnlineMarketingMan develops and evaluates digital revenue models, including affiliate marketing. An affiliate referral may direct a visitor to an external provider, online store, or other commercial platform. Such referrals may generate an agreed commission when a purchase or another relevant commercial action occurs.
Not every affiliate link automatically places a cookie on OnlineMarketingMan.com. Some referrals use a regular hyperlink, while other systems use campaign references, click identifiers, cookies, or similar tracking technologies. The legal assessment depends on what the technology actually does.
If affiliate tracking technology subject to prior consent requirements is used on OnlineMarketingMan.com, it may be activated only after the visitor has provided valid consent. A commercial agreement with an affiliate network does not itself create an exemption.
When a visitor opens an external commercial website, that provider may use its own cookies and process personal data. The provider is responsible for its own processing insofar as it independently determines the purposes and means. OnlineMarketingMan remains responsible for processing for which its own business is legally accountable.
Affiliate activities do not authorize OnlineMarketingMan to disclose, combine, or sell visitors' personal data without restriction. Every processing activity requires a lawful purpose and an applicable legal basis.
8. Our Online Stores, Dropshipping, and Joint E-Commerce Ventures
OnlineMarketingMan may participate in independently or jointly developed e-commerce concepts. These activities can include niche online stores, dropshipping, product marketing, international sales, and the automation of commercial processes.
PadelMoves.com is an example of an online store venture in which OnlineMarketingMan collaborates with another business. Visitors who move from OnlineMarketingMan.com to PadelMoves or another commercial venture leave the original website environment. That online store may use its own functional cookies, analytics technologies, shopping cart features, payment services, and other systems.
The Cookie Statement and Privacy Policy of a separate online store must reflect its actual technical configuration and the identity of the operator responsible for the processing or the parties acting as joint controllers. OnlineMarketingMan's involvement in developing or optimizing an online store does not automatically mean that OnlineMarketingMan.com manages all of that store's cookies or is responsible for every processing activity.
Where OnlineMarketingMan.net itself determines, or jointly determines, the purposes and means of processing, the applicable legal obligations continue to apply. Joint controllers must make appropriate arrangements where required concerning transparency, consent, security, and privacy rights.
Responsibility for cookies and similar technologies is determined by the actual business operations, not solely by a trade name or the commercial nature of the venture.
9. Marketing Cookies, Ad Measurement, and Tracking
Marketing cookies and similar technologies may be used to measure advertising, analyze visitor interactions, build commercial audiences, or track visitors across websites. These applications can affect privacy more significantly than essential cookies or limited analytics.
When OnlineMarketingMan.com uses marketing technology that requires consent, that technology must be blocked until the visitor has given valid consent. Consent must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous.
Simply visiting a website, continuing to scroll, or clicking a regular navigation link does not constitute valid general consent to marketing tracking. Nonessential categories must not be enabled by default.
Refusing tracking cookies must not be used to unnecessarily deny visitors access to ordinary website information. Wherever possible, the website remains usable without nonessential marketing technologies.
OnlineMarketingMan focuses on developing its own business initiatives. This does not provide an exemption from applicable rules on tracking, remarketing, advertising measurement, or personal data processing.
10. External Media, Social Networks, and Embedded Content
OnlineMarketingMan.com may contain links to external websites, social networks, video platforms, publications, or other digital services. Some external services may use cookies or similar identifiers when their functionality loads.
There is an important distinction between an ordinary link to an external website and content embedded directly from a third party. A regular link does not necessarily place the external provider's cookies on our website. An embedded video player, social network component, or other third-party feature may, however, transmit data as soon as it loads.
Where external content can be provided without unnecessary tracking, we prefer a privacy-friendly configuration. For features subject to consent requirements, consent must be obtained before they are activated.
The terms and privacy notices of external services may apply when visitors interact directly with those services. OnlineMarketingMan does not independently control how every external provider processes personal data within its own systems.
11. Cookie Consent and Managing Preferences
When OnlineMarketingMan.com uses cookies or similar technologies requiring prior consent, visitors must receive clear information and a genuine choice before activation.
A valid consent mechanism allows visitors to accept or reject nonessential cookies and, where relevant, manage individual categories. Rejecting must be as easy as accepting. Consent cannot be inferred from silence, continued scrolling, or a failure to respond.
Visitors must also be able to withdraw consent previously given. Withdrawal must be as easy as granting consent. Changing preferences affects the future placement or reading of the relevant nonessential cookies. Withdrawal does not retroactively make processing carried out lawfully before withdrawal unlawful.
Where consent is recorded, information about the choice may be retained insofar as necessary to honor preferences and demonstrate compliance with applicable obligations.
The website's technical settings must respect visitors' actual choices. Publishing a Cookie Statement or displaying a cookie banner is not sufficient if nonessential cookies remain active despite a rejection.
12. Deleting Cookies and Adjusting Browser Settings
Visitors can use browser settings to delete cookies, clear existing website data, or restrict certain cookies. The specific options vary by browser and device.
Blocking essential cookies may affect certain features. Refusing nonessential tracking cookies should not prevent normal use of the public website.
Deleting cookies through a browser does not necessarily have the same effect as withdrawing consent through a consent management mechanism. For example, removing cookies may also erase a previously saved preference, so visitors may be asked to make their choice again.
Deleting cookies on OnlineMarketingMan.com cannot remove cookies stored exclusively by other websites or online stores under their own domains. Those websites may have separate settings.
13. Personal Data, Legal Bases, and the Privacy Policy
Cookies may lead to the processing of personal data, for example when website visit data, unique identifiers, or online interactions can be linked to an individual.
Where personal data is processed, an applicable legal basis under the GDPR is required in addition to any consent required under the Dutch Telecommunications Act. Depending on the particular processing, the basis may be consent, legitimate interests, or another applicable legal ground.
Legitimate interests cannot automatically replace legally required consent for tracking cookies. Any processing of personal data through essential or limited analytics cookies must also be assessed separately.
The comprehensive Privacy Policy of OnlineMarketingMan.com explains which personal data we process for our website and business activities, why we process it, which recipients may be involved, which retention periods apply, and how data subjects can exercise their rights.
Our privacy responsibilities for our website must be distinguished from processing undertaken by separate online stores, affiliate partners, and other external businesses. Insofar as OnlineMarketingMan.net determines the purposes and means, individually or jointly, the relevant GDPR obligations remain applicable.
14. Retention Periods, Cookie Inventory, and International Data Transfers
The lifespan of cookies and similar identifiers depends on their function, the technology selected, and the provider's settings. Some cookies expire at the end of a browsing session. Others remain active for longer periods.
The retention period must not exceed what is necessary for the relevant purpose. For tracking cookies, duration and necessity require separate assessment. A technology's default long retention period does not automatically make that duration lawful.
For cookies actually used, information should be available about the name, provider, purpose, retention period, and, where relevant, recipients and consent requirements. This information must reflect the website's current configuration. Changes to installed plugins, external scripts, or marketing technologies may require the cookie inventory to be updated.
Where external services transfer personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), or allow access from outside the EEA, applicable international data transfer rules must be followed. Depending on the circumstances, this may involve an adequacy decision or other appropriate legal safeguards.
Hosting in Europe does not automatically rule out access to personal data by external technology providers or support services in other countries. International data flows must therefore be assessed based on actual processing.
15. Security, Minors, and Changes
15.1 Protecting Website Data
OnlineMarketingMan implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect data processed through the website against unauthorized access, loss, unlawful alteration, and other relevant security risks.
These measures depend on the data processed, the technologies involved, and the risks to visitors. Relevant measures may include secure connections, updated software, appropriate access permissions, and limiting data collection to what is necessary.
15.2 Children and Minors
OnlineMarketingMan.com focuses on entrepreneurship, digital commerce models, and business partnerships. The website is not specifically directed at minors. We aim not to collect minors' personal data for unnecessary marketing or tracking purposes.
If we learn that minors' personal data has been processed without an appropriate legal basis, we assess which corrective or deletion measures are necessary.
15.3 Changes to This Cookie Statement
We may update this Cookie Statement when the configuration of OnlineMarketingMan.com, technologies used, our business activities, or applicable laws change.
The current version is published on OnlineMarketingMan.com and identified by a version date. When new technologies requiring additional consent are introduced, that consent must be obtained before activation.
Updating this Cookie Statement does not itself authorize new data processing or replace separate legal obligations.
16. Your Rights and Contact Information for Cookies and Privacy
Where cookies or similar technologies process personal data for which OnlineMarketingMan.net is responsible, you may exercise your rights under the GDPR, subject to applicable conditions. These include the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, and objection. If processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent.
For questions about cookies, website analytics, affiliate tracking, third-party technologies, international data transfers, or your privacy rights, please contact us using the details below.
We handle privacy questions and requests carefully and assess which information, safeguards, or next steps are necessary in each situation. If a request concerns data processed exclusively by a separate online store or external provider, we may direct you to the responsible party where appropriate.
If you believe that personal data is being processed unlawfully, you may file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) or another competent European supervisory authority.