What does this website use?

The website uses necessary settings for your language and privacy preferences. Matomo statistics are optional. Images load from our own hosting. No advertising trackers are loaded.

Remember your choice

The institution roy-privacy-v3 is stored in your browser's local storage for a maximum of 180 days. This contains your choice for visit statistics, the version, and the expiration date. This setting is necessary to remember your choice and is not used by Machinist Roy to track you. We will ask again afterwards; you can change your choice sooner.

Language preference

If you choose Dutch or English, the cookie remembers. roy-language Your language choice for a maximum of one year. This cookie is not used for visitor statistics or advertisements.

Images and video links

Images are hosted on our own server and are visible without separate consent. Clicking a video opens YouTube in a new tab; videos are not embedded here.

Visitor statistics

After consent, Matomo uses first-party cookies: _pk_id recognises the same browser (up to 365 days), _pk_ses groups actions within a visit (30 minutes), and _pk_ref remembers the source (up to 180 days). Their names also include a website identifier. Their lifetime may be renewed on a new visit while your consent remains valid.

We ask for separate consent for Matomo. The website works normally without consent. The tracking script respects your browser’s Do Not Track setting.

Visit data older than 365 days and aggregated reports older than 12 months are automatically deleted. The cleanup check runs daily. No exceptions are configured to retain basic metrics or specific reports indefinitely. Hosting backups and security logs follow a separate policy and are not deleted at the same time as these statistics.

Your consent is the legal basis for these optional statistics. Without consent, the Matomo tracking script and its cookies are not loaded. You can withdraw consent at any time through Privacy settings. This stops new measurements and removes this website’s Matomo cookies; previously stored statistics are deleted according to the retention period.

Change your choice

Open privacy settings

Withdrawing consent stops new Matomo measurements and removes this website’s Matomo cookies. Previously stored statistics are deleted according to the retention period. You can also remove stored site data through your browser.

More information

Read the privacy statement, It Google's privacy policy and the explanation about cookies at the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

Contact form security

When you open the contact form, we set a necessary security cookie (__Host-RoyContact). It links the form to your browser, helps prevent unwanted submissions and expires after 30 minutes. This cookie is not used for analytics or advertising.