In short
- You do not need an account and you never fill in your name or email address.
- We use Google Analytics to measure how the site is used. We show no adverts and no social media buttons.
- We do not sell data. We earn from tickets: if you buy a ticket from Tiqets through our ticket button, we receive a small fee.
Who is responsible
museumzoeken.nl is a website by BAAT.marketing, Broeksdijk 3, IJsselstein, the Netherlands. Do you have a question about privacy? Email info@museumzoeken.nl.
When you visit the site
Every website runs on a server, and that server keeps a log. It records which page was requested, when, with which browser and from which internet address. What you type into a search box can appear in it too, because it becomes part of the page address.
Our hosting provider uses these logs for security and to fix faults. We do not use them to track visitors.
Searching by town or postcode
When you type a town or postcode, our server asks PDOK where that place is. PDOK is a service of the Dutch Land Registry (Kadaster). PDOK only receives your search term from our server, not your internet address.
We keep the answer, a place name with coordinates, on our server for 30 days. That makes the same search faster next time. The answer is not linked to you. Your own browser calculates the distance to a museum. We never ask for your exact location.
The map and other services
The map images come from the servers of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Your browser fetches them directly. This means OpenStreetMap sees your internet address and which part of the map you are viewing. You can read how they handle this in the privacy policy of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
The map code and the fonts are stored on our own server. Only in older browsers that cannot show emoji does WordPress sometimes fetch images from WordPress.org.
Cookies and statistics
We use Google Analytics to see how many people visit the site, which pages they read and which buttons they click. For this, Google Analytics places cookies in your browser. We have set up Google Analytics to record as little about you as possible: Google Signals is off, we do not share the data with other Google services and there is no link with advertising. According to Google, Google Analytics does not store your internet address. We only see totals, not who you are. Prefer not to be counted? Click turn off statistics. We remember that choice for a year. You can read how Google handles data in the Google privacy policy.
Administrators who log in to maintain the site also receive the standard WordPress login cookies. Their visits are not counted in the statistics.
Links to museums and tickets
If you click through to a museum's website, you leave museumzoeken.nl. From that moment, the privacy policy of that museum applies.
Many ticket buttons lead to our ticket partner Tiqets. These links run through Awin, a network that records that you came from museumzoeken.nl. Awin and Tiqets use cookies on their own websites for this. If you buy a ticket, we see in Awin that a sale took place and how large it was, but not who bought the ticket. See also the Awin privacy policy and the Tiqets privacy policy.
Your rights
You may ask us which data we hold about you, and have it corrected or deleted. Email info@museumzoeken.nl to do so. Because there are no names or accounts, we can only find you in the logs if you give us your internet address and the time of your visit.
Not happy with how we handle your request? You can file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Last updated: 11 November 2026