Last updated: 5 November 2026.
1. About this policy
COMTEL International B.V. explains here how the VOICE website uses browser storage and optional embedded services. Cookies store small values in your browser. Local storage keeps information on your device without sending it automatically with each page request. Embedded services can disclose device information even if they do not set a cookie.
2. Your choice comes first
On your first visit, choose Reject optional, Accept optional or Preferences. External maps are disabled until you actively allow them. Closing the preferences window without saving does not give consent. You can browse the site, read office addresses and send an enquiry without allowing maps.
Open Cookie settings in the footer at any time to change or withdraw your choice. Turning maps off removes the embedded maps from the page and prevents them from loading on subsequent visits while that preference remains valid. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing. It cannot delete information already received by Google or cookies stored on Google’s domains; use your browser controls to clear those cookies.
3. Essential functions and preference storage
Website delivery, security and the functions you request are separate from optional maps. The preference control uses the following first-party storage:
- Name:
voice_privacy_v1, with an environment-specific suffix where applicable. - Provider: COMTEL International B.V.; storage on the current website origin.
- Type and purpose: browser local storage, used to remember acceptance or rejection of external maps, the notice version and the time of your choice. It is not an advertising identifier.
- Duration: the choice is honoured for 180 days, then renewed. Browser settings may remove it sooner. Expired values are ignored; the browser may retain the old local-storage record until it is replaced or manually cleared.
- Activation: saved only when you accept, reject or save preferences. If browser storage is unavailable, your choice applies to the current page only.
Your choice is specific to this website environment and browser. Other website environments, devices or browsers may ask again. No consent is inferred from scrolling or continued browsing.
4. Optional external maps
Service: Google Maps, displayed on the Contact page for our offices. Purpose: interactive office locations. Category: optional external content. Activation: only after you allow external maps.
Loading a map connects your browser to Google. Google receives technical data including your IP address and browser information and may read or store cookies. Its processing can depend on your Google account, browser and location and may take place outside the EEA. Consult Google’s Privacy Policy (new tab) and Google’s cookie information (new tab) for its purposes and storage practices.
The exact Google cookie names and durations must be confirmed in the final browser audit; they are not presented here as a verified inventory. The separate directions links open Google’s website only when you follow them.
5. Other website services
- WordPress and forms: this website uses WordPress and Fluent Forms. Administrative and preview cookies differ from an ordinary visitor’s session. Hosting, security and form storage must be checked in the final deployment.
- Video and documents: the current video and downloadable documents are served from the website. They are not YouTube embeds.
- LinkedIn: the footer provides an external link; following it takes you to LinkedIn under its own privacy terms.
- Analytics and advertising: no dedicated analytics or advertising integration was identified in the website theme during the review. This is not a claim that every hosting or plugin request has been audited. Any future optional service must be assessed and connected to appropriate consent controls before it is enabled.
6. Browser controls
You can inspect and delete cookies and local storage in your browser’s privacy settings. Clearing the saved choice causes this website to ask again. Blocking essential functions may affect the service you request. Without JavaScript, embedded maps remain disabled; office addresses and external directions links remain available.
7. Contact and updates
For questions, contact COMTEL International B.V., Marathon 2, 3rd Floor, 1213 PH Hilversum, the Netherlands, at info@comtelinternational.com. This policy will be updated when the website’s services or storage practices change.
8. Email tracking is a separate choice
Website cookies, local storage and external maps are separate from the tracking of company emails sent through MailUp. Changing Cookie settings on this website does not automatically change your email preferences, and an email tracking choice does not enable optional website cookies.
You may refuse or withdraw only optional individual email tracking while continuing to receive subscribed communications. Use the dedicated email tracking preference control to disable tracking without unsubscribing, or contact info@comtelinternational.com with “Stop email tracking” in the subject line. To stop promotional emails as well, use the unsubscribe link or contact the same address.
The Privacy Policy explains the information involved, purposes, legal bases, sharing, retention criteria and your rights. Optional individual tracking must not be inferred from browsing, submitting an enquiry or accepting this notice. Any website analytics or marketing technology must be assessed against the actual deployment and the applicable consent requirements before activation.