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The website of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) uses cookies. These are small files that are stored on your computer’s hard disk. Cookies help us cater to the needs of visitors to this website as much as possible. The NIN treats the data collected by means of cookies confidentially. The NIN does not store personal or sensitive information from visitors to the website. The NIN observes the Personal Data Protection Act.

Under Dutch law, all websites are legally obliged to inform users about the nature of the cookies delivered. The site owner must also ask the users’ permission before sending cookies.

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