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Technical audit · 16.06.2026

dnb.nl

Website of De Nederlandsche Bank (the Dutch central bank)
NL

Policy changed — see what exactly · 2026-07-11 →

Dnb.nl is the website of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank and financial regulator. Homepage scan: 31 requests total, 6 domains. The configuration is exemplary. Among external services, there is only private Siteimprove analytics, running without cookies and anonymized, an accessibility text-to-speech tool, and a couple of functional UI libraries. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no Facebook, no advertising, no session recording, and no third-party commercial trackers. Not a single cookie was set during the session. No violations were recorded.

Request timeline

47 ms · text-to-speech and functional libraries
The ReadSpeaker page text-to-speech tool and functional UI libraries load. This is accessibility and page functioning, not tracking.
52 ms · private Siteimprove analytics
Siteimprove analytics loads — a private web-statistics package running without cookies.
413 ms · statistics request sent
Analytics sends a request with its own transit identifier, without a cookie. This is consistent with Siteimprove's cookieless, anonymized mode.
analytics is cookieless, no cookie set
Analytics runs without cookies and with anonymization, and is therefore exempt from consent. Not a single cookie was set during the session. No other external services appear in the scan.

Declared versus actual

✓ Siteimprove (analytics) — declared
✓ ReadSpeaker (text-to-speech) — declared

Detected trackers

Context

www.dnb.nl is the website of De Nederlandsche Bank: monetary policy, supervision of financial institutions, payment systems. The data controller is DNB, a government organization. The site is informational.

Scan: 31 requests to 6 domains, homepage, captured in a clean Edge browser without a VPN or ad blocker. The technical stack is minimal.

Who receives the data

There are no third-party commercial recipients.

Among external services, there is only private Siteimprove analytics, running without cookies and anonymized. Additionally, an accessibility text-to-speech tool and functional UI libraries are connected. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no advertising networks, no social media pixels, and no session recording.

A full banner for the statistics is not required here: Siteimprove analytics runs without cookies and anonymizes data, and is therefore exempt from consent. Not a single cookie was set during the entire session. A separate consent-collection mechanism was not needed in the scan, since there is nothing to obtain consent for.

Only cookieless analytics and functional elements. Before any interaction, private Siteimprove analytics fires in anonymized, cookieless mode, along with the accessibility text-to-speech tool and functional UI libraries. The scan contains no Google analytics, no advertising domains, no social plugins, and no session recording.

Conclusion

Dnb.nl is a model of a restrained configuration for a central bank. The only analytics is private Siteimprove, running without cookies and anonymized, plus an accessibility tool and functional libraries. There is no third-party advertising, no Google analytics, no social media pixels, and no session recording whatsoever, and no cookies are set. The key takeaway for the reader: a central bank can manage perfectly well with cookieless, anonymized statistics alone, and here that is achieved without a single third-party commercial tracker. No violations were recorded.

Evidence

How to verify: download the file and compute its checksum — sha256sum file.har (Linux, macOS) or certutil -hashfile file.har SHA256 (Windows); it must match the one shown. The conclusions apply to the scope of this measurement — see the limitations of the method.

Original (audit)
HAR file: nl/dnb-nl-2026-06-16.har
SHA-256: a6f176a3c565ad4811e7114e17c573c907036ae0ede5c04f6b8ffd9a323a91b1
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.
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Subject: Data access request (GDPR Art. 15) — dnb.nl

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From: [Your name], [contact email]

I request access to my personal data processed in connection with the website dnb.nl.

1. Categories of data and purposes of processing (Art. 15(1)(a)-(c))
I request information on all categories, purposes, and recipients of my data processed on this site — regardless of whether any non-compliance has been identified to date.

2. Recipients, retention periods, and transfers outside the EEA (Art. 15(1)(c)-(d), 46)
I also request the full list of third-party recipients, the applicable retention period for each category, and the legal basis for any transfer of data outside the EEA. The full technical audit with evidence (saved network log, SHA-256 checksum) is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/nl-dnb-nl/

3. Automated processing and profiling (Art. 15(1)(h))
Please state whether I am subject to automated decision-making or profiling, and if so, disclose the logic involved.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[contact email]
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[Date]