Global Cookie Notice

Last updated: May 2018

At Hager, we respect your privacy and we want to be transparent about the types of personal information we collect about you and how we use it. In this Cookies Notice (the "Notice") we explain how Hager and other affiliates of the Hager group ("Hager") use cookies and other similar technology ("Cookies") to recognise you when you visit our website at www.hagergroup.com and our other websites (the "Website"). We also explain what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

Please note that this Notice describes what types of Cookies we use generally on all our Websites and the specific Cookies that are used on each Website may be different. Therefore, some of the Cookies described in this Notice might not apply to the particular Website you are visiting.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Hager) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party Cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party Cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use Cookies?

We use first party and third party Cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" Cookies. Other Cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users and to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve Cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

The specific types of first and third party Cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below.

For a full list of the cook­i­es we use, plea­se cli­ck on the link here: hagergroup.com/cookies-list

What about other tracking technologies?

Cook­i­es are not the only way to recog­ni­se or tra­ck vi­si­tors to a web­s­i­te. We may use ot­her, si­milar te­ch­no­lo­gies from time to time, like web bea­cons (so­me­ti­mes cal­led "tra­ck­ing pixels" or "clear gifs"). The­se are tiny grap­hi­cs fi­les that con­tain a unique iden­ti­fi­er that enab­le us to recog­ni­se when so­meo­ne has vi­si­ted our Web­s­i­te (or ope­ned an e-mail that we have sent them). This al­lows us, for examp­le, to mo­ni­tor the traf­fic pat­terns of users from one page wit­hin our Web­s­i­te to ano­t­her, to de­li­ver or com­mu­ni­ca­te with Cook­i­es, to un­der­stand whet­her you have come to our Web­s­i­te from an on­li­ne ad­ver­ti­se­ment dis­play­ed on a third-par­ty web­s­i­te, to im­prove site per­for­man­ce, and to mea­su­re the suc­cess of e-mail mar­ke­ting campaigns. In many in­stan­ces, the­se te­ch­no­lo­gies are re­li­ant on Cook­i­es to fun­ction pro­per­ly, and so decli­ning Cook­i­es will im­pair their fun­ctio­ning.

 

Flash Cookies or Local Shared Objects

Our Web­s­i­te may also use so-cal­led "Flash Cook­i­es" (also known as Lo­cal Sha­red Ob­jects or "LSOs") to, among ot­her thin­gs, col­lect and sto­re in­for­ma­tion about your use of our ser­vi­ces, fraud pre­ven­tion and for ot­her site ope­ra­tions.

If you do not want Flash Cook­i­es sto­red on your com­pu­ter, you can ad­just the set­tings of your Flash play­er to blo­ck Flash Cook­i­es sto­ra­ge using the tools con­tai­ned in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also con­trol Flash Cook­i­es by go­ing to the Global Storage Settings Panel and fol­lowing the in­structions (which may in­clu­de in­structions that ex­plain, for examp­le, how to de­le­te exi­sting Flash Cook­i­es (re­fer­red to "in­for­ma­tion" on the Ma­cro­me­dia site), how to pre­vent Flash LSOs from be­ing pla­ced on your com­pu­ter wit­hout your be­ing asked, and (for Flash Play­er 8 and la­ter) how to blo­ck Flash Cook­i­es that are not be­ing de­li­ve­red by the ope­ra­tor of the page you are on at the time).

Plea­se note that set­ting the Flash Play­er to re­stri­ct or li­mit ac­cep­tan­ce of Flash Cook­i­es may re­du­ce or im­pe­de the fun­ctio­na­li­ty of some Flash ap­pli­ca­tions, in­clu­ding, po­ten­ti­al­ly, Flash ap­pli­ca­tions used in con­nection with our ser­vi­ces or on­li­ne con­tent.

 

Advertising cookies

Third par­ties may ser­ve Cook­i­es on your com­pu­ter or mo­bi­le de­vi­ce to ser­ve ad­ver­ti­sing through our Web­s­i­te. The­se com­pa­nies may use in­for­ma­tion about your vi­sits to this and ot­her Web­s­i­tes in or­der to provi­de re­le­vant ad­ver­ti­se­ments about goods and ser­vi­ces that you may be in­te­r­e­sted in. They may also em­ploy te­ch­no­lo­gy that is used to mea­su­re the ef­fecti­ve­ness of ad­ver­ti­se­ments. This can be ac­com­plis­hed by them using Cook­i­es or web bea­cons to col­lect in­for­ma­tion about your vi­sits to this and ot­her si­tes in or­der to provi­de re­le­vant ad­ver­ti­se­ments about goods and ser­vi­ces of po­ten­ti­al in­te­r­est to you. The in­for­ma­tion col­lected through this pro­cess does not enab­le us or them to iden­ti­fy your name, con­ta­ct de­tails or ot­her per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fying de­tails un­less you choo­se to provi­de the­se.

 

Google Analytics

This Web­s­i­te uses Goog­le Ana­ly­ti­cs, a web ana­ly­sis ser­vi­ce from Goog­le Inc. (“Google”). Goog­le Ana­ly­ti­cs uses Cook­i­es, or text fi­les. The­se are sa­ved on your com­pu­ter and al­low your us­a­ge of the web­s­i­te to be ana­ly­sed. The in­for­ma­tion ge­ne­ra­ted by the Cook­ie about your us­a­ge of this Web­s­i­te is ge­ne­ral­ly sent to a Goog­le ser­ver in the USA and sa­ved the­re. Howe­ver, if IP ano­ny­mi­sa­tion is acti­va­ted on this Web­s­i­te, your IP ad­dress is shor­te­ned by Goog­le wit­hin the mem­ber sta­tes of the EU or in ot­her con­tra­cting sta­tes to the Agre­e­ment on the Eu­ro­pe­an Eco­no­mic Area. Only in ex­cep­tio­nal ca­ses is the full IP ad­dress sent to a Goog­le ser­ver in the USA and shor­te­ned the­re. Goog­le will use this in­for­ma­tion on be­half of the ope­ra­tor of this Web­s­i­te to eva­lu­a­te your us­a­ge of the Web­s­i­te, to com­pi­le reports about the Web­s­i­te acti­vi­ties and to per­form furt­her ser­vi­ces con­nected to Web­s­i­te us­a­ge and In­ter­net us­a­ge in its de­a­lings with the Web­s­i­te ope­ra­tor. The IP ad­dress sent by your brow­ser as part of Goog­le Ana­ly­ti­cs is not com­bi­ned to­get­her with ot­her data by Goog­le.

You can pre­vent the­se Cook­i­es from be­ing sa­ved by making an ap­pro­p­ri­a­te set­ting in your brow­ser softwa­re. Howe­ver, you may then not be able to use all the Web­s­i­te's fun­ctions to their full extent.

You can also pre­vent the data (incl. your IP ad­dress) ge­ne­ra­ted by the Cook­ie and re­la­ted to your us­a­ge of the Web­s­i­te from be­ing sent to Goog­le and pro­ces­sed by Goog­le by using the above-men­tio­ned opt-out links. More in­for­ma­tion is avai­lab­le at analytics.google.com.

 

How can I control Cookies?

You have the right to de­ci­de whet­her to ac­cept or re­ject Cook­i­es. You can exerci­se your Cook­ie pre­fe­ren­ces by cli­ck­ing on the ap­pro­p­ri­a­te opt-out links provi­ded in the Cook­ie tab­le above.

You can set or amend your web brow­ser con­trols to ac­cept or re­fu­se Cook­i­es. If you choo­se to re­ject Cook­i­es, you may still use our Web­s­i­te though your ac­cess to some fun­ctio­na­li­ty and areas of our Web­s­i­te may be re­stri­cted. As the me­ans by which you can re­fu­se Cook­i­es through your web brow­ser con­trols vary from brow­ser-to-brow­ser, you should vi­sit your brow­ser's help menu for more in­for­ma­tion.
You can ge­ne­ral­ly ac­cept or decli­ne the use of cook­i­es through a fun­ctio­na­li­ty bu­ilt into your web brow­ser.

Cli­ck here to learn more about the “Pri­va­te Browsing” set­ting and ma­nag­ing cook­ie set­tings in Fi­re­fox;
Cli­ck here to learn more about “In­cog­ni­to” and ma­nag­ing cook­ie set­tings in Chro­me;
Cli­ck here to learn more about “In­Pri­va­te” and ma­nag­ing cook­ie set­tings in In­ter­net Expl­o­rer; or
Cli­ck here to learn more about “Pri­va­te Browsing” and ma­nag­ing cook­ie set­tings in Sa­fa­ri.

In ad­di­tion, most ad­ver­ti­sing net­wor­ks of­fer you a way to opt out of tar­ge­ted ad­ver­ti­sing. If you would like to find out more in­for­ma­tion, plea­se vi­sit www.aboutads.info/choices/ or www.youronlinechoices.com.

 

Updates to this Notice

We may up­da­te this No­ti­ce in or­der to re­flect, for examp­le, chan­ges to the Cook­i­es we use or for ot­her ope­ra­tio­nal, le­gal or re­gu­la­tory rea­sons. Plea­se the­re­fo­re re-vi­sit this No­ti­ce re­gu­lar­ly to stay in­for­med about our use of cook­i­es and re­la­ted te­ch­no­lo­gies.

The date at the top of this No­ti­ce in­di­ca­tes when it was last up­da­ted.

Privacy

For more in­for­ma­tion about how Ha­ger is using your per­so­nal in­for­ma­tion, plea­se read our Web Privacy Notice here.

 

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of Cook­i­es, or the way we pro­cess your per­so­nal in­for­ma­tion, plea­se use the fol­lowing form.