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.