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

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.