Cookies are used on Karlsen Hydraulikservice to give our visitors a better experience. When using cookies we can ensure a website especially targeted for you. Information about your activity on the website is collected and in some cases about you as a person.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file which is stored locally in your browser. In this way your computer is easy to recognize when you return to a website.
No personal information is stored in a cookie, but only information about the visitors’ activities on a website. There might, for instance, be a user name on a website.
A cookie is stored on the user’s hard disc together with cached files. A cookie is a text file which is being sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard disc. You can ask your browser to inform you when you receive a cookie or you can reject cookies. These cookies are only used to recognize your computer.
Different types of cookies
Cookies can be divided into two types. One of the types is called “session cookies”.
This type of cookie is keeping track of items stored in your shopping basket while you are still buying items online.
“Session cookies” are not stored in your computer but disappear when you close the browser.
The other type of cookie is called “permanent cookie” and this will be stored as a text file in your computer for app. one month. A “permanent” cookie secures that the server can recognize your computer the next time you log into a website.
Delete cookies!
You can delete cookies at any time from your computer:
In Internet Explorer cookies are deleted in the following way:
- Under the menu”Functions”
- ”Internet Settings”
- ”In General”
- ”Browser Data/Delete cookies”.
In Firefox cookes are deleted:
- Under "History"
- "Delete latest history"
- The box "cookies" is being ticked
- “Clear cookies”
In Google Chrome cookies are deleted in the following way:
- Under "Menu"
- "More tools"
- "Delete browser data"
- Put a tick in the box "cookies and other website- and plugin data"
- "Clear browser data"
Third party cookies
Google Analytics
We use the Google Analytics tool to streamline the users’ experience of our website. Google Analytics is the tool we use – partly to measure the activity on the website – and partly to find out how our visitors are using our website and which pages they are visiting. The main purpose with Google Analytics is to improve our website’s user experience.
Google Analytics cookie collect the following information:
- How the visitors have entered our site
- The users’ behavior on the site – including how much time you spend on certain sides.
- Type of browser and the type of unit being used during the visit (computer, tablet, smartphone etc.)
- By using our website you also agree to Googles’ use and treatment of the above mentioned information.
You can always block cookies from Google Analytics here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
