Information about cookies
Distinction’s website uses cookies. According to the Electronic Communications Act, anyone visiting a website with cookies must be given access to information that the site contains cookies, as well as the purpose/use of these.
As a user you should also be able to agree that cookies are stored on your computer, which may be by settings in the browser you are using.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files consisting of letters and numbers. These are sent from our website or our partners servers and stored on your device as shown below. We use different cookies:
– Session cookies are a temporary cookie that ends when you close your browser or an app.
– Permanent cookies remain on your computer until you delete them or they expire.
– First-party cookies are cookies set by the website you visit.
– Third-party cookies are cookies set by a third-party page.
Why do we use cookies?
– For web analytics. For example, to get information about how visitors interact with the site.
– By using cookies we can customize advertising according to your behavior and show relevant products/services to the right person.
– To improve your experience. For example, to create personalized offers, remember what’s in your shopping cart and enable different services and features to work as they should.
The cookies we use improve the services/products we offer you. Some of our services actually need cookies to work properly, while others are simply available to make our services more manageable or flexible for you or your business.
Necessary cookies are absolutely necessary to provide our basic features & services, such as logins, remembering a shopping cart or a customer portal. Our services would not work without these cookies.
Analysis cookies provide comprehensive analytical information regarding your use of our services.
Function cookies allow you to save settings such as language/browser settings, or if we will auto complete your information, eg form/checkout or not. Without these cookies, we would not be able to tailor our services to your requirements. These cookies are necessary, as it is essential for our services that your experience with us should be as good and smooth as possible.
Security cookies make our services and your data safe and secure, as they help us detect fraud/hacking attempts and protect your data properly. Since this is an incredibly important part of our services, these cookies are clearly necessary.
Third-party cookies
Distinction are working on several acts that put their third-party cookies on our site. Information collected through these cookies can be shared with other companies but also used for other purposes.
This is controlled and controlled by the respective supplier who delivers them.
Google analytics/search console/Tag-manager.
Distinction uses this tool for tracking & analysis of our visitors. Google means that users remain anonymous and no identifiable information is sent or shared.
Hotjar
Hotjar analyzes how users navigate across the pages of the site with the mouse pointer. Recording of the visitor’s pointer takes place in order to analyze how visitors interact with the webpage. The users data is anonymized and there is no unique identifier of visitors.
Distinction allow cookies from Facebook as third-parties. When people who are logged in to Facebook visit a website using Facebook’s advertising solutions, the browser sends certain information to Facebook, such as the URL of the site. The purpose of using this is to improve targeted marketing on Facebook through a survey of visitor interaction with our website.
How do I say no to cookies?
If you do not accept cookies, you can configure your browser so that cookie files are not downloaded to your computer. This will close all cookies. Temporary cookies are necessary to navigate our website, the website will not work unless temporary cookies are accepted.
If you do not want data about you to be collected, you can block cookies from third party-cookies in your web browser.