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Cookies

What are cookies?

Upon your first visit to a HANZA web site, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Cookies are small text files which are stored on the visitor’s computer. Cookies make it possible to follow what the visitor does on the website.

There are two types of cookies:

Session cookies: A session cookie is a temporarily stored text file in the computer’s memory during the time a visitor is located on the website. The session cookie will disappear when you close your browser.
Permanent cookies: A permanent cookie is a text file that will stay on the visitor’s computer for a certain period of time.
How we use cookies

We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people use our sites. We do this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people navigate our sites.

The HANZA website uses both session cookies and permanent cookies to enhance the visitor’s experience. The session cookies stored temporarily are created automatically by the web server to be able to identify users and give the correct permission rights, for example to log on to the server.

Permanent cookies are used on the HANZA website to give the visitor the opportunity to contact us at HANZA using chat tools provided by Imbox.

The HANZA website only stores personal information given to us voluntarily, for example by signing up for our subscription service. For more information about our use of personal information, please read our privacy notice link to another website.

How to limit the use of cookies

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features or services on our sites may not function properly without cookies.

If you would like to prevent this website (or any other website) from setting cookies in your browser, you can do this in your browser settings.

Cookie (owner) Type Function
JSESSIONID (SiteVision) Session cookie Is used to identify logged in users to give correct administrative rights.
sv-uts (SiteVision) Permanent cookie (1 year) Connect the user with previous website visits to optimize the user experience.
imbxxHit1001 (Imbox) Permanent cookie (30 days) Stores information about the number of chat tool uses and the time of the last time it was used.
1001-vst (Imbox) Session cookie Stores information about how many times the chat tool has been shown.
1001-tstmp (Imbox) Session cookie Stores information about for how many long the chat tool has been shown.
__cfuid (Cloudflare) Session cookie Identifies individual visitors from the same IP address to apply the correct security settings for the chat tool.