Cookies

Cookies on these pages

Cookies, and how they make our services better for you

Our websites use cookies, as do almost all websites, to provide you with the best possible experience. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit websites. Below, we use the terms 'cookies' and 'information capsules' interchangeably, but we are referring to one and the same thing.

Our cookies help to:

  • Ensure that the websites function as you expect them to
  • Keep you logged in the next time you visit the pages (if you have an account with us)
  • Remember your settings from visit to visit
  • Improve the speed and security of the websites
  • Allow you to share pages and content you want on social networks, such as Facebook
  • Allow us to continuously improve our websites for you
  • Make our marketing more effective (which allows us to offer our services in the way we do, at the prices we do)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect personal data (without your informed and explicit consent)
  • Collect sensitive personal data (without your informed and explicit consent)
  • Send personal data to third parties

How we obtain consent for the use of cookies

If the settings in the program you use to view this website (your browser) are set to accept cookies, in addition to your continued use of our websites, we assume that you agree to our use of cookies. If you wish to delete cookies, or disable their use, you can read about how to do this below. If cookies are disabled, our websites may stop functioning as you expect.

More about our cookies

Our own cookies

We use our own cookies to ensure that our website functions, by:

  • Being able to determine whether you are logged in or not
  • Remembering searches you made on our site
  • Remembering whether you have agreed to or declined various terms
  • Allowing you to leave comments and posts on our blog

Third-party functions

Our websites, like most other websites, use some functions and elements from third parties. A typical example is Facebook's 'like button'. This type of functionality often uses cookies. Below you will find a list of these third-party services. You can disable third-party cookies in your browser settings, but note that this may cause some of these services to stop functioning as they should.

Social media cookies

To enable you to 'like' and share our content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+, we have included 'like buttons' on our pages.

These social media platforms use cookies on our pages:

The privacy implications of using these cookies will vary from one social network to another, depending on the privacy settings you have configured for your account within each social network.

Cookies for website improvement and security

We regularly test new designs and functionalities on our websites. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different visitors, while observing how visitors respond to the different versions of our websites. We also use services to protect our websites against attacks, and at the same time ensure that the pages are operational in all cases. The purpose of this is to be able to offer our visitors the best websites we can, and to do that, we need to know what you like and dislike, while ensuring security. The data collected in this way is anonymous.

We use the following service to test what works and what doesn't:

Cookies for providing website functionality

We use third-party cookies to provide you with certain features on our websites that would not function without these cookies.

Cookies for measuring anonymous visitor statistics

We use cookies to compile statistics on visitor numbers, what kind of technology visitors use (e.g., Mac or Windows, to detect if our services don't work on some device types), how long visitors spend on our pages, which pages they view, etc. This helps us continuously improve our websites. These "analytical tools" also tell us, using anonymous data, how visitors find our websites (e.g., via a search engine) and whether they have been here before. This helps us allocate funds for service development to the areas where it is truly needed.

We use:

Advertising cookies

You may have noticed that you see ads on various websites for products or pages you have previously viewed? This is because advertisers, like us, pay for these ads. The technology behind this functionality is 'advertising cookies'. When you visit our website, we may place an advertising cookie in your browser, and this is used to display ads for our services on other pages you visit, if the website displays ads. But, rest assured: We are neither allowed nor able to (it is not practically possible) to contact you directly using the information these cookies collect, as the entire process is anonymized.

You can learn how to disable advertising cookies in your browser below, but we hope you wish to continue allowing them, as ads are part of what helps us at {company name} to offer our services in the best and most affordable way possible. Advertising cookies are also part of what helps keep much of the internet open and free. It's also worth mentioning that even if you disable this type of cookie, you will still see ads – they will just be less tailored to you and your interests.

For advertising purposes, we use cookies from the following providers:

How to turn off cookies

You can usually turn off cookies by changing the settings in your browser, or by installing an add-on in your browser. However, by doing so, much useful functionality on websites may stop working, as most websites are completely dependent on cookies to provide their services effectively. This includes our websites. We hope you wish to allow cookies from our pages. But, if you don't want to, that's perfectly fine too. No hard feelings!