What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device. What are cookies used for?

Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.

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What types of cookies does Gustafs use?

There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” Gustafs routinely uses all four categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies.

These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas.

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This is the Gustafs.com “session” cookie. It determines if a user is logged in or not.

2. Performance Cookies.

These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided, so that less strain is placed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage and experiment with new features and changes on the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service works.

Google Analytics

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Various duration: a mix of “session” and “persistent” cookies lasting 30 mins, 6 months, or 1-2 yrs. Anonymously tracks use of website.  These cookies are set or updated on any page visited. See here for full details. Several cookies are set but all serve the same purpose: to see how people reached the site and used it, including search terms used and referring sites.

Hotjar

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Various duration: a mix of “session” and “persistent” cookies lasting 30 mins, 6 months, or 1-2 yrs. Hotjar is an analytics and feedback tool that we use to understand how our website is used and improve usability. Hotjar sets cookies to help us track behaviour across pages and to control visitor polls. The cookies carry no personally identifiable information. To find out about Hotjar cookies and how to control those cookies, go to http://docs.hotjar.com/docs/cookies-stored-by-hotjar

3. Functionality Cookies. 

These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, whether you chose to no longer see advertisements, whether you made an edit to an article on the Service while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of Service tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Service to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you’ve customized the Service in other ways, such as customizing the toolbars we offer in the right column of every page. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.

4. Targeting Cookies.

Gustafs, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than Gustafs. This information may be shared with organizations outside Gustafs, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.

Facebook

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Various duration: a mix of “session” and “persistent” cookies lasting 30 mins, 6 months, or 1-2 yrs. These cookies, provided by Facebook, are set when a visitor is logged in to or otherwise using their service. This allows a user to easily comment or share an article with their peers through the social network. To find out about Facebook cookies and how to control those cookies, go to http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Doubleclick

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Various duration: a mix of “session” and “persistent” cookies lasting 30 mins, 6 months, or 1-2 yrs. Optimize and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website and report how ad impressions, other uses of ad services and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site.To find out about DoubleClick cookies and how to control those cookies, go to http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

Linkedin

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Various duration: a mix of “session” and “persistent” cookies lasting 30 mins, 6 months, or 1-2 yrs. LinkedIn cookies for the purpose of interest-based advertising. To find out about Linkedin cookies and how to control those cookies, go to http://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

First and third party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Gustafs, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Service. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Gustafs, for example to help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet.

How to control and delete cookies

However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website www.allaboutcookies.org which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Cookies from our CRM and Marketing Automation system

We use our CRM and Marketing Automation system to communicate with our potential and existing customers. Here are the names of the cookies it creates:

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