Cookies that ensure the website can function properly
Our websites use cookies for:
- Remembering products you’ve added to your shopping cart when shopping online
- Remembering information you fill in on various pages when paying or ordering, so you do not have to fill in your data anew all the time
- Passing on information from one page to the next, e.g., when completing a long survey or if you have to fill in a great deal of data when ordering online
- Saving preferences, such as the language, location, the desired number of search results to be shown, etc
- Saving settings for, e.g., the best video reproduction possible, the desired buffer sise and your screen’s resolution data
- Reading your browser settings so that your screen will reproduce our websites in the best possible way
- Identifying your browser when you are logged in, so that you will not have to log into our websites anew all the time
- Detecting abuse of our websites and services, e.g., by registering a number of successive, failed login attempts
- Evenly spreading the load on the website, so that the website remains accessible at all times
- Offering the option to save login data so that you will not have to enter them anew all the time
- Providing the possibility to react to our websites
Cookies through which we can measure the website’s use
We use cookies to continuously try to measure {{using software of a third party }} how many people visit our websites and what parts of the website they visit most. This tells us what components of the website draw our visitors’ interest most.
The information thus gathered is used for statistics. These statistics provide us with insight into how frequently a webpage is visited, where exactly visitors spend most of their time, etc. This enables us to draft the website’s structure, navigation and the contents as user friendly as possible for you. We will never trace any statistics to individuals.
We use cookies for:
- Recording the number of visitors of our web pages
- Recording the time each visitor spends while visiting our web pages
- Setting the order in which a visitor visits the various pages of a website
- Assessing which parts of our sites need adaptation
- Optimising the website
Cookies to share the contents of our websites through social media
By using buttons, you can share the articles and videos you watch on our websites through social media. These buttons are controlled by social media cookies that are installed by the social media parties, so they are able to recognise you when you would like to share articles or videos.
Any social media cookies on our websites are solely installed when you actually click the button.
These cookies enable:
- Logged-in users of selected social media to instantly share content that is available on our websites
With regard to the cookies that the social media parties install and any data they thereby collect, please refer to the statements that these parties have published on their own websites. Beware that these statements may regularly change. Lucrasoft has no influence in this respect.
Cookies that make it possible to show advertisements
Our websites shows you advertisements. These advertisements are a necessary source of income that we use in order to be able to finance our websites.
Some advertisements (or video advertisements) use cookies.
Using the cookies, we can:
- record which advertisements you have already seen, to prevent you from seeing the same advertisement again and again
- record how many visitors have clicked the advertisement with respect to the payment transaction that needs to be made with the advertiser
- record how many orders are made through the advertisement for the payment transaction with the advertiser
Irrespective of whether these cookies are used, you will still be shown advertisements. The reason for this is that advertisements that do not need to use cookies will be shown as well. These may be advertisements that have been, e.g., adapted to the website’s contents. This type of content-related Internet advertisements is comparable to television commercials. For example, when you watch TV shows about cooking, the related commercial breaks will often show you advertisements about cooking-related products.
Cookies for profile-related content of a webpage
We aim to provide visitors of our websites with the most relevant information possible. This is why we try to adapt our sites to each visitor’s preferences as much as we can. We not only customise the content of our websites for this purpose, but also the advertisements that are shown.
We try to form a picture of your likely interests based on the websites you visit on the Internet, without building a detailed personal profile. This allows us to make said adaptations. We then use these interests to adapt the contents and the advertisements on our websites to different client groups.
This may involve examining your earlier visits and including them in a certain category, such as “men aged 30 to 45 years, married and with children, who are interested in football”. This group will then obviously be shown different advertisements than “women, aged 20 to 30 years, not married and interested in travelling”.
Third parties that place cookies through our websites can use this method to try and determine your interests too. The information about your current website visits may then be combined with information about earlier visits to other websites than ours.
Not using such cookies will not mean, however, that our sites will no longer show advertisements. It’s just that the advertisements will then no longer be tailored to your interests.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- We would like you to watch interesting and relevant advertisements. This is why the cookies used register the websites you visit, so your interests can be assessed.
- Since we wish to know whether the advertisements shown are interesting to you, we can check whether you have clicked on an advertisement.
- We pass information about the websites you have visited earlier on to other websites, as a result of which advertisements may be more interesting to you.
- We use the services of third parties so we can show you the most interesting advertisements.
- You can likewise be shown more interesting advertisements on the basis of your social media profile.
Other/unforeseen cookies
Considering the way the Internet and websites work, we do not always have insight into the cookies that are being placed by third parties through our websites.
This particularly applies to cases where a webpage contains so-called embedded elements: texts, documents, pictures or short films that are stored at another party, but are shown on, in, or through our websites.
Therefore, should you come across any such cookies on a website that we have not listed above, please let us know.
Or directly contact the related third party and inquire about what cookies they place, their reason for doing so, the cookie’s life span, and how they have guaranteed your privacy.
Browser settings
If you do not want websites to place cookies on your computer at all, you can adapt your browser settings as such that you will be notified before any cookie is placed. You can likewise adapt the settings as such so that your browser refuses all cookies, or only the third party cookies. Likewise, you can remove any of your cookies that have already been placed. Please note that you will have to separately adapt the settings for each browser and computer you use.
Please be aware that if you do not want cookies, we can no longer guarantee our websites to function properly. Some functions of the sites may be lost, while you may no longer be able to see certain websites. What’s more, refusing cookies will not mean you will no longer see any advertisements. It’s just that the advertisements will then no longer be tailored to your interests and will be repeated more often.
Each browser has a different method to adapt the settings. If necessary, consult your browser’s “help” function. If you wish to disconnect cookies of specific parties, you can do this through www.youronlinechoices.eu.
