Cookie Policy
Last modified: 2024-07-15
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the site's owners.
Cookies enable us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences, customize our website according to your interests, and recognize you when you return to our website.
First-party cookies are placed by the website you are visiting. The data collected by those cookies are only available to that website. Third-party cookies are placed by an external (third-party) server the first party uses. Persistent cookies are stored on your device and are not automatically deleted from your device when the browser is closed. Session cookies are cookies that are placed on your device and are automatically deleted when the browser closes. If the user does not close the browser or actively end their session, the cookies are deleted when the session embedded in the text file expires.
USE OF COOKIES
As with most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and, all in all, providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THIRD PARTY COOKIES
These cookies may be applied by websites in the Nord-Lock Group. Please refer to the actual cookie policy of the applicable website you are visiting for the cookies applicable to your visit:
Google Analytics
Google operates as a data processor for Google Analytics according to the Ads Data Processing Terms with Nord-Lock and Nord-Lock's instructions. Nord-Lock is the data controller who retains full rights over the collection, access, retention, and deletion of their data at any time.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Google will use this information for the purposes of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using the Nord-Lock website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out in Google Privacy Policy.
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
Google Ads, AdSense
We are using personal data and cookie data to direct remarketing to you on our website and on other websites that serve GoogleAds. We may also use your personal data and cookie data if you have provided your consent to the use of Marketing cookies to find similar audiences to advertise online.
Third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on visitors" past visits to a website.
You may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings: Google Privacy & Terms
ClickDimensions
This is a marketing automation solution developed specifically for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. These cookies are used to help analyze how users use our website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored within our CRM system. We use this information solely for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website. Please read ClickDimensions Privacy Policy.
This website uses Facebook advertising conversion and re-targeting pixels, which allows us to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. Meta is joint controller with us for the collection of data using the Pixel. For more information regarding how your data is used by Meta and the Facebook Pixel, please read Facebook's data policy.
HotJar
This website uses Hotjar to better understand our users' needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users' experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don't like, etc.), and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users' behavior and their devices (in particular, the device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on a particular user. For further details, please see Hotjar's privacy policy by clicking this link.
You can opt-out out of the creation of a user profile, Hotjar's storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar's use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this Hotjar opt-out link.
This website uses the LinkedIn Insight tag to perform campaign reporting and unlock valuable insights about website visitors that may come via the campaigns that are run on LinkedIn.
For more information regarding the LinkedIn Insight tag, please follow this link.
You can opt-out from related cookies through the following links:
Visitors of LinkedIn
Members of LinkedIn
HOW DO I CHANGE MY COOKIE SETTINGS?
If you do not want us to collect cookies, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, your system will continue to accept cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
MANAGE COOKIE PREFERENCES
Consent tool
Our Cookie Consent Tool can be used to customize your cookie preferences. The tool will record when you have consented to our cookie notice. The tool controls specifically the marketing cookies and analytical cookies set by our primary website (nord-lock.com). Essential cookies cannot be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third-party websites linked to our website.
Updating your preferences
If you wish to update your cookie preferences once you have used our tool initially, please see here.
Using your web browser
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser's official support documents.
Cookies that have been set in the past
If you have disabled one or more Analytics Cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies before your disabled preference being set; however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information. For our marketing cookie, when a user opts out of tracking, a new cookie is placed to prevent users from being tracked.
QUESTIONS, CONCERNS OR COMPLAINTS
To ask questions or comment about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at privacy@nord-lock.com
Please refer to our Privacy Notice for further information as to how we process your personal and sensitive information.
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