Cookies Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Cookie Policy Statement

What are cookies?

What type of cookies does HSS use?

Third Party Cookies

How do I manage and control cookies?

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What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

What type of cookies does HSS use?

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Our cookies don’t store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details: they simply hold the ‘key’ that, once you’re signed in, is associated with this information.

Third Party Cookies

CookieConsent

Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain.

wc_cart_hash_#

Part of the Woocommerce system of plugins to enable the store to work properly

wc_fragments_#

Part of the Woocommerce system of plugins to enable the store to work properly

PHPSESSID

Preserves user session state across page requests.

tk_ai

Registers data on visitors’ website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization.

tk_qs

Registers data on visitors’ website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization.

tk_tc

Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor.

tk_or

Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor.

tk_r3d

Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor.

tk_lr

Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor.

test_cookie

Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

NID

Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.

rc::a

This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.

rc::c

This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.

rc::b

This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

PREF

Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.

YSC

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

GPS

Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.

yt-remote-device-id