Like most platforms, Hegid logs IP addresses and uses cookies and similar technologies that allow us to recognize you and to customize your experience, and provide us with information about the way our visitors access our Platform. You can find out more about how we use cookies and related technologies below.
What is a cookie ?
Cookies are text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or mobile application. They are used to recognize your computer as you move between pages on a website, or when you return to a website or mobile application you have visited previously. Cookies are widely used in order to make platforms work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the platform.
We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors (for example, by remembering your language and/or product preferences) and to better understand how our Platform is used. Cookies will tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Platform before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
When you visit the Website for the first time and that Hegid want to save a cookie on your terminal, you are warned by an information banner at the bottom of the page. If you continue to navigate the Website after the banner has been displayed, you expressly consent to the use of cookies by Hegid.
You can change the cookie settings at any time. Below you will find more information concerning cookies and how you can manage cookie settings.
Depending on the choices saved on your browser, navigation on our Website can result in various cookies, web beacons of your IP address, IDFA, geo-tracking via IP address, login and navigation information (referral URL, advertising data, visit statistics, login credentials) stored on your terminal, so that Hegid can recognise your terminal’s browser throughout the period of retention of this information. Hegid collect information from the pages you browse, the links on which you click, and from other actions as part of your navigation related to their commercial offer. Some anonymous Cookies can be saved on your browser at the moment of your connection to our website and will be used by Hegid for statistics needs only.
There are two broad categories of cookies :
- Cookies developed in-house, which Hegid uses directly on your computer or mobile device. They are only used by Hegid to recognize your computer or mobile device when it returns to our Platform.
- Third-party cookies used by a third-party service provider on our Platform that can be used by the service provider to recognize your computer or mobile device when visiting other platforms. Third-party cookies are generally used for advertising or platform analysis purposes.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Hegid uses both 'session cookies' and ‘permanent cookies’. Session cookies exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Permanent cookies survive after your browser is closed, and can be used to recognize your computer or mobile device when you open your browser and browse the internet again.
What cookies does Hegid use ?
The Platform serves only the following types of cookies to your computer or mobile device :
Type of Cookie
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Purpose
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Cookies necessary for essential purposes
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These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through this Platform and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.
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Functional Cookies
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These cookies serve a variety of purposes related to the presentation, performance and functionality of this Platform. Their overall purpose, however, is to enhance visitors’ experience and enjoyment of this Platform.
For example, some of these cookies enable visitors to specify language, product or other platform preferences.
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Performance Cookies
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Platform.
The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor and is aggregated. It includes the number of visitors to our Platform, the platforms that referred them to our Platform and the pages that they visited on our Platform.
We use this information to help run our Platform more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Platform.
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Advertising Cookies
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When you visit our Platform or click on advertisements or promotional areas on the Platform these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising and promotion.
They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a platform and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
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Social Cookies
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These cookies enable users to share pages and content through third party social media and other platforms. The companies that serve these cookies may also use your information to serve targeted advertising on other platforms.
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How to control or delete cookies
We use non-essential cookies on the basis of your consent. You have the right withdraw that consent and refuse the use of cookies at any time and we have explained how you can exercise this right below. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Platform.
You can set your cookie preferences by using our cookie consent tool or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from this Platform cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” facility).
Further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit
www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.