Cookie types

It is common to distinguish between first-party cookies and-third party cookies. First-party cookies are allocated to the website that you visit while third-party cookies come from a third-party, such as a web analytics program.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to offer you a smoother experience with our web services. View your options for managing cookies in the next chapter.

Necessary functions. These cookies are essential for running our web sites and are the key to providing you a seamless experience. You can navigate uninterrupted e.g. by remembering language and country choices you’ve made and by preserving authentication to secure parts of the domain. These cookies also enable the shopping cart to function and remember products of interest when you are redirected to an Operator site for a possible purchase.

Statistics and site improvement. These cookies enable us to improve our websites by looking at how they are used. We do analytical profiling to understand e.g. unique users reading a particular article (to know what is popular) or if a video file was viewed or abandoned half way through. We also look at where content is accessed so we know how to arrange our sites for optimal user experience.

Preferences and personalisation. These cookies help make the content as personalised as possible, for example by showing you targeted banners and relevant recommendations. We examine what type of reference was used to reach our sites, e.g. an email campaign or a link from a referral site, so we can estimate the effectiveness of our promotions and advertising campaigns.

Marketing. We use these cookies to dynamically serve our ads on our own and selected third party websites. Our domains may also include elements that set cookies on behalf of a third party.

Cookie types

It is common to distinguish between first-party cookies and-third party cookies. First-party cookies are allocated to the website that you visit while third-party cookies come from a third-party, such as a web analytics program.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to offer you a smoother experience with our web services. View your options for managing cookies in the next chapter.

Necessary functions. These cookies are essential for running our web sites and are the key to providing you a seamless experience. You can navigate uninterrupted e.g. by remembering language and country choices you’ve made and by preserving authentication to secure parts of the domain. These cookies also enable the shopping cart to function and remember products of interest when you are redirected to an Operator site for a possible purchase.

Statistics and site improvement. These cookies enable us to improve our websites by looking at how they are used. We do analytical profiling to understand e.g. unique users reading a particular article (to know what is popular) or if a video file was viewed or abandoned half way through. We also look at where content is accessed so we know how to arrange our sites for optimal user experience.

Preferences and personalisation. These cookies help make the content as personalised as possible, for example by showing you targeted banners and relevant recommendations. We examine what type of reference was used to reach our sites, e.g. an email campaign or a link from a referral site, so we can estimate the effectiveness of our promotions and advertising campaigns.

Marketing. We use these cookies to dynamically serve our ads on our own and selected third party websites. Our domains may also include elements that set cookies on behalf of a third party.