Systecon Cookie Policy

We use cookies at www.systecongroup.com/gl. According to the Electronic Communications Act (2003: 389), anyone visiting a website with cookies must receive information about the purpose of the processing of cookies and is given an opportunity to prevent such processing. If you have questions regarding the cookies used on www.systecongroup.com/gl, please contact us at info@systecon.se.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that contains information and which is stored on your computer. There are two types of cookies, persistent cookies and session cookies. Persistent cookies remain on the user's computer until the user removes them or the expiration date expires and the user returns to www.systecongroup.com/gl. Some persistent cookies can be used to track a user's visit to multiple websites. Session cookies are missing expiration date and stored temporarily in the user's computer while the user visits www.systecongroup.com/gl. The session cookies disappear when the user closes its browser.

How visitors can handle cookies

Users can choose whether and to what extent cookies should be stored on the user's computer through the user’s browser settings. Through the browser, the user can also delete previously stored cookies.

Read more about cookies on the Swedish Post and Telecom Authorities’ website www.pts.se.

Why does www.systecongroup.com/gl use cookies?

We use cookies at www.systecongroup.com/gl to give our users a better user experience. We also use cookies for our statistical tools and other tools where we collect anonymous user information as part of our work to improve our digital services. If the user does not allow cookies, the site will work, but the user may experience a poorer user experience. For example the cookie bar message might appear at every visit even though the user has closed it.

Which cookies are used on www.systecongroup.com/gl?

First party cookies: (cookies by www.systecongroup.com/gl)

cookie-agreed
Used to determine if the user has seen the cookie message before or not. The purpose is to only show the cookie message the first time the user visits the website after clicking "Got it".
Storage period: 100 days

SSESS (followed by multiple digits)
Drupal session cookie used when an authorised user (in other words, a logged in user) logs in. An initial SESS cookie is set when you browse anonymously on the website which looks to see if you are logged.
Storage period: Technically 23 days, although the cookie looses its significance when the user is logged out due to inactivity.

Third party cookies (cookies by third party website)

ga, gat 
Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website and app owners to understand how their visitors engage with their properties. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘__ga’ cookie.
Storage period: 2 years

NID
Most Google users will have a preferences cookie called ‘NID’ in their browsers. A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.
Loss of the information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional but should not prevent it from working.
Storage period: 30 days