1. What are cookies?
Also known as browser cookies or tracking cookies, cookies are small, often encrypted text files, located in browser directories. They are used by web developers to help users navigate their websites efficiently and perform certain functions.
Due to their core role of enhancing/enabling usability or site processes, disabling cookies may prevent users from using certain websites.
You can find more information about cookies and automatic data collection tools at; https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
2. How do we use cookies?
We typically use cookies, web collection forms, web beacons, clickstream capture and other similar technologies (collectively “Automatic data collection tools”) on our Hankaka Technologies and partner websites. We do this to understand your use of our services and improve your user experience for the following purposes:
2.1 Ensure all parts of the website requested by visitors work correctly and appear quickly.
2.2 Alert us whenever a page on the website or the entire website is slow and not working at all.
2.3 To give you a more personalized web experience; display adverts that may be more relevant and useful to you.
2.4 Analyse how visitors use our website, so that we can continually improve it by adding more information and services and making it easier to navigate and use.
2.5 To ensure that products you as a customer add to your shopping basket remain in your basket as you go through the checkout process, so you get what you pay for.
2.6 To allow us remember choices you make on our website as a customer.
2.7 To allow customers and visitors to share our website content on social media and with friends.
3. Consent and cookies
Some cookies used by us are sent to your computer or mobile device as soon as the first page you view on our website is displayed. As a result we infer consent for these and other cookies if you use our website.
4. No personal information in cookies
None of the cookies we use contain or pass personal, confidential, financial information or any other information that could be used to identify individual visitors to the website.
5. Your shopping basket and cookies
If you buy a product from our website, we do use cookies to pass your contact details through the checkout process. But we never request or store any financial details in this way. Your financial details are only ever passed using an encrypted and secure format from our secure payment page to your own bank for processing.
6. Refusing cookies
Using your browser settings, you are free to block all cookies. However, for purely technical reasons disabling cookies may prevent you from accessing some features of our website or certain content or functionality may not be available.
Alternatively, certain browsers allow you to navigate websites in private mode, once the browser session is closed all cookies collected during the session are automatically destroyed.