Cookies

Helly Hansen AS (“Helly Hansen/we/us”) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This Cookie Policy explains how and why data is collected when you visit our websites (the “site”), including through the use of cookies, and what rights you have, including where available your right to reject or delete cookies. For further information about how Helly Hansen process personal data, please see our Privacy Policy If you have any further queries, please contact us at ecustomerservice.no@hellyhansen.com.

WHAT ARE COOKIES

Cookies are pieces of computer code that allow small amounts of information to be passed from your internet browser to our web server. They allow websites to recognise your PC, mobile, tablet or other device as you browse.

Cookies typically allow us to understand what device that has visited our pages and seen advertisements, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our website, and to make our website more user-friendly. For example, permanent cookies allow us to save your password so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit our website.

Generally, no personally identifiable information is collected from the use of cookies. Unless you have logged in to our site or otherwise have provided us with your name or other data that enables to identify you, we cannot connect the cookie to your identity.

types of cookies

There are two types of cookies that may be used during your visit to our site:

Session cookies: Session cookies are deleted after the session is ended. When you are browsing our site, it will remember your browser for the duration of your visit, but the cookie will be removed from your computer as soon as you close down your internet browser. For example, it is session cookies that allow you to add an item to the basket and then move through the checkout. Disallowing these cookies will mean you are unable to place an order on this site.

Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies remember you for a set period of time. For example, on your first visit to a Helly Hansen site, you will be presented with a default view, but over time, the version of the site you see may change, as persistent cookies remember items you have previously viewed, preference changes you have made, or whether you logged into or out of your account while browsing.

Use of cookies typically have the following purposes:

Fuctional cookies: These cookies ensure that you can use the basic functionality of our site. They are therefore enabled by default. The cookies are used to support your experience on the site and include user-selected options, site navigation aids, etc. For example, functional cookies allows us to remember that you are logged in to the site, and what items you had in your shopping basket.

Analytical or performance: These cookies allow us to further improve the website functionality by analysing usage on the website. For example, these cookies are used to analyse site navigation, including to determine how frequently particular pages are visited, and the most popular areas of our website.

Advertising and personalisation: These cookies allow us to build up profiles and track browsing habits and activities to enable us to show you personalized content and advertisements 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 measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. Any activity tracked and recorded using these cookies maybe shared to third parties for the same purpose.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES AND THIRD PARTY SITES

3^rd party cookies. When you visit our site you may notice some cookies that aren’t related to Helly Hansen AS. Our site may contain embedded content, for example from YouTube, that may use cookies from these third party websites. We don’t control the setting of these third party cookies, so we suggest you check the relevant third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

3^rd party sites. We advertise on 3rd party websites (which use their own cookies) to allow us to track traffic back to the source. Our advertising distribution network is called Double Click (owned by Google). Any of our banners that you see on the web are operated and distributed through the Google network. If you click or see these banners, a cookie will be set on your browser.

Our affiliate network is called Webgains, and we also use a review partner called Yotpo (which assists in the management of our comments and reviews section at the bottom of all our product pages). If you have subscribed to our newsletter you will receive emails via our email service provider Smartfocus. This tool will set cookies on your browser if you click on an email from us.

Social media. If you take the opportunity to share hellyhansen.com content with friends through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

We have pages on the following social medias: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn. The provider of the social media stores cookies on your device when you visit and use their services. For information on how the social medias use your personal data, please see the social media provider’s privacy policy.

We may be considered joint controllers together with the social media provider for the data collected when you visit our page on the social media (limited to the data that we have access to). We get access to aggregated data relating to visits and activities on our pages. We use this for statistics and analytics, such as recording numbers of likes, clicks and comments. We do not store such data, but we have access to it as long as we maintain our page on the social media. You can delete your data at any time, e.g. by deleting content or reactions you have published. Please note that your data is not automatically deleted if you stop following our page.

Your acceptance of Cookies and how you may reject them

Unless you have chosen to disable cookies (in your browser settings or otherwise), you accept that cookies are used on our site (opt-out consent). Please note that if you disable cookies, functionality on our site may be affected, and you may not be able to make purchases on our site.

Some cookies are only set if you have expressly consented to it (opt-in consent). These are cookies used for purposes of advertising and personalisation.

Most web browsers will provide the option to turn off, or disallow cookies. How you do this depends on the web browser you’re using. Instructions for disallowing cookies can usually be found in the browser’s ‘Help’ menu. If you do this, you will still be able to browse around the site.

Cookies can be deleted using your web browser. However, unless they are disallowed they will be re-applied the next time you visit a website. Alternatively you can adjust your browser to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. How you adjust your browser to notify you of them, will depend on the type of internet browser program your computer uses.

If you’d like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, please visit aboutcookies.org.

list of Cookies

Below is a list of the cookies we use from the latest audit (July 2018), and what we use them for.

Necessary

Site experience

Advertising and personalisation