Cookie statement
This cookie statement explains how the Heetee website is operated (“we“ or “us“), use cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website (“web”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Heetee) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (i.e. advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our web to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our web. Third parties serve cookies through our web for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our web and the purposes they perform are described in the table below:
Types of cookie Who serves these cookies How to refuse
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Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our web and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. |
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Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the web to you, you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings. |
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Performance, functionality, customisation and analytics cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our web but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos and secure login areas) may become unavailable. They may also be used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our web is being used or how effective are marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our web for you. |
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To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below. |
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Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. |
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To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below. |
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Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our web through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too. |
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To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below. |
Other tracking technologies
Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our web or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our web to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our web from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Our web may also use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention and for other site operations.
If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the website storage settings panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the global storage settings panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).
Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.
Targeted Advertising
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our web. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these.
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our web may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices/ or www.youronlinechoices.com. For information on the opt-out which Google offers, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
How often will we update this cookie statement?
We may update or amend this Cookie statement from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this cookie statement regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at info@hee- tee.com.
This Cookie Statement was last amended on 15 December 2020.