Cookie Policy

GOALS AND SCOPE OF APPLICATION

The current document is part of the personal data protection normative body of HMR International and its subsidiaries (from now on referred to as HMR). It aims to establish the principles, rules and guidelines adopted by HMR to protect the privacy of our users and transparently inform how and why we use cookies, aligned with the requirements established in the General Data Protection regulation, henceforth GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive and other related laws, guidelines and recommendations.

Every time this document is updated, a new version shall be made available on the intranet immediately after its approval.

The monitoring of compliance with the current procedure shall be ensured through the evaluation of key control indicators and/or audits (internal or external), made at regular time intervals or when significant changes occur.

AUDIENCE

This policy is for HMR website users (currently www.www.hmr.co.com and subsites) and to HMR International and all HMR employees, despite their bond, namely workers, suppliers, partners, consultants, temporary, and volunteers.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies, by definition, are small pieces of information, usually consisting of just letters and numbers, which online services provide when users visit them. Software and browsers on the user’s different devices can store cookies and send them back to the website next time they visit.

Cookies and similar technologies are a specific method that store information between website visits. They are used in several ways, such as:

• Remembering what’s in an online shopping basket;
• Supporting users to log in to a website;
• Analysing traffic; or
• Tracking users’ browsing behaviour.

Cookies allow a website to recognise a user’s device and are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Without cookies, or other similar technology, websites would have no way to ‘remember’ anything about visitors (e.g. items in an online shopping basket or whether they are logged in. Source: ICO www.ico.org.uk/what-are-cookies-and-similar-technologies

TYPES OF COOKIE

Based on characteristics and use, cookies can be classified as follows:

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
2. Statistics Cookies
3. Preference Cookies
4. Marketing Cookies
5. Third Party Cookies

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies: essential for you to browse the website and use its features, for example accessing secure areas of the site. Strictly necessary cookies, for example, are the ones that allow you to hold your web shop items in your cart while you continue shopping online.
2. Statistics Cookies: also known as “performance cookies or analytics,” they collect information about how you use a website, which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of the information can be used to identify you. The data is aggregated and, therefore, anonymised. The purpose of these cookies is to improve website functions. Typically, these are cookies from third-party analytics services for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited.
3. Preferences Cookies: also known as “functionality cookies,” allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like language preferences, regional preferences, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.
4. Marketing Cookies: typically, these cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit the number of times an ad is presented to a user. These cookies can be shared with other organisations or advertisers. Typically, they are persistent and of third-party provenance.
5. Third Party Cookies: Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a website other than the one you are currently visiting. For example, you can have a “Like” button on your website which will store a cookie on the visitor’s computer that can later be accessed by Facebook to identify the visitor and see which websites they visited.

COOKIE DURATION

Session cookies – Are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once the session ends.

Persistent cookies —Includes all cookies that remain on your device until you erase them or your browser does, depending on their expiration date. Persistent cookies have an expiration date, but their duration can vary. According to the ePrivacy Directive, they should not last longer than 12 months.

COOKIES AT HMR

HMR website (www.www.hmr.co.com) and it’s subsites may use technology known as cookies to personalize your pages or to “remember” you when you register / request the services available on the website. If you do not want cookies to be installed on your browser, you can set it to reject cookies, please consult the section below “Managing and Disabling Cookies”. The rejection of cookies may affect your ability to use some of the services on our website and subsites.

HMR undertakes to take the necessary security measures to safeguard users’ data against possible misuse or unauthorised access.

The website www.www.hmr.co.com and its subsites may contain links to third party websites. HMR is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. We therefore recommend that you read their privacy statements. hmR cannot be held responsible or liable for the content and activities of such websites.

We reserve the right to make any changes to this policy and we urge you to visit www.www.hmr.co.com regularly as such changes may affect you as a visitor to our websites or mobile applications.

For any questions regarding this policy, including the exercise of your rights of access, rectification and opposition, please consult the HMR privacy policy and/ or contact us through privacy@www.hmr.co.com.

WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use Strictly Necessary Cookies and Statistics type cookies, or similar technologies, for the following purposes:

• Assisting you with navigation;
• Assisting with registration to our events, login, and your ability to provide feedback;
• Analysing your use of our products, services or applications;
• To track and analyse site traffic to improve performance and usability;
• We do not use advertising cookies.

We do not use advertising cookies.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

This information will be updated directly.

MANAGING AND DISABLING COOKIES

Users can decide whether or not to accept cookies by using their browser settings. Totally or partially disabling technical cookies can affect website functions reserved for registered users. Public content can be accessed even if cookies are completely disabled. Some browsers also allow you to define different settings for proprietary and third-party cookies.

Disabling third-party cookies does not affect the navigation in any way and specific settings can be defined for different websites and applications.

More information can be consulted on the independent website www.allaboutcookies.org.

OUR CONTACT DETAILS

In case of any doubt regarding this Policy, please feel free to contact us.