Cookies Here you will find information about what cookies are and how they are used on our website. What are cookies? Cookies can be compared to small fingerprints. A special file, a so-called cookie file, is saved on your computer when you visit a certain website. The cookie consists of a small amount of data with information about what you do when you visit the page. The information about what you did on previous visits is sent by the web server to your browser and can then be retrieved from there. In the following, we will use the word “cookies”. What types of cookies are there? There are two types of cookies. One type saves a file for a longer period of time on your computer. It is used, for example, to inform you as a visitor what is new on the page since you last visited it. Once the expiration date has passed, the cookie is automatically deleted when you return to the website that created it. The second type of cookie is called session cookies and they are stored temporarily in your computer's memory. For example, they can be used to keep track of which language you have chosen. Session cookies disappear when you close your browser. A distinction is made between first-party cookies and third-party cookies. A first-party cookie is set by the website owner, while a third-party cookie is set by another website. Are cookies dangerous? No, cookies are not dangerous. Cookies are ordinary text files and cannot contain viruses. The files are small and only a certain amount of cookies can be saved in memory. So there is no risk of your memory becoming full just because you allow cookies. Can I say no to cookies? You can turn off cookies via the security settings in your browser. If you say no to cookies, the user experience of our websites may be impaired and all functionalities cannot be maintained in the same way as if the website were allowed to set cookies. How are cookies used on the Geofix E-commerce site? At www.geofix.se cookies are used to improve the user experience. Cookies identify browsers as unique, but the browsers remain anonymous at all times. This helps us to register the number of visits to the page and gives us statistics and information about how many browsers visit the page and how they move around the page. In addition, so-called session cookies are used to remember the settings that you as a user have made. For example, when you shop with us and check out at the checkout. How can I know what cookies I have on my computer? Web browsers normally save all cookies in a special directory on your computer's hard drive. By opening the directory you can see which cookies are stored on your computer. Read more about how to do this in the help section for your browser. How you see which cookies have been saved differs depending on which browser you have. How can I prevent cookies from being stored on my computer? In most browsers you can choose to block the use of cookies. You can also choose to set your browser so that you have the option to choose in advance whether you want to allow each new cookie that a website sends to your computer. This way you can choose for each cookie whether it can be stored or not. How do I delete cookies that have already been saved on my hard drive? Cookies are saved as simple text files and can be deleted. Keep in mind that you need to make settings for each browser you use. The site Mina Cookies has a summary of how to manage cookies. Here you can read more about how to block cookies and how to delete cookies from your browser. More about Cookies If you want to know even more about Cookies, you can read more on My Cookies and on the Swedish Post & Telecom Agency's website.
