To facilitate the use of our website, we are using "cookies". Cookies are small units of data temporarily stored on the hard disk of your computer by your browser that are necessary for using our website. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. A cookie often includes a unique identifier, which is an anonymous number (randomly generated) and is stored on your device. Some expire at the end of your website session; others remain on your computer for longer.
The information contained in cookies is used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task, e.g. filling out a web form or a web survey;
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page;
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast;
- analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with the different aspects of our online services so we can make them better.
With DoubleClick we use a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, to display relevant ads to you. For this purpose cookies are used that do not contain any personal information. Your IP address will also be used for generating these cookies. The DoubleClick cookies utilize a pseudonymous identification number assigned to your browser to check the on-screen and appealing ads. This allows Google and its partner sites to display ads based on the previous visits of Henkel-pages or other websites. Google transmits and saves the information gathered from the DoubleClick-cookies to a server.
The data is only transferred to third parties within the statutory provisions or contract data processing. By accessing the Henkel-website you agree to the use of the above mentioned data and the previously described processing by Google. You can prevent cookies from being stored in your browser settings. If you agree to the use of cookies in general, but however, you are uncomfortable with the use of DoubleClick cookies, you can follow this link (www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb) and download and install a browser-plugin to deactivate the DoubleClick service by Google.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful; otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
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Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to change settings on a wide variety of browsers.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
If you wish to view a cookie's code, just open your cookie file in your browser and click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data about your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.