Last updated: February 2023
This website “HKA.com”, “CRUX.HKA.com”, “careers.HKA.com” and “consultingexperts.HKA.com” (jointly or separately referred to as ‘the website’) use cookies, pixel tags, Web Beacons, and other web technologies such as CAPTCHA’s to improve the website’s performance, to enhance your browsing experience and to protect the website against spam robots. Certain areas of the website also use cookies to understand more about you, so we can offer you more personalized browsing experience. We use a simple counter, without storing any information on your device, to count the number of visitors who accept or decline our cookies .
You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them in the information below. You can change your cookie settings and disable some or all cookies for the website at any time by clicking on the cookie icon at the bottom right of the screen and selecting “Show Details”. You can also change your browser settings so that cookies cannot be placed on your device.
If you have any questions in relation to the cookies we use please contact us.
What are Web Beacons?
HKA occasionally advertises on third-party web sites. As part of our effort to track the success of our advertising campaigns, we may at times use a visitor identification technology such as “web beacons”, or “action tags”, which count visitors who have come to the website after being exposed to an HKA banner ad on a third-party site. We do not use this technology to access your personal information and it is only used to compile aggregated statistics about visitors who come to the website to gauge the effectiveness of our ads.
What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a technology that allows the website to store tokens of information (an “identifier”) in your browser used by the website while you are on the website. It is a small text file which is sent from our web server and placed on your computer (laptop, mobile device, etc.) when you browse the HKA website or use our mobile apps. Cookies are then sent back to the website on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are used in order to make the website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the website before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
When landing on the website, you have been given the opportunity to accept cookies used on the website, to accept certain categories of cookies and decline others, or to decline all cookies. If you have accepted our use of some or all cookies, the following information relates to cookies used on the website only. Please note that any consent to accept or to decline cookies is limited to the HKA.com website or any other pages, which may be hyperlinked to our website or portal. For more information on cookies used by those websites, please refer to the specific privacy notice or cookie policy on these websites.
You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
First party cookies, served directly by us to your device.
Third-party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are “session cookies”, meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are “permanent cookies”, meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used by the website to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
Do Not Track/Global Privacy Control
If we detect that you have enabled the Do Not Track setting or Global Privacy Control signal in your browser, we will automatically disable Marketing/Targeting cookies.
What types of cookies do we use?
The website uses the cookies that perform four functions, as classified below:
Essential/strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms, or to ensure the correct functioning of our site. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.
Performance cookies, which help us measure the website’s performance and improve your experience. In using performance cookies we do not store any personal data, and only use the information collected through these cookies in aggregated and anonymised form;
Functionality cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation (for example by remembering any settings you may have selected). They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Performance (or analytics) cookies
Performance cookies are used to gather statistics about the use of the websites in order to improve the performance and design of our services. For these purposes, performance cookies collect information about your device type, operating system type, browser type, domain, other system settings, IP address, referring URLs, information on actions taken on the websites and the dates and times of your visits, as well as the country and time zone in which your device is located.
These cookies are provided by our third-party analytics tool providers, Google Analytics, and the information obtained through these cookies will be disclosed to, or collected directly by, these third-party service providers. For more information about Google Analytics’ cookie and information practices (including the types of cookies used and their expiration date), please visit the links below:
Marketing/targeting cookies
These cookies track user activity and sessions so that we can deliver a more personalized service. Marketing cookies are set by third parties with whom we execute marketing campaigns and allow us to provide marketing relevant to you. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
If you identify yourself to us (e.g. filling out a form/signing up to receive email updates), HKA collects information about your response to our marketing communications and your activity on this website. This information is added to your personal marketing profile and score which is used to measure campaign effectiveness and to provide content and offer services that are relevant for you.
Consent
By using our websites you agree that, unless you have set your device’s browser to reject them, we can place the types of cookies set out above on your device, and use that data in accordance with this policy.
How to control cookies
You can control which cookies you want to be stored on your computer through the settings in your web browser. You can configure your browser to accept or reject certain or all cookies, as well as see what cookies have been set.
The “Help” menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Below is some helpful guidance about how to make these changes.
Guidance on how to block website cookies on other browsers can be found below:
- Firefox cookie management
- Chrome cookie management
- Safari cookie management
More detailed information on disabling cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org/. However, please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including, for example, Strictly Necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites.
How we use Cookies:
HKA uses the following cookies:
Cookies that have been set in the past
If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set; however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We will occasionally update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Cookie Policy, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this Cookie Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share information held in cookies, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on the website. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Cookie Policy or any of our other policies.
