Cookies

The Site may use a technology called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files containing information that are saved on your computer by the webpage that you are visiting. They are used to help provide additional functionality to the Site and to help us analyze Site usage. There are two kinds of cookies:

Persistent cookie: This kind of cookie is used for "remembering" information such as your username and password and is stored for a specific period of time or on your computer for as long as you decide to not "log out" of this subscription service. If you don't use the function "Don't ask for my username and password in the future" such cookies will never be stored on your computer.

Session cookie: This kind of cookie is used to keep track of, for example, which language you have chosen on the webpage. During the time you visit a site, such cookies are saved temporarily in the memory of your computer. A session cookie is not stored for a long time on your computer and usually disappears when you close your web browser. By using such cookies, Husqvarna hopes to better target relevant information to our visitors.

We categorize our cookies by:

  • Functional: provide basic site functionality, such as remembering the contents of your wish list;
  • Performance: measure the performance of our sites in order to enable technical and design optimization;
  • Advertising: measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to target advertising and promotions;
  • Social sharing: enable sharing functionality for social networks; and
  • Social media: track social media and other Web browsing behavior.

Below is a list of cookies used on husqvarna.com

Cookie

Cookie name

Duration

Category

Purpose

ASP.NET

ASP.NET_SessionId

Session

Functional

This cookie is set by our content management system upon arriving at the husqvarna.com website. It is used to identify a user's ASP.NET session (ASP.NET is a web application framework, originally developed by Microsoft), and is not used by Husqvarna for any other purpose.

Language


hsqglobal#lang

Session

Functional

Our content management system uses a cookie to store the context language. The selected language is set as the context language and creates a cookie to store that language so that links to other pages on the website do not need to indicate the language.

Sitecore

SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE

10 years

Functional

This cookie is set by our content management system in order to identify repeated visits from a single user.

Cookie acceptance

Husqvarna

1 month

Functional

This cookie saves a message to let us know that the user has clicked the cookie notice to agree to our use of cookies on the website.

Wish list

WishlistUsers

1 month

Functional

This cookie is used on the website to remember products placed in wish list between separate sessions.

 

Google Analytics

_ga

2 years

Performance

These cookies come from Google Analytics that we use to measure and improve the performance of our website. No sensitive or personally identifiable information is being stored.

To learn more about how to reject or delete the Google cookies, click here.

 

_gid

1 day

 

_gat

1 minute

 

Facebook

_fbp, _fbc

90 days

Social media

Provides information about the effectiveness of our Facebook ads and allows us to target our ad campaigns to users who interact with our websites and users with similar interests or profiles. The pixel base code tracks activity on our website (collecting information such as IP addresses, web browser information, page location, pixel ID and information of any buttons clicked when visiting our sites), providing a baseline for measuring specific events. By measuring events we have the ability to capture website traffic and let Facebook use that as a basis to create audiences on Facebook that we can use for targeting purposes. See also our External Privacy Notice.

For more information about Facebook cookies, click here.



Below is a list of third party cookies used on husqvarna.com 

Cookie

Cookie name

Duration

Category

Purpose

Pinterest

_pinterest_cm

1 year

Social sharing

We use Pinterest to allow visitors to our website to share photos with their followers. For more information about what data Pinterest's cookies contain, click here.

DoubleClick

IDE

DSID

390 days

Advertising

These cookies are used to serve our internet advertisements on other sites. Some of our web pages may contain electronic images that help us see how users interact on these pages. They may also provide DoubleClick with information about the interaction.

For more information about Google Partners, click here.

 

Husqvarna also uses Google Analytics cookies to allow them to identify certain demographical information for marketing purposes. Users remain anonymous to Husqvarna who receive selected information from the supplier to help them target market activities more efficiently. The Client ID anonymously identifies visitors between multiple sessions and is stored for 26 months before deletion.

If you do not wish to accept Husqvarna's use of cookies, most browsers allow you to configure your browser to reject cookies by modifying your browser settings. However, this might limit functionality and your benefit of the Site.

This text has been updated last May 25th 2018.