We are pleased to inform you in this cookie information about the use of cookies, pixels and similar technologies (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘cookies’). These are used on our website to enable you to use our website, to provide you with certain website functions, to improve user-friendliness and to carry out certain analyses.
In this cookie information, we also inform you about the setting options you have with regard to cookies on our website. You can make cookie settings in our data protection preference centre, which you can access by clicking on the following button:
In this cookie information, we inform you about the use of cookies on this website and the processing of your personal data that we collect in connection with accessing and using our website.
We have divided this cookie information into individual sections so that you can find the information relevant to you at a glance:
1. responsible person and data protection officer
2. general information about cookies
3. management of cookies
4. cookies used on this website
5. privacy policy
1.1 Responsibility
The controller under data protection law decides on the purposes and means of processing your personal data and ensures compliance with data protection regulations. If several controllers jointly decide on the purposes and means of processing, these controllers are jointly responsible for the processing, so-called joint controllership.
The controller responsible for the processing of your personal data by cookies in connection with this website is
STIHL NV
Veurtstraat 117, 2870 Puurs-Sint-Amands, Belgium
(‘we’, ‘us’).
Should you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time using the contact details provided.
1.2 Data Protection Officer
You can contact our data protection officer by post at the address of the controller with the note ‘For the attention of the data protection officer’ or by e-mail at privacy@stihl.be.
Cookies are small data records that are stored by us on your device and contain data such as personal page settings (e.g. language, screen resolution) and login information. We distinguish between strictly necessary cookies, (optional) statistics cookies, (optional) marketing cookies and (optional) profiling cookies. A more detailed description of how we use these cookies can be found in section 2.1. The cookies used are stored for different lengths of time, which is why we also distinguish between permanent cookies and session cookies (see section 2.2).
In addition to us (as a so-called ‘first party’), third parties (so-called ‘third parties’) may also process your personal data using their own cookies. Further information on such third parties can be found in the section ‘First / Third Party Cookies’ (see section 2.3).
2.1 Categories of cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function. The website cannot be operated without these cookies.
Statistics cookies
These cookies are used to improve the user-friendliness of our website and thus the user experience by analysing your behaviour. For example, the cookies collect information about how you use our website, the number of visits, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed. Statistics cookies help us, for example, to determine which elements of the website are used most frequently and to further develop the website based on your needs. We also use statistics cookies to track and analyse the behaviour of users on our website (so-called ‘user tracking’).
Marketing cookies
These cookies are used to provide you with content that is relevant and customised to your interests. They are also used to control adverts and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. The cookies register whether you have visited a website or not, as well as what content you have used there. This is based on a unique identification of your browser and your end device. The information may be shared with third parties, such as advertisers, and used by them for their own purposes so that you can also be shown relevant adverts on other websites. These cookies are often linked to third-party site functionalities.
2.2 Storage duration of cookies (permanent cookies and session cookies)
Cookies can be stored on your device for a longer period of time or temporarily.
So-called permanent cookies are stored on your device for a certain period of time until a specified expiry date of the cookie (or until you delete it beforehand). This saves language settings, for example, so that you do not have to make them again for our website.
A session cookie temporarily stores a session identifier while you are active on our website. This prevents you from having to log in again when you change pages on our website, for example. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or lose their validity as soon as your session has expired, i.e. when you leave the website or close your browser.
2.3 First/third party cookies
A first party cookie is a cookie that is set by us as the controller or by our processors. We process the data collected by the first party cookies for our own purposes, regardless of whether we have programmed the cookie ourselves or use the cookie of another provider.
A third-party cookie is a cookie that is not set by the website you are currently visiting, but by a third party. This third party may, for example, be one of our service providers, such as an advertising network. Third-party cookies originate from various third-party domains that can use the cookies flexibly to track user behaviour on our website and on third-party websites outside the third-party provider's offering (in particular for user-specific advertising). If you visit a website on which the advertising network displays adverts, a third-party cookie may be placed on your device by the adverts displayed on this website. Although we allow third parties to access our website to install these cookies on users' devices, we have no control over the period for which these third party cookies are stored on your devices. The data collected from the cookie is processed by the third party for its own purposes under its own responsibility in accordance with the relevant privacy notice and cookie information or under joint responsibility with us. This also includes third-party cookies from third-party social networks that enable information to be shared with the respective social networks.
3.1 Your browser settings
Most browsers are set by default to accept cookies. In addition to your rights as a person affected by the processing of personal data by cookies (see the data protection information, as stated under point 5), you can object to the use of cookies at any time with effect for the future by setting your browser so that it does not accept cookies or only accepts certain cookies or notifies you as soon as cookies are sent. This may mean that you will not be able to use all the functions of our websites to their full extent.
In principle, it is also possible to access our website without optional cookies, but use without optional cookies may change the function or availability of the website. If you wish to use the full functionality of our website, we recommend that you accept all cookies.
Please note that your selection will only affect the browser you were using when you made the selection. If you use different end devices or different browsers on one end device, you will usually have to make your choice of cookies again. Under certain circumstances, the settings may be reset to the default settings after updates or if you delete the cookies from your browser, so that you will then have to make the setting again.
3.2 Your selection in our data protection preference centre
If you allow cookies in your browser settings, we will display a cookie banner on our website. Here you can manage your cookie settings, e.g. to activate or deactivate optional cookies. Optional cookies are only set if you give your consent for the respective categories of cookies. Please note that strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent and are always set if you allow cookies in your browser settings.
You can revoke your consent in our Data Protection Preference Centre at any time with effect for the future and change the categories of cookies you have selected. To do this, please use the ‘Cookie settings’ linked at the beginning of this text.
Below you will find information about the cookies we use.
Absolutely necessary
These cookies and similar technologies are necessary for us to provide you with our services. They are used regardless of your consent.
For more information about how we process your personal data, including personal data collected through cookies, and how you can exercise your rights in connection with the processing of your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Notice.