Cookies policy of the himmera.com and its subdomains
By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies, but we remind you that you can change your cookies settings at any time and that you have total control over them in various ways, including directly from your browser, even before you access the site.
The details of how to manage the cookies will be shown below on this page.
Himmera.com uses cookies.
We use first-party cookies set by our domain and third-party cookies set by external services providers or advertising networks.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of text data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the informations stored in cookie back to the server.
Cookies are not viruses or other malicious programs, cannot modify files in the user's computer, cannot run as malicious code and cannot access hard disk user's data.
Their aim is, in most cases, utility in running an optimized website or service.
Types of cookies:
Session cookies are only stored for the duration of your visit to a website and are deleted from your device when you close your browser;
Persistent cookies are set on your device for a fixed period of time after the browser is closed;
First-party cookies set by our site during your visit.
Third-party cookies set by external providers. These include cookies from external services or from advertisers used to display contextual or personalized ads on our site.
Types of cookies by scope of use:
1. Essential (strictly neccesary) cookies - set by our domain.
2. Functional cookies - set by our domain.
3. Cookies for performance measurement and for security - set by our domain.
4. Advertising cookies - set by advertisments providers and their parteners.
A). First-party cookies set by our domain (himmera.com):
1. Essential and functional cookies set by our site to improve its performance, to run optimized service and for security purpose. These cookies can be session cookies (ussually) or persistent cookies in some cases.
We use these cookies:
- To store users preferences (eg fuel price or average speed)
- To store an autentificated user session if the user are logged in.
- If you have an account on our site, when you login to our site with a user name and password, the access to the administration area is possible through authentication session storage cookies. The session is stored on the server and confirmed in your browser with session cookies. Without these cookies, authentication would not be possible. These cookies usually expire when you close the browser or if you choose to log off.
2. Cookies for performance measurement and for security:
We use cookies to analyze the number of unique visitors to the site, to count the number of pages viewed or to know if a user previously visit our site. The use of these cookies help us to improve and optimize our services.
Also, we can use cookies for security purpose, for example to know if a user had violated the rules of our site or had tried to compromise the site security or if the user is temporarily blocked to access our site.
We can use a cookie if an user submit a form, to prevent repetitive or abusive submit of data.
We do not use cookies to track users behaviours or to create marketing users profiles. The main purpose of the cookies set by himmera.com (first-party cookies) is utility in running a secured, optimized and interactive website. Cookies are used only as much as is required for the system health and no information is shared outside the site. These cookies can't lead to the identification of any user. Without these cookies, the security of the site and its usefulness are affected.
B). Third-party cookies
We monetize the traffic on our site by using ads. Ads help us to mentain our service.
Our advertising partners, primarily Google Adsense and other third party Google certified ad networks are using cookies.
The type of these cookies are 3. Advertising Cookies and Targeting Advertising Cookies.
If the ads are contextual (if a user from Europe does not give the explicit consent for personalized ads) Google Adsense will set and use cookies to help serve the ads and for ads measurement purpose.
If the ads are personalized you have to know that:
Third party vendors, including Google, uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site(s) and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
You can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.com
Please note that blocking cookies from Adsense or other advertising networks does not mean that the ads will no longer be displayed, but only that they will no longer be customized according to your preferences.
More details about how Google uses the data and cookies can be found on their website by following the links below:
How Google uses cookies,
About how Google uses data, Types of cookies used by Google, How Google uses cookies in advertising
How to manage the cookies
Any user has control over cookies and can enable / disable /delete it even before accessing a web page, using the browser settings from "option" or "preference" menu. Each user may choose whether to allow or not cookies on its browser.
You can disable cookies in your browser for a specified website, for few specified websites or for all sites.
Keep in mind that if you disable cookies, some websites will be impassable or difficult to use. Also, disabling cookies does not mean you will not receive/view online advertising, just that the websites will not be able to recognize your preferences and interests, evidenced by browsing behavior.
Follow the link below for explanations and information about managing of cookies depending of the used browser:
allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Tips to ensure worry-free browsing but using cookies:
- Customize your browser settings regarding cookies to reflect a comfortable level of security for you, using cookies.
- If you do not mind the cookies and you are the only person who uses your device, you can set long-term expiration for browsing history and personal data storage.
- If you share access to your device, you can consider your browser setting to delete individual browsing data every time you close your browser. This is an option to access sites that place cookies and delete any information from visitors when browsing session closes.
- Install and update your anti-spyware software constantly. Many of this type of applications detect and prevent attacks on sites. This prevents accessing websites that may exploiting browser vulnerabilities or download dangerous software. Make sure that you keep your browser updated. Many cookies based attacks exploit the vulnerabilities of the old versions of browsers.