Cookie Statement
What are cookies?
A cookie is a simple, small text file that is placed on your computer, phone or tablet when you visit the websites of Hodak Legal. Cookies are included with the pages on the Hodak Legal websites. The information stored therein can be sent back to the servers on a subsequent visit to the website. This allows the website to recognise you, as it were, during a next visit. The most important function of a cookie is to distinguish one visitor from the other. Therefore, cookies are often used on websites where you have to log in. For example, a cookie ensures that you remain logged in when you use the website. You can refuse the use of cookies at any time, although this may limit the functionality and ease of use of the website.
Functional cookies
Hodak Legal uses functional cookies. These are cookies that are placed on and engaged by the website itself. Functional cookies are needed in order to make sure that the website functions properly. These cookies are placed routinely and will not be deleted if you decide not to accept cookies. Functional cookies do not store personal data and contain no information by which you can be traced. Functionals cookies are for example used in order to place the geographical map from Google Maps on the website. This information is anonymised as much as possible. Furthermore, Hodak Legal has indicated that we do not share the information with Google and that Google may not use the data they obtain via the website for their own objectives.
Google Analytics
Hodak Legal uses cookies from Google Analytics in order to monitor the behaviour of users and general trends and to obtain reports. During this process, personal data of the website visitors are processed by using analytical cookies. Analytical cookies enable Hodak Legal to measure the traffic on the website. These statistics ensure that Hodak Legal understands how often the website is used, what information visitors are looking for and which pages on the website are viewed the most. As a result, Hodak Legal knows which parts of the website are popular and which functions need to be improved. The traffic on the website is analysed in order to improve the website and to make the experience for visitors of the website as enjoyable as possible. The statistics that are collected are not traceable to persons and are anonymised as much as possible. By using the Hodak Legal websites, you consent to the processing of your personal data by Google in the manner and for the purposes described above. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obligated to do so or insofar as third parties process information on behalf of Google.
Cookies for social media integration
Hodak Legal also uses cookies to enable social media integration. The website contains links to the social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. These links make it possible to share or promote pages on those networks. The code that is needed in order to realise these links is delivered by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn themselves. Among others, these codes place a cookie. This allows the social networks to recognize you when you are logged into that social network. Furthermore, information concerning the pages you share is collected. Hodak Legal has no influence on the placing and use of cookies by those third parties. For more information about the data collected by the social media networks, Hodak Legal refers to the privacy statements of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Erasure of cookies
If you do not want Hodak Legal to store cookies via the website, you can disable the acceptance of cookies in your browser settings. This ensures that cookies are no longer stored. However, without cookies, some functions of the website may not work properly or may not work at all. Since cookies are stored on your own computer, you can only delete them yourself. In order to do so, you have to consult the manual of your browser.