Introduction
TLS Architectural Lighting takes privacy and security very seriously, and strives to put our website users first in all aspects of our business. We aim to make your online experience and interaction with our website as informative, relevant and supportive as possible. One way of achieving this is to use cookies or similar techniques, which store information about your visit to our site on your computer. We feel that it is very important that you know what cookies our website uses and for what purposes.
This will help protect your privacy, while ensuring our website’s user-friendliness as much as possible. Below you can read more about the cookies used by and via our website and the purposes for which they are used. This is a statement about privacy and our use of cookies, not a contract or agreement.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer’s hard disk when you visit certain websites.
Why are these cookies used?
Cookies may be used for many different purposes. For example, cookies can be used to show that you have visited our website before and to identify which parts of the site you might be most interested in. Cookies can also improve your online experience by storing your preferences during your visit to our website.
Cookies that ensure that the website functions properly
These cookies are necessary to make it possible to surf the TLS Architectural Lighting website and use the website’s functions, such as accessing protected areas of the website and the file manager. Without these cookies, such functions may not be possible. s
Cookies from third parties
Third parties (external to TLS Architectural Lighting) may also store cookies on your computer during your visit to our websites. These indirect cookies are similar to direct cookies but come from a different domain (non-TLS Architectural Lighting) to the one you are visiting.
How cookies are used on our site
Cookies that ensure that the website functions properly
- Passing on information from one page to the next, for instance if a long survey is being filled in or if you need to access our file manager
- Storing preferences such as language, location,the number of search results to be displayed etc.
- Storing settings for optimal video display, such as buffer size and your screen’s resolution details
- Reading your browser settings so that we can display our website optimally on your screen
- Locating misuse of our website and services, for example by recording several consecutive failed log-in attempts
- Loading the website evenly so that it remains accessible
- Offering the option of storing log-in details so that you don’t have to enter them every time
Cookies that enable us to measure website usage
These cookies gather information about the surfing behaviour of visitors to our websites, such as which pages are visited often and whether visitors receive error messages. By doing this we are able to make the structure, navigation and content of the website as user-friendly as possible for you. We do not link the statistics and other reports to people. We use cookies for:
- Keeping track of the number of visitors to our web pages
- Keeping track of the length of time that each visitor spends on our web pages
- Determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages on our website
- Assessing which parts of our site need to be improved
- Optimizing the website
Cookies for sharing the content of our website via social media
The articles, pictures and videos that you look at on our website can be shared and liked via social media by means of buttons. Cookies from the social media parties are used to enable these buttons to function, so that they recognize you when you wish to share an article or video.
These cookies make it possible for:
- Logged-in users of selected social media to share and like certain content from our website directly
These social media parties may also collect your personal data for their own purposes. TLS Architectural Lighting has no influence over how these social media parties make use of your personal data. For more information regarding the cookies set by the social media parties and the possible data that they gather, please refer to the privacy statement(s) made by the social media parties themselves.