4. For which purposes does Festo use cookies?
Festo uses cookies in different ways and for different purposes, such as:
- To make the Festo website pages and the applications that you use available
- To authenticate and identify you when you use our websites and applications so that we can provide you with the services you have requested
- To provide additional protection in our online customer support and online ordering processes
- To track information that you have provided, e.g. holding items in your basket when you are in our online shop)
- To save your settings or the point at which you stopped using a website or application from Festo
- To measure your use of websites and applications from Festo so that we can improve them and tailor our websites and online services to your likely interests
- To understand your likely interests so that we can provide you with more relevant content on the Festo website
Festo uses cookies with the following functions:
- Functional cookies
There are two types of functional cookies:
- Cookies that guarantee the basic functionality of the website that is visited
- Cookies that make the site easier to use
The latter type of cookie enables the portal to ‘remember’ any entries or settings (e.g. login, language, font size and other display preferences) you have configured over a specific period of time so that you do not need to configure them each time you visit and navigate the website.
- Cookies for website performance analysis
Cookies that help us to improve our website provide aggregated statistics such as the total number of visitors to a website and the areas of a website which are viewed most frequently by users. These types of cookies may be installed by external analysis service providers working on our behalf.
- Interest-based and targeted cookies
To enable us to provide you with the most relevant information on our products and services, we use cookies to identify which content you have viewed on our website, to target a small number of advertising banners displayed in selected sections of our website to a specific product or additional service that the visitor may be interested in, and to monitor the general effectiveness of advertising on our website.