Cookies Policy

This cookie policy explains how cookies are used by Hantec Trader (“we” or “our”) on our websites and other online services (like applications, portals or other services that use cookies).

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored in your browser’s memory by our websites. They are commonly used to support various functions on our websites. Depending on the job the cookie needs to perform, it may be a session or persistent cookie: Persistent cookies are retained on your device until you either erase them or your browser erases them when the cookie reaches its expiration date. Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends.

2. Reasons why we use cookies

Cookies do other very useful jobs, such as tell us which pages you visited the most, understand how effective our website has been to you, and improve our communication to you on our products and services.

We do not use cookies to collect information that directly identifies you as an individual e.g. credit card or bank details.

However, some information collected by cookies may be treated as personal data (such as your browsing history, or your device information).

We use cookies to learn how you interact with our content and to improve your experience when visiting our website(s). For example, some cookies remember your language or preferences so that you do not have to repeatedly make these choices when you visit one of our websites. We also use cookies to help us with geolocation tracking. Additionally, cookies allow us to serve you specific content, such as videos on our website(s). We may employ the learnings of your behavior on our website(s) to serve you with targeted advertisements on third-party website(s) in an effort to “re-market” our products and services to you.

3. What cookies do we use?

We are using three types of cookies on our site:

Functional Cookies are required for the smooth running of the website. If these are disabled you won’t be able to access key pages of the site

Analytical and Performance Cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use the site. They help us understand your preferences so we can offer you a better service.

Marketing Cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to present you with more relevant content and adverts based on your browsing activity.

Functional Cookies

These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website. They allow the website to remember choices you make while browsing the site such as your language preferences. They remember user choices and enable the personalisation of content. These cookies are anonymous and do not track your browsing activity on other websites. If they are disabled you won’t be able to access key pages of the site.

Type of Cookie	Source of Cookie	Function
Affiliate ID	Hantec Trader	Identifies the referral ID, and allows the website to determine if the registering clients came from a referral.
IP Address	Hantec Trader	Identifies the client’s IP Address
Country	Hantec Trader	Identifies the client’s location country, and allows the website to display the appropriate content to the client.
Live Chat	Third Party	This is used to support our Live Chat function. A random token is assigned to each user. No personal data is recorded.

Analytical and Performance Cookies

These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use the site. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All collected information is aggregated and as such completely anonymous. Their unique purpose is to help us understand user preferences and their interests so we can offer a better browsing experience.

Some of the systems we use to track web traffic and site usage are provided by third-party companies such as Google.

Type of Cookie	Source of Cookie	Function
Google Analytics	Third Party	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Google Analytics Throttle	Third Party	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

Marketing Cookies

The purpose of this type of cookie is to collect information about your browsing habits to provide advertising that is more relevant to you. The cookies remember which websites you have visited and are usually placed by third party companies with our permission. They serve to limit the number of times you see the same advertisement as well as to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Type of Cookie	Source of Cookie	Function
Google Analytics	Third Party	Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
Facebook Ads	Third Party	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
Facebook Impression	Third Party	Used by Facebook to register impression on pages with the Facebook login button.
Facebook Pixel	Third Party	Used by Facebook to see how many people take action on ads and which Facebook Ad led to a conversion.
LinkedIn	Third Party	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
Twitter	Third Party	Used by the social networking service, Twitter, for tracking the use of embedded services.

4. Manage Cookies

You can withdraw your consent to the processing of certain cookies by deleting them from the settings of your web browser.

You can at any time withdraw or manage your cookie consent using the cookie management window that can be accessed from the Manage Cookies link located in the footer of each page on our website.

Removing cookies in your browser settings means that any preference settings you have made on a website will be lost (including any consent preferences regarding cookies where that is available).

Please also note that blocking all cookies means that functionality on our websites will be lost as described above. We don’t recommend turning all cookies off when using our websites.

5. Third Party Cookies

We may work with third parties to set the above-mentioned cookies when you interact with our website. These third parties include our partners and service providers, such as advertisers, search engines, social media platforms, or analytics platforms that enable us to improve and personalise your experiences on our websites and deliver relevant content to you.

We do not share any personal data with third parties that may identify you.

Third parties may also place cookies on your device when you visit other websites that do not belong to us. These cookies are applied in accordance with the third party’s cookie policy, which we have no control over. You can always opt out of third-party cookies through your browser settings as described above.

6. Other information

If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy or security measures, please email [email protected].

Your consent applies to the following domains: htrader.com