About cookies

Cookies are a collective name for technologies that retrieve or provide information about your device. This page is for you to have the opportunity to understand which cookies we use, what each cookie does and why - so that you can make an informed decision about whether you want to consent to cookies or not. Are you hungry for edible cookies in Halmstad? Then we recommend you read our guides City refreshments at cafés and Countryside cafés.

Consent for cookies

You have the option to consent or decline to us setting cookies, i.e. say yes or no to us using cookies for one or more purposes. This is easy to do by clicking the Manage Cookies button. You also have the right to change or withdraw your consent at any time by updating your cookie settings.

There are two exceptions, when consent is not requested or needed: This applies to cookies that are necessary for communication and the production of the website and cookies that are used to provide the requested online service, such as language selection. It is called Necessary cookies.

What is a cookie?

There are different forms of cookies. Usually, it is a small text file that the website you visit requests to be downloaded and saved on your computer, tablet, mobile or other device from which you visit the website, and then read. The cookie technology enables the website to recognize your device and store certain information about your preferences or previous activities. Cookies are used to a large extent to make the website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information about visitor behavior on the website.

There are permanent cookies and session cookies. A permanent cookie remains on your device until its predetermined expiration date has passed (or until you delete the cookie manually in your browser). A session cookie is temporarily stored on your device during your visit to a website and will expire when you close your browser.

Furthermore, a cookie can be a so-called first-party cookie or a third-party cookie. It refers to the website or domain that sets the cookie. First-party cookies are set directly by the website you are on. Third-party cookies are set by a different domain than the website you are visiting, because the website includes elements from other websites and services, such as Youtube.

Different types of cookies

When you provide your consent for our websites, you can choose which types of cookies you want to accept or not.

Necessary cookies

Cookies that are strictly necessary to display the website to you or because you have specifically requested an optional functionality, such as changing the language, are so-called necessary cookies. The website and the requested functions will simply not work without the necessary cookies. This is why these cookies are not optional, but will always be used.

Functional cookies

Some cookies are used to improve functions on a website or to facilitate our communication with you. We call these function cookies. This category also includes cookies used for security purposes.

Analysis cookies

We use analytics cookies to measure how our website is used and how it performs. It helps us improve our website by responding to how it is used. The information we collect includes the region you are visiting us from, as well as the device, operating system and internet service provider you are using, how many visits you have made to our website and which specific pages you have visited, which links you have clicked on and the actions you have taken taken.

Marketing cookies

These cookies are used by services that we have included on the website, such as YouTube videos and other services from Google. The information collected includes your use of our website, the links you click and the actions you take on our website. The website and the company generating these third-party cookies have their own cookie policies and privacy policies, linked below.

Services with cookies on this website

A service can have several different cookies for different purposes on a website. These services use cookies with us.

Forms and questionnaires

All forms and surveys on Destination Halmstad's websites use session cookies. A session cookie is temporarily stored in the computer's memory while you as a visitor are on a website. Session cookies disappear when you close your browser.

Piwik Pro Analytics

Piwik Pro Analytics is used on Destination Halmstad's websites to collect visitor statistics and improve your experience of the website. The tool is built into the Sitevision web publishing tool.

Google Tag Manager

Google Analytics is used on Destination Halmstad's websites to collect visitor statistics. The data collected is:

  • Repeat visitors.
  • How you navigate our websites.

Readspeaker

To enable the website to be read aloud, Destination Halmstad's websites use readspeaker. Information about how Readspeaker uses cookies in its service. External link, opens in new window.

Vimeo

Destination Halmstad's websites use the service Vimeo to show movies. Vimeo privacy policy (English) External link, opens in new window.

Facebook Pixel

The Facebook Pixel is used to retrieve data about campaigns on Facebook's platforms.

Jibber

Jibber is used for parts of the year as a chat on the website so that you can communicate even more directly with Halmstad Tourist Center.

List of our cookies

Here you see all the specific cookies, from different services, that are on this website.

First-party cookies

Name of cookie

Storage time

Purpose

Category

JSESSIONID

Session cookie

Used to identify logged in users and provide correct permissions. The cookie is used to maintain the user's session

Necessary

SiteVisionLTM

Session cookie

This cookie sets the load balancers to keep track of which underlying server the client should address.

Necessary

BBN015eb19b

Session cookie

User-specific cookie, used by the BOT and WAF functionality of the protection.

Necessary

BBN33fabd68053

Session cookie

User-specific cookie, used by the BOT and WAF functionality of the protection.

Necessary

_pk_id.935.b0b5

12 months

Used to save anonymized data linked to unique visitors to recognize visitors and retain their different characteristics.

Analytical

_pk_ses.935.b0b5

30 minutes

Shows the visitor's active session. If the cookie does not exist, it means that the session ended more than 30 minutes ago.

Analytical

_tpc_persistance_cookie

Session cookie

Sitevision sets this cookie to keep track of which underlying server/environment the client's traffic goes to.

Necessary

ReadSpeakerSettings

4 days

Used if you choose to customize settings on the listening function.

Functional

_rspkrLoadCore

Session cookie

This cookie determines whether javascripts should be loaded when the page is loaded.

Functional

Tredjepartkakor

Name of cookie

Storage time

Purpose

Category

Supplier

IDE

13 months

Used to display Google ads on non-Google websites. If you have activated personalized ads, the "IDE" cookie is used to customize the ads you see. If you have turned off personalized ads The cookie is used to remember this so that you do not receive personalized ads.

Marketing

Google

DV

10 minutes

This cookie is used to track your recent searches and activities on Google services.

Marketing

Google

AEC

6 months

Used to verify that the website visitor is human, to detect and combat spam, and to help YouTube advertisers not be wrongly charged for invalid views.

Functional

Youtube

__Secure-ENID

13 months

The cookie is used to display an embedded YouTube video on a website. The cookie is also used to detect and fix problems with the service.

Functional

Youtube

NID

13 months

Contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language.

Functional

Google

SOCS

13 months

Used to store the visitor's position on cookies vis-à-vis Google.

Functional

Google

DV

10 minutes

Used by Google to save the user's preferences and other information.

Functional

Google

PREF

8 months

Used to play a YouTube video embedded on the website and to store the user's preferences.

Functional

Youtube

test_cookie

1 day

The cookie is used to determine whether the user's browser supports cookies.

Functional

Google

YSC

Session cookie

The cookie tracks and stores the visitor's interaction on the website to collect visitor information when the visitor takes part in an embedded YouTube video on the website.

Marketing

Youtube

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

6 months

Used to store the visitor's position on cookies.

Marketing

Youtube

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

6 months

The cookie is used to display an embedded YouTube video on a website. The cookie is also used to detect and fix problems with the service.

Functional

Youtube

_gcl_au

3 months

Used by Google Tag Manager to track and store conversions.

Analys

Google

_fbp

3 months


Used by Facebook to deliver a range of marketing products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers.

Marketing

Meta/facebook

_cf_bm

30 minutes

Used to identify and filter requests from bots.

Functional

Vimeo

_cfuvid

Session cookie

This cookie is part of the services provided by Cloudflare - including load balancing, website content delivery and DNS connection management for website operators.

Functional

Vimeo

vuid

13 months

Tracks and stores the user's history and activity on a website with embedded vimeo video.

Analytical

Vimeo

AnalyticsSyncHistory

1 month

Used to store and track visits to various websites.

Analytical

LinkedIn

UserMatchHistory

1 month

Synchronization of LinkedIn Ads ID.

Marketing

LinkedIn

bcookie

12 months

Browser identification cookie for unique identification of devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform and for troubleshooting.

Marketing

LinkedIn

li_gc

6 months

Used to store the visitor's consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.

Functional

LinkedIn

li_sugr

3 months

Used to make a probability-based match of a user's identity.

Marketing

LinkedIn

lidc

1 day

To promote data center selection.

Functional

LinkedIn

jibber-1045­‑visitor-token

13 months

Used to set unique identifiers that differentiate between different visitors to the site, to provide a secure and efficient chat experience.

Functional

Jibber

jibber-chat-is-open

13 months

Indicates that a chat is requested.

Functional

Jibber

More about cookies

The use of cookies is regulated by the directive on privacy and electronic communications (2002/58/EC), incorporated into Swedish law through chapter 9 § 28 of the Electronic Communications Act (2022:482). The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (EU/2016/679), often abbreviated GDPR, regulates cookies to the extent that they may constitute personal data and determines how valid consent must be collected.

Personal data collected through cookies

Most cookies do not have the purpose of telling anything about you or your device, but are used in our analysis of how our website is used so that we can make better decisions. For example, which parts of the website should we develop or improve so that they get more or less traffic. We then collect so-called aggregated data, information that tells us how many people have clicked on a link, but not more specifically than that. Sometimes, however, it is impossible to avoid that this information can identify you, by using a unique device, or visiting us from a certain address (IP number). Then we do our best to ensure that this information remains anonymous in practice, through technical and organizational security measures and through agreements with our suppliers.

Sometimes, however, we want to be able to follow a visitor in such a way that we see where he comes from, so that we learn where we should be seen. We may also want to advertise new services so that previous visitors can see it. In order to do this, we ask for your consent to our use of marketing cookies.

To make the user experience a little better and to keep our website safe, we ask for your consent for functional cookies.

Even necessary cookies can sometimes identify you as a user of a certain device, for example if you have made a language choice and to display content that you requested.

Cookies may, among other things, contain the following information, which in itself or by combining the data, can identify you:

  • Search history
  • What ads or links you clicked
  • Google membership and last login
  • Facebook Membership
  • Language selection
  • Choice of cookies
  • Browser Information
  • IP address
  • Click pattern
  • Date and time of visit
  • Type of hardware/software

We always strive to reduce the risk of identifying you through cookies other than where it is needed for a function or for a purpose to which you have consented. More information about the processing of personal data for Destination Halmstad.

Change settings to delete or avoid cookies

If you do not want to consent to any cookies, you can activate various settings in your browser to either automatically decline cookies or to inform you each time a website requests permission to store cookies. Any cookies previously stored on your device can also be deleted via your browser. Visit your browser's help pages for more information:

Questions

If you have any questions, please contact us at Destination Halmstad or our data protection officer. See contact details on our page Processing of personal data.

Version history

We may from time to time update the information in this policy. On our website you will find the latest version. Current version 2024:01.