Cookie Policy

Potain Cookie Policy

Last update: January 2021

Potain uses cookies on PotainBuildBetter.com Website (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.
Our Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

When visiting the Potain Website, a Cookie or similar technology, may be placed on your end device or used during Your use of the Website.
A cookie is a tiny data file which is stored on Your end device (“Cookie”). A Cookie enables certain features and functionalities of the Website. A cookie does not contain or collect information in isolation, but when read by a server via Your web browser, it can provide information to such server to facilitate a more user-friendly service by registering, among other data, users’ preferences, detect errors, account information, device identification and/or collect data for statistics.
When You disable one or more cookies, You will probably still be able to browse the Website, however certain features may not work as expected or may be deactivated as a result therefrom. Cookies may either be placed by Potain through the Website, however, may also be placed by third parties who may or may not have a cooperation with the Website and/or Applications.

PURPOSE AND CATEGORIES OF COOKIES USED

Potain may employ the following Cookies placed in your web browser:

• NECESSARY / TECHNICAL COOKIES

These Cookies are necessary for providing the service as requested by You. These Cookies are used by Potain to make the Websites work the way they are expected. These Cookies are essential and if the use of this type of Cookies is not allowed, we can’t provide services You have asked for. Such Cookies may include, but are not limited to:
1. Remembering previous actions (e.g. user entered text) when navigating back to a page;
2. Managing and passing security tokens to different services within a website to identify the visitor’s status (e.g. logged in or not);
3. Your website Preferences (user name, language, region you are in, …);
4. To maintain tokens for the implementation of secure areas of the website;
5. Multimedia content player session cookies (such as flash player cookies);
Refusing or disabling such Cookies may have a serious impact on (parts of) Your use of the Website. For these Cookies, there is legally no implicit or explicit consent required.

• PERFORMANCE COOKIES

Potain uses these cookies to monitor the general usage of our website. This information helps us to make the Potain website experience even better, to find out about user engagement, and to provide more relevant information to users. Such Cookies may include, but are not limited to:
1. Web analytics (e.g. measuring the time of requests to our servers and our responses, to record statistics about Website usage, to track activities on the Website, which pages visitors go to most often, managing the performance and design of the Website, …)
2. Error management (e.g. Measuring errors, service improvement, complaint management, …)
For these Cookies, there is legally no implicit or explicit consent required.

• STATISTICS COOKIES

Potain uses the Cookies to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
For these Cookies, Consent can be implicitly obtained through Your (browser) settings.

• MARKETING COOKIES

Potain uses these Cookies to offer more relevant content to users, based on their specific interests. They are also used to limit the display frequency of an ad and to measure, control the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and lead generation. They register whether users have visited a website or not, and which contents were used. This information may possibly also be shared with third parties, such as advertisers, for example.
For these Cookies, Consent can be implicitly obtained through Your (browser) settings.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

The Potain Website may contain Cookies from the following providers:

We use SharpSpring to help us understand how users engage with the Website. SharpSpring uses cookies to collect information such as email address, IP address, device type and manufacturer, operating system version and name, geographic location, screen resolution, and browsing information, including the pages viewed, time spent on each page, and clickstream data, among other historical traffic records.  We use this information to improve the Website performance, availability, and usability, and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Please see https://sharpspring.com/legal/privacy/ for information about how SharpSpring uses this information, and visit https://sharpspring.com/legal/sharpspring-cookie-policy/ for information about how to manage your browser cookies

DISABLING OR REFUSING COOKIES

Most web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome) have cookies automatically enabled. You can decide on whether and to what extent cookies will access Your end device by changing the settings of the browser You use.

If you do not agree with the use of cookies others than Technical and Performances purpose (=non required cookies to operate) as mentioned above, please feel free to click the ‘X’ button on the cookie banner of the website. This will disable those categories of cookie on our website.

If You do not agree at all with the use of cookies as mentioned above, please change Your browser settings and limit or disable cookies.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

More information on cookies and the and the way to refuse cookies can be found at https://www.aboutcookies.org/ or www.youronlinechoices.eu. For more information per browser type see, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari.