Our Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
We use cookies to make our websites more user-friendly, provide a good visit experience to users and to analyze site usage.
We use cookies and similar technologies which collect and store information as you browse. Cookies are small text files stored on the user’s device. Other similar technologies include, for example, JavaScript, mobile identifiers, and web beacons, etc.
Cookies on our websites can be placed by us and our service providers or by third parties, such as advertising networks, providers of analytics and monitoring services, and social media services.
Managing the cookies on our websites
We respect your preferences concerning cookies, and you can easily manage – agree or disagree with the use of cookies on our websites. If you accept (click on “Accept” or “I accept” button) the use of cookies, all functionalities on the site will work. If you reject (do not push “Accept” or “I accept” button) the use of cookies, your user experience and the functionalities of our services may be impacted. We have the right to collect necessary cookies and your consent here is not needed. However, for other types of cookies, you always have the right to disagree.
Your internet browser allows you to manage and disable cookies. Consult the below links or your browser´s “help” menu for more details on how to manage and disable cookie in your browser:
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
To access more information about other browsers, visit their website.
To refuse from tracking of Google Analytics throughout web, please visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Our websites are regularly scanned automatically to maintain a list of cookies as well as their purpose and lifecycle. All types of cookies in use are available on a cookie banner on our webpages, where you can manage cookies and disable them (except for strictly necessary cookies).
Types of cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. These cookies can we have rights to set on your device without your consent in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will then not work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance or statistics cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our sites. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. They may be set by us or by third party providers. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when a user has visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance or it will be significantly limited. We use tools such as Matomo to monitor the use of our services. You can read more about Google’s privacy .
Functional cookies
These cookies help to improve the functionality of the website and personalize the content. Such cookies may be placed by us, as well as by third parties – service providers. In the event that you choose not to allow the use of such cookies, the provision of the relevant services as a whole or the functionality of the individual services covered will be affected.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be placed by us, as well as by third parties – service providers. The purpose of cookies is to create a profile of your interests and to offer advertising that is relevant to your interests, which is placed on other websites. Such cookies do not directly store extensive and detailed personal data about you, but are based on a unique identification of your browser and device, which constitutes the processing of personal data. If you disable marketing cookies, you will be reached by a smaller number of personalized ads.
Social media cookies
Social media services use social media cookies to recognize the user so that you can, for example, share articles or job ads in the service by pressing a button. They can track your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies, you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools. Our services may also include social plugins, such as Like or Share buttons. Although such social plugin buttons may be visible on our services, the related content comes directly from the service provider in question. Social plugins on our service recognize if the user has logged into the service in question and can then display customized content for the user in the social plugin on the website. Social media services using social plugins can collect data about the user’s visit in accordance with their valid privacy policies.
Cookies may additionally be divided not only according to the above purposes, but also by type and parties. In particular, there are both “session” and “persistent” cookies. Such a breakdown helps to set and implement storage periods for placed cookies. In breakdown by party, we use two types of cookies, known as “first-party” cookies and “third-party” cookies. Such a breakdown helps to determine who else will have access to the information collected by the posted cookie.
Session cookie
A session cookie is used every time you visit our website. We use these types of cookies to link your activities on our website, and each session cookie will only exist during the browser operation session, at the end of which the cookie will also expire. Each browser session will start when you open the browser window and end when you close it. At the end of your visit to our website, all session cookies are deleted.
Persistent cookie
A persistent cookie allows you to remember your settings or actions on the website (or on different websites). Its life cycle is longer than that of a session cookie, and it lasts for the period specified in the cookie (this will be different for different cookies). This type of cookie will not be deleted when you close the browser window, it will be stored on your device. It will be activated each time you visit the website that created this particular persistent cookie.
First-party cookie
A first-party cookie is created by us or created by our authorized service providers on our behalf. These cookies help to provide a better experience for you and keep the session open, for example, the browser is able to remember key information such as which items you add to the shopping cart, your username and language settings. The first-party cookie is only readable when you visit our domain.
Third-party cookie
A third-party cookie is created by a company other than ours. Occasionally, we use such cookies or other tracking mechanisms, including products provided by third parties on our website, to collect activity data we need, and such data as is necessary for marketing purposes, providing social sharing functionality, etc. In this case, third parties also receive information from such cookies or other tracking mechanisms and may use it for their own purposes, t.sk. gathering perhaps more information than we have requested for our purposes.
On our website, in the description of the cookie banner, we have indicated for what purposes we use such cookies or other tracking mechanisms. However, third parties’ actions and purposes for which they might use information from these cookies or tracking mechanisms are subject to their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each of our third parties. For example, we use Google Analytics, and you can find more information in the section “How Google used data when you visited our partners’ sites or apps” by clicking on this link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Based on the information in the “Service Providers” column of the cookie banner, you can see which cookies belong to third parties.
List of cookies in Gren sites and their expiration time: cookie-consent
| cookie-consent | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the cookies. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. Expires after 1 year. |
| PHPSESSID | Auto generated session cookie, used in customer e-portals. |
| route | Used for session stickiness between career site and pages generated by SAP (eg. Candidate profile). Expires when session ends. |
| careerSiteCompanyID | Used by Akamai to send the request to the correct data center. Expires when session ends. |
| JSESSIONID | For identifying the user in career site. Expires when session ends. |
| Load balancer cookie | Used for session stickiness preventing user from bouncing from one instance to another in career site. Expires when session ends.
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| 1.gif | Used to count the number of sessions to the website, necessary for optimizing CMP product delivery. Expires when the session ends. |
| rc::a | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. Exppiey – Persistent
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| rc::c | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. Expiry – when the session ends.
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| _pk_id# | Collects statistics on the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website, and what pages have been read. Expiry – 1 year. |
| _pk_ses# | Used by Piwik Analytics Platform to track page requests from the visitor during the session. Expiry – 1 day. |
| CONSENT | Youtube. Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for the GDPR-compliance of the website. 2 years |
| LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Youtube. Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Session |
| LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore | Youtube. Unclassified. Persistent |
| nextId | Youtube. Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Expiry – when the session ends. |
| remote_sid | Youtube. Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video content on the website. Expiry – when the session ends. |
| requests | Youtube. Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Expiry – when the session ends. |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Youtube. Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Expiry – 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Youtube. Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Expiry – 180 days |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Youtube. Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. Expiry – 180 days |
| YSC | Youtube. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Expiry – when the session ends. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Youtube. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Persistent |
| yt.innertube::requests | Youtube. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Persistent |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Youtube. Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Persistent. |
| YtIdbMeta#databases | Youtube. Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Persistent. |
| yt-remote-cast-available | Youtube. Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.Expiry – when the session ends. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Youtube. Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.Expiry – when the session ends. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Youtube. Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.Expiry – Persistent |
| yt-remote-device-id | Youtube. Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.Expiry – Persistent |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Youtube. Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.Expiry – when the session ends. |
| yt-remote-session-app | Youtube. Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.Expiry – when the session ends. |
| yt-remote-session-name | Youtube. Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.Expiry – when the session ends. |
Who accesses the data collected with cookies?
Gren and its service providers can access the data in accordance with Gren privacy notice. Third-party services and social plugins might collect data about the user’s visit in accordance with their valid privacy policies.
Contact details and further information
The data controller for the data collected by Gren cookies and similar technologies is the company whose website you are visiting. This Cookie Policy applies to Gren Group consisting of Gren Holding Company B.V., Gren Energy Ltd. and all their subsidiaries (collectively, “Gren”).
If you have any questions regarding our Cookie policy, please contact us.