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COOKIES STATEMENT

1. Cookies statement
1.1. About cookies
Websites use smart and useful techniques to enhance user-friendliness and to make the site as interesting as possible for each visitor. One of the best known techniques involves cookies. Cookies can be used by website owners or third parties - like advertisers - who communicate through the website you visit.

Cookies are small text files that websites store on users’ computers. The information contained in cookies can also be used to track your surfing on different websites that use the same cookie.

Cookies are classified according to duration and who sets them.

We feel it is essential for you to be informed about the cookies that our website uses and for what purpose they are used. The purpose is threefold: we want to guarantee your privacy, the user friendliness, and the financing of our website as best as we can. The following explanation tells you more about the cookies used on and through our website and for what purposes.

2. How Volvo Group and/or its businesses and brands uses cookies
The Volvo Group uses cookies to gather visitor statistics and to record information about your preferences as you navigate through the web sites. Our purpose of using cookies is to improve the use of the site for you as a visitor.

3. Cookies and their functionality
Different types of cookies are used for different purposes.
Below you will find a list of the most common type of cookies and for what they are used.

3.1. Session cookies
A session cookie is temporarily stored in your computer’s memory while you are surfing on a site, for example to keep a track of which language you have chosen. Session cookies are not stored on your computer for a long period of time, but always disappear when you shut down your web browser.

3.2. Persistent or tracker cookies
A persistent cookie saves a file on your computer for a long time; this kind of cookie has an expiry date. Persistent cookies help websites remember your information and settings when you visit them in the future. This result in faster and more convenient access since, for example, you don't have to login again.

When the expiry date has passed, the cookie is automatically deleted when you return to the website that created it.

3.3. First party cookies
These are set by the website itself (the same domain as in the browser’s address bar), and can only be read by that site. These cookies are commonly used to store information such as your preferences, for use when you re-visit the site.

3.4. Third party cookies
These are set by different domains from the one shown on the browser address bar that is by an organisation other than the website owner.

Cookies that, for example, are used to collect information for advertisements and custom content and also for web statistics may be ‘third-party cookies’.

As third-party cookies make it possible to generate more comprehensive surveys of user surfing habits, they are deemed to be more sensitive from the perspective of integrity; for this reason, most web browsers allow you to adjust your settings to not accept third-party cookies.

4. List of cookies set by Volvo Group

Cookie namePurpose
Adobe Analytics 
AMCV_###@AdobeOrgThis cookie is used to identify a unique visitor.

Expiry date: 2 years
s_ccThis cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to determine
if cookies are enabled (simply set to “True”) .

Expiry date: When the browser is closed
s_sq

This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality is enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user.

Expiry date: After visit

s_viThis cookie is used to identify a unique visitor

Expiry date: 2 years
s_fidThis cookie is used to identify a unique visitor.

Expiry date: 2 years
Optimizely 
optimizelyEndUserIdContains the end user's unique identifier. It is a combination of a timestamp and random number.

Expiry date: 10 years
optimizelyBucketsStores information regarding variations of pages a visitor has been viewing. This ensures the user consistently sees the same variation over multiple sessions.

Expiry date: 10 years
optimizelySegmentsStores information of the user's audience and dimension information  (e.g., browser, campaign, mobile, source type, custom dimensions).

Expiry date: 10 years
optimizelyRedirectUsed to help manage specific cases in A/B- and targeting experiments.

Expiry date: 10 years
optimizelyPendingLogEventsUsed to help manage specific cases in A/B- and targeting experiments.

Expiry date: 15 sec
Hotjar 
_hjClosedSurveyInvitesThis cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.

Expiry date: 1 year
_hjDonePollsThis cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.

Expiry date: 1 year
_hjMinimizedPollsThis cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site.

Expiry date: 1 year
_hjDoneTestersWidgetsThis cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.

Expiry date: 1 year
_hjMinimizedTestersWidgetsThis cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site.

Expiry date: 1 year
_hjDoneSurveysThis cookie is set once a visitor completes a survey. It is used to only load the survey content if the visitor hasn't completed the survey yet.

Expiry date: 1 year
Google Analytics 
__utmbOn some of our websites and pages we are using Google Analytics to collect data for statistics. This cookie determining visitor session.

Expiry date: After visit.
__utmaThis cookie is identifying unique visitors

Expiry date: After 2 years from set/update.
__utmzThis cookie is tracking traffic sources & navigation.

Expiry date: After 6 months from set/update.


5. List of third party cookies

Cookie namePurpose
__stid
__uset
__stacxiommap
__stgmap
__stamap
__stdlxmap
ShareThis is a third party software used on the website , which allows visitors to share the recommend Volvo websites pages on the social networks
UID
UIDR
We use ScorecardResearch web tags to collect data such as new versus repeat visitors, timestamp, the URL, and the title of the web page. The ScorecardResearch tagging is not used to identify the user visiting a page. Additionally, the data collected by ScorecardResearch is only used in an aggregated form. In other words, the reports that are created from this data will not say that Computer 1 went from Site A to Site B to Site C. Instead, the reports will always be based on an entire collection of different computers, meaning that the reports will contain information like “67% of the entire internet population went to Site A”, or “35% of individuals who went to Site A also went to Site B.”
demdexThis cookie is used by Adobe Analytics to help identify a unique visitor across domains. The demdex cookie is set in the third-party, demdex.net domain in the browser. This domain is separate from the site currently visited by a user.


6. Managing cookies

6.1. How to view cookies

Since cookies are ordinary text files, they can be browsed with most text editor or word processing programs. You can click on a cookie to open it. Below is a list of links how to view cookies in different browsers. If you use another browser, please consult that browsers’ own cookies information. If you use a mobile phone please see your handset manual for more information.

Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647&topic=14666&ctx=topic

Internet Explorer 8-11
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies


6.2. Disabling/enabling or deleting cookies
To restrict or block cookies you do that through the browser settings.

If you do not want websites to place cookies on your computer at all, you can adapt your browser settings as such that you will be notified before any cookie is placed. You can likewise adapt the settings as such so that your browser refuses all cookies, or only the third party cookies. Likewise, you can remove any of your cookies that have already been placed. Please note that you will have to separately adapt the settings for each browser and computer you use.

Please be aware that if you do not want cookies, we can no longer guarantee our website to function properly. Some functions of the site may be lost, while you may no longer be able to see certain websites. What’s more, refusing cookies will not mean you will no longer see any advertisements. It’s just that the advertisements will then no longer be tailored to your interests and will be repeated more often.

Each browser has a different method to adapt the settings. If necessary, consult your browser’s “help” function to make the correct settings.

To disable cookies on your mobile phone please see your handset manual for more information.

You can read more about cookies on the Internet, http://www.aboutcookies.org/

7. Other/unforeseen cookies
Considering the way the Internet and websites work, we do not always have insight into the cookies that are being placed by third parties through our website. This particularly applies to cases where our webpage contains so-called embedded elements: texts, documents, pictures or short films that are stored at another party, but are shown on, in, or through our website.
Therefore, should you come across any such cookies on this website that we have not listed above, please let us know. Or directly contact the related third party and inquire about what cookies they place, their reason for doing so, the cookie’s life span, and how they have guaranteed your privacy.

8. Contact
We might have to adapt these statements from time to time, which may be due to changes in our website or regulations on cookies. We are allowed to change the contents of the statements and the cookies listed at all times and without prior warning. You can consult this webpage for the latest version.

Should you still have questions and/or remarks, please contact us here.