Information about cookies and similar technologies and the related processing of personal information
Welcome to the Audi Ireland website (“this Website”) which is operated by Volkswagen Group Ireland Limited (Company registration number 436954) (“we”, “our”, “us” or “Audi Ireland” as applicable). Please see the end of this policy for our legal and contact information.We use cookies and other similar technologies that access or store information on the device you use to visit this Website. To make this policy easier to read, we refer to all of these technologies using the expression “cookies”.
This policy provides you with information about how cookies work and when, how and why we, and the third parties we work with, use them. Almost all cookies work by collecting and storing some form of personal information about you, so this policy also describes the personal information we process or allow others to access when using cookies, as well as your related data protection rights.
Our separate Privacy Statement provides equivalent information relating to our processing of your personal information more broadly in connection with this Website.We may update this policy from time to time. All changes made to this policy will be published on this Website and in the event of any substantial changes, we will notify you of these using an appropriate communication method.
We set and read some cookies on your device in cooperation with Audi AG. Some cookies are set and read only by ourselves and some may be set by third parties such as our suppliers or our commercial partners. For the purposes of data protection laws, we and Audi AG are the “joint controllers” of the processing of your personal information for all of these cookies as described in Sections 5 and 6, unless this Cookie Policy expressly states that we are sole “controllers” of the processing of personal data in relation to certain cookies.A controller is the person that decides why and how your personal information is processed. In relation to cookies set by third parties through this Website, those parties may also be a controller of your personal information, which means they will also have a legal responsibility to you in respect of the personal information they receive. Please see the section How we work with third parties and the legal reasons for processing for further details.
Cookies are small files or other information stored on your device or accessed from your device that help us and others to collect data about your activities. The expression ‘cookies’ can refer to browser cookies as well as a number of similar technologies including tracking pixels/web beacons, local shared objects/flash cookies and access to device information (including sensors). Please see the next section for details of the types of ‘cookies’ used by this Website.
Cookies allow us to deliver essential features of this Website. We also use them for purposes which are not essential but very useful to us or to you, including to store your settings and preferences, remember your access information, provide targeted content and marketing communications, help us to understand which part of this Website is the most popular and analyse the functioning of this website.
As cookies relate to any information stored on or accessed from your device, they take a variety forms. We use the following types of 'cookies':
We receive the following types of personal information about you through the cookies we use, which includes information we access directly from your computer, phone, tablet or other device without storing or accessing a file:
• Cookie browser data: cookie identifiers, time/date, services/products selected, whether and to which cookies you have consented,;
• Device data: device type, screen resolution, operating system version, browser rendering core, its version and basic settings ;
• Log data: Time and duration of usage of this Website and search data;
• Location data: Data about your country of access as proclaimed by your device;
• Behavioural data: Data about your usage of this Website that we may process if you visit or use third party sites or applications to cooperate with us, and data on how you participate with the content of this Website (such as pages visited, if you came from a marketing campaign, button clicks, car configuration details etc.).
We may combine personal information about you or your activities with other information we receive from third parties or publicly available sources where this is permitted by law. Please see our general Privacy Statement for further details of the sources of information we may use.
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adb_mcmid
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Adobe Marketing Cloud Visitor ID
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Performance cookie
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ac_hid
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The configurator generates a random ID for the browser of the current user for recognition. |
Functional cookie
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ADrum
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AppDynamics Real User Monitoring anonymized monitoring to identify load times and loading errors on the pages |
Indispensable cookie
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ADRUM_BTa
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AppDynamics Real User Monitoring anonymized monitoring to identify load times and loading errors on the pages
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Indispensable cookie
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ADRUM_BT1
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AppDynamics Real User Monitoring anonymized monitoring to identify load times and loading errors on the pages
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Indispensable cookie
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LBCOOKIE
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This cookie is necessary for load distribution via the load balancer.
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Indispensable cookie
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AMCV_097B46735 2782F130A490D45 % 40AdobeOrg |
This cookie sets an anonymous but unique ID per user.
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Performance cookie
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AMCVS_xxxxxAdobeOrg
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This cookie sets an anonymous but unique ID per user.
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Performance cookie
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s_cc
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This cookie checks if a user accepts cookies.
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Performance cookie
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JSESSIONID
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This cookie assigns each user an anonymous session ID via the server.
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Indispensable cookie
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s_sq
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This cookie stores information from the previous link the user clicked to read the current page.
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Performance cookie
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lvc_ {market}
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This cookie stores the last vehicles visited. This cookie is then read out on the detail page, showing the last viewed vehicles.
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Functional cookie
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notepad_ {market} [_partner] |
This cookie is used to save favorites (notepad).
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Functional cookie
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vtp.results viewType |
This cookie stores the type of result list (there are 2 different views (Grid + List View).) This cookie stores which of the two views was used to use the same on the next entry.
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Functional cookie
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vtp.mfccampaign. {market}
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This cookie is used to show / hide marketing campaigns during the IPO.
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Functional cookie
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vtp.mfccampaign. {market} .alreadyAsked
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This cookie is used to show / hide marketing campaigns during the IPO.
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Functional cookie
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LBCOOKIE
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This cookie is necessary for load distribution via the load balancer.
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Indispensable cookie
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JSESSIONID
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This cookie stores the current session anonymously.
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Indispensable cookie
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cbs_ {market} _ [#]
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This cookie is used to store a search (search parameters are stored in the cookie)
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Functional cookie
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myAudi
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This cookie stores the token for the myAudi login
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Functional cookie
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vtp.aoz. {} carId
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This cookie stores the selected AOZ items / packages
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Functional cookie
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Cookie | Name | Purpose |
Google Analytics | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz
| These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where the visitors have come to the site from and the pages they have visited. |
Google Maps | PREF GAPS SID HSID NID SNID W6D Khcookie | These cookies are used by Google Maps who provide our Centre location capability. They contain no sensitive or personal data. |
Facebook | _e_3Pnw_0 Act Datr Wd reg_ext_ref reg_fb_gate reg_fb_ref lsd | These cookies allow our Facebook fans to interact with the website and like our content. |
We will set and read certain cookies on this Website and receive personal information about you through their use. Third parties may also be involved in setting, reading or using personal information obtained from cookies.The roles and responsibilities that these third parties have in relation to your personal information will depend on the specific circumstances, as follows:• We or a third party may set cookies on your device which provide access to your personal information to a third party data processors. However, as the processing of personal information by such processors is carried out to strict instructions or us or a relevant third party, we or a relevant third party is/are a controller for the processing as the third parties do not make any decisions over your information. Where this applies (and it does so in the majority of cases), we or a relevant third party will have primary responsibility to you in relation to the processing of your personal information.
All personal information obtained via cookies on this Website is obtained directly from you. We may receive this information from a third party if we are not the party setting the cookie on your device.
Your cookie-related personal information may be transferred outside of Ireland and European Economic Area (“EEA”) , if you grant us your explicit consent to do so or if we ensure adequate safeguards for the data protection of the transferred data.In connection with Adobe Analytics and/or the use of analytical, marketing and social media cookies and other web technologies described above, once you consent to the data transfer your personal information will be transferred to USA-based companies and stored on servers located in the United States of America (“USA”). Please be aware that such transmission may pose a risk to your data processing due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards. In particular, data transmission and data processing by our partners in the USA may be subject to surveillance programmes by US public authorities and your data may be then accessed by US intelligence agencies or federal investigators. Furthermore, non-United States persons have not got the same possibilities to counter surveillance performed by the National Security Agency or the Director of National Intelligence. Lastly, USA do not provide a single authority responsible for supervisory activities. Particular states in the USA have different points of contact regarding supervisory powers related to data protection with a special court, which deals with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance issues.If we transfer your information to other countries outside Ireland and EEA, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this policy. These steps include:• ensuring Irish / EEA countries to which transfers are made have been deemed adequately protective of your personal information for the purposes of data protection law by the relevant bodies;• imposing contractual obligations on the recipient of your personal information using provisions formally issued by relevant bodies for this purpose. We use these provisions to ensure that your information is protected when transferred your personal information to our Suppliers outside Ireland and EEA; orPlease contact us using the details at the end of this policy for more information about the protections that we put in place and to obtain a copy of the relevant documents.If you use this Website whilst you are outside Ireland and EEA, your information will be transferred outside those territories in order to allow you to use this Website.
We do not envisage that any processing to make decisions that have a legal or significant effect on you will be carried out using purely automated means, however we will update this policy and inform you if this position changes.
In order to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, disclosure alteration or destruction, we have taken appropriate organisational and technical measures including physical, electronic and management procedures to protect and secure the information gathered through this Website.