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Cookie Policy

Welcome to our cookie policy. This policy works alongside our privacy policy, which you can find at privacy policy. The purpose of this policy is to describe what cookies are, what we use them for, and how you can manage them during your visit to or use of our website.
Privacy Statement

What are cookies?

We may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal data, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal data with a certain device. Many websites use cookies and you can find out more about them at All About Cookies.
All About Cookie

Why do we use cookies?

These files serve a number of useful purposes for you, including:

  • ensuring the website functions correctly;
  • granting you access to restricted content;
  • tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences, location or device type;
  • improving how our website performs;
  • analysing the use of the website;
  • understanding who our audience is, so that we can provide content most relevant to you;
  • allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and
  • helping us deliver interest-based advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.

The types of cookies we use

We use different types of cookies on our website. Some of these cookies are placed by us, while others are placed by our third-party plug-ins, suppliers or advertisers. These cookies may be deleted from your device at different times, such as at the end of your browsing session (when you leave the website) or after a pre-set amount time, or they may persist on your device until you delete them.

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

category
description
Necessary cookies
These are cookies that allow our website to perform its essential functions. Without these cookies, some parts of our websites would stop working.
Functional cookies
These are cookies that monitor how our website is performing, and how you interact with it. We use them to know how best to improve our website or services.
Advertising cookies
These are cookies that matches your interests or web searches with applicable advertising campaigns on our website. We use them to provide you with advertising that we think you might find useful.
Social media cookies
These are cookies that integrate with social media platforms. We use them to help you share content from our website to your chosen social media platform.
Flash cookies
These are cookies that help your device read content supported by Adobe Flash. We use them to make sure that any Flash advertisements or videos appear properly on your device.
Third party cookies

These are cookies that some of our business partners use on our website. We have no access to or control over them.

Information collected by any of these cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.

Our cookies

The cookies listed below are set whenever a platform uses the standard Tracking Solution provided by the Audi AG – but has to be validated according to local legal/business requirements. This solution is powered by Adobe Analytics which is implemented via the Ensighten Tag Manager.

Adobe Analytics (implemented via Ensighten Tag Manager)

Cookie Name
Description
Category
Expiration
First Party / Third Party Cookie
Set by
latest update

AMCVS_097B467352782F130A490D45%40Adobe

Org

Unique visitor IDs used by Experience Cloud Solutions.
Performance Cookie
Session
First Party Cookie
Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020

AMCV_097B467352782F130A490D45%40AdobeOr

g

Unique visitor IDs used by Experience Cloud Solutions.
Performance Cookie
2 years
First Party Cookie
Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
s_cc
This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled (simply set to "True")
Performance Cookie
Session
First Party Cookie
Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
s_ecid
Adobe Experience Cloud uses cookies to store a visitor ID that is used across Experience Cloud Solutions.
Performance Cookie
2 years
First Party Cookie
Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
s_fid
Fallback unique visitor ID time/date stamp.
Performance Cookie
2 years
First Party Cookie
Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
s_sq
This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality and the Activity Map functionality are enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user.
Performance Cookie
Session
First Party Cookie
Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
s_vi
This cookie is used to determine a unique user ("unique visitor"). This cookie is used if a user visited an Audi site prior to implementing the Experience Cloud ID service.
Performance Cookie
2 years
First Party Cookie
Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
_ens_lc
This cookie stores information about navigation behavior.
Performance Cookie
30 minutes
First Party Cookie
ABI / FELDM via Ensighten for Adobe Analytic
12.11.2020
_ens_prev
This cookie stores information about navigation behavior.
Performance Cookie
Session
First Party Cookie
ABI / FELDM via Ensighten for Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
_ens_vn
This cookie stores information about the visit count.
Performance Cookie
1 years
First Party Cookie
ABI / FELDM via Ensighten for Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
_ens_sid
This cookie contains the ID of the current session.
Performance Cookie
30 minutes
First Party Cookie
ABI / FELDM via Ensighten for Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020
_ens_perf
This cookie contains information about the loading speed of the page.
Performance Cookie
30 minutes
First Party Cookie
ABI / FELDM via Ensighten for Adobe Analytics
12.11.2020

Ensighten Privacy Manager

Cookie Name
Description
Category
Expiration
First Party / Third Party Cookie
Set by
latest update
AUDI_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_Do_Not_Track
Ensighten Privacy cookie that tells whether a user uses the browser setting “do not track”. A value of "0" means Do Not Track is activated whereas a value of "1" mean it is not.
Necessary Cookie
1 year
First Party Cookie
Ensighten Privacy Manager
12.11.2020
AUDI_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_Performance
Ensighten Privacy cookie that tells whether a user is opted-in or out of the Performance category. A value of "1" means a user is opted in to Performance. A value of "0" means a user is opted out of the Performance category.
Necessary Cookie
1 year
First Party Cookie
Ensighten Privacy Manager
12.11.2020
AUDI_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_Functional
Ensighten Privacy cookie that tells whether a user is opted-in or out of the Functional category. A value of "1" means a user is opted in to Functional. A value of "0" means a user is opted out of the Functional category.
Necessary Cookie
1 year
First Party Cookie
Ensighten Privacy Manager
12.11.2020
AUDI_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_Marketing
Ensighten Privacy cookie that tells whether a user is opted-in or out of the Advertising category. A value of "1" means a user is opted in to Advertising. A value of "0" means a user is opted out of the Advertising category.
Necessary Cookie
1 year
First Party Cookie
Ensighten Privacy Manager
12.11.2020
AUDI_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_MODAL_VIEWED
Ensighten Privacy cookie that tells whether or not a user interacts on the consent modal
Necessary Cookie
1 year
First Party Cookie
Ensighten Privacy Manager
12.11.2020
AUDI_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_MODAL_LOADED
Ensighten Privacy cookie that tells wheter the modal was visible to the user.
Necessary Cookie
1 year
First Party Cookie
Ensighten Privacy Manager
12.11.2020

Deleting cookies

Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. You can read how to do this at https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-delete-cookies/.

Deleting or no longer accepting cookies may prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary or cause the website to forget your preferences. Deleting cookies may not prevent you from seeing advertisements on our website, but such advertising may be less relevant to you.