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.


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.

3.5. Flash cookies

Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects) are pieces of data that websites which use Adobe Flash may store on your computer.

Flash cookies are a new way of tracing your movement and storing a lot more information about you than with normal cookies. One major disadvantage of flash cookies is that you can’t locate them in your browser. They are not shown in the list of cookies that you can see when you take a look at the cookies that are currently saved in your web browser. Normal HTTP cookies can’t save more than 4 Kilobyte of data while Flash cookies can save up to 100 Kilobyte.

Flash cookies are a technical design similar to cookies. Almost all web browsers have a Flash player that is used to display Flash presentations. One well-known example of Flash presentations is the video player on the YouTube video site. (Flash cookies are not only associated with YouTube, but apply to all websites using Flash cookies.)

Flash cookies do not have a time limit. They will stay there until they are deleted.

3.5.1 What we use Flash cookies for
The Volvo Group uses Flash cookies to gather statistics and setting audio preferences.

3.5.2 How to disable Flash cookies
It is not possible to block or manage Flash cookies in the same way in the browser, as they are stored in a different location, Global Storage Settings panel of the online Settings Manager at Adobe’s site.

The Settings Manager can be accessed from the Adobe website but is running locally on your computer. The Website Storage Settings display all Flash cookies that are currently saved on your computer. You can delete flash cookies from individual sites or all at once. It is also possible to increase or decrease the Kilobyte size of all information that is stored on your computer.

No Flash Cookies will be saved if you go into Global Storage Settings and disable the option “Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer”.

If you wish to opt-out of the Flash cookies on a per-site basis you do that on the Settings Manager.

By disabling Flash cookies we cannot guarantee that all functions of our web site will function as intended.

4. List of cookies set by Volvo Group

Cookie name Purpose
Adobe Analytics  
AMCV_###@AdobeOrg This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor.

Expiry date: 2 years
s_cc This 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

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_vi This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor

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

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

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

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

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

Expiry date: 15 sec

5. List of third party cookies

Cookie name Purpose
ShareThis is a third party software used on the website , which allows visitors to share the recommend Volvo websites pages on the social networks
demdex This cookie is used by Adobe Analytics to help identify a unique visitor across domains. The demdex cookie is set in the third-party, 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.



Internet Explorer 8-10

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.


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,

7. Other/unforeseen cookies

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.
December 2012