Arval Cookies Policy
Arval
A/S (“Arval”) is committed to delivering the best possible service
to you and we wish to maintain the confidence that you place in us.
As part of this,
we take care to protect your data when you use any of our services and have
adopted strong principles across the Group to ensure the protection of your
data.
As such, we
would like to provide you with transparent information about how we place, use
and store cookies from our website and/or our mobile
application (the “Website” and/or “Application”) on your
device. This Cookies Policy will also explain what cookies are and help to
provide you with options on how to manage or delete them.
1. What is a cookie?
Cookies are
small text, image or software files that are placed and stored on your device
when you access our Website and/or use our Application. The term “cookie” used
in this policy should be understood broadly and can also refer to alternative
technologies used to store information on your device (such as Flash cookies,
fingerprinting, invisible pixels, HTML5 localStorage, tokens etc.),
depending on which device you are using. The word “device”, when used in this
Cookies Policy, refers to computers, smartphones, tablets and all other devices
used for accessing the internet.
Cookies perform
a number of useful functions, such as to:
2. What kind of information can be stored in a cookie?
The information
stored by the cookies on your device may relate to the following, subject to
its retention period:
Cookies may
contain personal data. Where we use cookies which collect your personal data,
such collection is covered by our Data Protection Notice.
3. What kinds of cookies do we use?
3.1 Strictly necessary cookies (mandatory)
These cookies
are essential for the proper functioning of the Website or the Application and
cannot be deactivated from our systems.
They may
include, for example, cookies which collect session ID and authentication data,
cookies that make it possible to personalize the interface of a Site and / or
an Application (for example, for the choice of the language or presentation of
a service) or some audience measurement cookies.
This category
also includes cookies that allow us to comply with our legal obligations,
including ensuring a safe online environment (e.g. detecting repeated failed
login attempts to prevent unauthorised individuals from accessing your
account).
3.2 Functional cookies (subject to your consent)
These cookies
allow us and our partners to personalize and offer the content and features of
the Website and / or the Application (and in particular the display of our
products and services). They are used to improve our Site and/or Application
and your user experience.
3.3. Performance cookies (subject to your consent)
These cookies
allow us and our partners to understand how users arrive on our Site and / or
Application, to measure the number of visitors to our Website and / or
Application, but also to analyze the way in which visitors browse the Website
and/or Application or reconstitute their journey.
This helps us
improve the way our Sites and / or Applications work by ensuring, for example,
that users easily find what they are looking for.
These cookies
may be exempt from consent when they are strictly necessary for the functioning
of the Site / Application in accordance with the article 3.1.
Otherwise, they
are subject to consent in accordance with the present article 3.3.
Performance
cookies expire after 12 months.
3.4. Targeting, advertising and tracking cookies (subject to your consent)
There are
different categories of cookies used to propose you advertising.
Information
obtained through advertising cookies is frequently shared with our partners
through the use of third-party cookies. You can find more information on these
partners in section 4 of this Cookies Policy.
- Personalized advertising cookies
These cookies
are used to provide you with adverts more tailored to you and your interests.
These cookies record your visit to our Website and/or Application, the pages
you have visited and the links you have followed. We and our partners use this
information in order to personalize our Site and/or Application and the
advertisements therein, if any, according to your areas of interest.
They can also be
used to display personalized advertisements on our products on other sites, to
measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, to limit the frequency of
distribution (that is to say to limit the number of times that you see an ad),
affiliate ad, click fraud detection, market research, product improvement,
debugging.
- Non-personalized advertising cookies
These cookies
allow us and our partners to display advertisements that are not personalized
to your profile. These cookies can be used exclusively to measure the
performance of a marketing campaign.
- Geolocated advertising cookies
These cookies
allow us and our partners to show you personalized advertising based on your
location (geolocated advertising).
3.5. Social media and streaming content cookies (subject to your consent)
Social media cookies:
These cookies
allow us and our partners to share information with the social networks used on
our Webites and/or Applications.
The display of
this type of content on our Websites and/or Applications shares information
about your browsing on our Sites / Applications with the social networks used.
- Streaming content cookies:
These cookies
allow us and our partners to offer you the viewing on our Website / Application
of content hosted on an external site.
The
visualization of this type of content on our Websites and/or Applications
involves sharing information with the hosting site about your browsing on our
Webstes and/or Applications.
You will find in
section 4 of this Cookies Policy more information about the partners as well as
explanations on how you can set up your preferences.
4. How can you manage cookies?
To provide your
express consent for us to use certain categories of cookies as outlined in this
Cookies Policy, you can tick the optional boxes provided in our cookies
preferences tool which you can access here: Cookies Settings
You can modify
at any time your preferences, withdraw or give again your consent at any time.
Please note that
we do not need your consent to use strictly necessary cookies which are cookies
which are strictly necessary to run the relevant Website and/or Application.
This is why the ‘strictly necessary cookies’ option is already ticked for you
in our cookies preference tool and is not an optional feature.
It is also worth
noting that, by not accepting certain cookies (e.g. preference cookies), you
may prevent us from optimizing your experience on our Website and/or
Application, and some parts of them may not function ideally as a result.
By default, we
save your cookie choices on a device for a maximum of 6 months. If you change
your mind about the preferences you have expressed regarding cookies, you can
update your choices at any time, by following this link: Cookies Settings
We will ask you
to make a choice again every 6 months.
5. Who places cookies on your device (i.e. Arval or a partner)?
When you select
which types of cookies you allow on your device, the cookies may be deposited
directly by us or by one of our partners.
From a practical
point of view, this means that when you authorize the installation of certain
so-called “third-party” cookies on your device, our partners will also be able
to access the information they contain (such as, for example, your browsing
statistics when you allow third-party analysis cookies) in accordance with our
data protection notice and those of our partners.
When you select
which types of cookies you allow on your device, the cookies may be deposited
directly by us or by one of our partners.
From a practical
point of view, this means that when you authorize the installation of certain
so-called “third-party” cookies on your device, our partners will also be able
to access the information they contain (such as, for example, your browsing
statistics when you allow third-party analysis cookies) in accordance with our
data protection notice and those of our partners.