Cookie Policy

When you visit our website, we will use cookies to make sure you get the best experience on our website. These cookies might be about you, your preferences, or your device. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalised web experience.

We will need to use a cookie to remember the choices that you have made. This will have a couple of consequences:

•If you delete all your cookies you will have to update your preferences again.

•If you use a different device or browser you will have to tell us your preferences again.

Controller

[BYD Company Limited, No. 1 Yanan Road, Kuichong Street, Dapeng New District, Shenzhen, P.R.China, 518119], hereinafter referred to as “BYD”, “we”, “us”, will as controller process your personal data as further described below.

Purpose and legal basis for processing

When you visit our websites, we collect and process your IP address and information on your browsing on our website. The purpose of our processing is to identify you as return visitor to our website, to analyse the behaviour of the visitors to our website to enhance our communication and structure of our websites and to build a profile of your interests to be able to show you relevant adverts for our products and services also on other websites.

The legal basis for our processing of your personal data as described above is that this processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interest, except for the processing where we combine your online web behaviour data with the personal data that you eventually have previously provided to us for which we base on your consent.

You have the right to decline our use of these cookies by clicking the link “change cookie settings” .

Disclosure / Recipients of your personal data

Your personal data will be disclosed to and processed by our affiliates and business partners for the above purposes.

Your rights and contact information

For more information on your rights in relation to our processing of your personal data and contact details to our Data Protection Officer, please see our Privacy Policy.

Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

 

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

We use PHPSESSID Cookie which is necessary for our website to work and cannot be switched off in our systems. It is usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about this cookie, but some parts of the site will not then work. The cookie does not store any personally identifiable information.

Types of cookies	Cookie Name	Expiration Time	Description
Technically required	VatLogin.jsp	This cookie is a session cookie. Current session expiration is set to 45 minutes.	It's used to deliver better dynamic media experience.The AuthFilter embedded into IPS ImageServer (IS, IR, and also the SWFs/skins and video contexts) uses the cookie for access authorization. If present, it allows HTTP requests to pass through. Otherwise it returns unauthorized.
Technically required	s7js.flyout.InfoMessage. displayed assetId.state	This cookie is a session cookie and expires when the browser is closed.	It's used to deliver better dynamic media experience. is the name of the asset the viewer is working with and is the 0-based sticky note index.
Technically required	s7js.flyout.InfoMessage. displayedassetId_idxid.ant	This cookie is a session cookie and expires when the browser is closed.	Used to distinguish users. (Analysis).
Technically required	_ga	2 years	Used to distinguish users. (Analysis).
Technically required	_gid	24 hours	Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_ . (Analysis).
Technically required	_gat	1 minute	Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. (Analysis).
Technically required	AMP_TOKEN	30 seconds to 1 year	Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. (Analysis).
Technically required	_gac_	90 days	Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. (Analysis).

2. Statistics Cookies

We use Google Analytics, which gives us insight in to how you use our websites. This data consists of; e.g., which pages you viewed; which links you clicked on; the number of times you has visited; the dates for your first and most recent visit; what device you have used. We use this data to help us understand how people use our website and to ensure that it functions correctly. This data is not used for marketing or advertising and is not shared with third parties.

Types of cookies	Cookie Name	Expiration Time	Description
Analysis and statistics	AMCV	2 years	This cookie sets an anonymous, but unique ID for each user.The AMCV cookie contains the Experience Cloud visitor ID or MID.
Analysis and statistics	AMCVS	This cookie is a session cookie and expires when the browser is closed.	The AMCVS cookie serves as a flag indicating that the session has been initialized. Its value is always 1 and discontinues when the session has ended.

 

3. Targeting and Advertising Cookies

These cookies including hm.gif, Hm_Ipvt_#, Hm_Ivt_#, HMACCOUNT  and HMACCOUNT_BFESS could be set through our site by our advertising partners and shared by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. This is based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Types of cookies	Cookie Name	Expiration Time	Description
Analysis and statistics	s_ecid	2 years	This cookie is set after the AMCV cookie is set. The purpose of this cookie is to allow persistent ID tracking in the 1st party state and is used as a reference ID if the AMCV cookie has expired.
Analysis and statistics	s_cc	This cookie is a session cookie and expires when the browser is closed.	Only one cookie for all accounts.
Analysis and statistics	s_vi	2 years	This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor and is stored at the domain of the image request.
Analysis and statistics	s_fid	2 years	Fallback unique visitor ID time/date stamp.This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor if the standard s_vi cookie is unavailable due to third-party cookie restrictions.