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Cookies are a well-known web technology; widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to website owners. Cookies can also be used to measure which parts of a website people visit and customise their experience.
The cookies that are generated on the Site help us to monitor and improve the Site's performance for our users, whilst remaining non-intrusive in nature.
The cookies that are generated on the Site store no personally identifiable data and pose no security risk to users of the Site.
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We are providing this information to you as part of our on-going efforts to ensure we are open and honest with users of the Site as part of our compliance with this legislation. To find out more information about cookies, we recommend you visit www.allaboutcookies.org/.
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We use cookies on skoda.co.uk to collect information about how visitors use our website.
All of the information we collect is anonymous, meaning our cookies don't identify anyone as an individual and no personal information is stored in the cookies we generate. We always use the information collected in a responsible way, helping to enhance the performance of our website.
Here is a list of the cookies generated on skoda.co.uk:
| Cookie Name | Purpose of the cookie |
|---|---|
| k2c_chat_a1 | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| k2c_history | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| k2c_ŠKODAUK_cids | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| k2c_Launch | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| CookieConsent | This cookie allows us to check whether we need to display the cookie disclaimer to a user. |
| ARRAffinity | This is a cookie used to relate a client to an instance of an Azure Web App. e.g. if an app is scaled out to 10 instances, and a user accesses it from their browser, the ARRAffinity helps keep the user going back to the same app instance, instead of getting a random instance each time. |
| CookieAnswer | This cookie stores users ŠKODA applications consent (centrally saved by ŠKODA HQ). |
| CookieToken | Used to determine if cookie consent was given for ŠKODA's applications. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | The SessionID property is used to uniquely identify a browser with session data on the server. This cookie will allow us to remember selections during your session for any forms. |
| Cookie Name | k2c_chat_a1 |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| Cookie Name | k2c_history |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| Cookie Name | k2c_ŠKODAUK_cids |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| Cookie Name | k2c_Launch |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie allows users to interact with our Live Chat tool. |
| Cookie Name | CookieConsent |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie allows us to check whether we need to display the cookie disclaimer to a user. |
| Cookie Name | ARRAffinity |
| Purpose of the cookie | This is a cookie used to relate a client to an instance of an Azure Web App. e.g. if an app is scaled out to 10 instances, and a user accesses it from their browser, the ARRAffinity helps keep the user going back to the same app instance, instead of getting a random instance each time. |
| Cookie Name | CookieAnswer |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie stores users ŠKODA applications consent (centrally saved by ŠKODA HQ). |
| Cookie Name | CookieToken |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used to determine if cookie consent was given for ŠKODA's applications. |
| Cookie Name | ASP.NET_SessionId |
| Purpose of the cookie | The SessionID property is used to uniquely identify a browser with session data on the server. This cookie will allow us to remember selections during your session for any forms. |
To find out more about cookies, we recommend you visit www.allaboutcookies.org/
On skoda.co.uk you might have noticed that there are some cookies not related to ŠKODA. These cookies are generated by third party websites and as such we don’t control the settings of these cookies.
Because we don’t control the settings of these third party cookies, there may be tracking contained within them that we don't know about or control, therefore we recommend that you visit the third party website that has generated them for more information about how to manage them.
Alternatively, cookies can be managed in your browser. Details on the setting of cookies and related changes in the most common browsers are available here:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Microsoft Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=cs_CZ&viewlocale=en_US
Here is a list of the third party cookies generated on skoda.co.uk:
| Cookie Name | Purpose of the cookie |
|---|---|
| Cookie consent | This is a cookie used to relate a client to an instance of an Azure Web App. e.g. if an app is scaled out to 10 instances, and a user accesses it from their browser, the ARRAffinity helps keep the user going back to the same app instance, instead of getting a random instance each time. |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is used when a cookie is dropped when the chat is interacted with. |
| sb | Identifies browser for login authentication purposes. |
| _ga | This cookies is used to identify unique users for Google Analytics, allowing us to track when users. |
| _gid | Is used to identify unique users in Google Analytics. |
| _gat_... | This cookie does not store any user information. It is used by Google to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net. |
| ga_uk_gid | Is used to identify unique users in Google Analytics and expires after 24 hours. |
| IDE | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| HSID | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| SAPISID | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| SID | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| SSID | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| APISID | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| NID | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| SEUNCY | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device for return visits. |
| TCSess | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use the site. The cookie contains an anonymous random ID to distinguish different browser sessions. |
| TCID | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use the site. The cookie contains an anonymous random ID to distinguish different browsers. |
| _pk_uid | This cookie determines if you are a new or returning visitor. |
| _aid | This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. This is done to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. |
| _ga_agentid | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA analytics platforms. |
| _ga_agentid | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA UK analytics platforms. |
| _ga_agentid_gid - | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA analytics platforms. |
| _ga_uk_gid | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA UK analytics platforms. |
| __utma | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. |
| __utmc | The B and C cookies work together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 minutes, and then it expires. __utmc has no way of knowing when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires. |
| __utmz | __utmz keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion. |
| _gat_UA-11750191-9 | This cookie uses is used for analytics tracking on ŠKODA HQ analytics dashboard. |
| _gat_UA-69252489-33 | This cookie uses is used for analytics tracking on ŠKODA UK analytics dashboard. |
| s3_AEsess | Used with sophus3 service for offering contact forms to visitors based on the navigation solely on the current website. |
| s3timer | Used with sophus3 service for offering contact forms to visitors based on the navigation. |
| TDID | This cookie is used by our third party trading platform. It contains a unique randomly-generated value that enables the platform to distinguish browsers and devices. It is matched against information – such as advertising interest segments and histories of ads shown in the browser or device – provided by Clients or other third parties and stored on the platform. |
| TDCPM | This cookie is used by our 3rd party trading platform. It contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with our partners. ID syncing enables our partners to use their data from outside our trading platform on the platform. |
| MR | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| MUID | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| _EDGE_S | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| MUIDB | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| pl | Used to record that a device or browser logged in via Facebook platform. |
| _gcl_aw | Captures click information for Google Ads (AdWords) visitors. |
| _gcl_dc | Captures click information for Display & Video 360 (DoubleClick) visitors. |
| _s3_ses.15.3d30 | These cookies store website usage data to allow us to understand information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers and responses to marketing activity. |
| _s3_id.15.3d30 | These cookies store website usage data to allow us to understand information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers and responses to marketing activity. |
| Psyma | This cookie is used to indicate your participation in the online Psyma survey, as well as to prevent multiple invitations during a visit to this website whilst the survey is live (approx. 30 days). It does not contain any data from the survey or any reference to the individual visitor. |
| fr | Facebook’s primary advertising cookie, used to deliver, measure, and improve the relevancy of ads. |
| c_user | Used in conjunction with the xs cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. |
| xs | Used in conjunction with the c_user cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. |
| presence | Site features and services related cookie. |
| datr | Identifies browsers for purposes of security and site integrity, including for account recovery, and identification of potentially compromised accounts. |
| ad-privacy | Used to track user actions and target content on the website based on ad clicks on a different website. |
| ad-id | Used to track user actions and target content on the website based on ad clicks on a different website. |
| spin | Cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| wd | Part of the Facebook cookie suite used to track button clicks linked and personalise usage. |
| Cookie Name | Cookie consent |
| Purpose of the cookie | This is a cookie used to relate a client to an instance of an Azure Web App. e.g. if an app is scaled out to 10 instances, and a user accesses it from their browser, the ARRAffinity helps keep the user going back to the same app instance, instead of getting a random instance each time. |
| Cookie Name | PHPSESSID |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie is used when a cookie is dropped when the chat is interacted with. |
| Cookie Name | sb |
| Purpose of the cookie | Identifies browser for login authentication purposes. |
| Cookie Name | _ga |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookies is used to identify unique users for Google Analytics, allowing us to track when users. |
| Cookie Name | _gid |
| Purpose of the cookie | Is used to identify unique users in Google Analytics. |
| Cookie Name | _gat_... |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie does not store any user information. It is used by Google to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net. |
| Cookie Name | ga_uk_gid |
| Purpose of the cookie | Is used to identify unique users in Google Analytics and expires after 24 hours. |
| Cookie Name | IDE |
| Purpose of the cookie | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| Cookie Name | HSID |
| Purpose of the cookie | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| Cookie Name | SAPISID |
| Purpose of the cookie | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| Cookie Name | SID |
| Purpose of the cookie | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| Cookie Name | SSID |
| Purpose of the cookie | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| Cookie Name | APISID |
| Purpose of the cookie | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| Cookie Name | NID |
| Purpose of the cookie | Tis is part of a group of cookies used to remember user's most recent searches, previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and visits to an advertiser’s website. Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| Cookie Name | SEUNCY |
| Purpose of the cookie | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device for return visits. |
| Cookie Name | TCSess |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use the site. The cookie contains an anonymous random ID to distinguish different browser sessions. |
| Cookie Name | TCID |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use the site. The cookie contains an anonymous random ID to distinguish different browsers. |
| Cookie Name | _pk_uid |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie determines if you are a new or returning visitor. |
| Cookie Name | _aid |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. This is done to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. |
| Cookie Name | _ga_agentid |
| Purpose of the cookie | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA analytics platforms. |
| Cookie Name | _ga_agentid |
| Purpose of the cookie | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA UK analytics platforms. |
| Cookie Name | _ga_agentid_gid - |
| Purpose of the cookie | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA analytics platforms. |
| Cookie Name | _ga_uk_gid |
| Purpose of the cookie | Google Analytics's anonymized tracking cookie, contains the same value as _aid cookie. Used as an identifier for ŠKODA UK analytics platforms. |
| Cookie Name | __utma |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. |
| Cookie Name | __utmc |
| Purpose of the cookie | The B and C cookies work together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 minutes, and then it expires. __utmc has no way of knowing when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires. |
| Cookie Name | __utmz |
| Purpose of the cookie | __utmz keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion. |
| Cookie Name | _gat_UA-11750191-9 |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie uses is used for analytics tracking on ŠKODA HQ analytics dashboard. |
| Cookie Name | _gat_UA-69252489-33 |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie uses is used for analytics tracking on ŠKODA UK analytics dashboard. |
| Cookie Name | s3_AEsess |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used with sophus3 service for offering contact forms to visitors based on the navigation solely on the current website. |
| Cookie Name | s3timer |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used with sophus3 service for offering contact forms to visitors based on the navigation. |
| Cookie Name | TDID |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie is used by our third party trading platform. It contains a unique randomly-generated value that enables the platform to distinguish browsers and devices. It is matched against information – such as advertising interest segments and histories of ads shown in the browser or device – provided by Clients or other third parties and stored on the platform. |
| Cookie Name | TDCPM |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie is used by our 3rd party trading platform. It contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with our partners. ID syncing enables our partners to use their data from outside our trading platform on the platform. |
| Cookie Name | MR |
| Purpose of the cookie | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| Cookie Name | MUID |
| Purpose of the cookie | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| Cookie Name | _EDGE_S |
| Purpose of the cookie | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| Cookie Name | MUIDB |
| Purpose of the cookie | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to Bing advertising network. |
| Cookie Name | pl |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used to record that a device or browser logged in via Facebook platform. |
| Cookie Name | _gcl_aw |
| Purpose of the cookie | Captures click information for Google Ads (AdWords) visitors. |
| Cookie Name | _gcl_dc |
| Purpose of the cookie | Captures click information for Display & Video 360 (DoubleClick) visitors. |
| Cookie Name | _s3_ses.15.3d30 |
| Purpose of the cookie | These cookies store website usage data to allow us to understand information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers and responses to marketing activity. |
| Cookie Name | _s3_id.15.3d30 |
| Purpose of the cookie | These cookies store website usage data to allow us to understand information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers and responses to marketing activity. |
| Cookie Name | Psyma |
| Purpose of the cookie | This cookie is used to indicate your participation in the online Psyma survey, as well as to prevent multiple invitations during a visit to this website whilst the survey is live (approx. 30 days). It does not contain any data from the survey or any reference to the individual visitor. |
| Cookie Name | fr |
| Purpose of the cookie | Facebook’s primary advertising cookie, used to deliver, measure, and improve the relevancy of ads. |
| Cookie Name | c_user |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used in conjunction with the xs cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. |
| Cookie Name | xs |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used in conjunction with the c_user cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. |
| Cookie Name | presence |
| Purpose of the cookie | Site features and services related cookie. |
| Cookie Name | datr |
| Purpose of the cookie | Identifies browsers for purposes of security and site integrity, including for account recovery, and identification of potentially compromised accounts. |
| Cookie Name | ad-privacy |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used to track user actions and target content on the website based on ad clicks on a different website. |
| Cookie Name | ad-id |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used to track user actions and target content on the website based on ad clicks on a different website. |
| Cookie Name | spin |
| Purpose of the cookie | Cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
| Cookie Name | _gcl_au |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| Cookie Name | _gcl_au |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| Cookie Name | _fbp |
| Purpose of the cookie | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| Cookie Name | wd |
| Purpose of the cookie | Part of the Facebook cookie suite used to track button clicks linked and personalise usage. |
Other than the cookies listed, above and those listed on the Our Cookies page the site generates no other cookies.
The cookies that are generated on the ŠKODA UK website store no personally identifiable data and pose no security risk to our websites users. We believe these cookies are helpful and only improve our user’s experience when using our website, whilst remaining non-intrusive.
ŠKODA UK advertising
You may see ŠKODA UK adverts on other websites outside the domain of skoda.co.uk. The adverts that we use on these websites make use of third party cookies, which monitor how users interact with the adverts that we place. This helps us to improve the effectiveness and performance of our online advertising and allows us to build campaign performance reports.
If you want to find out more about how to disable these cookies you can do so by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Managing Cookies
The ŠKODA UK website does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about its visitors. However, if you wish to restrict or even block the cookies which are generated by skoda.co.uk, you can do so through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser will provide you with an explanation of how to do this.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org/ .