Cookies Policy

We use cookies to enhance the performance of our website and personalise your online Volkswagen experience.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to work more efficiently, by remembering your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) if you've been to the website before, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site.

They are also useful to provide information to the owners of websites. Cookies are used to measure which parts of the website people visit and to customise your experience, as well as to provide information that helps us monitor and improve the website's performance

Description of cookies

How do we use cookies?

How to control cookies

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see www.aboutcookies.orgOpens an external link and www.allaboutcookies.orgOpens an external link.

Cookies list

Cookies list

name

cookie type

purpose

storage period

species

note

VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_BANNER_VIEWED

Essential Cookie

This cookie stores the information whether the user has seen the cookie policy banner.

1 year

Permanent Cookie

Ensighten Privacy - Cookie Consent Management Tool

VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_MODAL_VIEWED

Essential Cookie

This cookie stores whether the user has given his consent for the corresponding cookie category.

1 year

Permanent Cookie

Ensighten Privacy - Cookie Consent Management Tool

VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_<category name>

Essential Cookie

This cookie stores whether the user has given his consent for the corresponding cookie category.

1 year

Permanent Cookie

Ensighten Privacy - Cookie Consent Management Tool

AMCV_*

This cookie stores information about the user, i.e. a generic user idenficiation string, the tracking optout stage etc. and is being used to identify returning visitors.

2 years

Permanent Cookie

AMCVS_*

This cookies stores "1" for during active session.

Session

Session Cookie

s_vi

This cookie is either s first or third party cookie and contains a generic user identification string and a timestamp. Both will be used to identify users for returning visits.

2 years

Permanent Cookie

s_fid

This cookie is a first party cookie and is a fallback user identification cookie in case the s_vi cookie could not be set.

2 years

Permanent Cookie

s_ecid

This cookies stores the user identification string from the cookie "AMCV_*" in the format MCMID|<ECID>.

Session

Session Cookie

demdex

This cookie stores a chain of information like a generic visitor id, the tracking optout stage etc. The information of this cookie will be copied into the first party cookie "AMCV_*" to recognize the user settings for his next visit.

6 months

Permanent Cookie

dextp

This cookie stores the timestamp of the last synchronization call with the "Demdex" service.

6 months

Permanent Cookie

dpm

This cookies stores the information that a user id had been requested.

6 months

Permanent Cookie

everest_g_v2

This cookie stores the browser and the "surfer-ID".

2 years

Permanent Cookie

everest_session_v2

This cookie stores a session id.

Session

Session Cookie

s_cc

This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled (simply set to "true").

Session

Session Cookie

adbCDP

This cookie stores how many dots are in the top-level domain name, i.e. "2" for www.volkswagen.fr und "3" for www.volkswagen.co.uk.

2 years

Permanent Cookie

s_invisit

This cookie stores if the user visits the site for the first time; values are true or false.

 

Session

Session Cookie

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

Session

Session Cookie

s_vnum

This cookies stores a timestamp and the visit number.

30 days

Permanent Cookie

sc_appvn

This cookie stores the application name and the visit number of an application, i.e. "CMS:03".

2 years

Permanent Cookie

sc_prevpage

This cookie stores the name of the previous page.

 

Session

Session Cookie

sc_prop32

This cookies stores the application name. An application in the Volkswagen context is a platform like the CMS sites or the car configurator or CarNet.

Session

Session Cookie

sc_v0

This cookies stores the campaign tracking code.

Session

Session Cookie

sc_v49

This cookies stores the vanity domain.

Session

Session Cookie

sc_v44

This cookies stores the internal campaign tracking code.

Session

Session Cookie

sc_pCmp

This cookies stores the campaign tracking code for 7 days.

7 days

Permanent Cookie

sc_v17

This cookie stores the price rate.

Session

Session Cookie

s3optout

Essential Cookie

Used to store the opt-outs from sophus3 services.

10 years after last visit

Permanent Cookie

TCSess

Performance

Used with sophus3 analytics to calculate usage and campaign data via a client identifier that is randomly generated.

Session

Session Cookie

TCID

Performance

Used with sophus3 analytics to calculate session data via a client identifier that is randomly generated.

2 years after last visit shorter period for some clients but at least 90 days

Permanent Cookie

_pk_uid

Performance

Used with sophus3 analytics to calculate session data via a client identifier.

13month after last visit

Permanent Cookie

_s3_ref.* (e.g. _s3_ses.41.83e0)

Performance

Used with sophus3 analytics to store referral data.

6 months after last visit

 

Permanent Cookie

_s3_cvar.* (e.g. _s3_cvar.41.83e0)

Performance

Used with sophus3 analytics to store analytics information for the duration of the visit.

duration of the visit

Session Cookie

_s3_id.* (e.g. _s3_id.41.83e0)

Performance

Used with sophus3 analytics to calculate usage and campaign data via a client identifier that is randomly generated.

13 months

Permanent Cookie

_s3_ses.* (e.g. _s3_ses.41.83e0)

Performance

Used with sophus3 analytics to calculate session data via a client identifier that is randomly generated.

30 minutes after last pageload

Permanent Cookie

mbox

The cookie keeps a number of values to manage how the user experience campaigns lika a session id and semi-permanent browser id.

2 weeks

Adobe Target

mboxEdgeCluster

Keeps track of the currently used Adobe Target edge server.

30 min

 

Adobe Target

VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_BANNER_VIEWED

VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_MODAL_VIEWED

VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_<category name>

AMCV_*

AMCVS_*

s_vi

s_fid

s_ecid

demdex

dextp

dpm

everest_g_v2

everest_session_v2

s_cc

adbCDP

s_invisit

s_sq

s_vnum

sc_appvn

sc_prevpage

sc_prop32

sc_v0

sc_v49

sc_v44

sc_pCmp

sc_v17

s3optout

TCSess

TCID

_pk_uid

_s3_ref.* (e.g. _s3_ses.41.83e0)

_s3_cvar.* (e.g. _s3_cvar.41.83e0)

_s3_id.* (e.g. _s3_id.41.83e0)

_s3_ses.* (e.g. _s3_ses.41.83e0)

mbox

mboxEdgeCluster