Kongsberg Automotive policy on use of cookies

Cookies are used on our website. In this text, you can find information about our use of cookies, e.g. what kind of cookies we use, for what purposes they are used, what information is collected through cookies and how long they are stored on your browser.

If you want to influence how we use cookies, you can control it through your browser, read more below under the heading “How to avoid cookies”. Note that you can review which cookies are stored on your browser within the browser or by using a browser extension.

If you have any questions, please contact gdpr@ka-group.com.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that we place on your browser. On this website we only use common http cookies, i.e. not more advanced cookies like fingerprinting cookies. There are two kinds of cookies, temporary and permanent cookies. Temporary cookies (also called session cookies) are temporarily stored in your computer’s memory and are deleted when you close your browser.

For more information about cookies and the Electronic Communications Act that govern how cookies may be used, visit the relevant authorities website.

You can consent to us placing cookies to analyse how you use our website and to show you personalised content  

The cookies we use for analysation and personalisation are not strictly necessary for the website to work and therefore your consent is required for us to use these cookies when you visit the website.

Information that we receive from your and others’ visits and activity on the website by using the cookies is logged aggregated and cannot be linked to individuals either directly or indirectly. We do not gather any personal information about you through these cookies.

For analysis and development of the website including its functionality

If you give your consent, we use cookies to analyse how you use the website in order to improve the website. By placing cookies on your browser, we get information about e.g. how many people visit the different pages on the website, how long our visitors stay on the website, what parts of our website are being used, what device is being used to browse, which website our visitors previously visited and from which country you and other visitors browse.

If you give your consent to us placing the cookies named _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz, _gid, _ga and _gat on your browser they will be stored on your browser for six months (unless you remove them before). In certain instances, we will also run tests on our website which aims to ensure that you and other users has a consistent experience. The cookie which enables us to do so is named EPI-MAR-{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx:xx} and will be removed after the test is completed, typically after one week (unless you remove them before).

When analysing your use of our website, we will gather information about your IP-address. You can read more about our use of your IP-address and other personal data in our privacy policy here . Your IP-address will be processed by us and by Google for the purpose to provide us with the Google Analytics web analytics service. Here you can read more about how Google uses cookies and how to avoid them.

To show you personalized content

We use cookies to personalise content on the website based on the frequency you have viewed content on the website, if you give your consent. We will get information about the number of times you access pages on the website by placing the cookies named Epi:NumberOfVisits on your browser. Such cookie will be stored on your browser for one year from when it was placed there (unless you remove them before).

We will place cookies necessary for the website’s functionality and to remember your choices

The following cookies will be placed on your browser if you use our website. These cookies are necessary for the functionality of the website and therefore your consent for our use of these cookies is not required. These cookies are logged aggregated and cannot be linked to individuals either directly or indirectly. We do not gather any personal information about you through these cookies.

For the website’s functionality

We use both temporary and permanent cookies for the website’s functionality according to the following:

• To keep track of your session we will place a temporary cookie on your browser. The cookie we use is named ASP.NET_SessionId and will generate a random ID which means we can keep track of your session until you close down your browser.
• To take security measures we will place a temporary cookie named __epiXSRF on your browser. Such cookies will generate a random ID on your browser until you close it down and will enable us to protect you against cross-site request forgery.

To remember your choices

We place temporary cookies on your browser to remember which language you chose until you close your browser, but not thereafter. By using the cookies epslanguage and KALang we will get information about what language you prefer to read.

How to avoid cookies

If you do not want to accept cookies, your browser can be set so that you automatically deny cookie storage or that you are informed every time a website requests to store a cookie. Through the browser, you can also check which cookies have been saved and delete them. Above we have stated the names of the cookies to help you with this. See the browser's help pages for more information.

If you have set your browser to avoid cookies we get poorer information to monitor the use of the website and minor opportunities to improve it and this will also affect our opportunities to show you personalised content. If you avoid us placing cookies which we consider necessary for the functionality of the website, you will not be able to use all parts of our webpage and this may mean that the website is not working properly. This will also mean that you limit our ability to remember your language choice.

If you block cookies, you will be asked if you want to accept these again the next time you use our website.