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Updated August 26, 2022
This Cookies Policy ("Policy") describes the different types of cookies that may be used in connection with Hyundai Motor Company’s ("Hyundai," "we," "us," or "our") global website at https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/ including through any of our website’s contact forms, and any features, promotions, offers, or services provided by this website (collectively the "Site"). This Policy also describes how you can manage cookies.
This Policy only applies to the Site and not to any other website owned or operated by Hyundai.
It is important that you check back often for updates to the Policy as we may change it from time to time to reflect changes to our use of cookies. Please check the date at the top of this page to see when this Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Policy will become effective when we make the revised Policy available on our Site.
What are cookies?
A cookie is any kind of file or device that is downloaded to a user’s system for the purpose of storing data that may be updated or retrieved by the company responsible for its installation. The main purpose of cookies is to make it quicker for you to access the Site and to tailor the Site’s features to you, allowing information of interest or potentially of interest to be provided to you depending on your use and interests.
We use cookies on this Site in order to understand how you use our Site and to improve your experience. Cookies are text files which are stored on your computer. After you have finished your session and closed your browser many of the text files are deleted ("session cookies"). So-called "persistent cookies" are also stored and these allow us to recognize you during your next visit on our Site. You can prevent cookies from being saved on your computer by changing your browser settings. This may result in some functions used by our Site being restricted.
Types of Cookies
Depending on the company managing them :
Depending on the period of time that they remain active :
Depending on their purpose:
How We Use Cookies and Related Technologies
Our Site uses a combination of our own and third-party technical, analytical, advertising, and behavioral advertising cookies. The data processed by technical cookies is required for the purposes mentioned above in order to protect our legitimate interests, in order to provide you with our Site, to ensure system stability and efficiency, and to implement proper safeguards of the security of our Site. The data processed by analytical, advertising and/or behavioral advertising cookies are not strictly necessary for visiting our Site. If required by applicable law, we will only process data by analytical, advertising and/or behavioral advertising cookies if you gave us your prior consent.
If you are a resident of the European Union please note the following information: For he use of strictly necessary cookies such as technical cookies, your consent is not required. For all other cookies that are not strictly necessary, your consent is required. If you are at least 16 years old, you can consent to the use of all cookies by pressing the “Accept” button on the “About Cookies On This Site” banner. If you have decided as a general principle not to give your consent to the use of cookies that require consent, or to revoke consent that has been given, you are only provided with those functionalities you can use without your consent. You can customize your preferences at any time by clicking “Cookie Settings” on the “About Cookies On This Site” banner.
Our Site may also use log files, web firewalls, and other mechanisms that automatically collect and record information about your browsing activities, and use of the Site. We may combine this data with other personal information we collect about you. This data, and the data we collect from cookies, is used to understand how our Site is used, track bugs and errors, provide and improve our Site, track sessions, prevent fraud, and protect our Site, as well as for targeted marketing and advertising, to personalize content, and for analytics purposes. We provide additional information about tracking technologies below. You can learn about how to register your preferences regarding certain uses of the technologies by reading the Managing Cookies and Tracking Preferences section below.
Web beacons. Some of our Site’s web pages, email messages, and newsletters may contain electronic images known as web beacons, which are also called single-pixel GIFs. Web beacons collect information including a cookie number, time, and date of a page view and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. Web beacons are a technique we may use to enhance and personalize the Site and services we offer, to provide product information and advertisements that are more relevant to your interests, compile aggregated statistics about the usage of our Site and other services, improve and personalize our advertising, and to track the number of users who have opened and acted upon our commercial email messages.
Log files. We collect log information to analyze trends, administer our Site, track users’ movement around our Site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in improving the Site and other services.
Do Not Track. Our Site does not support Do Not Track at this time. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. You may also specify a cookies preference that has a similar effect as a do-not-track request.
Third Party Analytics. We may use third party analytics companies such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics Cloud (see our Privacy Policy and opt-out) to evaluate the use of our Site. We use these tools to help us understand the use of, and to improve our Site and other services, performance, ad campaigns, and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects, to perform their services.
List of Cookies We Use
Managing Cookies and Tracking Preferences
If you would like to opt-out of third party collection of information on our Site via cookies and similar tracking technologies, you can manage the preferences within your web browser. You will need to manage these preferences on all of the browsers and devices you use to access our Site. If you clear cookies on your browser, you will need to reset your managed preferences.
You can also set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Site features or services may not function properly without cookies. You may disable and otherwise choose which cookies you want on this Site by setting your browser cookies settings.
How to Contact Us
Please contact at [digitalcomm@hyundai.com] if you have any complaints or questions about this Cookies Policy or our information practices.