COOKIE POLICY.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. Only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie.
Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier, the site name and some numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (these are known as ‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).
To find out more about cookies, the website HowStuffWorks provides a comprehensive guide: How Internet Cookies Work
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You can prevent cookies from being saved on your end device by setting your browser to not accept cookies. Please note that most browsers accept cookies as a default setting.
In addition, you can delete cookies stored on your end device at any time. Instructions for how to do this can be found in the manual for your browser or end device.
First Party Cookies
| Cookie Name | Expiry | Category | Description |
| AWSELB | 1 day | Strictly Necessary | This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. |
| JSESSIONID | Session | Strictly Necessary | This is a generic cookie used to manage your website session and navigation steps. |
| Desktop | 1 hour | Functionality | This cookie stores the user's decision to view the desktop version of the page on a mobile device. |
| chosenTire | 1 week | Functionality | This cookie is used to track website behaviour |
| Code | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie is used to remember the product selected by the user when trying to find a dealer for a product. It is set when the user clicks the "Find A Dealer" button on a product page. |
| Dealer | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores a user's selection from the Dealer Locator. |
| Height | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores the height selected by the user in the Tyre Finder, and remembers it when the user revisits the application. |
| loadIndex | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores the load index selected by the user in the Tyre Finder, and remembers it when the user revisits the application. |
| Rim | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores the rim size selected by the user in the Tyre Finder, and remembers it when the user revisits the application. |
| speedIndex | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores the speed index selected by the user in the Tyre Finder, and remembers it when the user revisits the application. |
| Vehicle | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores the vehicle type of the tyre size selected by the user in the Tyre Finder's "Find By Car" feature. It is required to pick the right vehicle category in the search results. |
| viewedTire | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores the ID of the tyre last viewed by the user to be shown as shortcut back to this tyre when viewing the Dealer Locator. |
| Width | 2 weeks | Functionality | This cookie stores the width selected by the user in the Tyre Finder, and remembers it when the user revisits the application. |
| detLngCntr | 1 year | Functionality | This cookie stores the detected country and language using an IP detection service. It is set when the country/language chosen by the user is different from the country/language of the website. |
| userLngCntr | 1 year | Functionality | This cookie stores the country and language selected by the user on the country selection page. The cookie is set when the user clicks the "change country" link and selects a country from the list, or by IP-address detection functionality. |
| acceptCookies | Session | Functionality | This cookie is used to capture the consent on the cookie legislation |
| beproduct_page_fired | Session | Functionality | This cookie is used to track website behaviour |
| Category | Session | Functionality | This cookie stores the news category selected by the user, remembering this setting when the user returns to the News page. |
| deeplink | Session | Functionality | This cookie is used to track website behaviour |
| dlInitialSearch | Session | Functionality | This cookie stores the search term entered by the user on the Dealer Locator page. |
| euCookieCompliance | Session | Functionality | This cookie indicates that the user has accepted the cookie policy. It ensures that, once it has been closed, the cookie banner will not be shown thereafter. |
| fitment | Session | Functionality | This cookie is used to track website behaviour |
| preferredLocation | Session | Functionality | This cookie is used to track website behaviour |
| product_page_fired | Session | Functionality | This cookie is used to track website behaviour |
| Year | Session | Functionality | This cookie stores the year of the news selected by the user, remembering this setting when the user returns to the News page. |
Third Party Cookies
| Cookie Name | Expiry | Category | Description |
| tuuid | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie makes advertising messages more relevant to the website visitor. |
| tuuid_lu | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| um | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| umeh | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| uid | 2 months | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are set by our advertisers on our website. They may be used by those companies to compile a profile of your interests and to show you relevant advertisements on other websites. They work by identifying your unique browser and device |
| anj | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner. |
| uuid2 | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| TDCPM | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| TDID | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| APID | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| ad-id | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by amazon-adsystem.com for advertising purposes. |
| ad-privacy | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by amazon-adsystem.com for advertising purposes. |
| IDSYNC | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| tuuid | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie makes advertising messages more relevant to the website visitor. |
| tuuid_lu | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| c | Session | Targeting and Advertising | Regulates synchronisation of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services. |
| bkdc | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is usually set by websites to register anonymised user data (IP address, geolocation, etc.) as well as aggregate anonymous activities to enable marketers to provide more targeted online advertising. |
| bkpa | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is usually set by websites to register anonymised user data (IP address, geolocation, etc.) as well as aggregate anonymous activities to enable marketers to provide more targeted online advertising. |
| bku | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is usually set by websites to register anonymised user data (IP address, geolocation, etc.) as well as aggregate anonymous activities to enable marketers to provide more targeted online advertising. |
| CMST | 1 day | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at. |
| CMID | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at. |
| CMRUM3 | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at. |
| CMPRO | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at. |
| CMPS | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at. |
| _cc_aud | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by crwdcntrl.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| _cc_dc | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by crwdcntrl.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| _cc_id | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by crwdcntrl.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| _cc_cc | Session | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by crwdcntrl.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| demdex | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. |
| DigiTrust.v1.identity | 5 years | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie relates to DigiTrust provides advertising services. |
| test_cookie | 1 day | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie relates to Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
| IDE | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| dpm | 6 months | Targeting and Advertising | This Cookie relates to Adobe Audience Manager - data management platform uses this cookie to record information around synchronisation of IDs. |
| EE | 4 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie relates to the domain that is owned by Exelate. The main business activity is: Advertising Data Aggregation |
| ud | 4 months | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are set by our advertisers on our website. They may be used by those companies to compile a profile of your interests and to show you relevant advertisements on other websites. They work by identifying your unique browser and device |
| udo | 4 months | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies are set by our advertisers on our website. They may be used by those companies to compile a profile of your interests and to show you relevant advertisements on other websites. They work by identifying your unique browser and device |
| fr | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is related to Encrypted Facebook ID and Browser ID |
| flashtalkingad1 | 2 years | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| ck | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie relates to the domain that is owned by Affectv. The main business activity is: Advertising/Behavioural Targeting Technology |
| oo | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie collects data on user visits to the website, such as what pages have been accessed. The registered data is used to categorise the user's interest and demographic profiles in terms of resales for targeted marketing. |
| x_qtag_536854 | 1 year | Functionality | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| __pr.128y | 2 years | Functionality | This cookie is used to control the website functionality |
| _qPageNum_groupm_mediacom_Goodyear | Session | Functionality | These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. |
| _dc_gtm_UA-949974-1 | 1 day | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to evaluate the purpose of a user's visit, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and improvement of the customer experience. |
| _gat | 1 day | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to evaluate the purpose of a user's visit, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and improvement of the customer experience. |
| _gat_UA-949974-1 | 1 day | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to evaluate the purpose of a user's visit, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and improvement of the customer experience. |
| _gid | 1 day | Performance | This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
| _ga | 2 years | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to evaluate the purpose of a user's visit, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and improvement of the customer experience. |
| _qst | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| _qst_s | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| _qubitTracker | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| _fbp | Session | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie will help deliver our advertising to people who have already visited our website when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Advertising. |
| _qsst | Session | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| _qsst_s | Session | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| _qubitTracker_s | Session | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| ipGeolocationData | Session | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used to personalize user experience |
| lidid | 2 years | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie collects data about visitor behavior and interaction - This is used to make advertisements on the website more relevant. With the cookie, the website can also detect references from other websites. |
| mt_misc | 1 month | Functionality | MediaMath uses this cookie to hold attributes about the browser for fraud prevention and other technical optimizations. |
| uuid | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| uuidc | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| mt_mop | 2 months | Targeting and Advertising | MediaMath uses this cookie to synchronize the visitor ID with a limited number of trusted exchanges and data partners |
| i | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by OpenX. The main business activity is: Advertising |
| ts | 3 years | Functionality | This cookie is provided by Paypal. The cookie is used in context with transactions on the website. The cookie is necessary for secure transactions. |
| ts_c | 3 years | Functionality | This cookie is provided by Paypal. The cookie is used in context with transactions on the website. The cookie is necessary for secure transactions. |
| rpx | 1 month | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_27 | 1 month | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. |
| PugT | 1 month | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by pubmatic.com and is used for advertising purposes. |
| PUBMDCID | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is generally provided by pubmatic.com and is used for advertising purposes. |
| put_1512 | 1 month | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. |
| rpb | 1 month | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. |
| khaos | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| SEUNCY | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by semasio.net – Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device for return visits. |
| ActivityInfo2 | 3 months | Functionality | This cookie is used to track conversions associated with a unique visitor and is used for attribution and ROI measurement. |
| u2 | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| __stid | 2 years | Targeting and Advertising | Cookies used by Sharethis to identify users and sharing behavior. Identifier cookies are not tied to any personally identifiable information. You can opt out of Sharethis cookies by visiting http://sharethis.com/privacy |
| TapAd_DID | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| TapAd_TS | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| TapAd_TTD_SYNC | 3 months | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| akavpau_ppsd | 3 years | Functionality | This cookie is provided by Paypal. The cookie is used in context with transactions on the website. The cookie is necessary for secure transactions. |
| B | 1 year | Functionality | These cookies are activated on pages with the Flickr widget. They can be associated with both Flickr and Yahoo! (parent company of Flickr). The cookies "BX" and "B" are activated for all Users, the other (others) only when the User logs in to his / her Flickr account. Yahoo! can use the information to offer the User advertisements based on his / her surfing behavior and his / her interests. |
| APIDTS | 1 day | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| APID | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| io_token_7c6a6574-f011-4c9a-abdd-9894a102ccef | 1 year | Functionality | Cookie used by PowerReviews to enable fingerprint technology, including user tracking across different browsers. |
| audit | 1 year | Functionality | This cookie relates to Analytics: Used to record cookie consent data. |
| c | Session | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. |
| AKDC | 3 years | Functionality | This cookie is provided by Paypal. The cookie is used in context with transactions on the website. The cookie is necessary for secure transactions. |
| __utma | 2 years | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie updates each time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmb | 30 minutes | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish new sessions and visits. The cookie updates each time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmz | 6 months | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to evaluate the purpose of a user's visit, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and improvement of the customer experience. |
| __utmc | Session | Performance | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine new visitors. |
| qtag_536854 | 1 year | Targeting and Advertising | This cookie is used by Qubit to collect non-personally identifiable information, for example on visitor behaviour or how they react to marketing communications. |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | 1 year | Functionality | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. |
| _hjDonePolls | 1 year | Functionality | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | 1 year | Functionality | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. |
| _hjDoneTestersWidgets | 1 year | Functionality | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. |
| _hjIncludedInSample | 1 year | Functionality | Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. |
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | 1 year | Functionality | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. |
| _hjid | 1 year | Functionality | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID |
| __hjRecordingLastActivity | Session | Functionality | This should be found in sessionStorage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records). |
| hjTLDTest | Session | Functionality | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | Session | Functionality | User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | Session | Functionality | This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool. |
Cookie Categories
Cookies can be categorized in several ways:
STRICTLY NECESSARY:
These cookies are essential to ensure that the user can navigate and use special features of the site, such as accessing secured areas of a page. Without them, essential parts of the website cannot be used.
PERFORMANCE:
These cookies allow the website to save user preferences, such as language settings, giving the user an improved, more personal experience.
FUNCTIONALITY:
These cookies collect data about user behavior. All data is collected anonymously, and functionality cookies cannot track the user's activities on other websites.
This information is used to compile reports to improve the website. Functionality cookies may also include those which provide a service requested by the user.
TARGETING AND ADVERTISING:
These cookies are used to display ads that are relevant to the user and their interests. These cookies can also be used to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, which the user interacted with during while visiting particular web pages, and allow for communication with potential advertisers.