Cookie guidelines
Careers website and online applications
Briefly explained: That is a "cookie"
Volkswagen AG uses various cookies on its websites. Cookies are small files containing configuration information that are stored on your end device. There are basically three categories of cookies.
- So-called functional cookies are essential for the functionality of the website. The processing of the functional Cookies is necessary to enable your visit to the website (cf. Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR).
- The comfort of a website visit is increased by so-called comfort cookies, which save your language settings, for example. The legal basis for Comfort Cookies is a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). The legitimate interest is providing comfort when visiting the website. You can object to data processing at any time with effect for the future. Further information can be found in our privacy policy.
- So-called tracking cookies are used to create a pseudonymised user profile. Tracking Cookies are only set if the website visitor has given their consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). Consent is given via the so-called cookie banner, which must be actively clicked on. Further information on the tracking tools used and how you can revoke your consent can be found in the privacy policy.
Within the categories described, different types of cookies are used. The most common types of cookies are explained below for your understanding:
Common cookies: An overview
1. Session cookies
While you are active on a web page, a session cookie is temporarily stored in your computer’s memory. This contains a session ID so that, for example, you do not have to log in again each time you change websites. Session cookies are deleted when you log off, or cease to be valid as soon as your session has automatically expired.
2. Persistent or stored cookies
Persistent cookies save files on your computer until the scheduled expiration date. These cookies enable web pages to remember your information and settings the next time you visit. This makes it easier and quicker to access the web pages; for example, there is no need to re-adjust the language settings for our portal each time you visit. When the expiry date elapses, the cookies are automatically deleted when you visit the web page that created them.
3. Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies come from providers other than the operator of the web page. They may be used for example to collect information for advertising or generate custom content and web statistics.
4. Flash cookies
Flash cookies are stored on your computer as data elements of web pages that use Adobe Flash Player. Flash cookies are not time-limited.
We use these cookies on the website
Name of cookie | Cookie category | Intended use | Storage duration | Type of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
sessionid | Essential Cookie | To use necessary technical aspects, such as load balancing and routing. | 30 days | Session-cookie |
session | Essential Cookie | To use necessary technical aspects, such as load balancing and routing. | 30 days | Session-cookie |
NGRESSCOOKIE | Essential Cookie | To use necessary technical aspects, such as load balancing and routing. | 30 days | Session-cookie |
hmt_id | Essential Cookie | To identify the CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider in order to improve load speeds and to check, whether it is a user who is surfing barrier-free. | 30 says | Session-cookie |
hc_accessibility | Essential Cookie | To use necessary technical aspects, such as barrier-free access. | 30 days | Session-cookie |
at_check | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie is set to determine if a visitor supports cookies. | Session | Session-cookie |
check | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie is set to find out if cookies can be used. | Session | Session-cookie |
__cfduid | Essential Cookie | To use necessary technical aspects, such as load balancing and routing. | 30 days | Session-cookie |
__cflb | Essential Cookie | To use necessary technical aspects, such as load balancing and routing. | 30 days | Session-cookie |
_pk_uid | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | Used with sophus3 analytics to calculate session data via a client identifier. The cookie stores a random value as user ID. | 13 month after last visit | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
auth_fags | Essential Cookie | Base64-Encoded JSON object with the feature app groups and their scopes. This cookie contains meta information which is needed for the login. This meta information indicates for which data groups (Scopes) and which applications of the website the login must be requested. | 7 days / log-out | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
awsalb | Essential Cookie | This cookie checks which load balancer is used for the current session. | 7 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
C | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie checks whether the user's browser supports cookies. | 60 days | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
cid | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie also contains the uid for compatibility reasons. | 61 days | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
csrf_token | Essential Cookie | The cookie is used to avoid Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), an attack on computer systems, during requests. | 7 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
EDAAT | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | EDAAT stores a temporary security token that is used only on EDAA opt out pages such as http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. | 1 hour | Session Cookie |
everest_g_v2 | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores the browser and the "surfer-ID". | 13 month after last visit | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
everest_session_v2 | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores a session id. | Session | Session Cookie |
GCM | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie indicates whether it is necessary to initiate a new cookie match with Adform partners. | 1 day | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
liveagent_chatted | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | Incrementing an internal counter for the acceptance of a chat by an agent. | Session | Session Cookie |
liveagent_invite_rejected | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | If a chat is rejected or ignored, this cookie is set to the value "true". | Session | Session Cookie |
liveagent_oref | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the visitor's original referring URL during the first visit to a page equipped with Live Chat. "Original referrer" is set when the visitor loads a page with live chat code for the first time. This code is saved as plain text and in case of a chat call is passed on to the server. | 10 years | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
liveagent_ptid | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores a unique identifier that is used to create a "live chat visitor" record that references previous chats with the same anonymous visitor. "Permanent tracking id" is a UUID that is permanently stored in a cookie when the visitor first contacts a live chat visitor. This is used to bring together the different chats of a visitor. | 11 years | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
liveagent_sid | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This Cookie stores the visitor's session key. This key is stored in a session cookie on the first contact with the Live Agent server. It is only saved when the chat is started. It is a single session SID only for this chat. | Session | Session Cookie |
liveagent_vc | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | Stores the number of chats that the visitor has had in the past. | 24 hours | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
otsid | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie contains a list of the advertiser IDs for which there is a user-based opt-out. | unlimited | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
psyma_block | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie indicates that the invitation layer was displayed to the visitor | 30 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
psyma_participation | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie is used to define the selection probability during the cookie duration and to avoid multiple invitations to the survey. | 30 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
s_ivc | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores true or false depending on an active session of the visitor. | 1 year | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
s_plt | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the time, in seconds, that the previous page took to load. | Session | Session Cookie |
s_pltp | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookies save the value of the page name as recorded in the previous Adobe Analytics image request. | Session | Session Cookie |
salt | Essential Cookie | The salt is a randomly generated code, which is part of the encryption mechanism for the website login. This cookie is required for the secure encryption of the tokens created for login. It is the client-side component of the key used. | 7 days / log-out | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
sc_v17 | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores the price rate. | Session | Session Cookie |
sc_v44 | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookies stores the internal campaign tracking code. | Session | Session Cookie |
sc_prevref | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores the url of the previous page. | Session | Session Cookie |
sc_v49 | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookies stores the vanity domain. | Session | Session Cookie |
sd_survey_client | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores a unique, randomly generated ID and meta information about user surveys, such as a survey ID and display timestamp. | 1 year | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
SESSION | Essential Cookie | This cookie stores the user session at login. | 7 days / log-out | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
smartSignals2CP | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores information on whether a visitor has been shown personalised content. | 30 minutes | Session Cookie |
SR<RotatorID> | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie contains information for the playout of sequential rotators and supports Adform in not exceeding daily values of clicks and impressions. | 1 day | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
TDCPM | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | Trade Desk Cookie Partner Mapping (TDCPM) records which partners The Trade Desk has matched IDs with in order to avoid redundant matching calls. | 365 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
TDID | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | Trade Desk ID (TDID) is the main cookie and ID used to recognize web browser profiles over time across sites. | 365 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
test | Essential Cookie | This cookie is set to determine if a visitor supports cookies. If so, the cookie will be deleted immediately. | Session | Session Cookie |
token | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie contains a token to ensure the security of the opt-out. | Session | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
TPC | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie checks whether the user's browser supports 3rd party cookies. | 14 days | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
TTDOptOut | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | TTDOptOut stores a static value that records the user's decision to opt out. It should be exclusive of the other cookies so that The Trade Desk does not have an ID on the browser when the TTDOptOut cookie is present. | 5 years | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
TTDOptOutOfDataSale | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | TTDOptOutOfDataSale stores a static value that records the user's decision to opt out of the selling of data to third parties. | 5 years | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
uid | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | This cookie contains the User-ID. | 60 days | Third-party cookie (AdForm DSP) |
UZ_TI_dc_value | Essential Cookie | This cookie tracks the study ID or segment ID depending on the value of UZ_TI_dc_value. A user will only be prompted to intercept the site if this cookie is not present or has expired. Its expiry date is controlled by the "Re-invite all users after x days" field in the cookie settings. | 20 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
UZ_TI_S_<ID> | Essential Cookie | The cookie records whether a different cookie is used for each segment. | 20 days | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
smartSignals2UiD | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie contains a unique, randomly generated ID for a website user. This ID is used to recognise the user across different sessions. The cookie is only set if the user has given their consent. The ID is not linked to the user’s IP address. | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
AMCV_* | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the visitor’s Adobe Experience Cloud ID. | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
AMCVS_* | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie only saves the value 1 for the active session. This defines that a session is active. Other Experience Cloud solutions may require this information under certain circumstances. | session | Session-cookie |
demdex | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores the Adobe Demdex ID. It is a 3rd party cookie and can therefore identify a user across domains to Adobe products. | 6 months | Persistent or stored cookies |
dextp | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the time of the last data synchronisation call. | 6 months | Persistent or stored cookies |
dpm | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the information that a visitor ID was requested for syncing purposes. | 6 months | Persistent or stored cookies |
s_vi | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie is either a first or third-party cookie and contains a generic, unique visitor ID and a timestamp. Both are used to recognise a visitor when they return to the site. | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
s_fid | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie is a first-party cookie and contains a generic, unique visitor ID in case the “s_vi” cookie could not be set. The cookie is used to recognise a visitor when they return to the site. | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
s_ecid | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the visitor ID from the “AMCV_*” cookie in the MCMID|<ECID> format. | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
s_cc | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the information as to whether cookies have been activated (“true” when cookies are active). | session | Session-cookie |
adbCDP | Comfort Cookie | This cookie saves the number of points contained in the TopLevel domain, e.g. “2” for www.volkswagen.de. This allows processing time to be saved in the browser. | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
s_invisit | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores the information as to whether the visitor is visiting this domain for the first time. The values are “true” or “false”. | session | Session-cookie |
s_sq | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie is stored once the visitor has consented to the data collection. It contains the link addresses that were clicked on in the previous page within the website area of the domain. This data enables a ClickMap to be created. The Adobe Analytics ClickMap is a graphic illustration of the clicks on elements on a particular page. | session | Session-cookie |
sc_appvn | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the respective application (website, e.g. CarNet) and the number of the visit in the respective application (e.g. “CMS:01”, “CarNet:03”). | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
sc_prevpage | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the name of the previously visited page within the website area of the domain. All cookies are only set _after_ consent to data collection has been given. | session | Session-cookie |
sc_prop32 | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie saves the application. In the Volkswagen context, applications include CarNet or CarConfigurator, for instance. | 2 years | Persistent or stored cookies |
TDCPM | Tracking Cookie (Marketing) | Trade Desk Cookie Partner Mapping (TDCPM) records which partners The Trade Desk has matched IDs with in order to avoid redundant matching calls. | 1 year | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
smartSignals2sUiD | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie contains an anonymous unique ID for a website user. This ID is used to recognize the user over different sessions. The data collected in this way is used for analysis and anonymous personalization of the site. | 1 year | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
mbox | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | The cookie contains various values to manage how visitors experience the campaigns. E.g. a session ID and a browser ID that identifies the user’s browser (as long as no cookies are deleted). | 2 days | Persistent or stored cookies |
mboxEdgeCluster | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | Identifies the Adobe Target Edge Server. | 30 minutes | Persistent or stored cookies |
X-Salesforce-eLB | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | Routing und Load Balancing für Performance-optimierung. | Session | Session-Cookie |
s_vnum | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores the current timestamp and the number of the session. | 13 month after last visit | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
s_vnc365 | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookie stores a timestamp and the number of visits of a visitor. In this way, it is possible to determine how often a visitor returns within cookie storage period. | 1 year | Permanent/Protokoll |
sc_pCmp | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | This cookies stores the campaign tracking code for 7 days. The "Campaign Tracking Code" is provided, for example, when a customer has clicked on a Volkswagen banner ad on an external page and has thus reached the Volkswagen target page. | 1 year | Permanent/Protocol Cookie |
X-Salesforce-eLB | Tracking Cookie (Analytics & Personalization) | Routing and Load Balancing for performance optimisation. | Session | Session Cookie |
inbenta-km-session-id | Essential Cookie | Stores the session ID so that all actions of a user belong to the same session. | Session | Session Cookie |
inbenta-km-session-token | Essential Cookie | Stores the session token so that all actions of a user belong to the same session. | Session | Session Cookie |
Cookie category
Essential Cookie
Intended use
To use necessary technical aspects, such as load balancing and routing.
Storage duration
30 days
Type of cookie
Session-cookie
Ensighten Privacy (Cookie Consent Management)
Name of cookie | Cookie category | Intended use | Storage duration | Type of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_BANNER_VIEWED | Essential Cookie | This cookie saves information on whether the cookie guidelines banner was displayed to the user. | 1 year | permanent/protokoll |
VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_MODAL_VIEWED | Essential Cookie | This cookie saves whether the cookie manager was displayed to the user. | 1 year | permanent/protokoll |
VWD6_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_<Category Name> | Essential Cookie | This cookie saves information on whether a user has given their consent to the use of the corresponding cookie category. | 1 year | permanent/protokoll |
Cookie category
Essential Cookie
Intended use
This cookie saves information on whether the cookie guidelines banner was displayed to the user.
Storage duration
1 year
Type of cookie
permanent/protokoll
Cookies in our job portal and online application tool
Name of cookie | Cookie category | Intended use | Storage duration | Type of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
sap_usercontext | Essential Cookie | User language & SAP Mandant | session | session-cookie |
MYSAPSSO2 | Essential Cookie | After logon, it used to redirect to the original application. | session | session-cookie |
TS012df47b | Essential Cookie | After logon, it used to redirect to the original application. | session | session-cookie |
TS01b35807
| Essential Cookie | After logon, it used to redirect to the original application. | session | session-cookie |
SAP_SESSIONID_APF_100 | Essential Cookie | After logon, it used to redirect to the original application. | session | session-cookie |
Cookie category
Essential Cookie
Intended use
User language & SAP Mandant
Storage duration
session
Type of cookie
session-cookie