Cookies

What are cookies and how do they work?

Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded to the devices you use to browse the NEC Group’s websites. Your browser makes these cookies available every time you visit the website again, so it can recognise you and can then tailor what you see on your device. Cookies are an important part of the internet. They make using devices and accessing online information much smoother and affect lots of the useful features of websites. There are many different uses for cookies and other tracking categories, but they fall into six main groups:

1. Cookies that are needed to provide the content, product or service you have asked for (Essential Website Cookies)

Some cookies are essential so you can move around websites and use their features. Without these cookies, content, products or services you've asked for can't be provided.

Here are some examples of essential cookies:

  • Positioning information on a smartphone screen, tablet device or other screen so that you can see the website and use its functionality.
  • Session management cookies which ensure uninterrupted navigation during form submissions.
  • Distributing server requests to improve performance and reliablity. 

2. Improving your browsing experience (Enhanced Functionality Cookies)

Cookies allow the application or website to remember choices you make, such as your language or region and they provide improved features.

Here are a few examples of just some of the ways that cookies are used to improve your experience on our applications and websites:

  • Remembering your preferences and settings, including marketing preferences.
  • Remembering if you've filled in a survey, so you're not asked to do it again.
  • Remembering if you've been to the application or website before.
  • Showing 'related article' links that are relevant to the information you're looking at.

3. Analytics Cookies

We like to keep track of what websites, information and links are popular and which ones don't get used so much, to help us keep our information relevant and up to date. It's also very useful to be able to identify trends of how people navigate (find their way through) our information and when and where 'error messages' may originate.

This group of cookies, often called 'analytics cookies' are used to gather this information. The information collected is grouped with the information from everyone else’s cookies. We can then see the overall patterns of usage rather than any one person’s activity. Analytics cookies are used to improve how an application, a website and its pages work.

4. Other tracking technologies

Our applications, web locations, websites and communications you get from us contain small invisible images known as 'web beacons' or ' pixels'. These are used to manage the interaction between you and the online information or email and allow us to assess the effectiveness of the communication.

5. Third-party cookies

Some cookies are used and provided by third-party sources. 

For details of which third-party cookies are used on our sites please view the Cookie Settings, which can be accessed at the bottom left-hand side of all of our sites: 

6. How can I disable or block cookies?

When you first visit an NEC Group page, you will be asked to set your cookie preferences. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by visiting cookie settings, which can be accessed at the bottom left-hand side of all of our sites.

Dec 2024