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This website is owned and operated by Opel Automobile GmbH. The registered office of Opel Automobile GmbH is situated in Germany at Bahnhofsplatz, 65423 Rüsselsheim.
This website is hosted in Europe by our IT-service provider Fair Computer Systems (FCS), Ostendstr. 132, 90482 Nürnberg, Germany.
Please read this policy carefully before using this website because it explains how we will process personal data. Using this website indicates that you accept this policy.
1. Use of cookies
This website, email messaging, online services, advertisements and interactive applications use “cookies” for optimizing our services.
What is a “cookie”?
A “cookie” is a small file, typically of letters and numbers that we send to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk by our web server. The main purpose of a cookie is to allow our web server to present the user with customized web pages that make the experience when visiting the Opel website more personal and better responding to the user’s individual needs.
Some cookies are important for the functionality of this Website and are automatically activated when visited by the users. Some cookies allow us to provide the user with services and functions that best suit their needs, and to tailor our service to them to ensure easy and fast operation of the website.
What kind of cookies does this website use?
Opel uses
Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that are stored in the cookie file of your browser until you end your browser session. Those cookies are mandatory for certain applications or functionalities on this Website to work properly.
and
Persistent cookies
We may use persistent cookies for a better user experience (e.g. providing optimized navigation). Those cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for a longer period. This time period will depend on the choice you make in the settings of your internet browser. Persistent cookies allow information to be passed to a web server each time someone visits the website. Persistent cookies are also known as tracking cookies.
Opel uses especially three types of cookies on this website:
• Strictly necessary cookies
• Performance cookies
• Functionality cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
These strictly necessary cookies are essential in order to enable user to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, some services can’t be provided, e.g. navigating back to a page in the same session. Strictly necessary cookies can’t be disabled using the features of this website. You can however completely disable cookies in your browser at any time.
Your consent is not required for the use of strictly necessary cookies.
These cookies are used exclusively by myOpel and are therefore known as first-party cookies. They are only saved on your computer while you are actually browsing the website.
Performance cookies
Performance cookies are used by tools that monitor visitor behaviour on our website, e.g. which pages our visitors open most often and how long our visitors stay on a page. These cookies don’t save information that would allow you to be identified. These cookies are used exclusively to help us improve our information and services on the website, and with it the user experience.
Functionality cookies
These cookies enable a website to save information about choices the user has made (e.g. cookie settings). These cookies collect anonymous information and cannot track the user’s behaviour on other websites.
Name: | Origin: | Description: | Expiry Date | Category | Opt-Out |
.AspNetCore.Session,.AspNetCore.Identity.Application, .AspNetCore.Mvc.CookieTempDataProvider | myOpel | These cookies are needed to identify the user session on the server. The user session on the server keeps data which are required when switching between pages on the website. | Session | Strictly necessary | see paragraph 6 |
BALANCEID | myOpel | A load balancer is used in myOpel to distribute the workloads across multiple servers. This ensures optimized resource usage, maximized throughput and minimized response time. This cookie is needed to identify the server where a session is actually running. | Session | Strictly necessary | see paragraph 6 |
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery | myOpel | This cookie is needed to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery | Session | Strictly necessary | see paragraph 6 |
DCROPENIDAP | myOpel | These cookies are needed to identify the user session on the server. The user session on the server keeps data which are required when switching between pages on the website. | Session | Strictly necessary | see paragraph 6 |
s_cc (Cookie check) | Adobe Analytics | This cookie performs a check to see if the browser cookies are enabled. If the value is true, there is a cookie redirect that occurs. If the value is false, this means cookies have been disabled and cannot be used to show visitor uniqueness. | Session | Performance | http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
s_sq (clickmap data) | Adobe Analytics | This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality is enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user. | Session | Performance | http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
c_m | Adobe Analytics | This cookie is used record visitor count. | Session | Performance | http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
s_ev66 | Adobe Analytics | This cookie is used record visitor count. | None | Performance | http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
maps.googleapis.com | Google Maps | This cookie is used to retrieve data and passes it to the map to show the dealer’s location. | Session | Functionality | see paragraph 6 |
Name: | Origin | Description | Expiry Date | Category | Opt-Out |
.AspNet.Consent | myOpel | This cookie performs a check to see if the browser cookies are enabled. If the value is true, there is a cookie redirect that occurs. If the value is false, this means cookies have been disabled and cannot be used to show visitor uniqueness. | After 1 year | Functionality | Ignore Cookie-Consent Message-Box see paragraph 6 |
brutForce | myOpel | This cookie is a security cookie to block the bruteforce of the login Page | 1min | Strictly necessary | see paragraph 6 |
CVSCookie | myOpel | These cookies are needed to identify the user session on the server. The user session on the server keeps data which are required when switching between pages on the website | 2h | Strictly necessary | see paragraph 6 |
.AspNetCore.OpenIdConnect Identity.External Identity.ExternalC1 Identity.ExternalC2 |
myOpel | These cookies are needed to identify the user session on the server. The user session on the server keeps data which are required when switching between pages on the website. | 60 minutes | Strictly necessary | see paragraph 6 |
s_vi |
Adobe Analytics | Unique visitor ID time/date stamp is stored to identify a unique visitor. | Persistent | Performance | http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
s_nr, s_nr2 | Adobe Analytics | The cookie stores the date of visit and if the visitor is new or returning. | Persistent | Performance | http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
nmfirstparty: Hits into Vouchers | Adobe Analytics | The cookie measures clicks in order to optimise advertising. | 6 months | Performance | http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
_ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
_gid | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
_gat | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. | 1 minute | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
AMP_TOKEN | Google Analytics | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
_gac_<property-id> | Google Analytics | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. | 90 days | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
__utma | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
__utmt | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. | 10 minutes | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
__utmb | Google Analytics | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 mins from set/update | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
__utmc | Google Analytics | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | End of browser session | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
__utmz | Google Analytics | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months from set/update | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
__utmv | Google Analytics | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update | Performance | see paragraph 6 |
Opel Automobile GmbH
Bahnhofsplatz
65423 Rüsselsheim am Main
GERMANY
E-Mail: kontakt@opel-infoservice.de
Hotline +49 (0)6142 911 9800.
Monday to Friday 8.00am - 8.00pm.
Saturday: 9.00am – 5.00pm.
Data Protection Officer