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Cookies Policy

Last updated date: 2026-3-26

 

Welcome to www.geely.com! Geely Auto International Corporation ("Geely" or "we") has created this Cookie Policy as we respect your privacy and value Internet security. This Policy describes the types of cookies we use on our website and explains what cookies are and how we use them.

 

We may use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience when you visit our website. These cookies are related to you, your preferences, or your device. Usually, they are not for identification, but to provide a more personalized website experience for you. We respect your right to personal information. You can choose to block certain types of cookies, but that may affect your experience in using our website and the services we provide for you.

 

We will use cookies to record your choices in our cookie privacy manager. You need to tell us your preferences again if

• you revisit our website after deleting your cookies.

• you visit our website through a different device or browser.

 

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on the browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies collect data about your device and interactions with the website such as the browser type, operating system, IP address, device type, location, browsing date and time, and your language preferences.

 

Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work better or more efficiently and report information. Those set by website owners are "first-party cookies". Those set by parties other than site owners are "third-party cookies". The third-party cookies allow third-party functions (including advertising, interactive content, and analytics) on or through the website. Parties that create these third-party cookies can identify you when you visit relevant websites or other websites.

 

2. Why do we use cookies?

For technical reasons, we need to create some cookies to ensure the operation of our website. Such cookies are "strictly necessary". Other cookies also enable us to further understand our user preferences so that we can optimize the user experience on our website.

 

3. What types of cookies are used and how we use them?

The cookies on the website www.geely.com have been categorized according to the ICC UK Cookie Guide. The following are the main types of cookies we use and the reasons we use them:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website and thus cannot be closed on our website. Their settings are usually made according to your operations, equivalent to requesting services. You can configure your browser to block the use of these cookies, but this may make some functions of the website unavailable. While they generally do not store information that directly identifies you in the real world, they utilize unique technical identifiers to remember your essential legal choices.

 

- Provider: consentmanager

  - Cookie name: _cmpcccx*

  - Purpose: Temporary functional storage for the user interface state of the consent management banner

  - Expiration: 14 days, 44 minutes

 

 - Provider: consentmanager

  - Cookie name: _cmpconsent*


  - Purpose: Primary legal ledger storing the base64-encoded string of exact tracking purposes and vendors the user has permitted

 

  - Expiration: 90 days

 

- Provider: consentmanager

 

  - Cookie name: _cmpcccu*

 

  - Purpose: Auxiliary storage used by the platform to maintain preferences, facilitating cross-domain consent synchronization

 

  - Expiration: 365 days

 

- Provider: consentmanager

 

  - Cookie name: _cmpconsent*

 

  - Purpose: Primary ledger storing the base64-encoded string of exact tracking purposes and vendors the user has permitted

 

  - Expiration: 365 days

 

- Provider: consentmanager

 

  - Cookie name: _cmpccc*

 

- Purpose: Manages the core UI state of the consent banner (e.g., recording if the prompt is currently active or dismissed)

 

  - Expiration: 365 days

 

- Provider: consentmanager

 

  - Cookie name: _cmpconsent*

 

  - Purpose: Primary legal ledger storing the base64-encoded string of exact tracking purposes and vendors the user has permitted

 

  - Expiration: 365 days

 

Functional/Preferences Cookies

These cookies enable websites to provide enhanced functions and personalized information and remember custom settings, such as text sizes and fonts that may be set by third-party providers. We have added their services to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, part or all of such services may not work properly. These cookies cache the necessary data for these specific tools to operate and generally do not collect information that directly confirms your real-world identity.

 

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

  - Cookie name: POWERAPPS.LRUQUEUE

  - Purpose: Manages an internal memory queue (Least Recently Used) for caching local states withing embedded Microsoft PowerApps or Copilot environments

  - Expiration: Persistent

 - Provider: Microsoft Corporation

  - Cookie name: ShellSettings_ESC_ClientCache_CopilotStudio_Default_PROD

  - Purpose: Caches the configuration and environment settings for a Copilot Studio integration, allowing the application to load quickly

  - Expiration: Persistent

 

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

 

  - Cookie name: ecs.cache.copilot-studio-ecs-feature-client.metadata

 

  - Purpose: Stores the technical metadata related to the cache above (like ETags and expiration timestamps) so the browser knows when to refresh the data

  - Expiration: Persistent

 

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

 

  - Cookie name: ecs.cache.copilot-studio-ecs-feature-client

 

 - Purpose: Stores the actual payload of cached feature flags ensuring the embedded tool loads the correct active UI features

  - Expiration: Persistent

 

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

 

  - Cookie name: i18next.translate.boo

 

- Purpose: Caches specific translation strings or localization fallbacks to support a seamless, multilingual user experience

 

  - Expiration: Persistent

 

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

 

  - Cookie name: i18nextLng

 

  - Purpose: Stores the user's specific language choice (e.g., French fr-FR) for the interface using the standard i18next open-source internationalization framework

 

  - Expiration: Persistent

  

Analytics Cookies

In order to analyze how you use our website and measure the success of our marketing, cookies from Google's analytics service and Microsoft's telemetry infrastructure are placed on your browser. These cookies assign a random ID to your browser to distinguish you as a visitor and identify patterns in your website usage. We collect information such as your anonymized IP address, general location, and details on how you interact with our website (e.g., what you click on, the website you navigated from, and your number of visits).

This information is used to optimize website performance, improve loading speeds, and adapt our content and marketing to better suit our visitors. You can manage or block these cookies at any time using our Privacy Settings banner. Additionally, you can avoid cookies from Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

If you block or delete these cookies, we will have less data to improve our website's digital experience and marketing.

 

- Provider: Google Ireland Ltd

  - Cookie name: _ga_*

  - Purpose: Used by Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to store and update the active session state and page views for the specific container ID

  - Expiration: 365 days

- Provider: Google Ireland Ltd

  - Cookie name: _ga

  - Purpose: Registers a unique client identifier (Client ID) to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website, tracking user behavior across pages

  - Expiration: 365 days

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

  - Cookie name: MC1

  - Purpose: An analytics cookie used to track visitor behavior and identify users across Microsoft domains, often injecting a unique GUID for telemetry profiling

  - Expiration: 365 days

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

  - Cookie name: MS0

  - Purpose: Associates user sessions with Microsoft's telemetry infrastructure to monitor site performance and user engagement with embedded Microsoft tools

  - Expiration: 28 minutes

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

  - Cookie name: MicrosoftApplicationsTelemetryDeviceId

  - Purpose: Collects specific device and interaction telemetry for embedded Microsoft appliations (like PowerApps or Copilot) to measure usage rates and errors

  - Expiration: Session

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

  - Cookie name: [Weekday] [Month] [DD] [YYYY] [HH]:[II]:[SS]*

  - Purpose: A standard timestamp string logging mechanism, typically used for tracking session duration or specific user interaction timelines within the application

  - Expiration: Persistent

- Provider: Microsoft Corporation

  - Cookie name: [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]T[HH]:[II]:[SS]*

  - Purpose: An ISO-formatted timestamp logging mechanism. Like the item above, it records telemetry data, but in machine-readable format

 

Third party providers

Some cookies on our website are set by third-party providers. Each provider has its own privacy policy that governs how they collect and process data. We encourage you to review these policies to understand how your data is handled:

- Google Ireland Ltd - provides website analytics through Google Analytics and tag management through Google Tag Manager. For more information, see Google's Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Data Processing Terms.

- Microsoft Corporation - provides the AI-powered virtual assistant and embedded application tools on our website. For more information, see Microsoft's Privacy Statement.

 

4. How to control or delete cookies

You have the right to accept or reject the use of cookies on the website. You can set the use of cookies by configuring them in your browser. The options in the Privacy Settingsallow you to accept or reject the collected cookies. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be rejected considering their strict necessity to serve you. Taking Google Chrome as an example, users can manage requests for cookie collection by navigating to Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies (or Site settings).

 

The options in Privacy Settings can be found on the cookie banner or by clicking the persistent "Privacy settings" button located at the bottom of our website.If you choose to reject cookies, you can still access our website, but restrictions may be imposed on certain functions and areas of the website. You can also configure or modify the website browser settings to accept or reject cookies. As the way to reject cookies via website browser settings varies from one browser to another, you are recommended to visit the Help menu on the browser for more information. You can update your preferences at any time. Most devices (such as mobile apps) and browsers (such as webpage apps and pages) allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually located in the Options or Preferences menu of the browser. The following link provides information about the management of cookies on a frequently used browser. You can also acquire more information using the Help option in your browser.

• Google Chrome

• Microsoft Edge

• Mozilla Firefox

• Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Opera

• Apple Safari

 

For information about other browsers, please visit the website of browser developers. For any questions about changing your preference settings, please contact us at

geelyauto.privacy@geely.com.

 

5. REVISIONS

We will update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our operations and services. When revisions to this Cookies Policy are issued, we will revise the "Last updated date" at the beginning of this Cookies Policy. For any material changes to the way we collect, use and/or share the information contained in the cookies, we will inform you by posting a change notice in a conspicuous location when you log in to our website or use our services. Therefore, please check this Cookie Policy on a regular basis to understand our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates the latest updated date.

 

6. For more information?

For more information about cookies and their applications on the Internet, the following link may be helpful:

• All About Cookies

 

7. Cookies set in the past

If you have previously accepted cookies and later choose to block or withdraw your consent, we will stop collecting any new data through those cookies immediately. Any information collected by those cookies prior to your withdrawal may be retained for a limited period in accordance with the data retention practices of the relevant third-party providers (Google Ireland Ltd and Microsoft Corporation), but will only be used for the same purposes for which it was originally collected. We will not use previously collected cookie data for any new or unrelated purpose.

 

8. Contact us

For any questions or comments about this Policy or general privacy matters, please contact us at geelyauto.privacy@geely.com.