Our Cookies Policy
WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY. We use cookies to bring you the best experience and to improve the relevance of our communications with you. Your preferences matter to us, we will only use the data for which you give your consent.
For more information on our data policies, please visit our Privacy Policy.
This website uses different categories of cookies (subject to your consent when it is required) on your device to recognise your device's browser for as long as the cookie concerned is valid. The cookies policy applies to any product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference.
The operator and controller of the website can be found in the Privacy Statement.
Please read this policy carefully before using this website. It explains how we use cookies and how you can manage them.
To go directly to the section to manage this website's cookies, click “Make your choice about cookies”.
For more information on our data policies, please visit our Privacy Policy.
This website uses different categories of cookies (subject to your consent when it is required) on your device to recognise your device's browser for as long as the cookie concerned is valid. The cookies policy applies to any product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference.
The operator and controller of the website can be found in the Privacy Statement.
Please read this policy carefully before using this website. It explains how we use cookies and how you can manage them.
To go directly to the section to manage this website's cookies, click “Make your choice about cookies”.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
The CNIL (French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty) defines a cookie as ‘a small text file left on your hard drive by the server of a site you visit. It contains certain data, including:
- the name of the server that created it
- very often a unique number as a user name
- sometimes an expiry date
This information is stored on your computer as a simple text file to which a server has access in order to read and save information.
A cookie is always associated with a unique domain name (that of the server which left it) so that only a request from the same server can have access to it.’
Our site features a system of cookies. The user is therefore informed that cookies can be automatically installed on their internet browser when they visit the site.
Cookies are files sent to a user’s hard drive to make it easier for them to browse a site and for traffic statistics to be acquired or targeted advertising to be introduced based on the user’s browsing habits.
These cookies never contain personal data.
However, the user can block cookies by changing their browser settings.
THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
Cookies used on our website are employed in different ways:
1. Anonymous cookies for analysing traffic and use of our online services
Cookies for statistics on browsing are used to measure our websites’ traffic (e.g. number of visits, average time users spend on the site, features on which they click, etc.). The purpose of these cookies is to improve our website constantly, to ensure that it best meets your requirements.
Cookies that analyse traffic remain strictly anonymous. They cannot be used to identify a visitor or collect their personal data such as their name or IP address.
2. Cookies for remembering sign-in information
On some of our websites you are required to enter information that identifies you so that you can sign in to certain accounts or enjoy access to some services . These websites use cookies that remember details for signing in to your account or for using a special service.
3. Third-party cookies (advertising)
Most of our web-based advertisements are displayed on sites not belonging to DS. There they are arrayed by third parties such as advertising agencies. These third parties use their own cookies to measure how many people have viewed or clicked on a given web banner. These cookies left by third parties depend on the cookies policy of the company who left them. DS Automobiles does not have the access rights to read or create these cookies.
4. Other third-party cookies
DS Automobiles UK uses other third-party cookies to analyse an internet user’s browsing habits on our sites to prompt the user to request, for example, a brochure or a test drive when appropriate. We or our IT service providers produce these cookies to measure traffic to our site’s different sections and content so that we can appraise use of these features and thereby organise them better. These cookies also detect any browsing problems and so serve to improve the user-friendliness of our services. These cookies only produce anonymous statistics on traffic and exclude any personal data. They are also used to personalise our sites based on anonymous data collected from our different web pages. The lifespan of these traffic-measuring cookies is no longer than 90 days.
5. Flash cookies
The site DSautomobiles.co.uk uses Adobe Flash Player to display some of our content. To improve user experience, ‘local shared object’ cookies are used to provide certain features. These flash cookies are not managed by your internet browser but by Adobe Flash Player. Adobe’s website explains how these cookies are used: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/security.
| Partner | Cookie | Term | Description |
| Captify | - | - | Captify are the largest holder of 1st party consumer search data outside of Google, and its unique technology understands the intent of consumers |
| Crazy egg | - | - | Use Crazy Egg to see what's hot and what's not, and to know what your web visitors are doing with tools, such as heatmaps, recordings, A/B testing & more. |
| Google Analytics | - | - | These cookies are used by Google Analytics to measure the performance of our platform. Google Analytics identifies every user on the website and saves information such as session duration and pages viewed. Personal data used for profiling might be combined with information from other Google services and be processed or stored outside of the European Union, including the USA. |
| Hotjar | - | - | Hotjar is a powerful tool that reveals the online behavior and voice of your users. By combining both Analysis and Feedback tools, Hotjar gives you the ‘big picture’ of how to improve your site's user experience and performance/conversion rates. |
| Krux | - | - | Salesforce DMP helps more than 200 leading marketers and media companies deliver more relevant, thus more valuable, consumer experiences by capturing, unifying, and activating data signatures across every device (desktop, mobile, tablet, set-top) and every channel (display, social, search, video), in real time. E |
| Sophus | - | - | We help our clients understand the present so they can create their future. We unify consumer behaviour throughout the digital journey. Because of this unique capability, we’re able to deliver trusted, independent metrics as well as experiences that are richer, more interactive and more engaging than ever before. |
| Usabilla | - | - | At Usabilla, we believe in the power of continuous, visual live user feedback. We develop online tools that help our clients test, measure, and improve both the usability and the UX of their websites. |
| Glassbox | - | - | Glassbox is a digital experience platform that captures, visualizes and analyses billions of digital journeys. The VOC feature enables website surveys which allow us to gain insights to our customers' opinions and experiences when using our digital services. |
| [m]Platform | - | 13m | This GroupM platform will improve advertisers' ability to use audience-defining insights from hundreds of data sources to find and communicate with their consumers across all media. [m]PLATFORM makes it possible for media planners at GroupM agencies to use the most detailed consumer data to achieve results for their clients. |
| Amazon | - | - | Amazon is a DSP managed by GroupM Trading Desk. Amazon is not getting any personal data. Only put conversion pixel to count conversions. Also exist the possibility to implement retargeting pixels. Amazon put cookies to the PSA users to choose the best ads based in their navgation into of the PSA webpage and count conversions to statistics proposes |
| Bing | - | - | These cookies will measure clicks and actions / conversions on this website to optimize advertising campaigns. These online advertisement tracking cookies show you relevant online advertisements based on what you have viewed, what you have clicked on and which website pages you have visited. |
| Campaign Manager | - | - | Campaign Manager is a web-based ad management system for advertisers and agencies. It helps you manage your digital campaigns across websites and mobile. This includes a robust set of features for ad serving, targeting, verification, and reporting. |
| Dynamic Yield | _dy_c_exps, _dycnst, _dycst, _dy_geo, _dyjsession, _dy_lu_ses, _dy_df_geo, _dy_toffset, _dy_soct, _dyfs, _dyid, ,_dy_ses_load_seq, dy_fs_page, _dy_csc_ses | 13months | Dynamic Yield only collects data which may be used to analyze user behavior and to provide personalized experiences. Dynamic Yield does not combine any customer collected data with data collected from other customers, does not determine the purpose of processing, and does not share data with third parties except where required to by law. |
| Glance | These cookies are used by Google Analytics to measure the performance of our platform. Google Analytics identifies every user on the website and saves information such as session duration and pages viewed. Personal data used for profiling might be combined with information from other Google services and be processed or stored outside of the European Union, including the USA. | ||
| Hotjar | Hotjar is a powerful tool that reveals the online behavior and voice of your users. By combining both Analysis and Feedback tools, Hotjar gives you the ‘big picture’ of how to improve your site's user experience and performance/conversion rates. | ||
| Krux | Salesforce DMP helps more than 200 leading marketers and media companies deliver more relevant, thus more valuable, consumer experiences by capturing, unifying, and activating data signatures across every device (desktop, mobile, tablet, set-top) and every channel (display, social, search, video), in real time. E | ||
| Sophus | We help our clients understand the present so they can create their future. We unify consumer behaviour throughout the digital journey. Because of this unique capability, we’re able to deliver trusted, independent metrics as well as experiences that are richer, more interactive and more engaging than ever before. | ||
| Usabilla | At Usabilla, we believe in the power of continuous, visual live user feedback. We develop online tools that help our clients test, measure, and improve both the usability and the UX of their websites. | ||
| Glassbox | Glassbox is a digital experience platform that captures, visualizes and analyses billions of digital journeys. The VOC feature enables website surveys which allow us to gain insights to our customers' opinions and experiences when using our digital services. | ||
| [m]Platform | 13m | This GroupM platform will improve advertisers' ability to use audience-defining insights from hundreds of data sources to find and communicate with their consumers across all media. [m]PLATFORM makes it possible for media planners at GroupM agencies to use the most detailed consumer data to achieve results for their clients. | |
| Amazon | Amazon is a DSP managed by GroupM Trading Desk. Amazon is not getting any personal data. Only put conversion pixel to count conversions. Also exist the possibility to implement retargeting pixels. Amazon put cookies to the PSA users to choose the best ads based in their navgation into of the PSA webpage and count conversions to statistics proposes | ||
| Bing | These cookies will measure clicks and actions / conversions on this website to optimize advertising campaigns. These online advertisement tracking cookies show you relevant online advertisements based on what you have viewed, what you have clicked on and which website pages you have visited. | ||
| Campaign Manager | Campaign Manager is a web-based ad management system for advertisers and agencies. It helps you manage your digital campaigns across websites and mobile. This includes a robust set of features for ad serving, targeting, verification, and reporting. | ||
| Dynamic Yield | _dy_c_exps, _dycnst, _dycst, _dy_geo, _dyjsession, _dy_lu_ses, _dy_df_geo, _dy_toffset, _dy_soct, _dyfs, _dyid, ,_dy_ses_load_seq, dy_fs_page | Dynamic Yield only collects data which may be used to analyze user behavior and to provide personalized experiences. Dynamic Yield does not combine any customer collected data with data collected from other customers, does not determine the purpose of processing, and does not share data with third parties except where required to by law. | |
| Glance | - | - | - |
| Google (YouTube) | We use cookies for many purposes. We use them, for example, to remember your safe search preferences, to make the ads you see more relevant to you, to count how many visitors we receive to a page, to help you sign up for our services, to protect your data, or to remember your ad settings. | ||
| Google Ads | - | - | Google Ads is Google's advertising system in which advertisers bid on certain keywords in order for their clickable ads to appear in Google's search results. Since advertisers have to pay for these clicks, this is how Google makes money from search. Online ad tracking cookies will track engagement with campaigns and show you relevant online advertising based on what you have viewed and clicked, as well as pages of our website that you have visited. |
| Ignition One | - | - | The IgnitionOne Customer Intelligence Platform processes real-time customer data to enable personalized engagement across your marketing channels. |
| Livechat | - | - | Livechat is a software of client chat online |
| QuantCast | - | - | Quantcast processes real-time data at the intersection of commerce and culture, providing useful, actionable insights for brands and publishers. Our Advertise products allow businesses to deliver relevant online advertising to individual consumers. For companies that want to advertise online, our Advertise products help get their ads in front of the people that are most likely to find them interesting. For consumers, we provide ads that are the most useful and relevant to their interests. And for websites, our Advertise products help drive advertising revenue, without which the free Internet we all use every day would not exist. In short, we try to make online advertising more efficient and pleasant for everyone. In order to do all this, we collect and analyze information about individual consumer interests. |
| Salesforce | - | - | - |
| Treasure Data | _td_global, _td |
400 days |
Treasure Data is a customer data platform that uses cookies to differentiate requests from different browsers and to store helpful information that an application can use later. They are also be used to associate browsing information to customer records. In particular, it uses cookies to anonymously define new visitors, help analyze clickstream data, and track historical activity on the website |
| Xaxis | - | - | Xaxis is The Outcome Media Company. It combines advanced artificial intelligence with proprietary data and proven expertise to optimize programmatic media investments and achieve improved, verifiable results for its clients. Xaxis offers managed programmatic services in 47 markets including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. |
| Psyma | Psyma_participation | 30 days | The cookie prevents multiple survey invitations within 30 days. Additionally allows us to carry out market research. |
| Innovid | _pk_uid (Third party persistent) _pk_id.{variable id} or _tq_id.{variable id} (First party persistent) _pk_ses (First party session) | Until 18th June 24 | Cookie which allows the Innovid collector to identify individual users, in order to establish lag between response activities and to confirm continuity of campaigns being responded to. Aids reporting of site visits and actions for analytical reporting to Innovid. Used to confirm an individual user in relation to an individual session, i.e. how long the user is on the website. |
| Epsilon | DotomiStatus | 5 Years | Used to honor device-level opt-out preferences. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | DotomiSync | 12 Months | Used to identify which sync pixels we set on users via registration tags. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | DotomiTest | 1 Day | “Test”, used to check the browser’s ability to accept third party cookies. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | DotomiTestSession | Session | TestSession”, used to ensure only one DotomiTest cookie is set per session to check browser’s ability to accept cookies. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy. - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | dtm_consent | 13 Months | GDPR/ePrivacy consent grant solicited from user. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | dtm_token | 13 Months | Manage cookie level profile, freq. cap, retargeting. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | dtm_token_sc | 13 Months | Epsilon cookie set via headers on registration tags.. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | dtm_user_id | 13 Months | Used to identify users registration. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| Epsilon | dtm_user_id sc | 13 Months | Used to identify users registration. Cookie Placed for Epsilon for the below purposes. More information is available https://legal.epsilon.com/eu/privacy-policy - Storing and/or access information on a device; - Selecting basic Ads; - Creating a Personalised Ads profile; - Selecting Personalised Ads - Creating a personalised content profile - Selecting personalised content - Measuring ad performance - Applying market research to generate audience insights; - Developing and improving products - Ensuring security, preventing fraud and debugging - Technically delivering Ads or content You can withdraw your consent directly with Epsilon at any time by following this link: https://legal.epsilon.com/dsr/ |
| - | 13 months | LinkedIn, a professional networking site, allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. | |
| - | 13 months | Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as tweets . |
TARGETED ADVERTISING: HOW DOES IT WORK?
Cookies are left in a special folder on your computer according to the web pages you have visited. They are capable of remembering:
- The web pages you have visited recently
- The products in which you are interested
- The computer terminal settings (language, country, operating system, browser, etc.) to optimise display next time you visit our sites
DS Automobiles targeted advertising:
The service CentralTag has been appointed by DS Automobiles for internet users to receive targeted advertisements based on their most recent browsing trends (for example, an interest shown in a vehicle while browsing the DS Automobiles sites.
Given that CentralTag is a member of the NAI (Network Advertising Initiative), you can also unsubscribe at http://www.networkadvertising.org/
If you would like our site to no longer collect Krux third-party cookies you can deactivate these cookies at www.youronlinechoices.com
Visit www.youronlinechoices.com to learn more about online behavioural advertising and blocking options related to other companies that are members of the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau).
If an internet user leaves the programme, will that user still receive advertisements?
Yes, it is possible that advertisements will continue to appear, although they will no longer be based on the user’s interests.