The type of cookie used on our Website can fall under one of the categories below.
A - Technical Cookies
Technical cookies include navigation or session cookies, cookies analytics and functionality cookies. We do not need to seek your consent to use these cookies.
A.1: Navigation or Session Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary session cookies essential to enable you to move around the Website and use its essential features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. These cookies include session authentication cookies. Without these cookies, necessary services such as shopping baskets or e-billing cannot be provided. We are able to identify you as being logged in to volcom.eu and to ensure that you are able to access the appropriate features. If you choose to disable these cookies, you will be unable to use our Website for ordering our products, but only for browsing. We also use a cookie to track that you have been informed of our use of profiling cookies and consented (if so) to it.
A.2: Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow the Website to remember your online settings (such as your user name, language or location) and provide enhanced, more personalised features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you made to text size, fonts and other parts of web page that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for or to prevent you from receiving services you have already refused. These types of cookies may be first party or third party. Presently we only use first party cookies, and can be session or permanent. When you choose functionalities and services, you agree to our use of the related functionality cookie.
A.3: Analytics Cookies
These cookies are also known as performance cookies and collect information about how you use our Website, so that we can improve the quality of our site and services. Some examples include which pages you visit most often, whether you get error messages from Website pages and whether or not you accept cookies are a few examples. Performance cookies allow us to implement these choices and optimise the way our Website works. All the information that these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore they do not collect personal identification information. These types of cookies may be first party or third party. These cookies include analytics that allow us to obtain statistics about our Website access and browsing, monitor which website our users arrive from, help us improve the Website by measuring usage information and any errors which occur during our users browsing experience, as well as the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, using aggregated information. You can read more about the cookie policy of the third party partners whose performance cookies are used on our site by clicking here.
At any time you can manage your preferences for performance cookies through your browser settings as per section 6 below, or by enabling/disable all third party cookies as per section 7 below.
B - Profiling Cookies
These cookies, which include advertising and targeting cookies, are used by Volcom, our advertising providers and/or third parties to offer you a customised browsing experience by delivering you advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests on third party websites. Cookies are used to identify your preferences and analyse your online interactions and transactions with us. This information is exclusively for the benefit of Volcom and will not be shared with any third party, except with Volcom service providers for the purpose of processing it on our behalf.
Under certain circumstances, especially if you are logged-in on your account, we may combine data collected through the cookies with your personal data for the purposes set out above, unless you have explicitly refused to be the subject of such processing and you have opted out from these type of cookies. We invite you to read our Privacy Policy for full details of how we can process your personal data under such circumstances. Among many types of advertising or targeting cookies, we may use Flash Cookies and Pixel Tags:
• Flash Cookies: We may also use local shared objects, known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences. The amount and type of information collected through Flash cookies and how they work is different from browser cookies. Please be aware that the browser's tools to manage cookies will not remove Flash cookies. To disable flash cookies, please use the setting tool provided by Flashplayer.
• Pixel Tags: If you agreed to being tracked and/or profiled, we may use other tracking technologies (e.g. web beacons, clear gifs) in the communications we send to you. The purpose of these may be to learn about whether you have read or opened the email, whether you have interacted with any link, e.g. by clicking on it, and if so which ones. This information may be combined with other information we have gathered about you, to help us deliver more interesting communications to you, based on your browsing experience and shopping. You can read more about the cookie policy of the third party partners whose profiling cookies are used on our site by clicking here.
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At any time, you can manage your preferences for advertising or targeting cookies through your browser settings as per section 6 below, or by enabling/disable all third party cookies as per section 7 below.
