1. Purpose.
APM Terminals uses functional, analytical and tracking cookies on its website www.apmterminals.com. This statement provides more details on cookies and other techniques used by us. We may change this statement from time to time. Therefore, we would advise you to regularly check our website to find out whether any changes have been made to this statement.
Version date: 2nd July 2018
2. What are cookies
Our websites use cookies. A cookie is a small text file, which is stored on your computer in order to recognize your computer at recurring visits. The cookie may transmit information via your browser with a purpose of authenticating or identifying the computer (via e.g. the IP address) or the user. Cookies may contain information such as registration data and user preferences. When a server receives a request from a computer which stores a cookie from the website, the server is able to use the information stored in the cookie in combination with the information stored on the server. A cookie cannot collect information from your computer and cannot carry any vira or other damaging files.
Cookies may be ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies. Cookies that are persistent will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless the cookie is deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie will expire at the end of a session, in other words, when the web browser is closed.