Global Cookies and Similar
Technology Policy
This Cookie Policy is effective as of January 1, 2021
Below is information about how A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S and our affiliates use
cookies and other similar technology on this website.
You agree that we can place cookies and
other similar technology on your device, including on your mobile device/s. By
continuing to use this website, including from your mobile device to access this
website, you agree that the following information may be collected: your unique
device identifier, IP address, information about your device’s operating
system, mobile carrier and your location information (to the extent permissible
under applicable law).
What
are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small
amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device
when you visit a site and allow a site to recognize your device, as well as
information collected which allows to uniquely identify users based on their
browser configuration.
Why
do we use cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies lets you navigate between pages
efficiently and remembers your preferences and generally improves your user
experience. Cookies ensure that the advertisements you see online are more
relevant to you and your interests.
Do we
use cookies for marketing and analytics?
We may use information collected from our
cookies to identify user behaviour and to serve content and offers based on
your profile, and for the other purposes described below, to the extent legally
permissible in certain jurisdictions.
Some of the cookies we use don't collect
information that identifies a visitor. For example –
· Statistical cookies (see below)
·
Marketing cookies (see below)
where you are not a registered user
In other cases, we can associate cookie
information (including information from cookies placed via our advertisements
on third party sites) with an identifiable individual. For example –
·
If we send you a targeted email
which includes web beacons, cookies or similar technologies we may know whether
you open, read, or delete the message.
·
When you click a link in a
marketing e-mail you receive from us, we may also use a cookie to log what pages
you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not
registered at or signed into our site
·
Combining and analysing
personal data – As described above, we may combine data from publicly available
sources, and from our different e-mail, website, and personal interactions with
you (this includes information collected across our different websites such as
our careers and corporate sites and information collected when you sign-up or
log on to our sites or connect to our sites using your social media
credentials. We combine this data to better assess your experience with us and
to perform the other activities described throughout our privacy policy.
Do
you use any cookies from third party companies?
Some cookies we
use are placed by third party companies, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla
Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IOS, Android, etc. These companies may use programming
code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the
pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our sites. This
code is only active while you are on (business team/project team to complete
the name of the relevant Maersk company/brand/entity) website. For more
information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf,
please refer to their privacy policies: For Internet Explorer a help guide is
available here,
for Mozilla a help guide is available here,
for Chrome a help guide is available here,
for Safari a help guide is available here, for IOS a help guide is available here, for Android a help
guide is available here.
Do we
use any non-cookie tracking technologies?
We may also use web beacons (including
conversion pixels) or other technologies for similar purposes as above and we
may include these on our sites, in marketing e-mail messages or our newsletter,
affiliated websites, to determine whether messages have been opened and links
clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device, but they may
work in conjunction with cookies to monitor website activity. The information
provided below about cookies also applies to web beacons and similar
technologies. Conversion pixels are small codes located on a particular web
page which are triggered when someone visits a page resulting in an increase in
the conversion count.
What
if I don’t want cookies?
By using our site, you agree that we can
place cookies on your terminal and device as explained below. If you want to
remove existing cookies from your terminal and device, you can do this using
your browser options. If you want to block future cookies being placed on your
terminal and device, you can change your browser settings to do this.
Please bear in mind that deleting and
blocking cookies may have an impact on your user experience as parts of the
site may no longer work. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to
block cookies, our system may issue cookies as soon as you visit our site or
click on a link in a targeted email that we have sent you, even if you have
previously deleted our cookies.
We use both session and persistent cookies:
Strictly
Necessary cookies. These cookies are essential in
order to enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as
accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services you have
asked for cannot be provided:
-
Registered Visitor cookie – A
unique identifier given to each registered user, used to recognize them through
their visit and when they return to the site
Statistical
cookies - These cookies collect information about
your visit and use of this website, for instance which pages you visit the most
often, and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't
collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies
collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how this website works.
-
Referrer URL (internal page) –
Used to store the URL of the previous page visited. Allows us to track how
visitors navigate throughout our site.
-
Referrer URL (external page,
including if you click on links on our social media pages) – Used to store the
URL which refers a visitor to our site so we may understand which URLs are
referring visitors to our site.
-
URL history – Used to store the
pages visited by a user.
-
Unregistered Visitor cookie – A
unique identifier given to each visitor to allow analysis on how unregistered
visitors use our site.
-
Session Management cookies –
These cookies allow us to follow the actions of a user on our sites during a
browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window,
visits our sites and finishes when they leave our sites and close their browser
window. Our Session Management cookies are created temporarily. Once you close
your browser, our Session Management cookies are deleted.
Functional
cookies
These cookies allow a site to remember
choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in)
and provide more enhanced, personal features. These cookies cannot track your
browsing activity on other websites. They don’t gather any information about
you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the
Internet outside our site.
-
Registered Visitor cookie – A
unique identifier given to each registered user to our site, used to serve them
content and offers based on their profiles. Also used for analysis and
marketing purposes.
Marketing
cookies - These cookies are used to (1) deliver
advertisements more relevant to you and your interests; (2) limit the number of
times you see an advertisement; (3) help measure the effectiveness of the
advertising campaign; and (4) understand people’s behaviour after they view an
advertisement. They are usually placed on behalf of advertising networks with
the site operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a site and
quite often they will be linked to site functionality provided by the other
organization.
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Analytics and intelligence
cookies
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Third Party cookies. The
Targeting cookies may also be used on third party websites and third parties
may use them on our websites as follows:
o
Social media sites –
Third-party social media sites may log information about you. This may include
activities such as when you click a "Like" button for a social media
site while on our site. We do not control such sites or their activities. You
may be able to find information about social media sites on the sites themselves.
We recommend you read the terms of use and privacy policy of such sites before
using them.
Maersk advertisements on non-Maersk sites –
Cookies may be placed on non-Maersk sites so that when you click on a Maersk
advertisement located on these sites, Maersk is provided with this information
to enable us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising
This cookie declaration shows what domains receive data from cookies on this website. The cookie declaration is updated monthly by Cookie Information. If you have any questions, please write to info@cookieinformation.com.