Cookie Notice

1. Introduction

We use cookies in interacting with you and devices used by you to browse our website. We recommend that you learn how we use cookies by reading about how we use cookies and our Privacy Policy.

2. What are cookies?

2.1 Many websites use cookies that are invisible to you and that allow the placing of a small text file on your device. This stores information about settings on your device and enables functionality of features on our website. Cookies may also allow that information on your device is collected by the website and stored. You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

2.2 Some cookies are essential to allow you to use the features on our website. If you do not agree to us using essential cookies you will not receive the benefit of viewing all the features on the website.

2.3 While cookies make your use of a website easy, they are not solely controlled by the website owner and you can control what cookies are placed on your device. We provide clear information about how cookies may be used on our website and provide you with the ability to allow or deny the cookies that we may use.

3. Why do we use cookies?

These files serve a number of useful purposes to you, including:

3.1 ensuring the website functions correctly;

3.2 granting you access to restricted content;

3.3 tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences, language, location or device type;

3.4 improving how our website performs;

3.5 understanding who our audience is, so that we can provide content most relevant to you;

3.6 allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and

3.7 helping us deliver interest-based advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.

4. Your consent to cookies

4.1 The cookies used on our website are detailed in the “Cookie Table” [add link to cookie table]. Their use is described and the period of expiry of stored information is indicated.

4.2 We only use cookies if we have your consent which is indicated by selecting YES. If you have previously granted consent and you wish to withdraw consent you can always do so by selecting NO.

4.3 Third parties may also use cookies. You must take care that if you access linked websites, third party plug-ins that can be used on our website, or advertising appearing on our website, that you check how they may use cookies. We are not responsible for how third parties control the use of cookies.

4.4 Cookies placed on your device can always be deleted manually. Follow this link for more information on how you can do this: How To Delete Cookies

Cookie table

Cookie name	Cookie type	Cookie function	Expiry	Accept
1P_JAR, CONSENT, NID, APISID, DSID, DV	Third Party, Tracking/Advertising	Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. Google’s policies can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/technologies/types	Various	☐ yes ☐ no
_ga	Third Party, Analytics	Used to distinguish users on the Google Analytics platform.Google Privacy Policy	2 years	☐ yes ☐ no
_gid	Third Party, Analytics	Used to distinguish users on the Google Analytics platform.Google Privacy Policy	1 day	☐ yes ☐ no
_gat_UA-2719716-1	Third Party, Analytics	Set by Google. Used for Google Tag Manager. Google Privacy Policy	1 minute	☐ yes ☐ no
SID	Third Party, Security	Security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. Google Privacy Policy	1 year	☐ yes ☐ no
HSID, SSID, APISID and SAPISID	Third Party	Cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. Google Privacy Policy	1 year	☐ yes ☐ no
IDE	Third Party. Advertising/Tracking	These cookies are created by Google DoubleClick and are used to show personalized advertisements (ads) based on previous visits to our website. Google Privacy Policy	1 year	☐ yes ☐ no
OTZ	Third Party	Cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. Google Privacy Policy	Session to 2 years	☐ yes ☐ no
SIDCC	Third party	Cookie to protect a user’s data from unauthorized access. Google Privacy Policy	Session to 2 years	☐ yes ☐ no
SEARCH_SAMESITE	Third Party	This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests.	1 day	☐ yes ☐ no
_gcl_au	Third Party	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.	3 months	☐ yes ☐ no
__Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-APISID	Third Party	Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting.	8 months to 2 years	☐ yes ☐ no
__Secure-HSID	Third Party	To secure digitally signed and encrypted data from the unique Google ID and store the most recent login time that Google uses to identify visitors, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalized advertising content.	8 months	☐ yes ☐ no
__Secure-SSID	Third Party	Stores information about how the visitor uses the website and about the advertisements that may have been seen before the visitor visits the website. Also used to customize ads on Google domains	8 months	☐ yes ☐ no
_hjid	Third party, Tracking	Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookies	1 year	☐ yes ☐ no
ai_session, ai_user	Third party	These cookies are used by Microsoft Azure Application Insights, which collects site telemetry, allowing us to analyze how our site is performing and to perform optimization.	1day to 1 year	☐ yes ☐ no
personalization_id	Third Party	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies	2 years	☐ yes ☐ no
tfw_exp	Third Party	Persistent cookie installed by Twitter https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies	Persistent	☐ yes ☐ no
covid19-alert-seen	First party, Local storage	Flags whether a user has seen and acknowledged the Covid 19 alert popup messaging	On deletion	☐ yes ☐ no
rangeBannerVisit	First party, Local storage	Tracks the vehicle ranges that the user visits to allow personalized Toyota content to be delivered to the user	On deletion	☐ yes ☐ no
cookies_policy	First party, Local storage	Flags whether a user has seen and acknowledged site’s privacy policy	On deletion	☐ yes ☐ no

5. POLICY RESPONSIBILITY

5. 1The governing body of TSAM has appointed a Data Protection Committee to oversee the processing of special personal information by TSAM.

5.2 The TSAM CEO has appointed an Information Officer and delegated to the Information Officer the authority to fulfil the duties and responsibilities required in relevant legislation and regulation.

5.3 The Data Protection Committee delegates to the Information Officer the responsibility of monitoring the special controls established for the collection and processing of Special Personal information and Children’s information and immediately requiring failures to be rectified without reference to the Data Protection Committee.

6. REVIEW AND AUDIT

6.1 The policy (and the procedures, standards and guidelines supporting the policy) is reviewed by the TSAM Data Protection Committee regularly, and at least once in each year.

6.2 Reviews and any revisions of the policy (and the procedures, standards and guidelines supporting the policy) will be recorded in an Approval and Revision History filed with this policy.

6.3 Compliance with this policy (and the procedures, standards and guidelines supporting the policy) is monitored and subject to audit.

** end of policy**

Revision History
Revision No.	Revision Date	Changes Made	Chairman of DPC Approval

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