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Cookies specific to the Hitachi ABB website

Hitachi ABB’s website uses both "first party" cookies (cookies set by the Hitachi ABB website) and "third party" cookies (cookies set by a third-party website that is providing a service for the Hitachi ABB website). We use first party cookies for keeping the website running, improving user experience, creating a profile of your interest to provide you tailored information according to your expressed interests storing preferences, tracking user trends and patterns with the help of web statistics providers and for storing data needed throughout your visit on the site (for example, contents of your shopping cart). We use third party cookies for analytics purposes.

Our website may use cookies of the following kinds:

• Strictly necessary cookies: Used for purposes such as to route the information over the network and detect transmission errors, control of electronic communication channels and traffic load, etc. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems.
• Functional cookies: Used for purposes such as to remember your settings and preferences, history of your visit on the site, user authentication (logging in), increase the security, allow social networks users to share contents and when needed to play back video or audio content. These cookies are necessary to provide specific functionalities to you as a part of the services you have requested on the Hitachi ABB digital channels.
• Social plug-in tracking cookies: Used by third party social network sites for purposes such as analytics when we embed content from their website on ours.
  
• First and third party analytics cookies: Used for Hitachi ABB's purposes such as to measure the traffic, performance and usage patterns of our website, test improvements of the website, detect search engine keywords that lead to a webpage or to track down website navigation issues. In the case of third-party analytics cookies, the data is anonymized.

In general, cookie data are stored for the duration of up to 24 months. For more information regarding specific retention periods that apply to cookies, please submit a request at www.hitachiabb-powergrids.com/privacy.

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How to manage cookies

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