Page updated: 16 April 2020
Cookies are small pieces of data that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application.
We use them to:
- Remember information about you, so you don’t have to give it to us again. And again. And again
- Keep you signed in, even on different devices
- Help us understand how people are using our services, so we can make them better
- Help us personalize BenQ website to you by remembering your preferences and settings. And your progress, so you can pause and pick up where you left off last time, even on a different device
- To find out if our emails have been read and if you find them useful
You can change your BenQ cookie settings at any time. And you can find out how to stop your browser tracking your info here.
There are different types of cookies:
First-party cookies
These cookies are set by the website you’re visiting. And only that website can read them.
Third-party cookies
These cookies are set by someone other than the owner of the website you’re visiting. Some BenQ web pages may also contain content from other sites like YouTube or Flickr, which may set their own cookies. Also, if you share a link to a BenQ page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie on your browser. We have no control over third-party cookies - you can turn them off, but not through us.
Session cookies
These cookies only last as long as your online session, and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser (like Internet Explorer or Safari).
Persistent cookies
These cookies stay on your computer or device after your browser has been closed and last for a time specified in the cookie. We use persistent cookies when we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, we use them to remember your preferences for the next time you visit.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies let you use all the different parts of the BenQ website. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- If you sign into a BenQ site that requires a login.
- If you buy product in a BenQ site that we provide the information for online store mini cart and checkout function.
- The IP detection for local homepage
- Remembering if you visited the BenQ website before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you
Functional cookies
These cookies help us personalize BenQ website to you by remembering your preferences and settings. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Remembering the information that user viewed which model on our sites, and shows the information on our sit
Performance cookies
These help us understand how people are using the BenQ website, so we can make it better. And they let us try out different ideas. We sometimes get other companies to analyze how people are using the BenQ website. These companies might set their own performance cookies. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Collecting information on which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve our online services
- Making sure that the website is working properly and fixing any errors
- Testing designs to help improve the look and feel of the website
Advertising cookies and other technologies
Some sites use things like web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags and web bugs to understand how people are using them and to target advertising to them.
These other technologies usually take the form of a small, transparent image that is embedded in a web page or email. They work with cookies and capture data like your IP address, when you viewed the page or email, what device you were using and where you were. You can find out how to avoid them here.
