NEC UK Ltd ("NEC" or, as appropriate, in the context, "we", "us" or "our") website https://uk.nec.com/ (our “Website”), uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This not only helps us to provide you with a better experience and improve our Website, but also provides us with information about your experience and interests. This information is used to make content and services more relevant and useful during future visits.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first-party (set by NEC website) or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.

How we use Cookies?

We use cookies and similar technologies (including IP addresses and web beacons) that allow us to recognize you, customize your experience and to provide us with information about the way users access our site.  Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our site users.

Please note that your browser does not need to store cookies to view our website.

How to Control and Delete Cookies

NEC will store and access cookies on user's devices only after the user has taken an active behavior with the intention of consenting to the use of cookies. Users can modify how the cookies are handled by your devices. If you use multiple devices, be sure to delete them on all devices you use.

a) Browser setting

Please visit the respective links to control cookies through your preferred browsers, as the instructions may be regularly updated.

b) Consent Tool

NEC will provide a control mechanism, informing the user of the specific purpose, expiration, third-party sharing, etc., of each cookie used, and means for the user to control them, according to user preference. The consent tool specifically controls non-essential cookies, such as marketing and analytics cookies, on our website. Essential cookies cannot be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third-party websites linked from our website.

c) Online tools

You can exercise your choice in allowing for cookies to be placed on your computer or to opt-out of cookies by using online tools, such as http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ if you are located in Europe.

The above websites are not NEC's Websites and NEC is not responsible for their content.

Cookies Used on This Site

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around our website and providing access to features such as your profile and purchases, member-only resources, and other secure areas of the website. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

Targeting Cookies

We also use a marketing database management program that deploys a cookie when a user interacts with a marketing communication, such as a marketing email or a marketing-based landing page on our website. This cookie collects personal information such as your name, which pages you visit on our website, your history arriving at our website, your purchases from NEC, and the like. Collected information is used to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns or to provide better targeting for marketing. The following table provides more information about this cookie.

Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help the website owner understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow our Services to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation such as remembering the choices you make and your account preferences and to provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but without these cookies, some or all of the services you have asked for may not function properly.

Third Party Websites' Cookies

Third party cookies are cookies set by someone other than the website owner for purposes such as collecting information on user behaviour, demographics, or personalized marketing. When using our website, you may encounter embedded content, such as YouTube videos, or you may be directed to other websites for such activities as surveys or for job applications. These websites and embedded content may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites, even if you are directed to them from our website.

List of Cookies

How we use web beacons

We may also use web beacon technologies to better tailor the site to provide better customer service. A web beacon is a single pixel transparent image that allows a web site to count users who have visited that page or access certain cookies. These web beacons may be placed on specific pages across this web site. When a visitor accesses these pages, an anonymous notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our vendors. These web beacons work in conjunction with cookies. If you don't want to associate your anonymous cookie information with your visits to these pages, depending on the browser used, you can set your browser to turn off cookies.

Additional Information

If you have any queries, comments or suggestions about the Cookies Policy, please contact us by email at privacy@emea.nec.com.