COOKIES POLICY

Last Update : June 13, 2017

Comuto SA (“BlaBlaCar”, “we”, “our” or “us”) uses cookie technology in order to offer you a better and more personalised web service. Within this BlaBlaCar Cookie Policy (the “Cookie Notice”) we provide you full transparency about how and for which purpose we use cookies on this website.

What is a cookie and what is it used for?

A cookie is a small text file that is stored and/or read by your web browser on the hard disk of your end device (e.g. computer, laptop or smartphone) by websites you visit. Nearly every website uses cookie technology to make websites work and to optimize design and functionality. Cookies also make your interactions with websites more secure and faster, since they can remember your preferences (e.g. such as login and language), by sending the information they contain back to the originating website (first-party cookie) or to another website to which it belongs (third-party cookie), when you revisit the respective website using the same end device. Based on the function and the purpose for which cookies are used they are typically divided into the following categories, which are used by BlaBlaCar on this website:

Strictly necessary cookies enable you to move around the website and use its basic functions. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as log into a secure area of our website. These cookies are indispensable for the use of this website.

Functional cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website and enable us to offer you improved and more personalised functions like greet you by name and remember your preferences (e.g. your choice of language or region). These cookies collect anonymous information and cannot track your movements on other websites.

Analytical and performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to gather information about how the website is used (e.g. which pages a visitor opens most often and whether the user receives error messages from some pages). This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they