Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

 

This is a website operated by MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (hereinafter “MSC,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). MSC is registered in Switzerland at 12-14 Chemin Rieu 1208, Geneva.

 

MSC is committed to protecting your privacy. This Cookie Policy accounts for the Cookies used via the https://www.msc.com website (including the myMSC.com portal) (hereinafter “Website”).

 

Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other visitors of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website.

 


WHAT ARE COOKIES?


Cookies are small text files assigned to your browser to collect internet log on and visitor tracking information (including IP address, browsing history, and geolocation data, where and as allowed by applicable law).

Cookies helps us track your use and provide the best possible user experience by allowing us to know how to improve our Website. We also may use cookies to provide you with information on our services that may be of interest to you, where and as allowed by law.

Cookies can be identified as "persistent" or "session", and “first-party” or “third-party”. Our Website notifies you when you are receiving cookies, giving you the choice to accept them or not.

 

 

THE COOKIES WE USE

We use cookies that are strictly necessary for the correct functioning of our Website. These cookies are always activated and do not require your consent.

We also use cookies that are still reasonably necessary or important, but they are non-essential and, therefore, require your consent.

For these cookies (i.e., performance, targeting, functional & analytic cookies), we request your consent (by the “accept all cookies” button in our cookie banner or through our cookies settings or your browser cookie settings) before placing them on your device.

More specifically, this Website uses the following types of cookies, as listed below:

 

 

1. STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Website may consequently not work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

 

 

Name Domain Purpose Expiry Policies
OptanonConsent msc.com This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the Website uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables us to prevent cookies in each category from being set by the visitors browser, when consent is not given. 1 year Read More
OptanonConsent hotjar.com This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the Website uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables us to prevent cookies in each category from being set by the visitor’s browser, when consent is not given. 1 year Read More
OptanonAlertBoxClosed msc.com This cookie is set by the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen our cookie information notice/banner. It enables us to show the message only once to a visitor. 1 year Read More
ASP.NET_SessionId msc.com Session Id’ stores a ‘Session ID’ which is used by Microsoft 1 year Read More
OptanonConsent msc.com This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the Website uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category of cookies. This enables us to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the visitor’s browser, when consent is not given. Session Read More
OptanonAlertBoxClosed msc.com This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice/banner and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables our Website not to show the message more than once to a visitor. 1 year Read More

 

 

2. PERFORMANCE COOKIES

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Website. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Website. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our Website and we will not be able to monitor its performance.

 

 

Name Domain Purpose Expiry Policies
AKA_A2 msc.com Used to speed up content delivery on the Website by leveraging Akamai’s adaptive acceleration features and caching. 1 hour Read More
ajs_anonymous_id hotjar.com This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 1 year Read More

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hotjar.com See how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback and turn more visitors into customers. 1 year Read More
_gid hotjar.com Used by Google Analytics to store information about the pages you visit on our Website. 24 hours Read More
_gid msc.com Used by Google Analytics to store information about the pages you visit on our Website. 24 hours Read More
_hjid msc.com Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random 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. 1 year Read More
_hjTLDTest msc.com Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random 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. Session Read More
_hjSessionUser_ hotjar.com This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 1 year Read More
_hjSessionUser_ msc.com This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 1 year Read More
_hjFirstSeen msc.com Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time. Session Read More
_cs_id hotjar.com This cookie contains the user identifier 1 year Read More
_hjFirstSeen hotjar.com Identifies a new user’s first session. Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. 24 hours Read More

_hjAbsoluteSession

InProgress

hotjar.com Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. 24 hours Read More

_hjIncludedIn

SessionSample

msc.com This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. 1 year Read More
__hssc msc.com This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. Session Read More
ai_user msc.com This cookie is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique visitor identifier cookie which enable to count the number of visitors accessing the Website over time. 1 year Read More
ai_session msc.com This cookie is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique visitor identifier cookie which enable to count the number of visitors accessing the Website over time. 1 year Read More

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GLOBAL_COOKIE

msc.com It tracks a visitor’s multiple visits to our Website. We use this information to help improve our Website. This cookie is not used to identify individuals using the Website. 1 year Read More
CLID bing.com This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity and stores information about how visitors use the Website. The cookie contributes to the creation of an analysis report. The data collection includes numbers of visitors, where they visit the website from and pages visited on the Website. 1 year Read More
RT msc.com Part of Akamai's Boomerang product which is used to measure page load times experienced by the visitors. 7 days Read More
_cs_s msc.com This cookie contains the number of pageviews within the running session for Content Square Solution. 24 hours Read More

 

 

Name Domain Purpose Expiry Policies
OIDI bing.com This is set by a third-party service Bing for advertisement tracking purposes. 14 days Read More
HPVN bing.com This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of the website. 1 year Read More
BFB bing.com This cookie helps us to target and track performance of advertising campaigns on the Bing advertising network. 1 year Read More
SRCHUID bing.com This cookie allows us to serve relevant advertisements to visitors across the Microsoft Bing network. 2 years Read More
SRCHD bing.com This cookie allows us to serve relevant advertisements to visitors across the Microsoft Bing network. 2 years Read More
MUID bing.com Microsoft User Identifier tracking cookie used by Bing Ads. 1 year Read More
MUID clarity.msc Microsoft User Identifier tracking cookie used by Bing Ads. 1 year Read More
OIDR bing.com This cookie helps us to target and track performance of advertising campaigns on the Bing advertising network. 3 months Read More
_uetvid bing.com This is a cookie utilized by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a visitor that has previously visited our Website. 1 month Read More
OID bing.com This cookie is used as an identifier for an object in Microsoft’s identity system. 3 months Read More
_uetsid bing.com This is a tracking cookie used by Microsoft Bing advertising to allow us to engage with a visitor that has previously visited our website. 24 hours Read More
_uetvid hotjar.com Store and track visits across websites. 1 year Read More
_scid hotjar.com This cookie collects information about your actions on websites that have embedded a Vimeo video. 1 year Read More
_clsk msc.com Used to store and combine pageviews by a visitor into a single session recording. 1 year Read More
_clsk hotjar.com Used to store and combine pageviews by a visitor into a single session recording. 1 year Read More
SRCHHPGUSR bing.com This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website. 3 months Read More
_RwBf bing.com This is set by a third-party service Bing for advertisement tracking purposes. 1 year Read More
_SS bing.com This cookie is used for Bing tracking. (Session, third party). Session Read More

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msc.com Contains campaign related information. When we link our Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. 3 months Read More
_ga hotjar.com The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 1 year Read More
_gcl_au msc.com To store and track conversions. 2 months Read More
_gcl_au hotjar.com This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 3 months Read More
_fbp hotjar.com This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 3 months Read More
_gcl_aw msc.com To store ad click information (only if remarketing cookies are enabled), generate unique IDs for visitors to remember preferences and track and gather statistics and conversion rates through the website. 2 months Read More
_gcl_dc msc.com To store ad click information (only if remarketing cookies are enabled), generate unique IDs for visitors to remember preferences and track and gather statistics and conversion rates through the website. 2 months Read More
_ts_yjad msc.com Collects information on visitor behavior on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the Website. 2 years Read More
currentLocation msc.com Location 2 months Read More
_uetsid msc.com This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user browsing the Website. 24 hours Read More
_uetvid msc.com This is a cookie utilized by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our Website 1 year Read More
XA yahoo.com x-a-cookie response header information and usage statistics. 1 year Read More
XB yahoo.co.jp x-a-cookie response header information and usage statistics. 2 years Read More
_clck msc.com This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. 1 year Read More
IDE www.doubleclick.net

To provide ad delivery or retargeting. 1 year Read More
SRCHUSR www.bing.com This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website. 8 months Read More
_cs_cvars msc.com Stores the URL-encoded custom variables from the session session Read More
_cs_id msc.com Used to store ContentSquare’s user identifier 11 months Read More
CurrentAgency msc.com Location 1 year Read More
_ga_7960BT6SN5 msc.com Calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 1 year Read More
_ga_ msc.com Calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 1 year Read More
_ga_9HMJRMP77C msc.com Calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 1 year Read More
_gat_UA-55168891-1 msc.com Used to limit the number of user requests session Read More
MSPTC www.bing.com This cookie allows to serve relevant advertisements to visitors 1 year Read More
_yjsu_yjad msc.com Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. 1 year Read More

 

 

Name Domain Purpose Expiry Policies
_cs_c hotjar.com This cookies is used by ContentSquare to save the user consent to be tracked 1 year Read More
jcoPageCount msc.com Page count Session Read More
lang msc.com Remembers Visitor’s language preferences. Session Read More
_EDGE_V bing.com Enables us to display map content using Bing Maps. 1 year Read More
_HPVN bing.com This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of the Website. 1 year Read More
CMSPreferredCulture msc.com Set by the Kentico CMS to identify the language of the page, stores a language-country code combination 1 year Read More
hubspotutk msc.com This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary. Session Read More
msccargo#lang msc.com Remembers Visitor’s language preferences. Session Read More
shell#lang msc.com Remembers Visitor’s language preferences. Session Read More
Name Domain Purpose Expiry Policies
1P_JAR google.com This Google cookie is used to optimize advertising, to provide relevant ads to visitors, to improve campaign performance reports, or to prevent a visitor from seeing the same ads multiple times. 3 months Read More
CONSENT google.com This cookie is used to save the visitor’s preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 2 years Read More
CONSENT google.ch This cookie is used to save the visitor’s preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 2 years Read More
_gcl_dc google.com The cookie is set by Google Tag Manager to track conversions. 3 months Read More
APISID google.com This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 1 year Read More
APISID google.ch This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 1 year Read More
SAPISID google.com Set by Google on pages with embedded YouTube videos. YouTube uses this cookie to store your measured bandwidth; It does not gather information identifying a visitor. 1 year Read More
SAPISID google.ch Set by Google on pages with embedded YouTube video. YouTube uses this cookie to store your measured bandwidth; It does not gather information identifying a visitor. 1 year Read More
_gac_gb_<container-id> google.com Contains campaign related information. When we link our Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. 3 months Read More
_gcl_aw google.com To store ad click information (only if remarketing cookies are enabled), generate unique IDs for visitors to remember preferences and track and gather statistics and conversion rates through the Website. 2 months Read More
_gcl_dc google.com To store ad click information (only if remarketing cookies are enabled), generate unique IDs for visitors to remember preferences and track and gather statistics and conversion rates through the Website. 2 months Read More
_gcl_au google.com To store and track conversions. 2 months Read More
_gcl_au google.ch This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. 3 months Read More
_ga google.com The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 1 year Read More
_gac_UA google.com The _gac cookie value contains a version number followed by a timestamp, and campaign information in the form of a GCLID value. 3 months Read More
_gid google.com Used by Google Analytics to store information about the pages you visit on our Website. 24 hours Read More
DV google.com This cookie is used to save the visitor's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 24 hours Read More
HSID google.com This cookie is used to save the visitor's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 1 year Read More
NID google.com This cookie is used to save the visitor's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 6 months Read More
NID google.ch This cookie is used to save the visitor's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 6 months Read More
OGP google.com Google cookie used for Google Maps. 15 days Read More
OGP google.ch Google cookie used for Google Maps. 15 days Read More
OTZ google.com The cookie also allows Google Ads and Google Analytics to compile information on visitors for marketing purposes. 15 days Read More
SID google.com This cookie is used to save the visitor's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 1 year Read More
SID google.ch This cookie is used to save the visitor's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 1 year Read More
SSID google.com These cookies are used by Google to store visitor preferences and information while viewing the pages with Google maps. 1 year Read More
SIDCC google.com This cookie is used to save the visitor's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. 1 year Read More
SOCS google.com Used to store a visitor’s state regarding their cookies choices. 1 year Read More
SOCS google.ch Used to store a visitor’s state regarding their cookies choices. 1 year Read More

 

Name Domain Purpose Expiry Policies
AEC google.com Ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the visitor, and not by other Websites. 6 months Read More
rtFA msc.com The root federation authentication cookie (rtFA) is used in all SharePoint Online. When a user visits a new top-level site or another company's page, the rtFA cookie is used to silently authenticate them in silent mode without being prompted. When a visitor logs out of SharePoint Online, the rtFA cookie is deleted. 5 days Read More
__Secure-ENID google.com 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. 1 year Read More

 

Cookie Storage

 

Data concerning Website visitors will not be stored for a longer period than the above-mentioned expiry period for each cookie type. Moreover, no information coming from our Website will ever be either communicated or disseminated to unspecified recipients.

 

How do I change my Cookie Settings

If you agree with MSC’s cookies policy click ACCEPT on the banner or pop-up that appears when you enter our Website.

Should your cookie preferences change at a later stage, and you wish to withdraw your consent to any non-essential cookies, you will need to modify your preferences in the cookies settings or delete, block or disable cookies via your web browser settings.

Please note that disabling or blocking some or all of the categories of cookies will affect the functionality of our Website and may impact your access and experience with our Website.
Additionally, your cookies preferences are limited to this Website only and not to other third-party owned websites. For more information on cookies used by those websites, please refer to their specific privacy notice or cookies policy.

Please note, it is possible that, at times, these links and descriptions may not correspond to the latest version published by the developer of each web browser, however here are some instructions to assist you should you decide to change your cookie preferences:

 

BROWSER



STEPS TO DISABLE COOKIES

Google Chrome

Open Chrome on your computer. Go to the top right and click More. Click More tools Clear browsing data. At the top, choose a time range. To clear all data, select All periods. Check the boxes next to "Cookies and other site data" and "Cached files and images". Click Clear data.

Microsoft Edge 10 or earlier version

Go to "Tools" in the menu bar, which should open, and click on "Internet Options". Click on the "Privacy" tab at the top. Go to "Settings" and move the slider up to the "Block all Cookies" button.


Microsoft Edge 11

Go to "Tools" in the menu bar, which should open, and click on "Internet Options". Click on the "Privacy" tab at the top. Go to "Settings" and then "Advanced" to allow or block first-party and third-party cookies or if you prefer to be prompted.


Firefox

Click the Menu button and select Options. Select the Privacy and Security panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section. Click Manage data.... The Manage Cookies and Site Data window will open. In the Search for websites: field, type the name of the website whose cookies you want to delete. The cookies that match your search will be displayed. To delete all cookies and site storage data, click Delete All. To delete selected items, select an entry and click Delete Selected. Click Save changes. A confirmation window titled Delete cookies and site data will open: click OK.

Safari

Go to the Safari menu, click "About" to determine which version of Safari you are using. In the Safari menu, click on "Preferences". Once in the Safari preferences window, click on "Privacy". Set preferences to accept cookies next to "Block Cookies".

 

For more information on cookies you can also visit: https://www.aboutcookies.org/, https://allaboutcookies.org/, which contains general information about cookies and comprehensive information on how to modify the cookie settings on a wide variety of web browsers along with information on how to delete cookies from your computer.

 

Additional Information

This Cookies Policy may be modified whenever there are changes to the configuration and/or use of the Website. In order to maintain maximum transparency with you, MSC will always keep the updated version published on our Website stating the date of update at the bottom of this page.

If you notice any unidentified cookie or you would like more information on cookies installed through our Website, you may contact our DPO at the following email address:
CH001-data.protection@msc.com

Cookie policy last updated on May 2023