2025 Global Ownership Experience Forum
Effective Date: October 1st, 2025
This Cookies Policy ("Policy") describes the different types of cookies that may be used in connection with Kia Corporation's ("Kia," "we," "us," or "our") global website at (www.kiagoef.com) including through any features or services provided by this website (collectively the "Site"). This Policy also describes how you can manage cookies.
This Policy only applies to the Site and not to any other website owned or operated by Kia.
It is important that you check back often for updates to the Policy as we may change it from time to time to reflect changes to our use of cookies. Please check the date at the top of this page to see when this Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Policy will become effective when we make the revised Policy available on our Site.
A cookie is any kind of file or device that is downloaded to a user's system for the purpose of storing data that may be updated or retrieved by the company responsible for its installation. The main purpose of cookies is to make it quicker for you to access the Site and to tailor the Site's features to you, allowing information of interest or potentially of interest to be provided to you depending on your use and interests.
We use cookies on this Site in order to understand how you use our Site and to improve your experience. Cookies are text files which are stored on your computer. After you have finished your session and closed your browser many of the text files are deleted ("session cookies"). So-called "persistent cookies" are also stored and these allow us to recognize you during your next visit on our Site.
Depending on the company managing them:
Depending on the period of time that they remain active:
Depending on their purpose:
Our Site uses a combination of our own and third-party technical and analytical cookies. The data processed by technical cookies is required for the purposes mentioned above in order to protect our legitimate interests, in order to provide you with our Site, to ensure system stability and efficiency, and to implement proper safeguards of the security of our Site. The data processed by analytical, advertising and/or behavioral advertising cookies are not strictly necessary for visiting our Site. If required by applicable law, we will only process data by analytical, advertising and/or behavioral advertising cookies if you gave us your prior consent.
If you are a resident of the European Union please note the following information: For the use of strictly necessary cookies such as technical cookies, your consent is not required. For all other cookies that are not strictly necessary, your consent is required. If you have decided as a general principle not to give your consent to the use of cookies that require consent, or to revoke consent that has been given, you are only provided with those functionalities you can use without your consent.
Our Site may also use log files, web firewalls, and other mechanisms that automatically collect and record information about your browsing activities, and use of the Site. We may combine this data with other personal information we collect about you. This data, and the data we collect from cookies, is used to understand how our Site is used, track bugs and errors, provide and improve our Site, track sessions, prevent fraud, and protect our Site, as well as for personalize content and for analytics purposes. We provide additional information about tracking technologies below.
Log files. We collect log information to deliver Site content, analyze trends, administer our Site, track users' movement around our Site, and gather demographic information for aggregate use in improving the Site and other services.
Do Not Track. Our Site does not support Do Not Track at this time. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page.
| Cookie Type | Cookie Name | Usage & Description | Expiration | First Party / Third Party | Cookie Provider Policy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | PHPSESSID | A session cookie used to maintain transaction. It is temporary and expires when the browser is closed. | Session | First Party | GOEF Cookie Policies |
| Essential Cookies | ck_visit_ip | Tracks the visitor IP to analyze unique website visits per day. | 1 day | First Party | GOEF Cookie Policies |
| Essential Cookies | ck_visit_ip_counted | Marks that a visitor has been counted today to prevent duplicate counts. | 1 day | First Party | GOEF Cookie Policies |
| Essential Cookies | AWSALBCORS | A session cookie used to maintain transaction. | 7 days | Third Party (Channel Talk) | https://channel.io/en/privacy |
| Essential Cookies | ch-session-137606 | Used to distinguish session when a user accesses the website. | 1 hour | Third Party (Channel Talk) | https://channel.io/en/privacy |
| Essential Cookies | ch-veil-id | Used to distinguish session when a user accesses the website. | 1 year | Third Party (Channel Talk) | https://channel.io/en/privacy |
| Essential Cookies | x-veil-id | Used to distinguish session when a user accesses the website. | 1 year | Third Party (Channel Talk) | https://channel.io/en/privacy |
All cookies collected are essential for the website to function. Therefore, you are not allowed to manage cookies and tracking preferences on this website.
Please contact us at kiagoef@kia.com if you have any complaints or questions about this Cookies Policy or our information practices.