Cookies Policy

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.

What are cookies?

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.

Types of Cookies

Depending on the company managing them:

  • Our own cookies: Cookies that are sent to your system from a system or domain managed by us.
  • Third party cookies: Cookies that are sent to your system from a system or domain that is not managed by us but by another company processing the data obtained through the cookies on our behalf (e.g. our service providers).

Depending on the period of time that they remain active:

  • Session cookies: Cookies designed for gathering and storing data while you are using the Site. They are usually used to store information that is only intended for providing the service or feature requested by the user on one single occasion.
  • Persistent cookies: In this type of cookie, the data continues to be stored on your system and may be accessed and processed during a specific period of time by the manager of the cookie, which may range between several minutes and several years.

Depending on their purpose:

  • Technical cookies: Cookies that allow the user to browse a website, platform or application, and use the different options or services offered, such as, for example, controlling data traffic and communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, recalling the parts of an order, carrying out the process for purchase of an order, making a request to register for or participate in an event, using security elements during browsing, storing contents for the transmission of videos or sound or sharing contents through social networks.
  • Analytical cookies: Cookies that enable the manager to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by means of this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of a website and analyze and improve the website's functionality and design.
  • Advertising cookies: Cookies that enable the most efficient management possible of the advertising space that the editor has included in a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided on the basis of criteria such as the edited content or the frequency with which the advertisements are shown.
  • Behavioral advertising cookies: Cookies that enable the most efficient management possible of the advertising space that the editor has included in a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store behavioral information about users obtained through the ongoing observance of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be defined in order to show advertising on the basis of such profile.

How We Use Cookies and Related Technologies

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.

List of Cookies We Use

Cookie TypeCookie NameUsage & DescriptionExpirationFirst Party / Third PartyCookie Provider Policy
Essential CookiesPHPSESSIDA session cookie used to maintain transaction. It is temporary and expires when the browser is closed.SessionFirst PartyGOEF Cookie Policies
Essential Cookiesck_visit_ipTracks the visitor IP to analyze unique website visits per day.1 dayFirst PartyGOEF Cookie Policies
Essential Cookiesck_visit_ip_countedMarks that a visitor has been counted today to prevent duplicate counts.1 dayFirst PartyGOEF Cookie Policies
Essential CookiesAWSALBCORSA session cookie used to maintain transaction.7 daysThird Party (Channel Talk)https://channel.io/en/privacy
Essential Cookiesch-session-137606Used to distinguish session when a user accesses the website.1 hourThird Party (Channel Talk)https://channel.io/en/privacy
Essential Cookiesch-veil-idUsed to distinguish session when a user accesses the website.1 yearThird Party (Channel Talk)https://channel.io/en/privacy
Essential Cookiesx-veil-idUsed to distinguish session when a user accesses the website.1 yearThird Party (Channel Talk)https://channel.io/en/privacy

Managing Cookies and Tracking Preferences

All cookies collected are essential for the website to function. Therefore, you are not allowed to manage cookies and tracking preferences on this website.

How to Contact Us

Please contact us at kiagoef@kia.com if you have any complaints or questions about this Cookies Policy or our information practices.