What are cookies and similar technologies and what do they do?
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your browser, computer, mobile device or tablet, for varying periods. They improve your browsing experience, enable statistical analysis and advanced functions, simplify logging in and personalization, and are sometimes used for targeted advertising.
Pixels
Pixels are small images on a website or in an email enabling for example to measure the effectiveness of advertising. Pixels collect information about your browser or device and can set cookies on your browser.
Local Storage
Local storage allows data about your browser or device to be stored locally on your browser or device and includes HTML5 local storage and browser cache.
Software Development Kits (SDKs)
SDKs may be installed in our services. SDKs may help us understand how you interact with our website or services and may collect information about the device and network you use to access our applications.
Session cookies and persistent cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies on our websites to compile statistical information and analyze how people use our websites. This helps us provide more functionality and makes our site easier and better to use. There are two main types of cookies: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies.
Session cookies last only while you have your web browser open. The session cookies are erased when you close your browser. This type of cookie helps the site to function correctly. For example, to expand and collapse menus, to make the Ericsson font appear properly on your screen, or to save your progress through a form.
Persistent cookies will persist even after you close your browser. How long they persist depends on how they were first set up - the period can vary from minutes to up to 2 years on Ericsson websites. Persistent cookies are used to store the preferences of your current visit, to be used for future visits (such as remembering your location or language preferences, your areas of interest, or other settings that customize your experience). They also help with statistics, analytics, and advertising.
Necessary cookies
We use certain cookies and similar technologies which are essential to the functioning of our website, to provide a service requested by you or to comply with the law (e.g., the security requirements of data protection law). We do not need to obtain your consent in order to use these cookies and tracking technologies and they cannot be turned off as we cannot operate the website without them.
Cookies for statistics and analysis
On Ericsson websites, we use cookies and similar technologies from other companies that we work with, who then provide statistics that we can analyze to make our websites better and provide our visitors with more relevant content.
To opt out from analytics tracking provided by Google, you can visit the page here.
Third party cookies for advertising
We do not allow third-party advertisements on our websites, but we do advertise our products and solutions on other sites. Some of the third-party sites on which we advertise may drop cookies and similar technologies on both our websites and third-party websites. They use those cookies to store information about products and services in which you have shown an interest as you browse our website and other websites. The information from those cookies allows the third-party sites to display the most appropriate advertisements for you. In some cases, those cookies may lead to the third-party site showing you our advertisements.
Your choice - controlling cookies
You can control how we use cookies by adjusting the settings within our cookie banner. Click the button below if you want to withdraw or review your cookie consent for our websites.
Approved cookie types
In addition, most browsers allow you to change your settings so that you can:
- See what cookies and tracking technologies are used on your device and/or browser and delete all non-essential cookies and tracking technologies on a collective basis
- Block cookies and tracking technologies, including from particular websites/apps
- Block all cookies and tracking technologies from being set
- Delete all cookies and tracking technologies when you close your browser (although this means that any preference settings you have made on our website may be lost)
For more information on how to manage your browser settings, please see below:
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Edge
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Safari
If you make the choice of disallowing all cookies within your browser settings, any settings you make within our cookie banner may not be saved. Also, your adblockers and similar tools may prevent you from seeing all the information we provide you about how we use cookies and similar technologies on our sites and services, such as whether your withdrawal of cookie consent was successful.
Remember, if you do disable or delete cookies, you will not have access to the full functionality of our website.
Please note that opting out of retargeted advertising cookies will not stop third-party sites from showing advertisement to you - you will still see advertising on those third-party sites. However, they will not be specifically targeted to you.
Cookies on www.ericsson.com
Review the full list of cookies here.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie policy or our use of cookies and tracking technologies, you can contact the Group Data Protection Officer by mail at Ericsson AB, Group Function Legal Affairs, 164 80 Stockholm, Sweden or you can send an e-mail to ericsson.group.privacy@ericsson.com.
It is also possible to contact a local Data Protection Officer in your country. You can find the respective contact details here.
For information on how we process your personal data, including personal data collected via cookies and tracking technologies, please visit our Privacy notice. This will explain for example how long we store personal data, how we transfer it internationally, and what rights you have in connection to your personal data.
Cookie policy last updated: 2025-04-09