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HMV's Irish staff told not to honour vouchers, NCA: decision is 'disappointing'
Bad news for consumers with HMV gift vouchers but it could be possible to get your money back if you bought the vouchers with your credit or debit card.
THE NATIONAL CONSUMER Agency (NCA) has said that staff at HMV’s 16 stores in Ireland have been told that they cannot honour gift vouchers that have already been purchased at the music retailer.
The NCA said that the decision – which follows the decision by the retailer to go into administration in the UK – is “very disappointing” given that consumers bought vouchers over the Christmas period on the expectation they could be redeemed.
Politicians have come out calling for HMV to honour vouchers but at the moment it appears unlikely that this will happen.
A lot of vouchers would have been bought as Christmas gifts and this compounds the difficulties and impact of this decision for Irish consumers who bought and received these vouchers,” the NCA said in a statement issued this afternoon.
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There is no legal impediment to the administrators, Deloitte, taking the decision to instruct HMV to not honour gift vouchers but the NCA said that it will push for the decision to be reversed or to at least give more clarity to customers in Ireland over the situation.
Politicians including Labour’s Gerald Nash and Fine Gael senator Catherine Noone criticised the decision.
Nash said: “HMV clearly has trading difficulties, but I believe they and the appointed administrators should appreciate their customer’s loyalty over the past number of decades and accept all vouchers, if even for a limited period.”
The agency also advises consumers who purchased a voucher using their Visa or Mastercard credit or debit card to contact their issuer to see if they can get their money back through these card companies’ chargeback processes on the basis that the service paid for was not rendered.
“The outcome of the Administration process is not yet known. Customers who paid for vouchers in cash or who are unsuccessful on securing a chargeback should hold on to their vouchers to see how the situation unfolds,” the NCA added.
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Totally agree with you Marie. Disgusting way to treat loyal customers! They basically stole your money! Guys at the top don’t give a damn about you or their staff!
This is shocking. If I had bought a voucher in HMV before xmas, I’d walk in, pick out something the price of the voucher, leave the voucher at the counter, and walk straight out the door.
It was a over priced sh1t hole delighted its going to be gone..hope No one helps them keep stores open..bad policys and no interest in the consumer other than Rob their money
Ya it is daylight robbery!!!
I’m so angry reading it and I don’t even have any vouchers!! :P
The staff will bear the brunt if it unfortunately :/
The “lads” at the top don’t give a shite!!
Hughes and Hughes done the same, I know someone who was working in Dundalk branch who sold a voucher, couple hours later receivers closed the doors, he had no idea it was on the cards and felt terrible
Totally agree with you Siobhan. If HMV are allowed to not honour their gift vouchers it’s basically sending the message that if a company is struggling they have the right to rip off consumers to pay their bills. That should be illegal.
It’s also way too convenient they waited until just after Christmas (the greatest voucher buying time of the year) before releasing this. Planned robbery.
Imagine the amount of money they would have taken in during the Christmas period, knowing full well people were not going to get to use the vouchers!!!
I really hope they are made accountable and forced to pay back the money!!!
Any1 working 4 hmv and getten abused by customers over the vouchers should give a shite of abuse back cos at the end od the day they will probli not have a job so ..
i don’t get these Gift Vouchers, dodgy, you always see “Gift Vouchers available” meh after this i think we can also see the end of the… yes thats right The Gift Voucher! Just get a cheque or give them cash to spend anywhere. No Vouchers!
apparently they had to shut in limerick today because people were taking goods worth the amount of voucher and handing over the voucher. Some people bought vouchers yesterday!
I was wondering when that was going to start happening. Think they’re going to have to beef up security……which will probably cost more than the redeemable vouchrs
It’s unfortunate but anyone who was reasonably clued in would have known HMV were in trouble and either not bought vouchers or redeemed the ones they had.
So it’s people’s fault for not being clued in? As regards businesses in trouble, there are countless of those in the current economic climate – life and purchases and gifts still go on!
And people will still go in and abuse the staff, just remember those staff don’t make the rules and will all probably be out of work in comming weeks, so think before you have a go at the front liners! P.s I don’t work on HMV.
By that logic Paul we shouldn’t book to stay in any hotel in the country or buy anything from stores struggling.or never book a ticket with an American airline or any of the loss making European ones, Condemning them all to closure.
Good job MVM. They find out today they’re more than likely out of a job soon and you go in whining and moaning about the cost of a CD. You are a really big man. Well done.
@luca I coundn care less I had a voucher which was paid for in full there was not a hope I was leaving without the value of it..
You might be a little soft whimp letting people walk over you but I’m not iv never let anyone do me out of money and never will
What Doilette need to consider is the impact this will have on store STRUGGLING already to make sale
Honouring these gift cards will bring people into the store!
If someone comes in with a€10 gift card and see’s they’re favourite game for €20 they’ll be spending MORE money…… They need to get back to basics and start thinkin of getting customers into the store rather then turning them away
You’re right @MVM once you’re ok then it’s someone else’s problem. And maybe the person you were ‘giving hell’ to had bigger problems like, family finances or unemployment on his mind to be bothered by what a small minded little man says and acts. It’s win/win.
@pat,I don’t like cats dogs are a much more faithful animal..
Here the way I look at it I caused a holy stinker and got what I was entitled to why should I have left it with them?they were able to honour the voucher in the end..
MVM….Did you pick up all your toys that you threw out of your pram on the way out the door???? How many times did you stamp your feet and pout before your bullying ways got what you wanted? Customers like you give good customers a bad name! Grow up!
I went into the store today to confirm that gift vouchers were not being accepted. I politely asked a staff member the situation, the guy, holding back the tears said, “at present we’re not accepting them” I could see the worry in in face, wondering would he have a job tomorrow. The vouchers felt insignificant then. I walked out of the shop deeply saddened. Abusing these people is uncalled for.
Your right MVM, thy cant just take the money and run! And as long as things didn’t get personal then fair is fair! Why would the staff obey these stupid rules at a time when it doesn’t matter?
Not redeeming gift vouchers is….well it’s stealing really isn’t it. A bit like what HMV have been doing for yrs with their over pricing.
As usual the customer gets shafted and the corporates get their money. Just another Groundhog Day. I do have sympathy for the staff obviously but that’s beside the point.
@ MVM, fair play lad I would have done the exact same, its a disgrace that these vouchers are not honoured, and while i feel sorry for the frontline staff the fault lies with the cowardly administrators hiding behind them.
Something needs to be done about these situations, the management knew damn well that the administrators would be called in after christmas yet still sold vouchers, thats fraud.
It’s spineless people like yous who think I’m wrong for getting what belongs to me that have the country ruined because yous roll over for sob stories..I’m better than all of yous mainly because I stand up for myself..I got my way so I couldn’t care if I had no job hmv won’t be giving me free stuff..
Bahahah I got my vouchers worth and yous didnt..bunch of soft saps
MVM, you have claimed to be a business owner on numerous occasions. Have you found those staff you were looking for since October??? Doubt it. With a stinking attitude like that!!! Your nothing more than a bully and a troll who makes disparaging comments where ever you think you can get the most reaction.
All ye dopes saying that the peoples jobs are worth more than the vouchers, ye seem to forget that people worked hard before Christmas scraping by to buy people presents, the shop took the money willingly and by refusing to take vouchers now thmat have already been paid for is robbery. I would do the exact same and demand my money back or something to that value, if they refused id pick it up to the value of the voucher, put the voucher on the counter and walk out, bloody idiots!
Biggest fan MVM!! Haha! I love reading troll comments!!!! Same gang on every day with a comment about everything and know sweet f.a about nothing. Keep it up!! I enjoy your drivel…and I enjoy responding, just to keep you occupied, it’s a long day in the shed talking to yourself.
@chilli,we could say the same about you,
I am comming off as a ars*whole but I’m the guy everyone rings when their car brakes down or house getting flooded and I help out seeking nothing but a cuppa tea in return but in no way will I let someone fiddle money from me,the voucher was paid for they didn’t make it aware at purchase time so I went hell for leather and won
You could indeed say it MVM but because you’ve shown your true colours here today I won’t be listening. You see I respect people and I respect people who are working hard in this country trying to get by and keep the wolves from the door. I don’t go ranting and raving into shops and taking it out on staff who are just numbers in the eyes of the employer and don’t give a crap about them. It’s easy to bully someone who can’t fight back!
Chilli…you won’t be able to stay away your worse because you say u will but won’t..I can’t see how you think its ok to let people walk over you,if Tesco double charged you would you be in go get a refund and if they refuses you wouldn’t look for the management and have a go at them??or do u just sulk away at a loss if so your a pushover my friend
Your right MVM a gift voucher is essentially money they can not refuse to honor them and they stated on BBC the stopped issuing them before Christmas which is bull because a lady in front of me on the 23rd dec bought two.
Basically yes, it’s been widely reported for the past couple of years that HMV were in difficulty with store closures and making losses. If a company goes into administration its standard practice that gift vouchers can no longer be redeemed. It has happened before. It’s wrong but legal.
Go MVM you were right, its like this Government, we need to go in and pull them out for telling lies. Stand up for your rights. Down with robbery. Anyways, i think anyone in these times who buy vouchers from one store are saps.
If I had vouchers from hmv I’d be in demanding them to be redeemed!!
He has every right to want them redeemed!!!
Understandably the people on the front line will feel the backlash, that’s the joys of working with the public!!
And if an employee feels they cannot satisfy the customer, they call a manager, whom are trained and paid enough to deal with unhappy customers!!
Thing is if someone steps in and aces the company that person can then be fired, but if I was working there is be bumping the security cameras out of view and backing up a very large van cause they probably won’t get full redundancy
Labour have a neck to come out and slam anyone for anything. I’m losing my job and I don’t know what’s going to happen and people are giving out to staff about gift cards? I understand where customers are coming from and I don’t think it’s fair bit there’s no call to give out to the staff who are faced with uncertainty.
You’re right Louise peoples anger shouldn’t be pointed at staff, who in the end will most probably lose their job. But I guess you have to understand that as far as customers are concerned the staff are HMV , the can’t speak to the board of directors and will want to vent their anger somewhere.. What’s worse is you can be sure management will be thin on the ground now too …
look i feel very sorry for the staff on the tills just like the bank staff on the window. it is not any of there faults. u wood think that the law makers who run thje country wood change the laws if that is what is needed
Lets be honest. We would all prefer cash anyway. It’s only the “giver” who feels it impersonal to give cash as a present. The “receiver” takes it happily with no worries. :)
If management knew of the problems, which they undoubtedly did, they should not have sold vouchers which they knew would not be honoured, apart from anything else this shows extremely poor ethical standards and a total lack of appropriate corporate governance. Disgusting when you think of the financial position consumers find themselves in that a company would willfully steal from them.
Is that not just straight forward robbery?? How is this legal? Feel terrible for the staff who are going to be the vent for the appropriately angry mobs.
It’s not theft as people with vouchers are creditors. And unfortunately they’re unsecured creditors which means they go right to the back of the queue when the assets are being divided up.
People who are calling for such vouchers to be honoured must also endorse Ireland paying back all our creditors, i.e. not ‘burn the bondholders’. Otherwise they’re being inconsistent and contradicting themselves.
When a company is in trouble and it’s assets are being distributed, it has to be done in this order according to law:
1.Liquidator’s costs
2.Creditors with fixed charges
3.Preferential creditors (e.g. the Revenue)
4.Payments due to employees
5.Creditors with floating charges (e.g. over assets that fluctuate in value, like stock)
6.Unsecured creditors (e.g. Those with HMV vouchers)
7.Shareholders
The further down the line you are, the less likely you are to get paid.
Not really the best of advice to be giving out. Sure, as a matter of principle doing so might be okay, but you can be done for theft regardless. Fine print on the vouchers states that the company are not obliged to honor vouchers.
@ mart_n Technically your right but as far as I know, if you steal something from someone, it’s up to the victim to press charges and seeing as their heading for the wall, there’ll be no-one left to follow through on those charges and even if they did, I can’t see a judge in the country throwing the book at anyone unless they have previous convictions for the same offence. In short, if I had any vouchers, I’d be heading to my nearest HMV as soon as possible
You’re not stealing… You’re a creditor recovering a debt from them.
By remaining open for business and having merchandise for sale but not honoring these debts they are in violation of the conditions in which it was sold to you.
Andrew, what you or someone else bought is a piece of paper or a card with a bit of code on it. It’s worth nothing. HMV have themselves well covered in legalese and doublespeak.
The best bet for anyone with a voucher is to look for a charge-back from credit card providers, or hold onto the voucher and wait for the company to be shamed into exchanging them.
Looting shops isn’t the way to go! The staff don’t deserve it yet they are the ones left struggling to insure a final months pay.
The nerve of them. If I had a HMV voucher and they wouldn’t redeem it I’d simply pick up goods to the value of the voucher and walk out, and god help anyone who tried to stop me. Regardless if they continue in business or not, I’ll never step foot in a HMV again. Disgusted.
To be honest me too. I was in it once last year, buying the love/hate DVD. There was a q for them and it’s all people where buying. Do people still rent DVDs?
It’s crazy that xtravision hasn’t setup an Irish version of netflix with the rights to everything.. no shop overheads they would make a killing if the set up a simple system and advertised it well, netflix are only here a couple of months an their selection isn’t great..
Wtf we’re gona do with all the empty shops though I don’t know …
its a shitty thing to happen and in my opinion its an abuse of the trading laws , especially as the decision makers appear to have timed it to take cash but then be unable to honour , but …..i have a family member who is staff , they are getting dogs abuse today and ITS NOT THEIR FAULT , i seen the comments that says the staff are HMV because the public cannot speak to the board , but the staff dont get to speak to the board either , they are just a spissed getting the news the group may collape and be out of work and it is utter shite that they have been given these instructions to refuse honouring the vouchers , the public are obviously going to be angry and now politicians and various other idiots jumping on bandwagon for popularity , the public dont deserve this treatment but neither do the HMV staff !
Both my children were given HMV vouchers as Christmas presents by their Aunt.Some of them spent already but 20 euro remaining on one and 10 euro on the other. We went in to use them today and would have spent more than their acutal value on some CDs and a DVD so yes I agree we would have been spending more in the store. We were told that we could not use them and given the phone number of The National Consumer Agency.
Very disappointing and to be honest feels a bit like theft… but there is absolutely no point in taking it out on the staff in the stores.. it’s not their fault and they are most likely going to lose their jobs.. not a great start to 2013.
” Just abuse the Staff …. “. quote above from MVM’s comment… but MVM these people are human beings and s**t happens that they have no control over… it’s the senior management behind the scenes not on the shop floor that you want to be ” abusing ” .. their salaries mean they are paid to take grief….
On a final note… I have shopped since childhood in the huge HMV on Oxford Street in London.. their flagship store… it’s the end of an era….
Is this not fraud? They sold vouchers with no intention of honouring them, they obviously knew the trouble they were in and chose to scam as many people as possible while they still could.
@leamon..lemon my name and lemon by nature,oh what a sour weapon you are..your probably waddling around your pen in a house coat eating out of a cattle feeder snorting out complete shite
The NCA are a disgrace. They should be forcing HMV Ireland to honor these vouchers and at the very least, they should be coming up with more than ‘it’s disappointing’. NCA, what are you for if you’re not going to stand up for consumers who are getting shafted through absolutely no fault of their own?
I haven’t bought vouchers for anywhere in the past 5 years because so many shops were closing down, once they have the money for the vouchers, the vouchers are worthless. .
Mvm that’s the biggest load of bulls**it you clearly don’t understand the terms of administration and i sincerely doubt that gift card was honoured! Hard man you are!
I got my 50euros worth from the voucher so really I don’t give a toss about you..and yes if they had of denied to honour it I would have just left the voucher and walked out with my stuff..
Obviously you are a little whimp afraid to stand up for yourself and expect other to do it for you
MVP my boyf works in dublin central and came home telling me about a row in HMV, I have a sneaky suspicion it was u lol I have to say and I don’t often but I totally agree with what u did. They took people’s money, now give them their goods! No wonder where phucked as a country!
Who the hell buys gift vouchers for specific shops these days!! HMV’s demise has been in the public domain the last 6 months! ! Shops are folding like card board boxes lately!! money for old rope!! Total Fitness caught me cold years ago!!
I would pick up DVDs and CDs to the value of the voucher and walk out the door with them!! I bet the company executives got their Christmas bonus this year!
This will be theft. Two wrongs don’t make one right do they?
Just get over that 10 euro stop crying. If I saw your man MVM in hmv crying for that tenner I’d seriously take it out of my own pocket and gave it to him.
Just ignore what that idiot said. He is only looking for attention on Here. He’s clearly lying, if they have been told not to accept them, they obviously can’t be put through the system.
I hope the Irish jobs can be saved.
Just imagine what it’s like, you’re sitting eating your dinner with your partner on a Monday night, Sky News is on, and suddenly, you see the Breaking News banner across the bottom about HMV going into administration. You worked there for 16 years, your partner still does, and that’s how he finds out his jobs on the line, possibly gone. And then you see the comments on here by some people who think it’s ok to abuse staff over something theyve no control over whatsoever, who could be out of work for months or years. Some of you are a disgrace!
Every year I ask my family for HMV vouchers I get one maybe for €30, this year I got €160 worth of vouchers, why is it always be careful what ya wish for. I feel sorry for the staff, I rang the store in Henry Street this morning and the fella on the phone was really nice he didn’t even no what was going on. HMV shouldn’t of being selling vouchers if they knew there were in trouble. They have to honour the vouchers, to many people are at a loss.
In cases like this staff are always kep in the dark and are probably only told before the announcement is made public In the case of H.M.V. It must have been a great shock..As regards Vouchers yes they should redeem them. However the staff should not have to be abused in the situation H.M.V now finds itself in.
I’ve just been to HMV in Drogheda cos I have a ?50 voucher. The girl was nearly crying. She said they only found out when it was on sky news yesterday. And the gift card feature has been disabled on the tills so they can’t even scan the cards. So that’s 50 yoyos down the swanny . . . And they don’t know how long they have a job for.
and you took a few dvds to that value or just walked off? they’re winning, hiding behind their employees who have to bear the brunt of it. Ripping artists off for years these record companies and their high street stores and now they’re still at it.
There should be a directive regarding gift vouchers on those foolish enough to buy one. Honour them because if you don’t, the consumer should have a right to close down the business as the business is not in a stable financial position to honour what should be a straight forward obligation to do so.
A voucher is essentially cash that you have given in advance for a future purchase. That cash in on their books and must be redeemed. Anyone with a voucher is a creditor. I don’t accept this refusal to take them.
@MVM I’m all about the love fella ;) I just don’t like it when someone with no understanding of people encourages other people to be a wan**r like them.
I can’t see myself buying vouchers from any store in future. Seems there’s very little legal protection for the voucher holder.
There’s a lot to be said for just giving actual physical gifts or at least unimaginative presents in the form of hard cash!
At least it’s always redeemable!
Seems like a fairly dumb move from a public relations point of view too.
Any sympathy customers may have felt or nostalgic memories will quickly fade if they are suddenly being told their Christmas present from their elderly aunty is now gone!
It will just make life even more miserable for staff who may lose their jobs and generate loads of bad press for the brand!!
But… If I was a staff member in hmv right now, why let it get to the point where you let people shout abuse at you? Why not just take the gift voucher against stock? What’s the worst that can happen when you’re out of a job anyway?
Certainly senior management knew before Christmas what the outcome was going to be. There should be emails and budget projections that should be turned over to fraud investigators. You can’t get blood from a stone, but you can put a stone on ice for a couple of years.
spokesman was on the radio today informing everybody it is business as usual…unless you have a voucher of course however he left that little snippet of imformation out of the pr exercise.this recievership was flagged to the markets before xmas yet they literally took money under false pretenses from unsuspecting customers…would not spend a cent in HMV now due to this blatant act of dishonesty
Never heard such fuss over so little. Vouchers are unsecured creditors. The person who gifted them got away with his obligation and the recipient isn’t at the loss of anything they ever had. Most vouchers wouldn’t exceed 50 euro. Save the real sympathy for the employees and real creditors for whom its a worrying time. Some people ring Joe Duffy out of pure boredom.
Assuming HMV continue to refuse to honour their vouchers (and especially if they close down altogether), some of the independent CD stores could make a killing and gain some new customers in the process by offering half price deals on presentation of a HMV voucher. Not a system based on the monetary value of the voucher. but just in the same way that shops give discount on presentation of a student card.
While those with vouchers in the hundreds might think it worthwhile to chase down HMV (or their administrators/liquidators etc.) for their money, I’m sure that people with vouchers worth under say €25 would gladly receive some kind of discount elsewhere rather than just binning the card.
Nice idea donal but I can’t see that happening ever, tryst me the margins are tight enough for indie pendant ( see what I did there ) retailers, hopefully someone can step in and take over because the nearest record store besides the 2 hmvs in limerick is a small dive of a place in ennis that stocks stuff that makes the charts and thats about it the next record store after that would be cork or Galway
From my understanding HMV knew they were in difficulty before Christmas, why then sell vouchers which they knew they may not , or as now will not honour?
Irritating that they won’t accept gift cards but if they go out of business then the only retail game retailer left will be Gamestop and they’re expensive. 60€ for Halo 4 in comparison with HMV’s 45€ is a fécking rip off
Any updates yet on the vouchers, Will the staff issue you out a receipt for a voucher that was bought using a credit card so you can post to your credit card company saying you’ve not spent any of the money on the card. I heard that the tills have the voucher button deactivated on them.
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Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services (for instance, the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. This can for example be used to adapt the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find (non-advertising) content that matches your interests.
Measure advertising performance 119 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which advertising is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine how well an advert has worked for you or other users and whether the goals of the advertising were reached. For instance, whether you saw an ad, whether you clicked on it, whether it led you to buy a product or visit a website, etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of advertising campaigns.
Measure content performance 59 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you.
Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources 70 partners can use this purpose
Reports can be generated based on the combination of data sets (like user profiles, statistics, market research, analytics data) regarding your interactions and those of other users with advertising or (non-advertising) content to identify common characteristics (for instance, to determine which target audiences are more receptive to an ad campaign or to certain contents).
Develop and improve services 77 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers.
Use limited data to select content 38 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 42 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 24 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 79 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 89 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 65 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 47 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 77 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 57 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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