Arrow Electronics, Inc. Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Effective Date: March 3rd, 2026.
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (“Arrow”, “we” or “our”) website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a quality website experience and allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, or agreeing to this cookie policy, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
Cookies and tracking devices used on Arrow.com, as categorized by function:
- Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and to provide our sites reliably and securely and consistent with your settings. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or use e-billing services. These cookies also permit us to monitor and prevent unusual and potentially fraudulent activities (e.g., in relation to advertising, ad clicks by bots); ensure that systems and processes are working properly and securely (fraud detection and security); and track your consent status to comply with your choices.
- Analytics cookies. Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move on our website. This helps improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily using data like browser information, click path, date and time of visit, geographical location, IP address, usage data, and websites visited. Analytics are important to provide you with a high- quality site.
- Personalization cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember certain preferences by using data like browser information, click path, date and time of visit, geographical location, IP address, usage data, and websites visited. Personalization is important to provide you with a site whose content is tailored to your interests.
- Advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We and our vendors use information like browser information, click path, date and time of visit, geographical location, IP address, usage data, websites visited. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests such as by presenting you with content tailored to you on our site and on third-party sites, which may be based on your personal preferences (including profiling). We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Cookies can also be categorized by how long they remain on your device. There are two broad categories of duration:
- Persistent cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically.
- Session cookies. Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser when they are automatically deleted.
We use both persistent and session cookies. Our persistent cookies last no longer than one (1) year.
Information collected by our cookies:
As described above, cookies on our website collect several types of information, including information about your usage of our website and we may collect your IP address as a logged file. An IP address is the number assigned to your device, for example your laptop or mobile phone, when your device accesses the internet.
To the extent that IP addresses are personal data under applicable data protection law, we treat it as personal data. If we link information collected through cookies with any personal data you provide to us through the website, e.g., through submitting a form, we also treat that information as personal data. For information on how we handle personal data collected through the site, please see our Privacy Policy.
Depending on where you are when you visit our website, you may have the option to individually adjust the use of cookies on the site. Cookies that are "Essential" cannot be adjusted as those Cookies are strictly necessary for providing a safe and secure site consistent with your requests. [Click the floating cookie icon on any of our webpages to adjust cookies on your device.
In addition to adjusting cookies on our websites, most modern browsers will allow you to:
- See what cookies you've got and delete them on an individual basis;
- Block third party cookies;
- Block cookies from sites;
- Block all cookies from being set; and
- Delete all cookies when you close your browser.
You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete cookies. This includes where you have opted out from cookies, as this requires an opt-out cookie to be set. Also, if you block cookies completely many websites will not work properly and some functionality on these websites will not work at all. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website and Services for these reasons.
If you are primarily concerned about third-party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off separately.
Third-party cookies and tracking devices:
When you are on Arrow.com or any other Arrow property website you may notice that there is content from other websites - for example a video from YouTube or links to maps using google maps. We may also provide you with the opportunity to share information with others using social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We add this content from time to time to improve the user experience. We do not control cookies on other websites not posting this Cookie Policy and we suggest you check these third-party websites for more information about the cookies they use and how you can manage them.
Managing advertising cookies:
Please note that if advertising cookies are not set, this does not mean that you will receive less advertising when you use our services. This just means that the advertising you see will not be as relevant or customized to you.
In addition to clicking on the floating cookie icon on any of our webpages to manage cookies on your device, you can visit the Interactive Advertising Bureau's website www.youronlinechoices.com or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu which lists all ad serving cookies that are currently set on your device and tells you how to opt-out from each of them. Please note that this website lists many more networks than those used at Arrow.com.
Please remember that if you choose to opt out of targeted advertising from a specific company or via www.youronlinechoices.com or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu, it only applies to the web browser on the device you are using. You will therefore need to follow the same process on every device you use or different web browser that you use to exercise the same choice.
Further information about cookies:
If you wish to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Cookie Policy Updates:
If we change this Cookie Policy, we will post those changes on this page and update the Cookie Policy modification date above. If we materially change this Cookie Policy, we will notify you by prominently posting a notice of such changes before making them and by stating the effective date of the changes.