Cookie Notice

COOKIES STATEMENT

Alshaya Group (hereafter referred to as “we" or “our” or "us" or “Alshaya” or “organisation”) uses cookies on this Site. Here we explain what these cookies are and why we use them. Cookies help us to remember you, your browsing device, and how you use this Site. Cookies help us in gaining insights into your interests which helps us to improve your browsing experience and to provide you with essential services. They are stored locally on your device’s hard drive. We will only use the cookies if you consent to it by clicking on “Accept” where indicated. You can also manage individual cookie preference from settings.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device’s hard drive when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to do different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. If you visit this Site, we will deploy these technologies to provide an online service more suited to the device you connect from, as well as for administrative purposes and to enhance your online experience by keeping track of your behavior within this Site. “Session cookies” are automatically deleted once you leave this Site. We collect information about your use of this Site, information about the device or browser you use to access it.

GENERAL TYPE OF COOKIES WE USE

As indicated in our cookie banner, we use two types of cookies:
a. Essential cookies - we currently use one cookie to ensure that, when you return to our website, we know which cookie option about non-essential cookies you have selected in your previous visit.
b. Non-essential cookies - these are cookies that we use to collect aggregated statistics about your visit. You can see below what information we collect about your visit
If you don’t make a choice in the banner, only the essential will be deployed but not the non-essential and the banner will re-appear every time you visit our website.

WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use a limited number of cookies for several reasons as listed in this Cookie Policy. It allows us to enrich your experience by remembering your online behavior while using this Site and to improve the effectiveness of ads and services. It also helps in navigating you from one webpage to the other without undue delay.

We classify our cookies as:

a. Strictly Necessary - These cookies are essential, as they ensure your security and privacy when you use this Site, as well as enable you to move around this Site and use its features securely. Without these cookies, certain services on a website cannot be made possible and a website cannot perform as smoothly as it should. It remembers your past activities on the web page from the same session. It expires as soon as the session is terminated, or when you exit this Site.

b. Performance/Analytical - Performance cookies collect statistical information about the use of this Site, help to improve the way this Site works and to help us to identify issues you may have when using our online services.
• Performance/Analytical Cookies can be disabled at your convenience.

c. Persistent - Persistent cookies work by tracking your online preferences. But if you personalize this Site to fit your preferences, persistent cookies will remember and implement those preferences the next time you visit this Site such as storing your login information, language selections, menu preferences and internal bookmarks.
• Persistent cookies can be disabled at your convenience.

d. Marketing/Tracking - These cookies are required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purpose. These cookies can be set through this Site by our carefully selected and monitored advertising third-parties’ partners. They are likely to be used by those third-parties’ partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on their websites.
• Marketing/Tracking cookies can be disabled at your convenience.

CONSENT TO COLLECTING YOUR BROWSING EXPERIENCE

By default, the browsing experience of our website visitors is not tracked by us. You may, though, choose to consent to our processing of any personal data collected during your browsing experience on our website to allow us to produce aggregated statistics.

If you enable the Do Not Track option (see below for an explanation) in your web browser, we will respect your choice and your browsing experience on our website will not be tracked for our aggregated statistics.

If you have not enabled the Do Not Track option, we will show you a cookie banner for you to make your choice and install a cookie called xyz to keep track of your choice. This cookie expires after 6 months: then, if your Do Not Track option is not enabled, you will be shown the cookie banner again to renew your choice.
You will always have an option to modify the cookie preferences by accessing the “Cookie Preference” section placed on the website whenever you visit the website.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

a. Third-party organizations may also use their own cookies or other technologies to collect information about the content of this Site that you have clicked on. This information may be used by them to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on the content you have viewed.
b. We do not have access or control over the cookies placed on this Site by third parties and the use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.
c. Cookies placed by third parties may serve different purposes. They may be strictly necessary, performance, functionality. You may manage your consent for the cookies on this Site here. However, to disable or reject third-party cookies you must go to the relevant third party's website.
d. Your Personal Data may be collected by various third parties such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

DO WE USE SOCIAL NETWORKING COOKIES?

These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on this Site through third-party social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, and other websites.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

When using this Site, you will be directed to other websites. These websites may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you are directed to them from this Site. If you access those other websites, please read any cookie or privacy statements on those websites if you wish to know what cookies are being used.

HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use this Site though your access to some functionality and areas of this Site may be restricted. As for how you can refuse cookies through your web, browser controls vary from browser to browser. You should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

COOKIE CONTROL SETTINGS IN DIFFERENT WEB BROWSER

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari for iOS
Cookie settings in Safari for Mac OS

COOKIES COLLECTED IN THE PAST

The collection of your Personal Data from our cookies can be deleted. You can delete existing cookies from your browser. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used; however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience.

HOW OFTEN WE WILL UPDATE THE COOKIE NOTICE

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this Cookie Policy to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please, therefore, revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the end of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

CONTACT US

If you would like to exercise your data subject rights under the Applicable Laws or have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Alshaya Group Head Office: Burj Alshaya, Al Soor Street, Al Mirqab, Kuwait.
Email: dpo@alshaya.com
Mailing Address: Alshaya Group, PO Box 181, Safat 13002, Kuwait.