Cookies policy

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what's in your shopping basket.

Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to 'remember' you, either for the duration of your visit (using a 'session cookie') or for repeat visits (using a 'persistent cookie').

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn't use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won't recognise you and it won't be able to keep you logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting ('first party cookies') or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing ('third party cookies').

The infromation described below will help you understand the different types of existing "cookies":

- Session cookies: are temporary cookies that are saved into the cookies files of your browser until you exit the webpage, and therefore are not stored in the user's computer hard drive. The information retrieved through these cookies help analyzing the usage patterns in the webpage. In the end, this helps us improving our contents in order to provide a better service to our customers.

- Persistent Cookie: they are stored in your computer's hard drive and our webpage reads them every time you access our site. A persistent web has an expiration date. After this date, the cookie will no longer work.

The main cookies used in our website are:

- The cookies required for a proper page navigation and those that enable our customers to display the features available in our website. Also those cookies that allow the contents to be rapidly loaded.

- Thrid-Party cookies like those used by the social networks or by external content sources.

- Analystical cookies for periodic maintenance purposes, aiming at offering the best possible service to our customer. These cookies are used to collect statistical data of the web activity.

LIST AND DESCRITPION OF COOKIES USED IN OUR WEBSTIE

The table attached below is a summary of the cookies used in our website:

Cookie

Name

Purpose / More Info

Expiration

Google Analytics

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Waam SL, uses Google Analytics in its website in order to track the web activity.

2 years

 

 

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Google Analytics' cookies collect standard record info and data from the visitors habits anonymously.

30 minutes

 

 

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More Info:

Session

 

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developers.google.com/analytics/resources/
concepts/gaConceptsCookies

6 months

 

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2 years



Additional Guarrantees – Cookies Management

As an additional guarantee to the ones described above, the recording performed by the cookies will have to be accepted during the browser installation or update, and it can be cancelled at any time through the content and privacy settings menu. Many web browsers empower the activation of a privacy mode by which the cookies are always deleted after leaving the website. This mode can have different names depending on the browser used. Attached below is a list of the most commonly used Web browsers and the names used for these "private modes":

Internet Explorer 8 and higher; InPrivate Safari 2 and higher; Private Navegation Opera 10.5 and higher; Private Navegation FireFox 3.5 and higher; Private Navegation Google Chrome 10 & higher; Incognito

Important: Please, read the 'help' section in your browser in order to learn more about how to enable the 'privacy mode'. You will still be able to visit our website even if your browser is using this mode however the navigation might not be optimal and some features might not work properly.