Cookie Notice

Last update 15/08/2024

Hemas Holdings PLC (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘Hemas’ hereafter) is committed to providing you with best user experience on our website(s) through cookies whilst ensuring your Personal Data is handled responsibly and in compliance with the PDPA. This Cookie Notice explains what cookies are, how and why we use them and what choices you have regarding the same. This Cookie Notice is in addition to our Data Protection Notice found here.

What are cookies?

Unlike the edible ones, cookies are small data files or text files that is stored on your computer, tablet or other mobile device when you visit our websites. Cookies can be either first party or third party. First party cookies are set by our own websites when you visit them and only our website can access or read them. We may also use third-party cookies, which are stored by external partners.

Cookies help us to remember certain information about you and accommodate your use of the websites, improve web performance and your overall experience.

In general, first party and third-party cookies allow us to track your usage, browsing and recommend better user experience by saving your preferences when you return to the website.

What are the cookies we use on our site?

Essential cookies: these are absolutely necessary for the website to function correctly and cannot be removed. These cookies do not store personal data and are usually used to respond to any queries you make on the website. You may set your browser setting to either inform you about cookies or refuse them altogether. However, this may cause parts of the website not to function properly and therefore you may not have an optimum user experience.

Performance cookies: these help us to keep track of website traffic which helps us to improve the performance of our site. These cookies do not collect individually identifiable information and instead collect aggregated data. They help us to know which pages are mostly visited or least visited and how users browse through our site.

Functional cookies: these are aimed at providing enhanced functional and personalised experience to you when you visit our website. These may be first party or third party. If you refuse these cookies, then we may not be able to curate the content or your experience to you properly.

Targeted cookies: these can help build a profile based on your browsing behaviour and then target advertisements on the website of the advertising partners who may set them on our site. Refusing these cookies will cut down on the targeted advertisements you may experience.

We store essential cookies by default when you visit our site. You will have the option to opt out of performance, functional or targeted cookies, when you visit our site.

We may also allow you to enhance your engagement through social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. When you chose to do so, the third-party content that may get added to our website may result in third-party providers storing their own additional cookies on your devices. We have no control over these additional cookies.