Policy about the use of Cookies/ online Tracking Technologies
Updated on April 2025
This Policy is aimed at informing users and visitors of Tamweelcom websites and other digital platforms about what “online tracking technologies” are and inherent added value as well as risks for those users and visitors.
These are technologies and methods used in the market to collect information about you (the suer/ visitor).
Below you may find a summarized explanation on how they work, their advantages, and their risks:
What They Are
Cookies: Small text files stored on your device that remember information about your browsing session
Web beacons/pixels: Tiny, invisible images that track when you've opened a page or email
Advantages for Users
There are however some potential advantages for you in the use of come cookies, such as:
Convenience: Remember login credentials, shopping carts, and preferences
Personalization: Customize content based on your interests and past behavior
Functionality: Enable essential website features like shopping carts and form submissions
Faster browsing: Cache information to load pages more quickly on return visits
Relevant content: Receive content and recommendations that match your interests
Risks for Users
But there are also risks:
Privacy concerns: Collection of personal data without full awareness or explicit consent
Profile building: Companies creating detailed user profiles by aggregating data
Security vulnerabilities: Potential for cookie theft and session hijacking
Lack of transparency: Difficulty understanding what data is collected and how it's used
Unwanted targeting: Persistent advertising that may feel intrusive
Data breaches: Collected data could be exposed in security incidents
Discrimination: Price discrimination or different service levels based on profiles
Cookies can operate at session level, meaning monitoring your activity during a single visit to a website or on a persistent basis, in the sense that a small software will be downloaded into your device and continue to track you not only on one specific website but also all other sites you visit.
This last type of Cookie operation constitutes a higher risk to you because it will be sharing information not only within the context of the website and service that you have visited but all other activities that you have online.
The main risk factor resides in the fact that many Cookies are created not by the company which website you have visited but by 3rd party entities, so what happens is that those 3rd party entities (e.g. Google; Facebook; other…) will also be getting information about your behaviour on websites, either just that one website (in the case of session level cookies) or all your activity in the Internet (in the case of persistent basis cookies).
Important note
Some of the Cookies we use are “necessary” in the sense that either some of the services we make available to you on our services will not work if you, your browser or device does not accept them or you will not be able to experience access information and services in an effective manner (e.g. cookies that automatically adapt the website layout to the type of device you are using, compute, smartphone, etc…).
All other Cookies in use by us are classified as “optional” in the sense that although we may benefit from them, you do not necessarily have any advantage in them being active and collecting information about you and your activity over our websites (e.g. statistic usage tracking; profiling).
YOUR CAN MANAGE/ DISABLE “non-ESSENTIAL” COOKIES ON OUR COOKIE MANAGEMENT TOOL THAT POPSUP WHEN YOU ACCESS OUR WEBSITES.
