What are cookies ?
Cookies are small pieces of data which are sent to your computer by the websites you visit. These data files are managed by your Internet browser which guarantees that only the website which is issuing them is able to read and modify them. These enable the collection of information which is relative to your browsing so as to enhance your user experience and provide information to the owners of the website (particularly on its audience).
Find detailed information on cookies here : HTTP Cookie
Use of cookies on kuwait.expatsme.com
kuwait.expatsme.com uses cookies for several reasons. Some of these allow us to preserve your browsing and display preferences while others allow the personalization of content, service and advertisement, and even the establishment of statistics so that we can follow the website’s audience. These mainly help to improve user experience and allow the use of certain features and services.
On your first visit on kuwait.expatsme.com, only necessary browsing cookies will be deposited. These do not collect personal data and, therefore, do not require the user’s consent. If the user consents explicitly (by clicking on ‘I agree’) or implicitly (by continuing to browse), other cookies will then be deposited and read.
Find more information on the use of cookies on the website in the following table:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Authentication and session ID | These cookies allow you to connect to the website and log in during your visit. These are mainly used to personalize browsing. |
| Security | We use these cookies so as to secure access to the website and its use. |
| Preferences | These save the user’s browsing preferences, by allowing, for example, to preserve your preferred language from one page to another. |
| Features and services | These cookies allow us to preserve the user’s preferences and actions when using the website’s features and services. This simplifies the user’s interactions with the website. |
| Advertisement | These are used to display targeted ads and allow our partners to know, for example, if we have really displayed their ads. |
| Statistics and audience ratings | These cookies allow us to better understand our users and know the website’s audience. Analyzing the collected data via these cookies contributes to the website’s improvement. |
Advertising
kuwait.expatsme.com is very attached to its free subscription which allows everyone to access to information and advice from our community. Advertising spaces on the website greatly contribute to this free access by financially supporting our content and services. Without advertising, kuwait.expatsme.com’s business model would seriously be at risk.
Advertising spaces on the website depend on third parties who use cookies and other similar technologies to identify, for example, the features, services and sections which the user has visited. These cookies and technologies thus allow us to identify users’ behavior in terms of visits and to offer adapted advertisement.
kuwait.expatsme.com mainly used Google advertisement services (DoubleClick For Publisher, AdSense For Search, AdSense For Content, Google Consumer Surveys), but also to a lesser extent other regulators and networks.
Social networks
kuwait.expatsme.com can display social sharing buttons (Facebook, Twitter, Google +, LinkedIn, …) which use cookies. You can contact these websites to know their cookies and personal data policies.
Multimedia
Some multimedia components use cookies or other similar technologies.
Adobe Flash, for instance, can stock data on your computer besides cookies (LSO). You can restricts or block these LSO from the Adobe website. Note that this can cause potential dysfunctions on our website when using Adobe Flash.
Multimedia players (Youtube, Dailymotion,…) may have to create cookies on your browser to function properly. Contact these websites to know more about their cookies and personal data policies.
Statistics and audience ratings
kuwait.expatsme.com uses Google services to follow and analyze its audience (Google Analytics).
Allow or block cookies
You can choose to manage or deactivate cookies on your computer anytime, either by configuring your Internet browser or by other ways.
Please note that the deactivation of cookies can modify your access to our content and services when these require cookies, like in the case of creating an account on kuwait.expatsme.com. In case you wish to refuse all or part of the cookies, you can still browse the website in a degraded mode. However, ExpatsMe is not liable for any malfunction arising from the inability to record or consult cookies following your refusal to use all or part of the cookies used by the website.
Choose via your Internet browser:
In general, Internet browsers are configured to allow cookies by default. Internet users can freely choose the setting options provided by their browser, free of charge. These settings allow Internet users to allow or block cookies, either one by one or systematically.
The management of cookies differs from one Internet browser to another. Please check the following links for more information on the main Internet browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en
- Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/fr/9277.html
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html
As mentioned previously, Adobe Flash does not use cookies but the LSO technology. Information collected in these files can be modified via another interface than that provided by your Internet browser. You can find more about the Flash cookies management system from the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com/.
You can also configure your Internet browser so that it indicates to websites that you do not wish to be followed.
Find more information for your Internet browser on the following links:
- Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-tracking-protection#ie=ie-11
- Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11952
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836?
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature
- Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/notrack.html
Choose online:
Running cookies used by kuwait.expatsme.com cannot be deactivated. These cookies belong to the following categories:
- Session authentication and identification,
- Security,
- Preferences,
- Features and services.
Please visit the following website for the configuration of cookies used by Google advertising services: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated?hl=en.
Our audience measurement tool (Google Analytics) allows the management of your data directly from the following page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Social networks use cooking to enhance your browsing experience. If you wish to modify the use of cookies by social networks, please refer to the following websites:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/
- Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514#
- LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy
- Google: https://privacy.google.com/?hl=en