1. What exactly are cookies?
A cookie is a small “encrypted text file” stored on your computer by a website to give you a unique ID. Cookies help make it easier and faster for you to use our website because it can remember if you have visited the website, and they help us provide you with the information you need about your browsing/shopping activity or account details – when and where you need it.
Cookies do not contain information that can personally identify you. A cookie generated by our website only contains a numeric ID that, for example, allows you to retrieve your account details or wish list. Cookies cannot harm your computer and do not contain any personal or private information.
2. How cookies are used?
We use cookies on our website in order to create an enjoyable and easy online browsing experience for you. Most, if not all, websites do this because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things, like finding out whether you have visited the website before.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, mainly to enhance your browsing experience and make the website more efficient to use, but also to provide us with information that helps improve the quality of our website. We also use cookies to keep track of what you have added to your ‘Wish List’ of cars or ‘Basket’ without losing the information between visits.
By using AlSham Motors website you are agreeing that we can house cookies on your devise. If you prefer, you can set up your internet browser to not accept cookies but this may reduce your online experience with us and affect the website performance.
3. What types of cookies are employed on this website?
There are two types of cookies that may be used during your visit to AlSham Motors website:
• Session Cookies: These are temporary cookie files, which are erased when you close your browser. These cookies are used to identify users between page loads. This allows our website to remember certain settings, like which cars a user has added to the wish list. Without session cookies, the website would forget which items you placed in your wish list and you would not be able to add anything to the wish list and/or basket.
• Persistent Cookies: Persistent cookies remember your preference and behaviour and help us personalise your browsing experience. Persistent cookies remain on your browser until they expire automatically after a set time period, unless you delete them yourself.
Third party analytics and other cookies of AlSham Motors partners with third party companies may also be used on our website for marketing and advertising purposes, for example Google Analytics, Google Ad Services, Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. These cookies allow us to make more informed decisions about what our customers want from us. Third party companies may employ a mixture of both session and persistent cookies. Any information that they collect is anonymous.
4. Can cookies be controlled or deleted?
Most browsers accept cookies by default, however you can alter your browser settings to not accept cookies or delete the cookies from your system. You can, if you prefer, set up your internet browser to not accept cookies. You should still be able to use our website without having cookies enabled but this may reduce your overall online website browsing experience with us and affect the website performance.
