Introduction

Aquascience and Technology Ltd (hereinafter “The Company” or “we” or “us”) may use cookies when you visit our website, including any other media type, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto to help customize the Site and enhance your experience.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file and holds a certain amount of data, which our Site can send to your browser. It may then be stored on your computer's hard drive and can be accessed by our web server. This cookie data can then be retrieved and can allow us to customize our Site accordingly. It is important to clarify that cookies do not collect any personal data stored on your hard drive or computer.

Use of cookies

• The purpose of cookies is to help the Site keep track of your visits and activities.
• We may use cookies to enable certain functions of the Site, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.
• We use both session and persistent cookies on the Site, and we use different types of cookies to run the Site.
• Session cookies: cookies designed to collect and store information while the user is accessing the Site. These cookies are not stored on the user’s computer when the session expires, or the browser is closed.
• Persistent cookies: cookies in which the data continues to be stored on the user’s computer and can be accessed and processed when the user leaves the Site and when he/she returns to it. The user can delete these cookies at any time.

Types of cookies

• Necessary cookies:
  Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. Our webserver cookies help to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks and preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.
• Analytics Cookies:
  Analytics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. It registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website, used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate and registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. It is also used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior and tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
• Marketing Cookies:
  Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. The cookies are used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

Please note that some of these cookies may be manually disabled in your browser but may affect the functionality of the Site.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a Site other than the one you are currently on. Third-party cookies may be place on your computer when you visit the Site by companies that run certain services we offer. These cookies allow the third parties to gather and track certain information about you. These cookies can be manually disabled in your browser.

To enrich our Site content, sometimes we may embed video content from other social media websites such as YouTube or Facebook. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded, you may be presented with cookies from these websites.

We also offer a “share on” widget on some of our web pages, where content may be shared easily on sites such as Facebook. These sites may set a cookie when you are logged into their service. The Group has no control or liability over these cookies set, so you should check the relevant third party's cookie policy for more information.

Cookies Preferences

All browsers allow you to manage which cookies you accept, reject and delete. You can usually find these controls under the ‘Preferences’ or ‘Tools’ menu. Please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site.

Other tracking technologies

A "tracking pixel" or "web beacon" is a small object or picture embedded in a web page or email. They are used to track the number of users visiting specific pages and viewing emails, and to obtain other statistical data.

They are used to help the Site to better analyze and improve their services and to target advertising based on your browsing behavior and interests. For example, by knowing which web pages you visit or which elements of a page you viewed, when and for how long, whether you viewed and/or clicked on an advert on the site or whether you opened or clicked on marketing emails sent to you.

Privacy policy

This Cookie Policy is part of and is incorporated into our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.

Contact us

If you have any query about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at dpo@taylorsmith.mu