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Cookie Notice

This Cookie Notice describes the cookies and other technologies that Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC (“ADCB”, “We”, “Us” or “Our”) uses on its website www.lifeintheuae.com to improve performance and enhance your experience as a user. The aim of this Cookie Notice is to explain what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. This Cookie Notice forms part of our Privacy Notice.

Please note that we include references to other websites that provide information about cookies. We are not affiliated with those websites or the third parties that operate them. We are not responsible for the content on those websites and provide links to them for information and convenience only.

What is a “Cookie”?

Cookies are small data files stored on your device by websites to remember user preferences, to provide you with a personalised experience. They may also track browsing activity based on your preference. This is useful because:

• they allow our website to recognise the devices you use to access our website;
• they allow you to navigate between web pages efficiently;
• they enable us to generally improve your experience of our website.

There are other types of tracking technologies used on our website. These include local storage objects, tags and web forms.

Each time you visit our website, you’ll be asked to accept or customise your cookie preferences. We use cookies to improve your experience and to collect anonymous statistics about how our site is used.

Cookies may collect personal information, for example, your input into online forms or registration pages. However, most cookies will not collect information that identifies you directly and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our website, or a user’s general location.

For more details on cookies and similar technologies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.

How to manage cookies?

Manage cookies through browser

The means to manage cookies through a browser differs on each browser. On most browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie, how to delete them or refuse to accept them.

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware, though, that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences, etc.)

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site or web page. And some services and functionalities may not work optimally. (e.g. profile logging in).

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org. For more information, please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser’s settings on some of the most popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

Opt out of targeted advertising

Different advertising industry associations offer consumers the ability to opt-out from online targeted advertising conducted by their member advertisers. If you would like to find out more information about this option, please visit their websites listed below and follow their instructions to opt-out from online targeted advertising:

• The Network Advertising Initiative
• The Digital Advertising Alliance
• European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (if you are located in the European Economic Area).

What types of personal data do we receive through cookies?

Some of the types of personal data we receive through the cookies we use are listed below. This includes information we access directly from your device without storing or accessing a file:

• Cookie browser data: cookie identifiers, time/date, services/products selected, whether and to which cookies you have consented;
• Device data: device type, screen resolution, operating system version, browser rendering core, its version and basic settings, such as privacy options, autofill options, etc.;
• Log data:time and duration of usage of our website and search data, such as your input into search forms;
• Location data: data about your country of access as indicated by Internet Protocol (IP) address of your device;
• Behavioural data: data about your usage of our website that we may process if you visit or use third party websites or applications that cooperate with us, and data on how you participate with the content of our website (such as pages visited, if you came from a marketing campaign, button clicks, etc.)

List of cookies used on our website

Some cookies are set by us (“first-party cookies") and can only be read by us. There are other cookies that are set by third parties whose services we use or partner with to run content on the page you are viewing ("third-party cookies").

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies. Other cookies stay on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your browser. These are known as persistent cookies and enable us to remember things about you as a returning visitor. This website uses both session and persistent cookies.