Cookie Policy

At Shasat, we are committed to providing our users with a positive and personalized experience on our website. One way we enhance this experience is by using cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our website. They allow us to remember your preferences and activity on our site, making your future visits more efficient and convenient. In this Cookie Policy, we will explain what cookies are, how we use them, and your options for managing them.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. Only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier as well as the site name. Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (“first party cookies”) or they may be set by other websites that run content on the page you are viewing (“third party cookies”).

How are cookies used?

Cookies do lots of different jobs, including letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Most websites you visit will use cookies to improve your user experience by enabling that website to “remember” you, either for the duration of your visit (using a “session cookie”) or for repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”).

If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are visiting the website for the first time every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page the website won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based, for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Categories of cookies?

The cookies used by our website, or that will be used in the future, are classified as follows:

• Strictly necessary
• Performance
• Functionality
• Targeting

Strictly necessary

Some cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to move around the website and fully use its features. Without these cookies, we will not be able to provide certain features, such as automatically signing in to protected areas.

Some of the cookies used by our sites are set by us, and some are set by third parties who are delivering services. We use the following cookies:

How it works

The cookies are essential to authorize your access to content and services that are not publicly available including paid-for content. If you are a registered user/subscriber, when you log on, it places a cookie on your machine. Once you are logged on, we use this cookie to monitor your activity on our websites, for example, which particular page/services you read.

The objective is to ensure compliance with our terms and conditions as part of your subscription/registration. Also for customer service purposes to provide users with a tailored service and to develop products and services reflecting our users’ needs.

Your Options

If you would prefer us not to use your activity log for customer service purposes, you can request that we anonymize it for these uses. This will affect our ability to understand your requirements and personalize your browsing experience in the future. To request anonymization please contact us or email us at: info@shasat.com.

Please mentioned “Cookies” in the subject and also your and company name.

Ad-Sense by Google

Google AdSense is a program run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to site content and audience.

Google AdWords

Shasat uses Google AdWords to display advertisements about our products and services.  Google AdWords display advertisements prompted by search terms entered into the Google search box. Therefore, the objective is to use it to display advertisements about our programmes and services. https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps us to understand how our users engage with our websites and so allows us better to tailor our websites to our users’ needs. The tool uses a cookie in order to evaluate use of content and compile reports for us on activity on our websites and Apps.

Google Analytics – Advertisement and Remarketing

Some of our sites may use these features including locations and Interest Reports. Where these features are enabled, Google Analytics shall collect data about our website traffic via Google advertising cookies and unkonwn identifiers, in addition to data collected through the standard Google Analytics implementation.

The locations and interest reports will not contain personally identifiable data but they may pull in browsing data from these additional sources.

Remarketing

Google remarketing enables the display of online advertisements about our products and services to individuals who have previously viewed one of our websites. The advertisements will relate to the site/page/article/programmes viewed.

Google Analytics – User ID & cross device reports

This enables us to link activities on our sites by the same user from different devices, using our internal customer numbers. Although we can identify the user, Google will not be able to do this.

How to opt out

To opt out of Google Analytics, Remarketing, Advertisements and various other Cookies please follow this link

• https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
• https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922

To check your Google ads settings and opt out of Google Ads, please follow this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads