What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises such cookies. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device, preferences and generally help to improve your online experience. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

How we use cookies on Our Website?

We use cookies to understand how you use www.jardines.com (our “Website”), so we can develop and improve your experience when you use our Website and ensure that it is functioning effectively.   For example, we use cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Website or to understand and record your preferences to tailor to your browsing experience.  This Cookie Policy provides you with information about what cookies we use and for what purposes we use them for.

What types of cookies do we use?

Cookies can generally be put into one of the following categories:

1. Strictly necessary – these cookies are essential to allow you to navigate our Website and use its features.

2. Performance – these cookies collect information about how you use our Website.

3. Functionality – these cookies allow us to remember your choices so we can offer you an enhanced and more personal experience (e.g. remembering your choice of language, displaying news stories relating to parts of our business that you previously perused on the Website).

4. Targeting or advertising – these cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our Website. We may also show you advertising on our Website based on your browsing patterns on other websites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.

5. These categories are set out in the International Chamber of Commerce’s Cookie Guide, endorsed by EU privacy regulators.

Additionally, cookies can be further distinguished based on who has set the cookies and how long the cookies remain on your device. The terms “First party cookies” and “Third party cookies” indicate who has set the cookies. First Party cookies are cookies that we control and place on your device. Third Party cookies are cookies that another party controls but are placed on your device when you visit our Website. For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to gather information about your experience on our Website.  By their nature, Third Party cookies used on our Website result in information about your use of our Website being processed by third parties (e.g. the party that places that cookie on your device).  

Some cookies are “Session cookies” while others are “Persistent cookies”. The terms “Session cookies” and “Persistent cookies” indicate how long the cookies will remain on your device. Session cookies are temporary cookies that stay on your computer until you leave our Website. Persistent cookies stay on your computer after you have finished browsing our Website until they expire or are deleted.  The maximum period of time that a cookie will stay on your computer is outlined in the table of Cookies we use on our Website below. For more information on the retention of information relating to you gathered through cookies on our Website, please see our privacy policy at privacy notice

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How can you restrict or block Cookies?

You can adjust the settings in your browser in order to restrict or block cookies that are set by this Website (or any other site on the Internet). Your browser may include information on how to adjust your settings.

Alternatively, you may visit www.allaboutcookies.org to obtain comprehensive general information about cookies and how to adjust the cookie settings on various browsers. This site also explains how to delete cookies from your computer. You may also opt out of certain providers’ targeting cookies by using an opt-out scheme that is provided by www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our Website. If you disable the cookies that we use, you will still be able to visit our Website but this may impact your experience while on our Website, for example you may not be able to visit certain areas of our Website or you may not receive personalised information when you visit our Website.

Last updated:31^st October 2022

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