To improve your experience with this site, we place small data files called cookies on your device.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, display preferences and others) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
What are the different types of cookies?
A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:
- session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser or
- persistent cookie which remains on the user's computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.
As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:
- first-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain
- third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page's domain.
These cookies are in use
- Google Analytics Cookies - these are first party session and persistent (lasting up to two years) cookies which are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies identify unique visitors and views to the website in addition to how users reach our website. This tracked information is stored within the our Google Analytics account and we use this information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. See more information about Google's privacy policy.
- Display Cookies – these are first party session and persistent (lasting up to one month) cookies which are used to ensure the best browsing experience on a compatible browser when you view our website on different devices or browsers.
- Nearby Search Coordinates - these are first party session and persistent (lasting up to 1 hour) cookies which are used to collect information about how visitors use our website and is used to identify businesses of interest within the vicinity of the user.
- Non Halal Viewing - these are first party session and persistent (lasting up to 1 year) cookies which are used to display results according to the defined preferences of the user.
Control of Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.