Cookie Policy
1. Purpose
Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) uses functional, analytical and tracking cookies on its website www.act.com.jo. This statement provides more details on cookies and other techniques used by us. We may change this statement from time to time. Therefore, we would advise you to regularly check our website to find out whether any changes have been made to this statement.
Version date: 2nd July 2018
2. What are cookies
Our websites use cookies. A cookie is a small text file, which is stored on your computer in order to recognize your computer at recurring visits. The cookie may transmit information via your browser with a purpose of authenticating or identifying the computer (via e.g. the IP address) or the user. Cookies may contain information such as registration data and user preferences. When a server receives a request from a computer which stores a cookie from the website, the server is able to use the information stored in the cookie in combination with the information stored on the server. A cookie cannot collect information from your computer and cannot carry any vira or other damaging files.
Cookies may be ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies. Cookies that are persistent will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless the cookie is deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie will expire at the end of a session, in other words, when the web browser is closed.
3. How we use cookies
We use cookies to recognize a device when you visit our website, to track which pages you visit on our website, the improve the usability of our website, to improve the security of the website, to personalize the website and to validate authenticated user sessions. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
Please note that the information that is collected by cookies is not used by us to identify you, but information processed by cookies may contain information that could be qualified as personal data.
The cookies used by us can be classified in the following categories: necessary and non-necessary 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.
| Name | Type | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Functional | www.act.com.jo | Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. | Session |
| apm_Cookie | Functional |
www.act.com.jo | Used to track if the user has accepted the website cookie policy or not (via the cookie pop-up). | Session |
Non-necessary cookies:
| Name |
Type |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE | Tracking | www.act.com.jo | Used by Sitecore Engagement Analytics to identify the visitor on repeat visits to the website. | 10 years |
| SC_ANALYTICS_SESSION_COOKIE | Tracking | www.act.com.jo | Used by Sitecore Engagement Analytics to identify paths taken across the website. | Session |
| _ga | Analytical | www.act.com.jo | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years |
| _gid | Analytical | www.act.com.jo | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | a day |
| _gat | Analytical | www.act.com.jo | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
| _delighted_lrt, _delighted_lst, _delighted_fst |
Analytical | Delighted LLC | Used to collect visitor satisfaction feedback. | 10 years |
| _ceir | Tracking | Crazy Egg inc | Collects new/vs returning visitor browsing habits. | 5 years |
| _ceg.s, c_ceg.u | Tracking | Crazy Egg inc | Tracks visitor and session data. | 3 months |
| _atuvc | Tracking | Add This (Oracle) | Add This (Oracle) _atuvc and _atuvs are persistent cookies that that are created and read by the AddThis social sharing site in order to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
2 years |
| _atuvs | Tracking | Add This (Oracle) | See above | 30 mins |
4. Deletion of cookies
You may delete cookies if you no longer wish to store them on your computer. However, please note that the high quality of our website may be reduced as a consequence thereof. Please refer to the help guide for your browser for further guidance. You may delete cookies if you no longer wish to store them on your computer. However, please note that the high quality of our website may be reduced as a consequence thereof.
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