This Cookie Policy explains how Empress Kythene, operated by Mach and Kyth FZ LLC, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with our website.

 

It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect, use, disclose and protect personal information.

 

1. What Are Cookies?

 

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website.

 

Cookies and similar technologies help websites operate correctly, remember preferences, understand how visitors interact with the website and, where permitted, support analytics, personalisation and marketing.

 

Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage and other tools that store or access information on your device. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies.”

 

2. How We Use Cookies

 

Empress Kythene uses cookies to support the operation and security of our website, enable shopping-cart and checkout functionality, remember your preferences and selections, understand how visitors interact with our website and improve the overall client experience.

 

Where permitted, cookies may also be used to measure website performance, understand the effectiveness of our communications and campaigns, and support personalised content or marketing.

 

The cookies used may vary depending on the features, applications and third-party services enabled on our website.

 

3. Types of Cookies We Use

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies

 

These cookies are required for our website and online store to function correctly.

 

They may support website security, shopping-cart functionality, checkout and payment processes, account authentication, fraud prevention, network management and the storage of your privacy or cookie preferences.

 

Because these cookies are necessary for the operation and security of the website, they generally cannot be disabled through our cookie-preference tools.

 

You may be able to block them through your browser settings, although doing so may prevent certain areas or features of the website from functioning correctly.

 

Functional and Preference Cookies

 

These cookies allow us to remember choices you make and provide enhanced website functionality.

 

They may remember information such as your preferred language, country or region, currency, account preferences and other website settings.

 

If these cookies are disabled, certain personalised features may not function as intended.

 

Analytics and Performance Cookies

 

Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors use and navigate our website.

 

They may provide information about pages and products viewed, time spent on the website, navigation between pages, referring websites, website errors, device and browser information and general website performance.

 

We use this information to improve the usability, performance and client experience of our website.

 

Where required by applicable law, analytics and performance cookies will be used only after appropriate consent has been obtained.

 

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

 

Where used, marketing and advertising cookies help us understand the effectiveness of campaigns and communications and may allow content or advertising to be tailored more closely to your interests.

 

They may also help us understand whether you have interacted with an advertisement or marketing communication.

 

Certain marketing technologies may be provided by third-party platforms.

 

Where required by applicable law, marketing or advertising cookies will be used only after appropriate consent has been obtained.

 

4. Shopify and Our E-Commerce Platform

 

Our online store is hosted using Shopify.

 

Shopify provides the ecommerce technology that enables us to operate our website, maintain shopping-cart and checkout functionality, process orders, support customer accounts and provide security and other ecommerce services.

 

As part of providing these services, Shopify may use cookies and similar technologies and may process information relating to visitors and customers of our store.

 

The particular technologies used may vary depending on the Shopify features and services enabled on our website.

 

Shopify also maintains its own privacy information explaining how it processes information through its services.

 

5. Third-Party Cookies and Technologies

 

Some cookies and similar technologies available through our website may be provided by third parties whose services we use.

 

These may include ecommerce and payment providers, analytics providers, advertising and marketing platforms, social-media platforms, website performance and security providers, and other applications or technologies integrated with our website.

 

These third parties may process information collected through their technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.

 

The third-party services used on our website may change from time to time as our website, services and technology evolve.

 

6. Cookie Consent

 

Where required by applicable law, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

 

Strictly necessary cookies may operate without your consent where they are required to provide website functionality, maintain security or provide a service that you have requested.

 

Through our cookie banner or preference tools, where available, you may be able to accept non-essential cookies, reject them or manage your preferences by category.

 

Your choices may be stored so that we can respect your preferences when you return to our website.

 

7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

 

You may review or change your cookie preferences at any time through the Cookie Preferences or similar privacy control available on our website, where provided.

 

Changing or withdrawing your consent will apply to future use of non-essential cookies and will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before your preferences were changed.

 

You may also manage cookies directly through your internet browser.

 

Depending on your browser, you may be able to view or delete stored cookies, block certain cookies, prevent third-party cookies or receive a notification before a cookie is stored.

 

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality and may mean that some features, preferences or services do not operate correctly.

 

8. Session and Persistent Cookies

 

Cookies may remain on your device for different periods depending on their purpose.

 

Session cookies generally remain only for the duration of your browsing session and are usually deleted when you close your browser.

 

Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

 

The duration of each cookie depends on its purpose and on the technology or service provider responsible for it.

 

We seek to retain information collected through cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

 

9. Personal Information Collected Through Cookies

 

Information collected through cookies may, in certain circumstances, constitute personal information.

 

This may include information such as your IP address, device identifiers, browser information, approximate location, website activity, product interactions and other online identifiers.

 

Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal information, it will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection requirements.

 

10. International Processing

 

Some service providers that support our ecommerce, analytics, security, marketing or other website technologies may operate or process information outside the United Arab Emirates.

 

Where personal information collected through cookies is transferred or processed internationally, we will take appropriate measures in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.

 

Further information about how we share and protect personal information is available in our Privacy Policy.

 

11. Changes to This Cookie Policy

 

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies and technologies used on our website, changes to our services or changes in applicable legal requirements.

 

The latest version will be published on our website and identified by the Last Updated date shown at the beginning of this Policy.

 

We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically.

 

12. Language

 

This Cookie Policy is available in English and Arabic for the convenience of our clients.

 

13. Contact Us

 

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, this Cookie Policy or our privacy practices, please contact:

 

Empress Kythene
Mach and Kyth FZ LLC
Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone
United Arab Emirates

 

Email: clientservices@empresskythene.com

 

You may also contact us through the Contact Us page on our website.