Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to enhance user experience and to improve our website. Upon accessing our website (www.houbara.me) our system will issue cookies unless you have previously adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies. 

The terms ‘us’, ‘we’, ‘our’ and other similar terms refers to Houbara Defence and Security, including our parent companies. The term ‘you’, ‘your’, ‘user’ and other similar terms refers to website visitors.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers. These files are either stored in the memory of your computer or other device such as mobile phones or tablet devices or are placed on the hard drive of your device.

Cookies are created when you visit a website or other service that uses cookies. Cookies are commonly used to help the user’s browsing experience and provide more information about the user’s experience and interests. This information is generally used to make content, services and advertising more relevant and useful during future visits.

For more details about cookies and details of how to delete and disable cookies you can visit www.aboutcookies.org and also see our section with more information about cookies and how to delete them below.

What Cookies are used on the Houbara website?

We use the following cookies:

a)  Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are required for the operation of our website.

b)  Analytical/Performance Cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and their purposes below:

  • _GA (Google Analytics). These cookies allow us to count user visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the site performance using Google Analytic services.

  • _GAT (Google Analytics). Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

  • _GID (Google Analytics). Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors use the website.

  • COLLECT (Google Analytics). Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device behaviour. Tracks the visitor across multiple devices and marketing channels.

  • GPS (youtube.com). Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.

  • IDE (doubleclick.net). Used by doubleclick.net to register and report the website users’ actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an advertisement and to present targets ads to the user.

Third Party Cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Where Can I Find More Information About Cookies?

Find out more about cookies including how to disable/enable and delete them at the following website www.aboutcookies.org.

How Do I Delete Cookies?

You can block most cookies generally by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

Google provides the following options for users looking to opt out or change their Ads settings:

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous?hl=en&sig=ACi0TCiONq_U4C63m89z5YbqGwoArLGtEeUNJKcy689X3PwxAE0uvoYcIgBw8lpcduHH0vAKgaEFh-ViHdYxzdTjkCdifYBRRA

Users can also opt out of having their data collected by Google Analytics:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our sites, or you may experience reduced functionality when accessing certain services.

If you want to delete cookies from the browser on your mobile phone, you will need to refer to your handset manual.

Changes to Our Cookie Policy

We may, from time to time, make changes to our Cookie Policy Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes.