COOKIES POLICY

1. INTRODUCTION

Dubai World Trade Centre LLC (“We”) owns and operates Gulfood, an exhibition within Dubai World Trade Centre that showcases global food and beverage products and connecting industry. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This Cookies Policy is designed to provide you with clear information about how and why we use Cookies on our website. When you make your first visit to our official website www.gulfood.com, you will have the option to grant consent or decline consent for the collection and use of Cookies.

2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owners.

3. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

Cookies help us in:

a. Managing and presenting the information displayed on our website.

b. Assisting you in navigating pages.

c. Analyse your use of our website.

d. Ensure that advertisements that you see on our website are according to your preferences and interests.

e. Assist us in understanding your preferences such as preferred languages as well as understanding our audience and analysing traffic patterns.

4. FIRST-PARTY COOKIES & THIRD PARTY COOKIES

First-Party Cookies are directly stored on your device when you visit our website. These Cookies enable us to gather analytics information, remember language preferences, and carry out other beneficial tasks that enhance your experience.

Third-Party Cookies are created by third parties like an advertiser. They are typically used for online advertising and are added by a script or tag to a website.

5, WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF COOKIES USED BY US?

1.1 Strictly Necessary/ Essential Cookies:

These Cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these Cookies, some of the website features may not provide the optimal results.

1.2 Performance & Functionality Cookies:

Performance Cookies are generally third-party Cookies from vendors we work with or who work on our behalf that collect information about your visit and use of the DWTC website, for instance, which pages you visit the most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. These Cookies do not collect information that can be used to identify a visitor. All information collected by these Cookies is anonymous and is solely used to improve the functionality of the website. For example, we can use these Cookies to learn more about which features are the most popular with our users and which ones might need some revisions.

1.3 Analytics & Customization Cookies

Analytics Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These Cookies track metrics such as the number of visitors, the pages they visit, the time spent on each page, and how they navigate through the website. The data collected enables us to analyze trends, improve website performance, and enhance the user experience. For example, by understanding which pages receive the most traffic or where users tend to drop off, we can optimize the website's design and content to better meet user needs.

1.4 Targeting and Advertising Cookies

Targeting Cookies are little pieces of information that we store on your system/ device. These Cookies are used to remember things about you, such as your interests, the things you have looked at on our website, or even your login information. These Cookies can be used to show you personalised content; they also help us tailor our content to your preferences and interests, making your online experience more personalised. For example, if you have been browsing for conferences or webinars on our website, targeting Cookies helps us to remember your preferences, ensuring that when you return, we can provide personalised suggestions for upcoming events that align with your interests.

1.5 Unclassified Cookies

Unclassified Cookies are Cookies that are not used in the same category as other types of Cookies such as “First Party” or Third Party.” These are usually set by websites you have previously visited, but also incorporate advertisement services or social media platforms.

6. LIST OF COOKIES

ESSENTIAL COOKIES

COOKIES KEY	DOMAIN	COOKIES TYPE	EXPIRATION	DESCRIPTION
CFTOKEN	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year	This cookie is a random-number client security token.
__cf_bm	gulfood.com	Third Party	Less than a day	This cookie is used as on-end user devices that access customer sites that are protected by bot management or bot fight mode.
bcookie	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year	This cookie is used to uniquely identify devices accessing site to detect abuse on the platform.
__privaci_cookie_consent_generated	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year	These cookies are required to support core functionality of the SECURITI.ai consent solution. The cookies help maintain and honor consent preferences submitted by the user.
__privaci_cookie_consent_uuid	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year	These cookies are required to support core functionality of the SECURITI.ai consent solution. The cookies help maintain and honor consent preferences submitted by the user.
__privaci_cookie_consents	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year	These cookies are required to support core functionality of the SECURITI.ai consent solution. The cookies help maintain and honor consent preferences submitted by the user
__privaci_cookie_no_action	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year	These cookies are required to support core functionality of the SECURITI.ai consent solution. The cookies help maintain and honor consent preferences submitted by the user.
__privaci_latest_published_version	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	These cookies are required to support core functionality of the SECURITI.ai consent solution. The cookies help maintain and honor consent preferences submitted by the user.
bscookie	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year	Used for remembering that a logged-in user is verified by two factor authentication.
csrftoken	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year	This cookie is used as protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

COOKIES KEY	DOMAIN	COOKIES TYPE	EXPIRATION	DESCRIPTION
CFID	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie is a sequential client identifier.
_clck	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year	This cookie persists the site user ID and preferences, unique to that site, on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
_clsk	gulfood.com	First Party	1 day	This cookie connects multiple page views by a user into a single site session recording.
CLID	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year	This cookie identifies the first-time site saw the user on any site.
receive-cookie-deprecation	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is related to receiving notifications regarding cookie deprecation.
li_sugr	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the designated countries.
lidc	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 day	To facilitate data center selection.
sp_t	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used to implement audio-content from on the website. Can also be used to register user interaction and preferences in context with audio-content.
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
TESTCOOKIESENABLED	gulfood.com	Third Party	Less than a day	This cookie used to save individual comfort settings you have selected and keep them for your current and future visits to the site.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	gulfood.com	Third Party	180 days	This cookie is used to measure user's bandwidth to determine whether user gets the new player interface or the old.
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	gulfood.com	Third Party	180 days	This cookie is used to remember user input and associate a user’s actions.
YSC	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used to remember user input and associate a user’s actions.
remote_sid	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used to allow us to embed videos.
mid	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie enables social media functionality within the site.
CLID	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year	This cookie identifies the first-time site saw the user on any site.
nextId	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
requests	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used to host video content on the site.
__Secure-*	gulfood.com	Third Party	180 days	This cookie is used to enhance the security of user session by ensuring that data is transmitted securely. It helps protect user information from unauthorized access and supports the overall security framework of the website.

ANALYTICS COOKIES

COOKIES KEY	DOMAIN	COOKIES TYPE	EXPIRATION	DESCRIPTION
_ga	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is used to distinguish users.
_pk_id*	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is used to recognize visitors and hold their various properties.
_pk_ses*	gulfood.com	First Party	Less than a day	This cookie shows the visitor’s active session.
_ga_911C597QT5	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year 30 days
_cltk	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie registers statistical data on user's behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator.
AnalyticsSyncHistory	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie.

TARGETING COOKIES

COOKIES KEY	DOMAIN	COOKIES TYPE	EXPIRATION	DESCRIPTION
_fbp	gulfood.com	First Party	90 days	This cookie is used for marketing purpose.
_gcl_au	gulfood.com	First Party	90 days	This cookie is used by advertisers to measure user activity and the performance of their ad campaigns.
DEFAULTLOCALE	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie is an advertising tracker from Affiliate Summit. Affiliate Summit is the premier online marketing conference, drawing over 5,000 people per event.
_fbp	gulfood.com	First Party	90 days	This cookie identifies browsers for the purposes of providing advertising and site analytics services.
lastExternalReferrer	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie is used to find out where the visitor comes from.
lastExternalReferrerTime	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie is item is used for visitor evaluation of where the visitor comes from.
li_adsId	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie helps identify and track users for advertising purposes, enabling the site and advertising partners to offer more personalized and relevant advertising.
cfid	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is used for marketing purpose.
cftoken	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is an advertising tracker from Scientific American. Scientific American publishes science and technology magazines in the United States.
_uetsid	gulfood.com	First Party	1 day	This cookie contains the session ID for a unique session on the site.
_uetvid	gulfood.com	First Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is used as anonymized visitor ID, representing a unique visitor.
_uetsid_exp	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie contains the expiry-date for the cookie name _uetsid.
_uetvid_exp	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie contains the expiry-date for the cookie name _uetvid.
IDE	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web.
ar_debug	gulfood.com	Third Party	30 days	This cookie is used to track the visitor to website. The purpose is to present advertisements that are relevant and engaging to the individual user and therefore of greater value to third party publishers and advertisers.
test_cookie	gulfood.com	Third Party	Less than a day	This cookie is used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web.
ELOQUA	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is used to track customers through all phases of the buying products.
ELQSTATUS	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie is used to track individual visitors and their use of the site. It is set when you first visit the site and updated on subsequent visits.
NID	gulfood.com	Third Party	180 days	This cookie is used for purposes to show ads in services for signed-out users.
UserMatchHistory	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used as ads ID syncing
sp_landing	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is to observe the preferences you reveal through your use of the Website and to send you advertising messages in line with those preferences.
MR*	gulfood.com	Third Party	30 days	This cookie indicates whether to refresh MUID.
MSPTC	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance.
MUID	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie registers a unique ID to recognise returning visitors. The ID is used for targeted advertising.
SRM_B	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie may be set through our site by our advertising partners. It may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.
ANONCHK	gulfood.com	Third Party	Less than a day	This cookie indicates whether MUID cookie is transferred to ANID cookie, a cookie used for advertising.
MR	gulfood.com	Third Party	30 days	This cookie indicates whether to refresh MUID.
SM	gulfood.com	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains.
MUID	gulfood.com	Third Party	1 year 30 days	This cookie registers a unique ID to recognise returning visitors. The ID is used for targeted advertising.

UNCLASSIFIED COOKIES

COOKIES KEY	DOMAIN	COOKIES TYPE	EXPIRATION	DESCRIPTION
_gcl_ls	gulfood.com	First Party	Session	This cookie has not been classified into a specific category.
re_ret_aid	gulfood.com	First Party	1 day	These cookies have not been classified into a specific category.
re_ret_page	gulfood.com	First Party	1 day	These cookies have not been classified into a specific category.
re_ret_pid	gulfood.com	First Party	1 day	These cookies have not been classified into a specific category.
re_ret_site	gulfood.com	First Party	1 day	These cookies have not been classified into a specific category.

HOW CAN YOU CONTROL YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES?

1.1 You can choose to refuse or selectively accept to store certain Cookies by adjusting the preferences on the Cookies preference window and on your browser. However, if your browser refuses to store Cookies, some features of this website may not be available to you and some pages on this website may not display properly.

1.2 You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your Cookies preferences at the following websites: -

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/protect-your-privacy/Cookies

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&oco=1

1.3 Additionally, various web browsers offer features that allow you to make informed choices about the use of your personal information online. These features enable you to configure your browser to automatically accept or refuse to store Cookies based on your privacy preferences. We attempt to provide clear information and options regarding Cookies and privacy preferences for each Cookies that this website requests your browser to store.

1.4 If we detect that you have enabled the Do Not Track Setting or Global Privacy Control signal in your browser, we will automatically disable Targeting Cookies.

1.5 If you have disabled one or more Cookies, we may still use information collected from Cookies prior to your disabled preference being set; however, we will stop using the disabled Cookies to collect any further information.

UPDATE & REVIEW

We may update this Cookies Policy to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please check this page periodically to stay informed about our use of Cookies.

CONATCT US

If you have questions, requests, or concerns regarding your privacy and rights, please contact us at Privacy@dwtc.com.