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Cookie Policy

Cookies consist of portions of code installed in the browser that assist the Owner in providing the Service according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which Cookies are installed may also require the User's consent.

Where the installation of Cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

Technical Cookies and Cookies serving aggregated statistical purposes

Activity strictly necessary for the functioning of the service
www.ocskuwait.com uses Cookies to save the User's session and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of www.ocskuwait.com, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic.

Activity regarding the saving of preferences, optimization, and statistics
www.ocskuwait.com uses Cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize the User's browsing experience. Among these Cookies are, for example, those used for the setting of language and currency preferences or for the management of first party statistics employed directly by the Owner of the site.

Other types of Cookies or third parties that install Cookies
Some of the services listed below collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the User or may be managed directly by the Owner - depending on how they are described - without the help of third parties.

If any third party operated services are listed among the tools below, these may be used to track Users’ browsing habits – in addition to the information specified herein and without the Owner’s knowledge. Please refer to the privacy policy of the listed services for detailed information.

Contacting the User

Mailing list or newsletter (www.ocskuwait.com)
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning www.ocskuwait.com. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to www.ocskuwait.com or after making a purchase.

Personal Data collected: address, city, company name, Cookies, country, county, date of birth, email address, first name, gender, last name, phone number, profession, state, Usage Data and website.

Content commenting

● Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of www.ocskuwait.com.
● Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
● If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.

Comment system managed directly (www.ocskuwait.com)
www.ocskuwait.com has its own internal content comment system.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies, email address, first name, last name, phone number, Usage Data, username and website.

Content performance and features testing (A/B testing)

The services contained in this section allow the Owner to track and analyze the User response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of www.ocskuwait.com.

Google Website Optimizer
● Google Website Optimizer is an A/B testing service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from ("Google").
● Google may use Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Optimizely (Optimizely, Inc.)
● Optimizely is an A/B testing service provided by Optimizely, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Visual Website Optimizer (Wingify)
● Visual Website Optimizer is an A/B testing service provided by Wingify Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Displaying content from external platforms

● This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of www.ocskuwait.com and interact with them.
● This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Google Calendar widget
● Google Calendar widget is a calendar content visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from that allows www.ocskuwait.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Maps widget
● Google Maps is a maps visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from that allows www.ocskuwait.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Site Search
● Google Site Search is a search engine embedding service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from that allows www.ocskuwait.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Site Search with AdSense
● Google Site Search is a search engine embedding service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from that allows www.ocskuwait.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
● Google Site Search may display AdSense advertisements. For details of which data are collected, please refer to the privacy policy of this service.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

Instagram widget (Instagram, Inc.)
● Instagram is an image visualization service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows www.ocskuwait.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

YouTube video widget
● YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from that allows www.ocskuwait.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Infrastructure monitoring

● This type of service allows www.ocskuwait.com to monitor the use and behavior of its components so its performance, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting can be improved.
● Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, whose function is to filter the activities of www.ocskuwait.com.

Web Performance (Web Performance, Inc.)
● Web Performance is a monitoring service provided by Web Performance, Inc.Web Performance is a monitoring service provided by Web Performance, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Interaction with data collection platforms and other third parties

● This type of service allows Users to interact with data collection platforms or other services directly from the pages of www.ocskuwait.com for the purpose of saving and reusing data.
● If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service.

Interaction with external social networks and platforms

● This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of www.ocskuwait.com.
● The interaction and information obtained through www.ocskuwait.com are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
● This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
● It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on www.ocskuwait.com isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.

Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.) ● The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google+ +1 button and social widgets
● The Google+ +1 button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Google+ social network provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Friend Connect
● Google Friend Connect is a social interaction service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
● The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Interaction with live chat platforms

● This type of service allows Users to interact with third-party live chat platforms directly from the pages of www.ocskuwait.com, for contacting and being contacted by www.ocskuwait.com support service.
● If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service. Moreover, live chat conversations may be logged.

ActiveCampaign site messages (ActiveCampaign, Inc.)
● The ActiveCampaign site messages is a service for interacting with the ActiveCampaign live chat platform provided by ActiveCampaign, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies, Data communicated while using the service, email address and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

LiveChat Widget (LiveChat, Inc.)
● The LiveChat Widget is a service for interacting with the LiveChat live chat platform provided by LiveChat, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies, Data communicated while using the service and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Managing contacts and sending messages

● This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
● These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.

Constant Contact (Constant Contact, Inc.)
● Constant Contact is an email address management and message sending service provided by Constant Contact, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: address, Cookies, country, date of birth, email address, first name, gender, last name, phone number, Usage Data and username.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Managing data collection and online surveys

● This type of service allows www.ocskuwait.com to manage the creation, deployment, administration, distribution and analysis of online forms and surveys in order to collect, save and reuse Data from any responding Users.
● The Personal Data collected depend on the information asked and provided by the Users in the corresponding online form.
● These services may be integrated with a wide range of third-party services to enable the Owner to take subsequent steps with the Data processed - e.g. managing contacts, sending messages, analytics, advertising and payment processing.

Typeform (TYPEFORM S.L)
● Typeform is a form builder and data collection platform provided by TYPEFORM S.L.
● Personal Data collected: address, company name, Cookies, country, Data communicated while using the service, date of birth, email address, first name, gender, geographic position, last name, number of employees, password, phone number, profession, state, Usage Data, username, various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service and website.
● Place of processing: Spain – Privacy Policy.

Managing landing and invitation pages

● This type of service helps with building and managing landing and invitation pages, i.e., pages for presenting a product or service, where you may add your contact information such as an email address.
● Managing these pages means that these services will handle the Personal Data collected through the pages, including Usage Data.

Mailchimp Landing Page (The Rocket Science Group LLC)
● Mailchimp Landing Page is a landing page management service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC, that allows www.ocskuwait.com to collect the email addresses of Users interested in its service.
● Mailchimp Landing Page allows the Owner to track and analyze the User response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of the created landing pages.
● Personal Data collected: address, company name, Cookies, country, date of birth, email address, first name, gender, last name, phone number, profession, Usage Data and username.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Remarketing and behavioral targeting

● This type of service allows www.ocskuwait.com and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of www.ocskuwait.com by the User.
● This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
● Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
● In addition to any opt-out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service's use of cookies for certain remarketing features by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
● Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.

Google Ad Manager Audience Extension
● Google Ad Manager Audience Extension is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from that tracks the visitors of www.ocskuwait.com and allows selected advertising partners to display targeted ads across the web to them.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Ads Remarketing
● Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from that connects the activity of www.ocskuwait.com with the Google Ads advertising network and the DoubleClick Cookie.
● Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies for ads personalization by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Signals
www.ocskuwait.com uses Google Signals, a feature of Google Analytics, which will associate the visitation information that it collects from www.ocskuwait.com with Google information from accounts of signed-in Google-account users who have consented to this association for the purpose of ads personalization. This Google information may include User location, search history, YouTube history and Data from sites that partner with Google – and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into Users' cross device behaviors.
● If a User falls under the described association, they may access and/or delete such Data via My Activity provided by Google.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

RSS feed management

● This type of service allows www.ocskuwait.com to manage RSS feeds and the distribution of their content. Depending on the characteristics of the service used, these services may be used to insert ads within the content and to gather statistics data from them.

Feedburner
● Feedburner is a service to manage RSS feeds provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from. It allows the collection of statistics on what content is consumed and to insert ads in it.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

SPAM protection

● This type of service analyzes the traffic of www.ocskuwait.com, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.

Google reCAPTCHA
● Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from.
● The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Tag Management

● This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on www.ocskuwait.com in a centralized fashion.
● This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.

Google Tag Manager
● Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location www.ocskuwait.com is accessed from.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Segment (Segment Inc.)
● Segment is a tag management service provided by Segment.io, Inc.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Traffic optimization and distribution

● This type of service allows www.ocskuwait.com to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance.
● Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. Their function is to filter communications between www.ocskuwait.com and the User's browser.
● Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain Personal Information User are transferred.

Cloudflare (Cloudflare Inc.)
● Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.
● The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through www.ocskuwait.com, i.e., communication between www.ocskuwait.com and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from www.ocskuwait.com to be collected.
● Personal Data collected: Cookies and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
● Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

How to provide or withdraw consent to the installation of Cookies

In addition to what is specified in this document, the User can manage preferences for Cookies directly from within their own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing Cookies.

Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete Cookies installed in the past, including the Cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of Cookies by this website.

Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

With regard to Cookies installed by third parties, Users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

Notwithstanding the above, the Owner informs that Users may follow the instructions provided on the subsequently linked initiatives by the EDAA (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

Owner and Data Controller

OCS Kuwait
Owner contact email: info@ocskuwait.com

Since the installation of third-party Cookies and other tracking systems through the services used within www.ocskuwait.com cannot be technically controlled by the Owner, any specific references to Cookies and tracking systems installed by third parties are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, the User is kindly requested to consult the privacy policy for the respective third-party services listed in this document.

Given the objective complexity surrounding the identification of technologies based on Cookies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of Cookies by www.ocskuwait.com.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data
Information collected automatically through www.ocskuwait.com (or third-party services employed in www.ocskuwait.com), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use www.ocskuwait.com, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User
The individual using www.ocskuwait.com who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

Data Subject
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of www.ocskuwait.com. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of www.ocskuwait.com.

www.ocskuwait.com (or this Application)
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

Service
The service provided by www.ocskuwait.com as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookies
Small sets of data stored in the User's device.

Legal information
Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfillment of the obligations under Art. 10 of EC Directive n. 95/46/EC, and under the provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC, as revised by Directive 2009/136/EC, on the subject of Cookies.

This privacy policy relates solely to www.ocskuwait.com.