Cookie Policy
Within the scope of your visit to the www.alb.com website, technologies such as cookies, advertising IDs and web identifiers (all of these technologies will be referred to as “Cookies”) are used. We have prepared this clarification text on the processing of personal data with cookies (Cookie Disclosure) to inform you about the use of cookies by ALB LIMITED (“ALB”).
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are very small text files, usually consisting of letters and numbers, that are saved on your computer (or other devices such as smartphones or tablets) via browsers by the websites you visit. Cookies enable the user and their device to be recognized, and to store some information about the user’s preferences and past actions. Cookies are created by the servers that manage the website you visit. In this way, the server can understand when the visitor visits the same site. Cookies can be likened to identity cards that show website owners that the same visitor has re-visited the site.
For more detailed information about cookies, you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ and https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Obtaining Personal Data Through Cookies
The first time you visit our website, you are presented with a screen regarding your cookie preferences. In accordance with the cookies you allow to use on this screen, the relevant cookies are stored on your browser/device. Each of the cookies usually contains the following elements:
The server to which the cookie was sent,
The predetermined lifetime of the cookie,
A unique identifying value / number, usually randomly generated (the website server that sent the cookie uses this value to recognize you when you navigate between pages).
By means of cookies, data is collected by fully automatic methods. Cookies can be classified in terms of their owner, lifetime and intended use:
Cookies by owner, first-party cookies placed on your device by the website you are visiting, and third-party cookies offered by third parties are used. The first cookies are offered by “ALB”, while the third party cookies are offered by different companies that are serviced or business partners.
Session cookies and persistent cookies are used according to the lifetime. Session cookies are deleted when the visitor leaves the website, while persistent cookies are stored on visitors’ devices for a predetermined lifetime and are used to remember the visitor and the visitor’s preferences on their next visit.
According to the purposes of use, strictly necessary cookies, analytical cookies, functionality cookies and targeting / advertising cookies are used on the site.
Data Collected Through Cookies, Purposes of Use and Legal Reasons
Through cookies, the browser and operating system you use, IP address, user ID, date and time of your visit, access status and whether there is a technical problem, use of the features on the website, search phrases you enter, how often you visit our website, your language preferences, what you perform on the pages Data regarding user transaction records, including transactions, are collected and processed.
Cookies, ensuring a stable performance of your visit to our website and your experience there, and remembering your information in your next use, improving the functioning and content of the site, statistical evaluation of site usage, presenting the content on the site in the most effective way for you and your device, and preferences and usage habits of users. It is used for the purpose of providing customized services and advertisements. Cookies are divided into various categories according to their intended use and functions. Below are the providers of cookies related to the cookies used on our website, according to their categories, foreign countries to which personal data can be transferred with cookies, and the purposes and legal reasons for each cookie:
1. Necessary (Technical) Cookies
These are cookies that are necessary for the use and functionality of the website. If mandatory cookies are disabled, access to some or all of the site may not be possible.
Personal data processed through mandatory cookies are processed for the purpose of providing products and services and carrying out activities in accordance with the legislation, since data processing is mandatory for the establishment.
Compulsory cookies used on our website, their providers and purposes of use are as follows:
2. Preference/Functional Cookies
Preference cookies are used to remember users’ preferences on the website. For example, it saves usage preferences such as language, currency preference, “remember me” preference, which is used in order not to be asked for login information again when logging in from the same browser during user login, and ensures that they are remembered on subsequent visits.
Personal data processed through preference cookies are processed based on your express consent stipulated for the purposes of remembering preferences and improving customer experience. Cookies originating from abroad, on the other hand, are processed based on your express consent stipulated and shared with cookie providers abroad.
The functional cookies used on our website, their providers and their intended use are as follows:
3. Analytics/Performance Cookies
Analytical cookies collect information about how users use the website. These types of cookies are used to improve/improve user experiences. These cookies collect information such as the pages viewed by the users, the number of clicks, page scrolling movements and the times of entering and exiting these pages.
Personal data processed through analytical cookies are processed and shared with cookie providers abroad for the purposes of conducting marketing analysis studies, creating and tracking visitor records, based on your express consent.
The analytical cookies used on our website, their providers and their intended use are as follows:
4. Advertisement/Marketing/Targeting Cookies
These are cookies used to present advertisements/campaigns according to the interests of users and to measure the effectiveness of marketing efforts.
Personal data processed through marketing cookies, conducting marketing processes of products / services, conducting marketing analysis studies and advertising / campaign / for the purposes of carrying out promotional processes, it is processed based on your express consent stipulated and shared with cookie providers abroad.
The marketing cookies used on our website, their providers and their intended use are as follows
Information of Third Party Cookie Providers
Google Inc. Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Ads, is used. For comprehensive information about the processing of your personal data within the scope of services offered by Google Inc (including Youtube): https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infocollect
For comprehensive information on how Facebook processes your personal data: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
For comprehensive information about how Yandex processes your personal data: https://yandex.com.tr/legal/confidential/30012015/?lang=en
Some of the companies that provide services for third-party cookies are located abroad, and some of your personal data may be transferred abroad in the case of the use of these cookies. For this reason, in the cookie preferences section of the website, your consent is asked for the use of the relevant cookies and for the transfer of your data abroad in this context. If you do not want the said cookies to be used and your personal data to be transferred abroad accordingly, please do not consent to the processing of personal data with the specified cookies. In this context, we would like to point out that you can always withdraw your consent from the Cookie settings ▸ screen.
You can also enable or disable cookies by changing your browser settings. However, in this case, it may not be possible to use some or all functions of the website. It is not possible to block some cookies (such as technical cookies) that are mandatory for the functionality of the site. You can get information on how to disable cookies by clicking on the link specific to your browser below:
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Opera
You can also use the Cookie settings ▸ screen to change your cookie preferences.
Application to Data Controller Regarding Personal Data Processed Through Cookies
Should you wish to lodge a complaint, about our processing of data, please write to:
The Compliance Officer
ALB Limited
48, Sir Augustus Bartolo Street, Casa Roma,
Ta’ Xbiex, XBX 1099, Malta
alb.compliance@alb.com 
