Samra Host International Limited, with legal entity code , and registered address SamraHost، Kiyani Market, Chaklala Avenue, Airport Road, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (hereinafter referred to as the "Company" or "we"), commits to ensuring the protection of personal data and the privacy rights of visitors (hereinafter referred to as the "Visitors") when using Samra Host group websites, including but not limited to https://samrahost.com (hereinafter referred to as the "Website") and its content.

First and foremost, we DO NOT sell your personal information. However, when you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools, or messaging, we or our authorized service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to enhance your experience, making it better, faster, and safer, for advertising purposes, and to allow us to continually improve our sites, services, applications, and tools.

1. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

We utilize cookies on our Website to optimize its functionality and contribute to a smoother navigation experience for our Visitors.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file placed onto your device that enables various features and functionalities of our Website. For instance, cookies help us identify your device and secure your access to the Website. They allow the Website to store information such as:

1. Login data (IP address of the logging-in device, login time, location from which the login is attempted);

2. Type of browser;

3. Demographic data (age group, gender);

4. Data regarding how you navigate the Website (which sections you visit, what products you are interested in).

Objectives and purposes

We use cookies to:

1. Ensure the efficient and secure operation of the Website; cookies enable and support our security features and help us detect malicious activities on our Website;

2. Understand, improve, and research products, features, and services, including when you access our Website from other websites, applications, or devices such as your work computer or mobile device;

3. Recognize returning visitors to the Website; cookies help us display the correct information and personalize your experience; they also prevent the need for you to re-register or re-enter information each time you visit the Website;

4. Analyze your habits so that the functioning of the Website is convenient, efficient, and tailored to your needs and expectations, ensuring that Visitors can easily find what they are looking for;

5. Measure the flow of information and data sent to our Website; we use cookies to gather statistical data about the number of users and their use of the Website;

6. Target and advertise; by using cookies, we may collect information to display relevant content to the browser by creating different target groups; we may use cookies to show you relevant advertising both on and off our Website.

To the extent allowed by applicable laws, we may link data received from cookies with other information obtained about you from other legal sources (e.g., information about the use of services, online account, our Loyalty program, etc.).

2. COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE

Each time you visit our Website, long-term (persistent) cookies may be created, which remain in your browser after you sign up and are read by us when you return to our Website or a partner site that uses our services, and are not deleted after you finish browsing our Website. Short-term (session) cookies, which expire or are deleted after you finish browsing our Website (i.e., they typically last during the current visit to our Website or browsing session), may also be created.

Many web browsers allow you to manage your preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or delete certain cookies. You may be able to manage other technologies in the same way you manage cookies using your browser's preferences.

However, we note that the necessary cookies, as specified below, are essential for the functioning of our Website. In case of your objections, we cannot ensure the proper functioning of the Website or any of its portions or functionalities.

We list below the main types of cookies used on the Website according to their types, collected data, and duration of storage.

2.1. Cookies used by the Company

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable the storage of information filled by you during the browsing session, enable you to log into secure areas of our Website. Without these cookies, the operation of the Website would be impossible or its functioning may be severely affected.

Preferences / functional cookies

These improve the functional performance of our Website and make it easier for you to use. These cookies remember the settings selected by the Visitors (for example, language and time zone settings). With the use of these cookies, Visitors can avoid changing settings during each visit to the Website. These cookies also remember changes made by you on the Website (for example, if you leave a comment on the Website). These cookies do not track your behavior on other websites.

Analytical / performance cookies

These cookies indicate if the Visitor has visited our Website before. The analytical cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users on our Website and see how such users navigate through it. We also use cookies to understand, improve, and research products, features, and services. For instance, analytical cookies may show us which websites are visited more frequently and help us to record dysfunctionalities of the Website, etc.

Marketing, targeting, and advertising cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will then use this information to make the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. The advertising cookies let us know whether you have already seen a specific advertisement or a certain type of advertisement and how much time has elapsed since you saw it. We may use cookies set by another entity to provide advertisements tailored more specifically to you. They are also used to limit the number of times you see certain advertisements and help measure the effectiveness of advertising.

2.2. Third-party cookies

Advertising cookies - some ads you see on our Website have been provided by other legal entities. Some of these entities use their own cookies to analyze how many people have seen the specific advertisement or how many people have seen it more than once. The companies creating such cookies apply the policies prepared by themselves, and we have no influence over the creation or storage of such cookies. We recommend you review the Privacy Policy or the Cookie Policy of those companies, which will be placed on their websites.

Other third-party cookies - on some web pages of our Website, other entities (for example, social networks) may also use their own anonymous cookies designed to suit your needs with the programs or applications developed by them. Due to the specific features of cookies, our Website does not have access to the information transmitted by these cookies, and likewise, other entities do not have access to the information collected by the cookies set by us.

3. REFUSAL OR BLOCKING THE COOKIES

Many web browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. Visitors may, at their discretion, block or delete cookies and similar unique identifiers if the settings of their browser or device allow them to do so. However, if you refuse or block cookies or other similar technologies, some functions of the Website may be inaccessible to you or may not operate as efficiently.

However, we emphasize that necessary cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our Website, and if you object, we cannot ensure the proper functioning of the Website.

You may request that we delete all the data collected and processed about you with the help of cookies by contacting us at the email address gdpr@https://samrahost.com. Such data will be deleted no later than 28 days after contacting the above-mentioned email address.

You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information about how to delete cookies and other useful information related to the use of cookies, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

4. GENERAL

This Cookie Policy may be updated by the Company.

The Company will inform the Visitors about the updates by providing the new version of the Cookie Policy. For this reason, we recommend that you periodically visit our Website, where you will always find the latest version of this Cookie Policy.

This Cookie Policy shall apply from the date of its announcement on the Website.