Cookie policy

1. What this policy covers

This policy describes the cookies and similar technologies used on alwadyatcapital.com, operated by Al Wadyat Capital, The Prism Tower, Unit 1503, Al Mostaqbal Street, Business Bay, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

"Similar technologies" matters here, because this website relies on browser storage rather than on cookies for the one thing it needs to remember. The distinction is technical, but the effect on you is the same — something is kept on your device — so we treat both under this policy rather than hiding behind the difference.

This policy should be read alongside our privacy policy, which explains what personal data we collect through the enquiry form and what we do with it.

2. The short version

This website is a static site. It does not require you to log in, it has no shopping basket, no personalisation and no advertising, so there is very little for it to remember about you.

By default, nothing is stored on your device for analytics or marketing. The only thing this website writes to your browser is a record of the choice you make in the consent banner, and it writes that only once you have made a choice.

If you decline, no analytics script is loaded at all — not loaded and then disabled, but never requested. If you accept, a privacy-focused analytics script may be loaded to produce aggregate visit statistics.

3. What is stored, and why

The consent record is the only item this website stores by default. It is written to your browser's local storage under the name "cookie-consent" and holds a single value representing your decision — accepted or declined.

Its purpose is to stop the banner reappearing on every page you visit and to tell the site whether it may load an analytics script. It contains no identifier for you, is not sent to us with page requests, and is readable only by this website in the browser where it was created.

Because it is stored in local storage rather than as a cookie, it has no expiry date of its own. It stays until you clear site data for this domain, use your browser's controls to remove it, or use the mechanism described in section 6 to change your decision.

Strictly necessary technical measures also apply to any page delivered over the internet: the connection is encrypted, and the delivery infrastructure applies protections against attack and abuse. These operate at the network level and do not place identifiers on your device for our purposes.

• Name: cookie-consent — type: browser local storage — purpose: records your consent decision and prevents the banner from repeating — duration: until you clear it
• Analytics script: loaded only after an explicit acceptance, never before

4. Analytics, and what it would and would not do

Where analytics is enabled on this website, it is a privacy-focused measurement script whose purpose is to count visits and show which pages are read, in aggregate. It is loaded only if you accept in the consent banner.

The reason we treat this as a consent question rather than a technical necessity is straightforward: we do not need it in order to serve you a page. It exists to help us decide which of these pages are worth expanding, and that benefit is ours rather than yours, so the choice should be yours.

Analytics of this kind is not used to identify you, to follow you across other websites, or to build an advertising profile. We do not run advertising cookies, remarketing pixels, social network tracking scripts or third-party embeds that set identifiers, and we do not share visit data with advertising networks.

If you decline, the script is never requested and the page functions identically. Nothing on this website is withheld from a visitor who declines.

5. Third parties on this website

This website is deliberately built without third-party embeds. There is no video player, no map iframe, no chat widget, no comment system and no social network button that would load code from another domain and place its own identifiers on your device.

Fonts used by this website are served from this domain rather than from a font network, which means that requesting a page does not disclose your visit to a third-party font service.

Links to external websites appear where they support a specific statement in an article or identify a primary source. Once you follow such a link, the destination site's own cookie and privacy practices apply, and we have no control over them. We suggest reading those practices where the destination matters to you.

6. How to change or withdraw your decision

You can withdraw or change your consent at any time, and it takes effect immediately for anything loaded after that point.

The simplest route is your browser's site-data controls: clearing the stored data for alwadyatcapital.com removes the consent record, and the banner will appear again on your next visit so that you can make a fresh choice. In most desktop browsers this is available under privacy or site settings; in most mobile browsers it sits under the padlock or site information control in the address bar.

You can also configure your browser to block or delete cookies and local storage generally, or to do so on closing. Because this website does not depend on stored data to function, blocking it will not prevent you reading any page, although the consent banner will reappear on each visit because the record of your previous answer has been removed.

If you have accepted and then withdraw consent, close the tab or reload the page after clearing the record; the analytics script is injected at page load, so a reload is what ensures it is not present.

7. Changes to this policy

This policy describes the configuration of this website as it stands on the date at the head of the document. If we add a component that stores something on your device, this policy is updated at the same time, and the consent mechanism is extended to cover it before it is deployed rather than afterwards.

We do not treat a cookie policy as a document to be written once and forgotten. When the site changes, this page changes with it.

Questions about anything in this policy, including a request for detail about a specific item stored on your device, can be sent to info@alwadyatcapital.com and will be answered in writing.