1. Introduction
Geminia Insurance Co. Ltd respects the personal information and data that is collected from you through our website https://geminia.co.ke/ (the “website”). We understand that your privacy is important to you, and we are committed to being transparent about the technology we use.
This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and other similar technologies may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit our website.
2. What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit our website to the extent that you agree. They can uniquely identify your internet browser or device to help us enhance your user experience and provide additional functionality. They can be used for storing preferences, protecting your data, tracking geolocation, and targeted advertising.
3. Why do we use Cookies?
We use cookies to get a better understanding of how you use our website and interact with the content. We may use cookies for remembering your language preferences or not requiring you to sign in every time you visit the website. These cookies may also track your geolocation so that we can offer deals and prices specific to your location. Also, we may use your usage data to provide targeted advertisements on third party websites. A more comprehensive list of cookies and uses are outlined below.
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
Geminia Insurance Co. Ltd uses both first- party and third-party cookies on our website.
First-party cookies used are issued by the Geminia Insurance domain. They are generally used to identify language and location preferences or render basic site functionality.
Third-party cookies belong to and are managed by other parties, such as Geminia business partners or service providers. These cookies may be required to render certain forms, such as the submission of a job application, or to allow for some advertising outside of the Geminia Insurance website.
5. Types of Cookies
In general, there are four categories of cookies that the website uses:
1.Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the system to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as authenticating into the system or managing your session with the requested service.
2.Functionality Cookies: These cookies help us to tailor the website to provide enhanced features and content based on how you have used the website previously and set up other customization, such as language preferences, remembering usernames, and geolocation. The information tracked by these cookies may be anonymous and not used to track your browsing activity on other sites. They include:
- Geofencing
- ke – Chatbot
- Analytics & Performance cookies: These cookies are necessary for our systems to measure audience and usage statistics, as well as content consumption. These enable us to obtain relevant usage information to produce internal analytics so we can monitor and improve the performance of our systems
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies track the users’ respective online activity to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
6. How Long will Cookies Remain?
Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences within the website and remain on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer. We use these cookies to analyze user behavior to establish visit patterns so that we can improve our website functionality for you and others who visit our website. These cookies also allow us to serve you with targeted advertising and measure the effectiveness of our site functionality and advertising.
Session cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used to remember you during the course of your visit to the website, and they expire when you close the web browser.
Cookies stay on your device(s) for differing amounts of time, depending on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie.
7. How to Manage Cookie Preferences?
As a user, you have the right to reject, delete, or otherwise limit the use of all types of cookies used while visiting Geminia Insurance website. You can change your cookie preferences by adjusting your browser settings. Be aware most browsers automatically accept cookies, so if you do not want cookies to be used, you may need to proactively delete or block the cookies. However, many of the cookies are important for the intended use of the website, so rejecting, deleting, or limiting the use of cookies may not result in optimal functionality of the website. For more information on cookies and how to manage preferences, please refer to this external resource:
You may be able to adjust the settings of your device so that information about your physical location is not sent to us or third- parties by:
- disabling location services within the device settings; or
- denying certain websites or mobile applications permission to access location information by changing the relevant preferences and permissions in your mobile device or browser settings. Please note that your location may be derived from your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other device settings. Please see your device settings for more information.
We use Google Analytics to obtain information about your visits to our websites. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our website(s) is restricted by Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You may prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
8. User Consent
User consent must be obtained before placing a cookie on your computer. Consent is further defined in the Data Protection Act as “any freely given specific and informed indication of the user’s wishes”. When you visit Geminia Insurance Co. Ltd website; you will see an informational box, banner, or pop up on the web page, providing information about the site’s use of cookies.
If you want to remove previously stored cookies, you can manually delete the cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the sites from placing further cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your internet browser.
Contact Information:
We have a Data Protection Officer that is responsible for overseeing our data protection initiatives. Please contact the Data Protection Officer with any questions about this Cookie Policy.
Email Address: privacy@geminia.co.ke Phone Number: (+254) 020 278 2000)
The Company reserves the right to change this statement at any time. All changes to this statement will be posted on the website.
This cookie policy was last updated on 23/07/2024.
