Cookie Policy
Last Updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how samirabouelmagd.com (the “Website”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit and interact with the Website.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how personal information may be collected, used, and protected.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your device when you visit them. They allow websites to remember certain information about your visit and can support functionality, security, preferences, performance measurement, and other features.
Some cookies exist only during your browsing session and are deleted when you close your browser. Others may remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
Similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels, tags, and scripts, may perform related functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.
2. How We Use Cookies
The Website may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Ensure the Website operates correctly and securely
- Remember visitor preferences and consent choices
- Provide Website functionality
- Understand how visitors interact with the Website
- Measure Website traffic and performance
- Improve Website content and user experience
- Support embedded or third-party content where applicable
- Prevent spam, abuse, and other security threats
The cookies used may vary as Website functionality and services change over time.
3. Categories of Cookies
Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies are required for essential Website functionality and cannot generally be disabled through the Website’s cookie consent settings.
They may be used for purposes such as:
- Website security
- Maintaining basic Website functionality
- Remembering privacy and cookie-consent choices
- Preventing fraud, spam, or malicious activity
- Supporting essential technical functions
Because these cookies are necessary for the Website to operate properly, they do not generally require consent where applicable law permits their use without consent.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies support additional Website features and help provide a more personalized experience.
They may, for example, remember certain preferences or support functionality provided by the Website or third-party services.
If these cookies are disabled, some Website features may not operate as intended.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website.
They may provide information about matters such as:
- Which pages are visited
- How visitors navigate between pages
- How long visitors spend on particular pages
- The type of device or browser being used
- General Website traffic patterns
- How visitors arrived at the Website
This information can help us understand Website performance and identify areas that could be improved.
Where consent is required, analytics cookies will only be activated after the appropriate consent has been provided.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
The Website may use advertising or marketing technologies if such functionality is enabled.
These technologies may be used to measure the effectiveness of communications or campaigns, understand visitor interactions, or support relevant advertising functionality.
Where applicable law requires consent, advertising and marketing cookies will not be activated unless you have agreed to their use.
Unclassified Cookies
Occasionally, a cookie or similar technology may not yet have been assigned to a specific category.
Such cookies may be reviewed and classified according to their purpose as the Website and its services are maintained.
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
Cookies may be either first-party cookies or third-party cookies.
First-party cookies are set directly by samirabouelmagd.com and may be used for essential functionality, preferences, security, or other Website functions.
Third-party cookies may be set by external services incorporated into the Website, such as analytics providers, embedded media services, security providers, or other technical services.
Third-party providers are responsible for their own cookies and data-processing practices in accordance with their respective privacy policies.
5. Embedded Content
The Website may contain embedded content from third-party services, such as videos, social media content, maps, publications, or other external resources.
When you interact with embedded content, the relevant third party may place cookies or use similar technologies on your device.
Depending on the Website configuration and applicable consent requirements, such third-party content may be restricted until you provide the necessary consent.
6. Cookie Consent
When you first visit the Website, you may be presented with a cookie consent notice allowing you to manage the use of non-essential cookies.
Depending on the options available, you may be able to:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Select particular categories of cookies
- Change your cookie preferences later
Necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for essential Website functionality.
Your consent preferences may themselves be stored using a necessary cookie so that the Website can remember your selection.
7. Changing or Withdrawing Your Consent
Where processing relies on your consent, you may change or withdraw that consent at any time using the Website’s cookie preferences or consent-management feature, where available.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
After changing your preferences, certain previously stored cookies may remain on your device until they expire or are manually deleted through your browser settings.
8. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete individual or all cookies
- Block particular cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Prevent websites from storing cookies
- Configure how your browser handles cookies
Blocking all cookies may affect Website functionality because some necessary cookies are required for certain features to operate correctly.
Please refer to your browser’s help or privacy settings for instructions applicable to your browser and device.
9. Cookie Duration
Cookies may remain on your device for different periods depending on their purpose.
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them manually.
The precise duration of individual cookies depends on the technology or service responsible for setting them.
10. Personal Information and Cookies
Some cookies may process information that is considered personal information under applicable privacy laws, particularly where information can be associated with a particular device or visitor.
Where this occurs, such information will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection requirements.
11. Do We Sell Personal Information?
We do not sell personal information through the Website merely as a result of visitors accepting cookies.
If third-party services are used on the Website, their processing of information is also subject to their respective terms, privacy policies, and applicable legal requirements.
12. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in:
- Cookies used by the Website
- Website functionality
- Third-party services
- Privacy practices
- Applicable legal or regulatory requirements
When changes are made, the revised policy will be published on this page and the Last Updated date will be updated accordingly.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, the Website’s use of cookies, or your privacy preferences, please contact us using the contact information provided on samirabouelmagd.com.