General Information

This policy (the “Cookies Policy”) describes how Travel Recommends Sdn Bhd uses cookies on all of its Platforms (as defined in the TR General Privacy Policy).

1. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data sent to your browser by a website that you visit. Cookies hold a small amount of information specific to you, and remember your specific activities on our Platforms.

We use the word “cookies” to include data, text, pixels, clear GIFs, log files, web beacons or other tracing or tracking files or similar technology that are placed on your device when you use our Platforms.

1. How do we use cookies?

We generally use cookies for the following functions:

• Strictly necessary cookies: We use these cookies to enable you to use our Platforms’ essential features. These include security cookies which we use to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent usage of login credentials and protect your data. If these cookies are disabled, you may not be able to use our Platforms or some of their features.

• Functionality cookies: We use these cookies to enhance your experience when using our Platforms by storing your preferences, such as your username, region or preferred language.

• Performance cookies: These cookies allow us to monitor the use, measure the effectiveness and improve the performance of our Platforms. Such cookies may be set by third-parties (for example; Google, Facebook etc) for the sharing of one-way hashed information with us which may be combined with hashed information with other identifiers to serve our advertisements on other websites or applications based on your prior visits to such websites.

We do not support nor endorse the goals, causes or statements of any websites and/or applications that showcase or display our advertisements.

The information collected by such cookies is aggregated and cannot be used to personally identify you.

• Targeting cookies: We allow third parties to place their cookies on our website to collect information about your online activities on our website over time and across different websites you visit for various marketing and advertising purposes. The information collected enables the third parties to display tailored, targeted and relevant messages from selected third-party websites, based on your viewing behaviour on our Platforms.    

Your data is shared by us with third parties in the strictest confidence, for the unique purpose of serving more relevant advertising. Strict standards have been defined to ensure appropriate advertising is served, and all served advertisements offer the possibility for you to opt out of such selective advertising by third parties. However, we have no control over the use of third-party cookies by the third parties.

The data collected by the third parties is not data that can be used to personally identify you.

• Other cookies placed by third-parties: Some of our Platforms may contain pages which contain embedded functions, social media tools or links supplied by third-parties (for example, videos may sometimes be embedded from YouTube). These functions or links may contain third-party cookies. Please consult the privacy policies of these third-parties for information regarding the use of their cookies or other automated data collection tools.

1. Consent

TR will only use non-essential cookies (i.e. performance cookies, targeting cookies and third-parties’ cookies) if you have given prior consent in accordance with the information contained in the pop-up box of your browser or device when you access a Platform for the first time.

If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you must delete your cookies using your browser settings and disable the relevant cookies. Please refer to section 4 below on how to do this.  

1. How to manage cookies

• Through your browser or device: If you prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from us or any of our third-parties, you can do this through your browser settings. Each browser is different, so please refer to your browser’s ‘Help’ or ‘Internet Options’ to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you choose to disable or delete all cookies, you may not be able to access or use certain important functions of this site and we do not warrant the performance of our websites and some features may not work as expected.

• Through third-parties’ websites:

To learn more about the opt-out choices over cookies, please visit the following third-parties’ sites:

Google Ads: https://adssettings.google.com/

Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings

Notwithstanding any exercise of such opt-out choices on internet-based advertising, you might however still see advertisements from these third-parties’ sites, although the network from which you have opted out will no longer serve advertisements curated to your interests. You may also wish to know that logging out from your user account(s) on such sites does not actually mean that you have opted out of personalised advertisements.