1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, remember your display preferences, maintain active navigation state, and provide aggregated reporting information to site operators.
2. Categories of Cookies We Use
A. Strictly Necessary & Essential Cookies
Always ActiveThese cookies are fundamental to the operation of the website. They enable core functionalities such as page security, layout rendering, session continuity, and accessibility preference persistence.
Examples: Session identifiers, CSRF tokens, consent status tokens.B. Performance & Analytical Cookies
PerformanceThese cookies collect aggregated, non-identifying telemetry regarding how visitors interact with our architectural journal, portfolio visualizers, and project guide downloads. This allows us to continuously optimize loading speed and user flow.
Examples: Page view counts, bounce rates, dwell time on architectural essays.C. Functional & Preference Cookies
PreferencesThese cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as preferred currency for fit-out calculators or language options) to provide an enhanced, personalized spatial browsing experience.
3. How to Manage & Disable Cookies
Most modern web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences through browser settings. You can configure your browser to reject all cookies, accept only certain types, or notify you each time a cookie is offered:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Third-Party Cookies.
- Apple Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and Site Permissions.
Please note: Disabling strictly necessary cookies may impact the proper rendering of interactive 3D media, high-resolution material galleries, or mobile navigation drawers.
4. Policy Updates
We may periodically update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our technical architecture or applicable UAE privacy legislation. The date of the most recent revision will always be displayed at the top of this document.