Privacy Policy
This Cookie Policy sets out the basis on which we, Apparel Group and its affiliated brands/ partners (hereafter referred to as ‘Apparel Group’, ‘We’, ‘Our’, ‘Us’), use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to Our websites or applications (‘Sites’).
What are Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
A cookie is a small text-based file that is downloaded and stored on your computer, mobile or similar device and contains information about your navigation on the website. They can for example, be used to keep track of which pages you visit on the website, to save the information you entered, or remember your preferences, such as language settings.
Cookies or other such tracking technologies enable us to collect information about how you interact with Our Sites. This allows Us to analyse trends and statistics and to recognize your device which further helps Us provide a personalised customer service.
How do our Sites use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
We use cookies and other tracking technologies across Our Sites to give you the full functionality of the Sites, to customize your user experience, perform analytics and improve Our services. Cookies are also used to deliver personalized advertising on Our websites, apps, and newsletters across internet and via social media platforms, to get insights regarding the Site engagement. The information is used to measure and optimize advertising in social media. We do not collect your identity, name, address, date of birth, national identity, credit card/financial information, email address or phone number through these cookies.
We have contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyse statistical usage from Our Site users. These third-party service providers use persistent cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our Site content, and analyse how users navigate and utilize the Sites.
What Cookies do We use?
Category and Description | First Party / Third Party | Details of Cookies Used |
|---|---|---|
Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. | First Party | These cookies are required for core site functionality, including user authentication, session management, and security. Examples include session ID cookies, login authentication cookies, and cookies used to prevent fraudulent use. These cookies cannot be disabled without impacting how the website functions. |
Performance Cookies These cookies collect information about your visit and use of this website, for instance which pages you visit most often and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a user. All information collected is anonymous and is only used to improve how the website works. | First Party / Third Party | These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting anonymous information such as page visits, traffic sources, and performance metrics. This may include analytics tools such as Google Analytics or similar services to improve website functionality and user experience. |
Functionality Cookies These cookies allow a site to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide more enhanced, personal features. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They don’t gather any information about you that could be used for advertising. | First Party | These cookies store user preferences such as language settings, location, and login details to provide a more personalized browsing experience. They may also be used to remember changes you make to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of the site. |
Targeting Cookies These cookies are used to: (1) deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests; (2) limit the number of times you see an advertisement; (3) help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign; and (4) understand people’s behaviour after they view an advertisement. | Third Party | These cookies are set by third-party advertising partners such as social media platforms and ad networks. They track browsing activity across websites to build a profile of user interests and display relevant ads. They also help measure ad performance and campaign effectiveness. |
We maintain the highest levels of confidentiality for this information. This anonymous information is used and analysed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner, you can either disable your cookies or opt-out by visiting our cookie consent manager. However, if you prefer not to accept cookies, you can set your browser to reject them or to alert you before cookies are placed.
How to enable and disable cookies using your browser?
There are several different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.
You are welcome to block the use of some or all the cookies We use on Our Sites. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our Sites and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
Google Chrome
Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar
Select Settings
Click ‘Show advanced settings’
In the “Privacy” section, click the ‘Content settings’ button
To enable cookies in the “Cookies” section, select ‘Allow local data to be set’, this will
enable both first-party and third-party cookies. To allow only first-party cookies select
‘Block all third-party cookies without exception’
To disable cookies, in the “Cookies” section, select ‘Block sites from setting any data’
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more
information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from
Google: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
Click on 'Tools' at the top of your browser window and select 'Internet Options'
In the options window navigate to the 'Privacy' tab
To enable cookies: Set the slider to ‘Medium’ or below
To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more
information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following
page from Microsoft: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-
cookies
Mozilla Firefox
Click on 'Tools' at the browser menu and select ‘Options’
Select the Privacy panel
To enable cookies: Check ‘Accept cookies for sites’
To disable cookies: Uncheck ‘Accept cookies for sites’
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Firefox. For more information, refer to the following page from Mozilla: http://support.mozilla.org/en-
US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies
Opera
Click on 'Setting’ at the browser menu and select 'Settings'
Select ‘Quick Preferences’
To enable cookies: check “Enable Cookies”
To disable cookies: uncheck “Enable Cookies”
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Opera. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Opera, refer to the following page from Opera Software: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari on OSX
Click on 'Safari' at the menu bar and select the 'Preferences' option
Click on 'Security'
To enable cookies: In the 'Accept cookies' section select 'Only from site you navigate to'
To disable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Never’
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more
information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page from
Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html
All other browsers
Please look for a “help” function in the browser or contact the browser provider.
Phishing attacks
We would like to caution our users about phishing attacks, wherein unscrupulous third parties seek to extract sensitive and confidential information from you by posing as a genuine website or by a sending an email misrepresenting it to be from a genuine source. Please be aware that we never seek sensitive or confidential information such as regarding your financial or health record through emails or through Our Sites. If you receive such a message claiming to be from Apparel Group, then please do not reply to it and immediately bring it to Our attention by contacting Us using the e-mail address in the Contact section below.
AntiSpam Policy
Apparel Group identifies the receipt, transmission or distribution of spam emails (unsolicited bulk emails) as a major concern and has implemented and taken reasonable measures, to minimize the transmission and effect of spam emails in its computing environment. All emails received by Apparel Group are subject to spam check. Necessary technical spam reduction measures are in force to minimize and nullify the effect of spam emails. Apparel Group reserves the right to reject and / or report any suspicious spam emails, to the authorities concerned, for necessary action, from time to time.
Contact
If you have any concerns as to how your data is processed, you can contact us by writing to
DPO@apparelgroup.com.
