Cookie Policy
Version 20240228
Version 20240228
Introduction
Empyrion DC Pte. Ltd., Empyrion DC (Asia) Pte. Ltd., and their respective affiliates and related corporations (collectively “Group”, “us”, “we” or “our”) form a next-generation digital infrastructure platform.
In connection with our businesses, we develop, launch, offer and/or promote various communities, products, services, solutions and/or technologies (collectively “Products & Services”). We also own or manage various websites, mobile/web applications, social media accounts and digital platforms (collectively “Sites”) to provide our customers with information.
Access to/use of our Sites and/or subscription to our marketing emails are subject to:
(a) our Terms of Use;
(b) our Privacy Notice; and
(c) this Cookie Policy,
(collectively “T&Cs”), which may be reviewed and amended by us from time to time, at our sole and absolute discretion. You are reminded to check our corporate websites on a regular basis to obtain the most updated version. More importantly, please ensure that you have read and understood the T&Cs. If you do not agree with any provision in the T&Cs, please discontinue your access to/use of our Sites and/or unsubscribe to our marketing emails immediately. Any continued access to/use of our Sites and/or subscription to our marketing emails shall be deemed acceptance of the T&Cs.
Applicability
Our Cookie Policy is governed by Singapore laws. All disputes in connection with the access to/use of our Sites and subscription to our marketing emails shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Singapore.
Our Cookie Policy is written in English. Any translation into another language is provided solely for your convenience, and to the extent there is any conflict between the two, the English version prevails.
To the maximum extent permitted under applicable laws:
(a) nothing in our T&Cs establishes any joint and several liability on the part of any member of our Group; and
(b) we shall not be liable for any damages (whether consequential, direct, incidental, indirect, punitive, special or otherwise) arising out of, or in any way connected with matters set out in our T&Cs (including access to / use of our Sites and subscription to our marketing emails);
(c) if we are found liable for any damages, liabilities owing by us to you under or in connection with the T&Cs shall be capped at no more than S$500 in total for all claims.
General Information
A cookie is a small text file that contains information that can be analysed by us to facilitate your access to and use of our Sites, gather statistical data and personalise your online experience as part of your interaction with us. Cookies may be set by our Sites or by third parties who inter alia provide advertising or analytics services in relation to our Sites.
Our Sites and marketing emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they may not be stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, web beacons may still load, but their functionality may be restricted.
While the cookies used by us may change from time to time, we mainly use the following types of cookies:
(a) Essential / required cookies. Essential cookies are necessary for the operation of our Sites. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of user accounts and/or offer our Sites’ features.
(b) Analytical/performance cookies. Analytical/Performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our Sites when using it. This helps us improve the way our Sites work.
(c) Security cookies. Security cookies help us identify and prevent potential security risks when you access and/or use our Sites and their content, features and functions.
(d) Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Sites. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
(e) Targeting cookies. Targeting cookies record your visits to our Sites, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this information and share it with third parties to create, develop, make and/or publish our Sites and their content more relevant to your interests.
(f) Third-Party / embedded cookies. Our Sites may make use of different third-party applications and services, including but not limited to social media platforms or embedded third-party content. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties and be used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies. For example, we may use Google Analytics cookies to manage our Sites and track the use of the content we provide to help us better target advertising on other third-party sites that market our activities, events, exhibitions, products and services.
Details of some of the third-party cookies we use are set out below for your reference:
- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table) – These cookies are installed by LinkedIn. These cookies may be used to sign you into your LinkedIn account.
- Google Analytics (https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US#how-google-uses-cookies) – These cookies are installed by Google Analytics. The cookies may be used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. These cookies may also store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating analytics reports of how the site is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
The length of time a cookie stays on your device depends on its type; and in particular, do take note of the following cookies which we may use:
(a) Session cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that only exist during the time you use our Sites or until you close the browser after using our Sites. Session cookies mainly help us remember your selections and inputs on our Sites, avoiding the need to re-enter information within the same browsing session.
(b) Persistent cookies. Persistent cookies stay on your devices after you have visited our Sites and mainly help us to identify you as a unique visitor. For example, when you log in to one of our Sites, a persistent cookie will be used to remember your preferences, so that the system remembers your choice the next time you log in.
A cookie is a small text file that contains information that can be analysed by us to facilitate your access to and use of our Sites, gather statistical data and personalise your online experience as part of your interaction with us. Cookies may be set by our Sites or by third parties who inter alia provide advertising or analytics services in relation to our Sites.
Our Sites and marketing emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they may not be stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, web beacons may still load, but their functionality may be restricted.
While the cookies used by us may change from time to time, we mainly use the following types of cookies:
(a) Essential / required cookies. Essential cookies are necessary for the operation of our Sites. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of user accounts and/or offer our Sites’ features.
(b) Analytical/performance cookies. Analytical/Performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our Sites when using it. This helps us improve the way our Sites work.
(c) Security cookies. Security cookies help us identify and prevent potential security risks when you access and/or use our Sites and their content, features and functions.
(d) Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Sites. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
(e) Targeting cookies. Targeting cookies record your visits to our Sites, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this information and share it with third parties to create, develop, make and/or publish our Sites and their content more relevant to your interests.
(f) Third-Party / embedded cookies. Our Sites may make use of different third-party applications and services, including but not limited to social media platforms or embedded third-party content. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties and be used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies. For example, we may use Google Analytics cookies to manage our Sites and track the use of the content we provide to help us better target advertising on other third-party sites that market our activities, events, exhibitions, products and services.
Details of some of the third-party cookies we use are set out below for your reference:
- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/
cookie-table) – These cookies are installed by LinkedIn. These cookies may be used to sign you into your LinkedIn account. - Google Analytics (https://policies.google.com/
technologies/cookies?hl=en-US#how-google-uses-cookies) – These cookies are installed by Google Analytics. The cookies may be used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. These cookies may also store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating analytics reports of how the site is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
The length of time a cookie stays on your device depends on its type; and in particular, do take note of the following cookies which we may use:
(a) Session cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that only exist during the time you use our Sites or until you close the browser after using our Sites. Session cookies mainly help us remember your selections and inputs on our Sites, avoiding the need to re-enter information within the same browsing session.
(b) Persistent cookies. Persistent cookies stay on your devices after you have visited our Sites and mainly help us to identify you as a unique visitor. For example, when you log in to one of our Sites, a persistent cookie will be used to remember your preferences, so that the system remembers your choice the next time you log in.
Use of cookies and data collected
We may use cookies on our Sites to identify you and your preferences, including detecting your web browser’s multimedia capabilities, tracking promotional advertisements that we have displayed to you, maintaining current login information on secure portions of our Sites and providing a unique identifier to your computer so that we can generate statistics regarding the usage of our Sites. As a result of the above, when you access/use our Sites and/or subscribe to our marketing emails, we, our marketing partners and certain third parties (such as advertising networks, digital advertising partners, and social media platforms) may collect information about your online activities.
From time to time, we may engage third-party ad-buying networks to target our advertisements to users through demographic, interest-based, and contextual means, to help us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. The information our advertisement networks may collect on our behalf includes data about your visits to websites that serve our advertisements, such as the websites or advertisements you view and your user activities on the websites. This data collection takes place on our Sites and third-party websites that participate in these advertisement networks. Accordingly, you may see a “cookie banner” on some of our Sites and when you give consent to tracking/targeting/marketing cookies, we and our advertising partners may set advertising cookies on sites you may visit (including our Sites), and these advertising cookies may then be used to show you advertisements about various products and services that you have appeared to show interests in.
For avoidance of doubt, any collection, storage, processing, transfer, and/or retention of personal data which may be collected as a result of the use of cookies shall be governed by terms set out in our Privacy Notice.
Managing and disabling cookies
You can manage your cookie preferences and withdraw your consent anytime anywhere by changing the settings on our Sites. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we note that most browsers automatically accept cookies. As such, you may choose to modify your browser settings to update your preference in terms of cookies. Please refer to each web browser’s guide and/or other online resources for more information on how to manage, reject or delete cookies.
Notwithstanding the above, kindly note that we cannot technically control the installation of third-party cookies, third-party social media cookies and other identifiers, our references to these cookies and their tracking systems installed by third parties in this Cookie Policy are for reference only. You should consult each relevant privacy policy and/or cookie policy of the respective third-party services so as to obtain full and complete information, given the objective complexity surrounding the identification of technologies based on cookies and other technologies pertaining identifiers.
Similarly, we cannot technically manage the cookie setting in shared computing terminal or device that is used to access our Sites. Please always check the prior cookies setting at any shared terminal or device you intend to use, and (re)configure accordingly to your own preference.
Kindly note that if you choose not to accept any of our cookies when you visit our Sites, you may be restricted from accessing or using some interactive features and services on our Sites, as these features and/or services may be rendered inoperable due to your rejection of cookies.