1. COOKIE STATEMENT

X-cite uses cookies on this Site. Here we explain what these cookies are and why we use them. Cookies help us to remember you, your browsing device, and how you use this Site. Cookies help us in gaining insights into your interests which helps us to improve your browsing experience and to provide you with essential services. They are stored locally on your device’s hard drive. We will only use the cookies if you consent to it by clicking on “Accept” where indicated. You can also manage individual cookie preference from settings.

2. DEFINITIONS

“Applicable Laws” means any Personal Data privacy or protection law, statute, treaty, rule, regulation, regulatory or legislative requirement, ordinance, license, restriction, judicial or administrative order, code, common law or other pronouncement having the effect of law in the State of Kuwait;

“you” means an identified or identifiable living individual natural person to whom Personal Data relates and that is using this Site;

“Personal Data” means any information relating to a data subject who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that data subject;

“Cookie Notice” means this set of terms and conditions that regulates the cookies use on this Site;

“Site” means the website, the primary home page of which is identified by the url www.xcite.com and any mobile device application or desktop application, developed by X-cite or on its behalf, and any successor or replacement of such; and

“X-cite” or “we” means X-cite General Trading Co. SAK(C).

3. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device’s hard drive when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to do different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. If you visit this Site, we will deploy these technologies to provide an online service more suited to the device you connect from, as well as for administrative purposes and to enhance your online experience by keeping track of your behaviour within this Site. “Session cookies” are automatically deleted once you leave this Site. We collect information about your use of this Site, information about the device or browser you use to access it.

4. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use a limited number of cookies for several reasons as listed in this Cookie Policy. It allows us to enrich your shopping experience by remembering your online behaviour while using this Site and to improve the effectiveness of ads and services. It also helps in navigating you from one webpage to the other without undue delay. We classify our cookies as: 4.1 Strictly Necessary.

These cookies are essential, as they ensure your security and privacy when you use this Site, as well as enable you to move around this Site and use its features securely. They are necessary for accessing features like adding items to your shopping cart, e-invoicing, etc. Without these cookies, certain services on a website may not be made possible and a website may not perform as smoothly as it should. It remembers the product added to a cart or your past activities on the web page from the same session. It expires as soon as the session is terminated, or when you exit this Site. This does not contain any information through which you can be identified. It is recommended that you do not disable these cookies.

Performance cookies collect statistical information about the use of this Site, help to improve the way this Site works and to help us to identify issues you may have when using our online services. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a user personally and all information that is collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous. These Cookies can be disabled at your convenience.

Persistent cookies work by tracking your online preferences. But if you personalize this Site to fit your preferences, persistent cookies will remember and implement those preferences the next time you visit this Site such as storing your login information, language selections, menu preferences and internal bookmarks. These cookies can be disabled at your convenience. 4.4 Advertising/Tracking.

These cookies are required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purpose. These cookies may be set through this Site by our carefully selected and monitored advertising third-parties partners. They may be used by those third-parties partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites.

5. THIRD PARTIES COOKIES

5.1 Third-party organizations may also use their own cookies or other technologies to collect information about the content of this Site that you have clicked on. This information may be used by them to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on the content you have viewed.

5.2 We do not have access or control over the cookies placed on this Site by third parties and the use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.

5.3 Cookies placed by third parties may serve different purposes. They may be strictly necessary, performance, functionality. You may manage your consent for the cookies on this Site here. However, to disable or reject third-party cookies you must go to the relevant third party's website.

5.4 Your Personal Data may be collected by various third parties such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

6. DO WE USE SOCIAL NETWORKING COOKIES?

These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on this Site through third-party social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, and other websites.

7. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

When using this Site, you may be directed to other websites. These websites may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you are directed to them from this Site. If you access those other websites, please read any cookie or privacy statements on those websites if you wish to know what cookies are being used.

8. HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use this Site though your access to some functionality and areas of this Site may be restricted. As for how you can refuse cookies through your web, browser controls vary from browser to browser. You should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

9. COOKIE CONTROL SETTINGS IN DIFFERENT WEB BROWSER

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari for iOS
• Cookie settings in Safari for Mac OS

10. COOKIES COLLECTED IN THE PAST

The collection of your Personal Data from our cookies can be deleted. You can delete existing cookies from your browser. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used; however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience.

11. HOW OFTEN WE WILL UPDATE THIS COOKIE STATEMENT?

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this Cookie Policy to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please, therefore, revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the end of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

11. HOW TO CONTACT US?

If you would like to exercise your data subject rights under the Applicable Laws or have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

• Email: dpo@X-cite.com
• Address: Alghanim Industries Al Hamra Tower, 70th – 73rd floor, Kuwait City

Last modified: [June 4, 2022]