About this Cookie Statement

This Cookie Statement describes the cookies that may be set when you visit our website and the purposes for which we and our partners use those cookies and any personal information collected by using them.

For further information on how we use the personal information we collect about you (including information collected through our use of cookies) please see our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

We may use cookies on our website from time to time, to gather and store information about your preferences, perform analytics, serve you ads likely to be of interest and generally customise your browsing experience.

A cookie is a piece of information that allows our system to identify and interact more effectively with your browser. They are used to improve the efficiency of our website, as well as to provide website usage information to the website owner.

Other similar files such as pixels and beacons work in the same way and we use the word ‘cookie’ in this Cookie Statement to refer to all technologies that collect information in this way. Cookies can also be used in emails you receive to help understand your level of engagement with them.

Cookies can be ‘first party’ (which are set by us) or ‘third party’ (which are placed on your device by another website when you use our website).

Why do we use cookies?

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website in order to help us improve your experience when you browse our websites. For example, cookies help us to:

1. maintain the continuity of your browsing session;
2. remember your details and preferences for when you return to the website; and
3. tailor content you see on our website to your interests.
4. Serve you with advertising content likely to be of interest to you, on our site or across the web. These ads may be for our own products and services, or the products and services of third parties.
5. integrate with third-party social media platforms.   

We do not use cookies to get information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie.

What cookies do we use?

We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on this website. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

Strictly Necessary

Strictly Necessary Cookies are essential for our website to work properly, and are used for things such as site operation, navigation, saving your preferences, and allowing images to load.

Functional

Functional Cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Performance and Analytics

Analytical Cookies are used to analyse and evaluate the performance of our website, which provides information on how the site is used. Data collected with these cookies is aggregated for analysis and used for improvements.

Targeting Cookies

Targeting and advertising cookies are specially designed to collect information from you on your device in order to display ads based on related topics of interest.  They may be set through our website by our advertising partners, and may be used by those companies to observe your behaviors and browsing activities over time across multiple sites, apps, platforms or devices in order to build a profile of your interests to show you relevant ads on other sites. 

Social Media Cookies

Social media cookies are cookies used to connect a website to a third-party social media platform. They remember a user’s details after the user signs in to a social media account from a website and can be used to identify how a user interacts with ads on social media platforms, and to determine what types of ads to show the user on such platforms. Many social media cookies are set through plugins, widgets, and sharing buttons. 

Third Party websites

Our website contains links to third-party websites which may also use cookies. We have no control over these cookies, and recommend that you check the relevant third party’s privacy policies for information about any cookies which may be used.

Your choices

If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by any websites, you can configure this through your browser settings.

Please note that by deleting or blocking cookies, our websites may not have full functionality and you may not be able to access certain areas.

You may also manage your consent preferences through our Privacy Preference Cente.

We may need to update this Cookie Statement in the future, and encourage you to review this Cookie Statement to stay informed about how we are using cookies.

Further information

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Cookie Statement, please contact info.ca@ryde.com. For more information about cookies, including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.