Cookies Policy

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device (computer, tablet or phone) by the websites you visit. Cookies allow a site to recognise your device on subsequent visits, remember your preferences, and provide basic functionality like session state and security. Similar technologies include local storage and session storage, which we may use for the same purposes.

2. How we use cookies

TruWise Advisory uses cookies for a deliberately narrow set of purposes: to keep the website working securely and to remember essential state during your visit. We do not use cookies for advertising, cross-site tracking, or user profiling. We do not sell cookie-derived data.

3. Categories of cookies we may set

Strictly necessary

These cookies are essential for the site to function properly. They cannot be disabled through this policy and do not require your consent under UAE PDPL or GDPR.

• PHPSESSID — standard PHP session cookie used to hold your form-submission state and CSRF token. Expires when you close your browser.
• CSRF token — a security token attached to form submissions to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.

Functional

Optional cookies that remember non-essential preferences. We currently set none. If we introduce any (e.g. a "language remembered" cookie), we will list them here and request your consent where required.

Analytics

We currently do not operate first-party analytics on this website. If we introduce analytics in the future (for example, self-hosted, IP-anonymised analytics), we will update this policy and, where required, request your consent before setting any analytics cookie.

Advertising / third-party tracking

We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or cross-site tracking cookies. We do not embed social-media tracking scripts.

4. Third-party services that may set cookies

Certain pages embed content from third-party services, and those services may set their own cookies when the page loads:

• Google Fonts — we load the Playfair Display and Inter fonts from fonts.googleapis.com. Google may set cookies as part of this delivery.
• Google Maps — the map embed on the Contact page is served by Google Maps and may set cookies for map functionality.
• Unsplash — some banner images are hosted by Unsplash's CDN, which may set caching-related cookies.

These third parties operate under their own privacy and cookie policies, which we recommend you review.

5. How to control cookies

You can accept, refuse, or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers accept cookies by default; you can change this behaviour, or set your browser to notify you when a cookie is being placed.

Helpful resources for the major browsers:

• Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
• Safari — Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
• Firefox — Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Microsoft Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions

Please be aware that if you disable strictly-necessary cookies, key features of the site (such as submitting a form) may stop working.

6. Do Not Track

Our website respects the intent of "Do Not Track" browser signals. Because we do not conduct cross-site tracking or set advertising cookies, no additional opt-out is required for tracking.

7. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we set or in applicable law. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will always reflect the current version.