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How Huawei Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies

The data controllers of this website(https:// consumer.huawei.com/eg-en/) (hereinafter referred to as "the Platform") are Huawei Services (Hong Kong) Co., Limited (Company registration number: 1451551), a company incorporated in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong, with its registered office located at Room 03, 9/F, Tower 6, the Gateway, No. 9 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong (“Data Importer”) and merchant (collectively, Huawei and merchant will be referred to as "we" or "us").

What are cookies and similar technologies?

A cookie is a text file stored by a web server on a computer or mobile device, and the content of a cookie can be retrieved and read only by the server that created the cookie. Cookies are unique to the browser or mobile application you are using. The text in a cookie often consists of identifiers, site names, and some numbers and characters.

Similar to cookies, local shared objects (also called "Flash cookies") and HTML 5 local storage store information on your device and can record some information about your activities and preferences.

In addition to cookies, we also use web beacons and pixel tags on this website. A web beacon is usually an electronic graphic image embedded into a website or email to identify your device cookies when you browse the website or email. Pixel tags allow us to send emails in a way that is readable to you and find out whether you opened the email or not. For example, when you receive an email from Huawei, it may contain a click-through URL which links to a Huawei web page. If you click the link, Huawei will track your visit to help us learn about your preferences for products and services and improve our customer service. You can unsubscribe from our emails if you do not want to be tracked via emails.

Huawei uses the following types of cookies on this website:

Essential cookies

What are essential cookies?

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off without affecting the use of the site. These cookies are usually only set in response to specific actions you take on the site, such as filling in forms or setting your cookie preferences. We use these cookies as we believe it is in both our and your legitimate interests to enable the site to function properly.

Why do we use essential cookies?

Typically we use these cookies to fulfill a specific function on the website, for example, retaining search results where you use an internal search function so that if you click search result links, you can then return back to the retained search results.

What data do essential cookies use and how long do we retain?

Essential cookies seldom collect and use any personal data, though they may contain an ID code which allows the website to distinguish you as an individual visitor from all other visitors on the website at the same time. These types of unique ID code are used to maintain a server session to enable functions you have requested, such as using internal search.

We process essential cookies in order to provide you with the requested services based on our contractual obligations.

Can I reject them?

You can set your browser to block or alert you to these cookies, but some parts of the website will not work without them. To learn how to set your browser to block or alert you to these cookies, go to Internet Explorer(Edge) / Google Chrome / Mozilla Firefox / Safari / Opera.

Do we share any data with third parties?

We use third-party website infrastructure suppliers to help us build and manage our website. Cookie data is stored securely on these suppliers' servers. Our service providers have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are contractually bound by our instructions, and will not process your data for any other purposes.

Analytic cookies

What are analytic cookies?

These cookies, also known as "performance cookies", "measurement cookies" or "statistical cookies", allow us to count visits and visitor sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. The data Huawei receives from these cookies is aggregated and anonymous, and is not personal data. However, the third parties providing these statistical services, Google Analytics does process personal data about you in order to provide us with aggregated data about our website visitors.
We use these cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website, for example, to see if users are spending less time on certain pages or experiencing issues. Cookies are used for the sole purpose of improving the site for a better customer experience.

Why do we use analytic cookies?

We use analytic cookies to enable measurement and analytics. These cookies enable us to, for example, understand:

(1)Which websites people visit before landing on our website, for example, whether the visitor came directly to our website, or whether they clicked a link from a search engine or a social media post.

(2)Which are the most and least popular pages on our website, how long visitors spend on each page and each part of the page, which links and buttons they click.

(3)Information about the device you are using to access our site, for example, device brand and model, which browser or operating system you are using.

(4)Demographic information about visitors to our site, for example, statistics about what percentage of our web visitors are male or female, their age range, and their interests, such as photography and technology.

What data do analytic cookies use and how long do we retain?

The cookies themselves will normally just record an ID code. However, this ID code links to Google analytics servers, enabling Google to build a profile of how you browse the website. Browser details are also processed as a result of the cookie being read, including technical details of the device used to access the site as well as its location.
Huawei does not collect any personal data through statistical cookies. We only receive aggregated data about our website visitors in general. However, Google does process your personal data in order to provide these aggregated statistics to us. Further, as other websites also use Google Analytics, Google doesn't just have a profile of how you use our website, but also how you use many other websites which also use Google Analytics. Google may also link your cookie information with your account information, if you are logged in to your Google account while browsing, to build an even more detailed profile about you. To learn more about how Google processes your personal data, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy.

We process analytic cookies in order to provide you with the requested services based on our legitimate interests.

Can I reject them?

These cookies are only set on your device if you agree to them when you first visit our website, and you can subsequently reject analytic cookies at any time by setting your brower Cookie Settings. However, it may affect your experience of using our website if you do so.

Do we share any of the data with third parties?

Website infrastructure suppliers: We use third-party website infrastructure suppliers to help us build and manage our website. Cookie data is stored securely on these suppliers' servers.
Analytic suppliers: We use third-party analytics suppliers to help us set the statistical cookies and process your personal data. Cookie data is stored securely on these suppliers' servers.

Service suppliers: Additionally, third-party suppliers providing services to us have access to the data linked to your cookie ID. We use third-party media agencies to manage our cookies.

Our service providers have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are contractually bound by our instructions, and will not process your data for any other purposes.

Advertising cookies

What are advertising cookies?

We use advertising cookies to collect information about your online activities and interests and provide you with advertisements that correlate most highly to your profile and interests. These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They are used to build a profile of your interests and show relevant ads on other websites. We also use social media cookies linking to 'Like' buttons and 'Share' buttons on social media.

We use these cookies to show you relevant ads, avoid showing you irrelevant ads, prevent the same ad from being shown to you repeatedly, and enable you to 'Like' or 'Share' our content on social media.

Why do we use advertising cookies?

We use advertising cookies to build up a profile of your browsing behavior so that we can either show or suppress our ads, depending on which are most relevant to you. We use social media cookies so that you can 'Like' or 'Share' our content and engage with the Huawei brand on social media.

What data do advertising cookies use and how long do we retain?

Advertising cookies store unique IDs that are associated with a profile on our advertising partners' servers. These profiles record your browsing behavior and actions linked to your browsing information, such as actions you take on the site (links clicked or buttons clicked), as well as technical specifications about your device and your location (based on your IP address). Google's advertising cookies may also link to Google ID, if you are logged into your account while on our website, further building a detailed profile about you.

As many other websites also use advertising cookies, advertising partners don't just have a profile of how you use our website, but also how you use other websites. This enables advertisers to build a very detailed profile about you, including your age, gender, interests, language, engagement levels, network, and browser.

Social media cookies collect your IP address and browser fingerprint and send them back to the social media site that embedded the cookie, enabling the social media site to recognize that you have visited our site. This applies irrespective of whether you have an account with that social media site.

We process advertising cookies in order to provide you with the requested services based on our legitimate interests.

Can I reject them?

These cookies are only set on your device if you agree to them when you first visit our website, and you can subsequently reject advertising cookies at any time by setting your browser to block(refer to the chapter of 1.1). However, it may affect your experience of using our website if you do so.

Do we share any of the data with third parties?

Website infrastructure suppliers: We use third-party website infrastructure suppliers to help us build and manage our website. Cookie data is stored securely on these suppliers' servers.
Advertising suppliers: We use third-party advertising suppliers to show you relevant ads, avoid showing you irrelevant ads, prevent the same ad from being shown to you repeatedly, and enable you to 'Like' or 'Share' our content on social media. Cookie data is stored securely on these suppliers' servers.

Service suppliers: Additionally, third party suppliers providing services to us have access to the data linked to your cookie ID. We use third-party media agencies, ad exchanges and ad networks to manage our cookies.

What advertising cookies do we use?

We use the following advertising cookies:

Cookie name Domain Expiry Purpose Adjust settings
fr Facebook 90 days Deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads To change your cookie settings or delete cookies from your browser , go to the Cookies Settings section.
_fbc Facebook 90 days Used to deliver, measure, and improve the relevancy of ads
_fbp Facebook 90 days Providing advertising and site analytics service
oo Facebook 5 days Help you opt out of seeing ads from Facebook based on your activity on third-party websites
ddid Facebook 28 days Used to open a specific location in an advertiser's app upon installation
NID Google 6 months Used to show Google ads to those audiences that have signed out To change your cookie settings or delete cookies from your browser , go to the Cookies Settings section.
IDE Google 13 months in EEA, Switzerland and UK 24 months everywhere else To show google ads across non-google sites
ANID Google
_gcl_aw Google 90 days Google ads conversion tracking cookies used by google (first party cookie when we use gtag.js)
_gcl_dc Google 90 days
DSID Google 2 weeks (14 days) used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites and to remember whether the user has agreed to ad personalization. And is also used to link your activity across all devices you've previously used to log into google
TAID Google 2 weeks (14 days)
AID Google 2 weeks (14 days)
user_id Twitter 90 days a unique ID for identifying the user if logged-in
pixel_id Twitter 90 days a unique ID for the advertiser’s website tag
personalization_id Twitter 90 days a secondary unique ID assigned to all visitors/users
timestamp Twitter 90 days when the data was received
taboola_session_id Snapchat Session Creates a temporary per session User ID. a temporary per session User ID To change your cookie settings or delete cookies from your browser , go to the Cookies Settings section.
t_gid Snapchat 1 year Assigns a unique User ID that Taboola uses for attribution and reporting purposes.
taboola_fp_td_user_id Snapchat 1 year Indicates that the user clicked on an item that was recommended by Taboola’s Services. This is used for reporting and analytics purposes.
obuid Snapchat 3 months Holds the anonymous user's ID. Used for tracking user actions, such as clicks on the recommendations.
auid Snapchat 90 days Holds the advertising ID of the user in mobile devices. Used for tracking user actions, such as clicks on the recommendations.
RoktRecogniser Snapchat Indefinite or until removed Allows Rokt to track unique users across devices (who opted in through the Rokt widget), which allows us to optimize our marketing campaigns.
_uetsid Snapchat Session A session ID cookie used in order to improve conversion tracking.
_uetmsclkid Snapchat 90 days Used to capture the Microsoft Click ID from the ad URL in order to improve conversion tracking.
_fbp Snapchat 90 days A unique user ID cookie used to help identify a user.
_fbc Snapchat 90 days Used to capture the click ID from the ad URL containing the click identifier
sc_seen_popup Snapchat 1 year Used to remember if a mailing list popup has been seen.
UserMatchHistory Snapchat 1 month Distinguishes conversion from a LinkedIn ad.
bcookie Snapchat 2 years Used for identifying the browser ID.
bscookie Snapchat 2 years Used to recognize a secure browser ID.
lang Snapchat Session Used to remember the visitor's language.
lidc Snapchat 2 days Used for routing.
lpv Snapchat 1 day Distinguishes conversion from Pardot site or ad.
pardot Snapchat Session Used to denote an active visitor session while logged in on Pardot as a user.
personalization_id Snapchat 2 years Used to track visitor activity from Twitter ads on our websites, and also to allow visitors to share content from our websites.
test_cookie Snapchat 1 day Used to check whether visitor's browser supports cookies.
_gcl_au Snapchat 3 months Used to store and track conversions.
visitor_id Snapchat 1 year Used to track the visitor to the correct Pardot account.
visitor_id-hash Snapchat 1 year Used to track the visitor to the correct Pardot account.
X-PP-L7 Snapchat Session Provides PayPal credit option messaging
X-PP-SILOVER Snapchat 9 hours Provides PayPal credit option messaging
akavpau_ppsd Snapchat Session Provides PayPal credit option messaging
AKDC Snapchat 9 hours Provides PayPal credit option messaging
How we safeguard your personal data

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard your data from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, or loss, including by employing cryptographic technologies to ensure the confidentiality of data.

Our providers have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are contractually bound by our instructions and the protection of data processing agreement and will not process your data for any other purposes.

Your rights and choices

To exercise the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection or portability in relation to your data, to Contact Us or if you have any complaint or query about how Huawei processes your personal data, please submit your query at Privacy Inquiries.

To access your rights against the third parties listed above in the "Do we share any of the data with third parties?" section, please contact those third parties directly.

Many web browsers offer the Do Not Track option, which sends Do Not Track requests to websites. Currently, the main Internet standardization organizations have not established policies to specify how websites should process these requests. If you enable the Do not track option in the browser, all Huawei websites will respect your selection.

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