Cookie policy

What are cookies?
Cookies are text files which are stored on the browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device each time you visit a webpage or through your browser or mobile application. Cookies work to make your browsing experience at our site as smooth as possible and they remember your preferences, so you don’t have to insert your details again and again. Cookies can also generally be easily viewed and deleted. 

Who has control of the cookies?

• First party cookies are cookies controlled by the website owner. First-party cookies are placed on your device directly by us. For example, we use first-party cookies to adapt our website to your browser’s language preferences and to create a more personalized experienced when browsing our application. 
• Third party cookies are cookies controlled by vendors or partners, the site owner has allowed to be stored on a visitor’s device through tools or elements embedded into the website. Third-party cookies are placed on your device by our partners and service providers. For example, we use third-party cookies to measure the number of visitors on our website or to enable you to share content with others across social media platforms.

How long are cookies able to remain active on the devices?

The length of time cookies will stay on the device will depend on whether it is a “session” or “persistent” cookie.  

• Session cookies are temporary and cease to exist when a browsing session ends by closing the browser. Session cookies are used for a variety of reasons, including to learn more about your use of our website during one single browsing session and to help you to use our website more efficiently. Session cookies last only until you close your browser.
• Persistent cookies on the other hand remain on your device after a browsing session has ended. These only cease to exist after a set time has expired or deleted by the user prior to the expiration date. Persistent cookies are primarily used to help you quickly sign-in to our website again and for analytical purposes. Persistent cookies have a longer lifespan and aren't automatically deleted when you close your browser.

Categories of cookies
IKEA Bahrain website is using the below cookie categories:

1. The essentials
   Some cookies are necessary and essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your IKEA account, add products to your basket and checkout securely. Without these cookies, some parts of our site just won’t work as they should.
2. The customizers
   These cookies (also called functional or preference cookies) allow our site to remember your preferences, helping you to customize your experience on our site. That way we can remember you when you return to our site, direct you to the homepage of your local IKEA store, present our website in the language of your choosing, and provide you with live chat support while you are browsing for home furnishing inspiration.
3. The performance improvers
   These cookies tell us about how you use the site, and they help us to make it better. For example, these cookies count the number of visitors to our website and see how visitors move around when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited. 
4. The targeters
   These cookies (also called advertising or marketing cookies) are used to deliver advertised content which is relevant to you, and they can be used to track the effectiveness of our ad campaigns on third party websites. These cookies are placed on our site by our third-party service providers, and they may remember your web browsing activity and may be used to understand about your demographics, such as age and gender. Only anonymized information is captured and used, and the purpose is to provide you with content which is relevant to you.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience by:Recognizing when you log in and any preferred settings for your account. Giving you a browsing experience that is unique to you and to serve you content which we believe improves your site experience.
Analyzing how you use our site which helps us to troubleshoot any problems and to monitor our own performance.

What type of cookies do we use?
Here are some examples of the main cookies on our site, what they do and how you can alter your settings to stop cookies.

These cookies are essentials and customizers. They allow you to navigate our site, log-in, add products to your basket, set the language settings, display the correct page for the device you are using, verify your details when you make an order, and they allow us to process payment for an order.
To opt out of these cookies you will need to change the settings on your browser Cookie preferences. If you choose to block these cookies our website may not work as it should and any preferences, you have may be lost.

We work with trusted partners, who store third party cookies to enable the use of tracking technologies to target or retarget you with general and personalized ads when browsing the internet. These partners may collect information about your visits to our websites or apps, as well as your interaction(s) with our communication material, including advertising.
Partners, who collect and process personal data on our behalf under specific instructions, are data processors.
Some partners, however, do not only collect and process personal data on our behalf, but for their own purposes as well. We do not control any further processing being done. For this part, our partners are independent data controllers.

Adobe Analytics (Omniture)
This is a performance improver cookie, and we use it to track visits to our website and movement around the site. The data which is collected is anonymous and is used for benchmarking purposes to monitor the performance of our site and to measure user engagement on our site.
You can read more and change your preferences here: 
https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html

Google Analytics
This is a performance improver cookie, and we use it to track visits to our website and movement around site. The data which is collected is anonymous and is used for benchmarking purposes to monitor the performance of our site and to measure user engagement on our site.
You can read more and change your preferences here: 
https://policies.google.com/privacy

Akamai
This is a customizer cookie which helps us to ensure that content delivery on our site is in order and it ensures our servers are optimized so that your web page loads as quickly as possible.
You can read more about the Akamai compliance policies here:
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/compliance/

Facebook
This is a targeted cookie and a performance improver cookie.It allows us to place advertising content onto Facebook which is relevant to you based on the information which your web browsing patterns allow Facebook to infer.
This information is never connected to your profile, and it is always anonymous.You can read more and change your preferences on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
You can control and opt-out of Facebook adverts and other third-party cookies here:
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/

Google DoubleClick
This is a targeted cookie which we use to help us to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. It enables Google to serve our adverts on other sites based on your browsing history on our page and engagement with our adverts.
You can change your preferences about the adverts you see on Google by clicking here:
www.google.com/settings/ads
You can control and opt-out of Google adverts and other third-party cookies here: 
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/

Google Dynamic Remarketing
This is a targeter cookie and a performance improver cookie. It allows us to serve relevant advertising content to users that have previously visited our website. The data which is collected is anonymous. You can read more and change your preferences here:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/opt-out.html
You can control and opt-out of Google adverts and other third-party cookies here:
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/

Crazy Egg
This is a performance improver cookie which records your browsing experience as you move around our site. We use it to spot any issues on our site and to improve your experience. No personal data is obtained or processed.
You can read more about the privacy policy here:
https://www.crazyegg.com/privacy
You can control and opt-out of Crazy Egg anonymous tracking here: 
https://www.crazyegg.com/opt-out

Oracle Maxymiser
This is a customizer and performance improver cookie
This tool helps us with the testing and personalization of your website experience. It helps us make data-driven decisions based on your browsing behavior to create a seamless and connected customer experience throughout all our digital touchpoints.
You can read more and change your preferences here: 
https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/index.html

Tealium
This is a customizer cookie which helps us to manage the technology and cookies which are used across our site.
We also use social media buttons on our site which allow you to share content and interact with your social network on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. These social media platforms may set their own cookies on your device. We do not control the settings of these cookies, so we suggest you check the social media website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Storing cookies on your device.
Consent is not required to store strictly necessary cookies on your device, as these are necessary for the operation of the website on your device. However, permission and voluntary consent is needed for all other types of cookies before they are stored, and you can customize or withdraw this permission at any time. It is possible to reject any cookie used by this website, that is not ‘strictly necessary’. Disabling cookies, however, may limit the functionality or usability of the website and/or the access to certain web services.

Processing of personal data
Only some of the cookies used collect data regarding visitors and their behavior. For the most part this data is anonymous. To learn more, we recommend that you read our Privacy Notice. It describes our processing of personal data and your rights. 

How do you change cookie preferences or block cookies?

Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use i.e. third-party cookies, or those from specific websites. Each browser’s website should contain instructions on how you can do this. For further information please refer to:
https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/
If you block cookies on our website, you may be unable to access certain areas of our website and certain functions and pages will not work in the usual way.
You are also able to update your cookie preferences on our site by clicking the website by clicking the ‘Cookie Settings’ link at the bottom of the website. 

Personalized ads
Some of the data collected through cookies are used to personalize the ads you receive when browsing the internet. Changing your cookie preferences might be enough to stop receiving personalized adsIf you do not wish to receive personalized ads on the internet in general, the different providers make it possible for you to turn off personalized ads if you visit their website. You could refer to the list of cookies stored by the website to find information regarding third party vendors, which process cookie data from our website for personalized advertising.