Our Use of Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are downloaded or stored on your computer, mobile phone, or tablet when you visit a website or use a digital platform.

Cookies are widely used by website and platform owners to make sites work, improve their efficiency and performance, remember user preferences, or provide analytical information and reports that help develop the service and improve the user experience.

Cookies that HiLaw places directly on your device are called "first-party cookies", while cookies placed by parties other than HiLaw are called "third-party cookies".

Third-party cookies enable certain features, functionality, or tools tied to external services — such as analytics tools, technical support services, interactive features, and performance measurement tools.

The parties that place third-party cookies may be able to recognize your device when you visit our site, as well as when you visit certain other sites that use the same services.

Why we use cookies

At HiLaw we use first-party and third-party cookies for several operational, technical, and analytical reasons, including: enabling the site and platform to operate correctly and securely; remembering user preferences and settings; maintaining sign-in and session state; improving overall platform performance; understanding how visitors and users use the site and services; measuring the effectiveness of pages, content, and interfaces; developing services and technical features; improving technical support and user experience; and helping measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or promotional communications, if any.

Some cookies are technically necessary to run the site and provide core services, while others are used for analytics, improvement, personalization, or — where applicable — advertising.

How you can control cookies

You have the right to accept or reject certain types of cookies through the consent settings shown in the cookie banner on the site, or through your browser settings.

You may accept or reject non-essential cookies; however, essential or strictly necessary cookies may not be disabled if they are required to operate the site or provide services you requested.

If you reject or disable some cookies, you may still be able to use the site, but some features, functionality, or parts of the platform may become limited, unavailable, or may not work as intended.

You can also change your browser settings at any time to delete cookies or to reject future cookies. Note that the way this is managed differs from one browser to another.

Types of cookies we may use

We may use the following types of cookies across our site or platform, whether first-party or from trusted third parties:

Strictly necessary or essential cookies: these are required to operate the site or platform correctly and to enable you to use core features, such as: accessing secure areas; sign-in and session management; protection against misuse or automated attacks; managing basic in-site requests; and preserving the security of the platform's technical infrastructure.

Performance and functionality cookies: these are used to improve the site's performance, functionality, and user experience, though they are not always required for minimum platform operation. They may help remember user preferences; save certain display, language, or configuration options; support communication or technical chat services; improve page interaction speed; and measure the performance of some technical elements or user interfaces.

Analytics and personalization cookies: these gather information that helps us understand how users use the site or platform, including the most visited pages, browsing duration, content interaction, navigation patterns between pages, characteristics of devices or browsers used, and measurement of the effectiveness of pages, forms, or services.

Advertising or marketing cookies: these may be used — if HiLaw runs digital marketing campaigns — to display messages or promotional content more relevant to your interests, to measure ad campaign effectiveness, or to reduce how often the same ad is shown.

Social media cookies: these may be used to enable you to share content or pages via social media, or to interact with external plugins tied to social platforms.

Third-party cookies: we may use certain services or tools provided by trusted third parties, such as analytics providers; performance and user experience measurement providers; technical support or chat providers; security and protection providers; and digital advertising or retargeting providers, if any.

How to control cookies through your browser

You can usually control, delete, or reject cookies through your browser settings. Because these controls differ from one browser to another, you should refer to your browser's "Help" or "Settings" menu to find the appropriate method.

These options are typically available in common browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Please note that deleting or rejecting cookies may affect some site features or functionality.

What about other tracking technologies?

Cookies are not the only method we may use to recognize site usage or measure engagement with it. We may occasionally use similar technologies such as web beacons, tracking pixels, transparent images, or similar technical markers.

These technologies are used for purposes such as: measuring traffic within the site; understanding whether a user arrived at the site from a specific campaign or link; measuring the effectiveness of emails or marketing communications; and supporting the operation of certain technical or analytical features.

In many cases these technologies rely on cookies or work in conjunction with them, so disabling cookies may also affect the effectiveness of these tools.

Do we use targeted advertising?

HiLaw, or approved digital marketing providers acting on its behalf, may use tools and technologies that help display content or ads more relevant to users' interests, or measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

These parties may use cookies or tracking modules to measure interaction with ads or determine whether the user has previously visited the site.

This process does not, in itself, enable HiLaw or those parties to directly identify you by name or contact details, unless you have explicitly provided them.

Legal basis and compliance

Our practices related to cookies and the associated processing of data are subject to the laws and policies in force in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including the Personal Data Protection Law and its related regulations and instructions.

Where necessary, we rely on: the technical necessity of providing the service; performance of the contractual relationship with the user; compliance with regulatory obligations; legitimate interest in improving the service and its security; or user consent, where applicable.

Changes to the cookie policy

We may update or modify this section from time to time to reflect: technical changes to the platform; addition or removal of tools or providers; regulatory or legal developments; and improved transparency for users.

The updated version will be published on this page. Your continued use of the site or platform after updates are posted constitutes acceptance of them, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Contact us

If you have any questions or inquiries about our use of cookies or how the associated data is processed, you can contact us at info@hilaw.sa