Cookie Policy

01

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store on your device. It lets the site recognise that device on a later request — to remember a preference, keep you signed in, or count a visit without counting you twice.

Cookies cannot run programs or carry viruses. They can, depending on what they store, be used to build a picture of your browsing. That is why it is worth knowing which ones a site sets, and why.

02

What this site actually uses

Very little. The complete picture:

Analytics — Google

This site loads a Google tag so we can see how many people visit, which pages they read, and where they arrived from. Where analytics is active, Google sets cookies whose names begin with _ga. These tell us about traffic patterns, not about you as an individual. We do not use them to identify anyone, and we do not join them to anything you send us through the enquiry form.

WordPress — signed-in users only

If you sign in to the site’s administration area — which only our own staff do — WordPress sets session and preference cookies, including wp-settings cookies. Ordinary visitors are never signed in and are not given these.

That is the whole list.

03

What this site does not use

Stated plainly, because most cookie notices leave it vague:

• No advertising or retargeting cookies. There is no ad pixel on this site and we do not run remarketing.
• No social media tracking. There are no Facebook, LinkedIn or X widgets embedded here. The site does publish social preview tags in its page source so that a shared link renders with a title and image — those are inert metadata and set nothing on your device.
• No data brokers. We do not sell, rent or share visit data with anyone for their own purposes.

04

Turning them off

You are in control of cookies, and nothing on this site breaks if you refuse them.

• In your browser. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, usually under Settings, then Privacy. You can block them site by site or across the board.
• Opting out of Google Analytics. Google publishes a browser add-on that stops its analytics scripts from sending data, whatever site you are on.
• Private browsing. An incognito or private window discards cookies when you close it.

Blocking analytics cookies here costs you nothing. It only means your visit is not counted in our traffic figures.

05

Changes to this policy

This page describes what the site does today. If we add anything that sets a cookie — a chat widget, an embedded video, a booking tool — we will describe it here, and the revision date at the top of the page will change.

06

Contact

Questions about cookies, or about anything else we hold, are covered in our Privacy Policy. To ask directly:

GearTek Trading LLC
Shams Business Center, Sharjah Media City Free Zone
Al Messaned, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
info@geartektrading.com