Bangkok Post Public Company Limited

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COOKIES POLICY

Cookies Policy

Normally, as a matter of course, when you visit the website, the information related to website visiting is recorded by the different types of cookies. This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how they work and their purposes, including deleting and declining to store cookies for your privacy. By accessing this website, you have given us permission to use cookies in accordance with the Cookies Policy accordingly:-

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small files that are used to store information when you visit the website such as date, time, clicked links, visited pages, the terms of settings that are saved to your computer device and/or communication devices such as notebook, tablet or smartphone via a web browser while entering the website. Cookies will not harm your computer devices and/or communication tools. In the following cases, your personal data may be collected in order to enhance your experience of using the online services. They will remember the unique language and customise the usage information accordingly to your needs. It’s a confirmation of your uniqueness and information safety including your interested services. Cookies are also used to measure traffic to online services, personalising your content based on your previous and current browsing behaviour and may be used for advertising purposes.

How do we use cookies?

To record your visits and sign up to the website by making it easier to remember your use of the website. This information can be used to improve the Company’s website to meet more of your needs and facilitate your speed of using the website. In some cases, it is necessary to engage third party help which may require Internet Protocol Addresses (IP Address) and statistical analysis Cookies as well as linking information and processed for marketing purposes.

Cookies used by the Company may be divided into two categories based on their storage:

  1. 1. Session Cookies are cookies kept temporarily to remember you during your visit to the Company’s website, for example to monitor the language you have set and choose to use and so on, and are deleted from your computer or device when you leave the website or close the web browser.
  2. 2. Persistent Cookies are cookies that last for a specified period of time or until you delete them. This type of cookies allows the Company’s website to remember you and your settings when you return to use the website again. This will help you access the website’s services more conveniently and quickly.

The purposes for which cookies are used are as follows:-

  1. • Strictly Necessary Cookies
      These types of cookies are necessary for the service of the Company’s website to allow you to access different parts of the website including helping to remember the information you have provided through the website. To disable these types of cookies, you will not be able to use the Company’s services which are required to run cookies.
  2. • Performance Cookies
      These types of cookies allow the Company to know the interactions of users in using the services of the website, including which pages or areas of the website are popular as well as other data analysis. Although information collected by these cookies is non-personally identifiable and used only for statistical analysis, the Company also uses this information to improve the functionality of the website and to better understand user behaviour. Disabling these types of cookies will result in the Company not knowing the number of visitors to the website and being unable to assess the quality of services.
  3. • Functional Cookies
      These types of cookies help the Company’s website remember the choices you have made and help the website deliver additional features and content tailored to your use, for example, to remember your account name or the font size settings or page settings which you can customise. Disabling these types of cookies may result in the website not functioning properly.
  4. • Targeting Cookies
      These types of cookies are created by linking third-party websites which store information about your usage and websites you have visited in order to offer products or services on websites other than the Company’s website. If you disable these types of cookies, it will not affect your use of the Company’s website but it may result in the presentation of products or services on other websites being inconsistent with your interests.

Links to other websites

The Company’s website may link to third party websites or social media. It may also include embedding content or videos from social media such as YouTube and Facebook. This will allow you to access content and interact with others on social media from the Company’s website. The third party’s website or social media will specify and set its own cookies which the Company cannot control or be responsible for. We also recommend that you read and review those third parties’ cookies policies and notices.

How do you manage cookies?

Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can decline or delete cookies in the settings page of the browser you are using. However, if you change your browser settings, it may affect the look and feel of our website. Please note that if you choose to disable cookies on your browser or device, it may also affect the functioning of certain parts of the Company’s website that cannot work or provide services properly.

In case you have any queries about our cookies policy, please contact Data Protection Officer (DPO)

dpo@bangkokpost.co.th

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