Mauritius Telecom Group Cookie Policy

Scope

This cookie policy applies to the cookies described below which may be placed when you visit different pages on the www.telecom.mu and myt.mu domains. For example, some cookies may be set when you first visit www.telecom.mu and myt.mu, and then additional cookies may be placed as you move around the website to subdomains.

What are cookies?

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie directory of your device. Some expire at the end of your website session; others remain on your device for slightly longer.

If you want to know more about cookies, head to aboutcookies.org.

How are cookies used?

Cookies are used to improve our website and your experience when using it. For example, analyzing data helps us understand how people interact with our web pages, providing a more enjoyable, customized service and experience, and helping us develop and deliver better content, products, and services tailored to our customers' interests and needs.

How does the Mauritius Telecom Group website use cookies?

Cookies enable us to identify your device, or you when you have logged in. Our cookies do not hold personal information such as your name. They simply let us find information once you're logged in or help link your browsing information to you when you choose to register for a service.

We may also use cookies to enhance the functionality of the website by storing your preferences and improve the performance of our website to provide you with a better user experience.

We do not sell the information collected by cookies, nor do we disclose the information to third parties, except where required by law.

Types of Cookies We Use

We've put our cookies into the following categories to make it easier for you to understand why we need them:

Strictly necessary – These are used to help make our website work efficiently and enable you to use our services, and cannot be switched off.
Performance – These are used to analyze the way our website works and how we can improve it, for example, which pages you visit the most often and if you get any error messages from web pages.
Functionality – These help to enhance your experience by doing things like remembering choices you make and providing more enhanced, personal features.
Targeting/advertising – We can also use cookies to identify the parts of the website you are interested in. We then use this information to show you adverts and pages we think may also be of interest to you, tailor how we communicate with you, or tailor the contents of the communications we send to you.
Persistent Cookies – We sometimes use persistent cookies as well as 'session-based' cookies. A 'persistent' cookie will remain for a period of time set for that cookie. A 'session-based' cookie is allocated only for the duration of your visit to our website and automatically expires when you close your browser.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies originate from a domain that's different from the website being visited. For example, when you visit our website, we may link to another company's website – like our Facebook or Twitter account, or a video from our YouTube page.

When you 'Like' or 'Tweet' an item from our website, these sites may sometimes put cookies on your computer. We don't control how they use their cookies, so we suggest you check their website to see how they're using them and how you can manage them.

How to Manage Your Cookies

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. You can control how you use cookies in your browser by using the 'Help' function within your browser:

PC users: Go to 'Help' in your browser and choose 'About'.
Mac users: Click on the Apple menu and choose 'About'.

How to Check if Cookies Are Enabled (For PCs)

Google Chrome: Click the menu button (three horizontal bars) at the top right of your browser window and select 'Settings' then 'Show advanced settings...'. Locate the 'Privacy' heading, and select 'Content settings'. Now select 'Allow local data to be set'.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: Click on the 'Settings' icon (looks like a cog) at the top right of your browser window and select 'Internet options', then click on the 'Privacy' tab. Ensure that your Privacy level is set to Medium or below, which will enable cookies in your browser. Settings above Medium will disable cookies.
Mozilla Firefox: Click the menu button (three horizontal bars) at the top right of your browser window and select 'Options'. Then select the Privacy icon. Click on Cookies, then select 'allow sites to set cookies'.

How to Check if Cookies Are Enabled (For Macs)

Safari on OS X: Click on 'Safari' at the top of your browser window and select the 'Preferences' option. Click on 'Privacy'. Select 'Allow from websites I visit'.

Block Cookies

If you'd like to find out how to stop websites using cookies to remember what sites you visit, choose your browser from the list. This will take you to the browser's respective page where you can manage your cookies and site data:

Information on controlling and deleting cookies is also available at allaboutcookies.org.