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Cookie Policy

Last updated: 1 May 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Bik Wan Senior Living Residence uses cookies and similar technologies on this website. It also explains how you can manage your cookie preferences at any time. Our approach to cookies is minimal and respectful of your privacy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more reliably, to remember your preferences, and to provide information to website owners about how visitors use their site. Cookies cannot run programmes or install software on your device, and they do not identify you personally unless you have provided your personal information directly.

2. Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies Always active

Necessary for the website to function correctly. They enable basic features such as page navigation, remembering your cookie preferences, and ensuring secure use of the site. These cannot be disabled.

Duration: session or up to 1 year · No personal data collected

Always on

Analytics Cookies

Help us understand how visitors use the website — which pages are most visited, how long visitors stay, and where they came from. All data collected is anonymised and used only to improve the site.

Duration: up to 26 months · Anonymised data only

Marketing Cookies

Used to understand the effectiveness of any third-party referrals to our site and to avoid showing the same messages repeatedly. We do not use these for targeted advertising.

Duration: up to 90 days

Preference Cookies

Remember your cookie consent choices so you are not asked again on future visits. If you clear your browser storage, you will be asked again.

Duration: up to 1 year

3. Third-Party Cookies

Where analytics or preference cookies are enabled, data may be processed by trusted third-party services including:

Google Analytics — anonymised website usage statistics. Governed by Google's privacy policy. Data is not linked to any individual.
Embedded map providers — if you interact with the map on our homepage, the map provider (Google Maps) may place cookies according to their own policies.

We do not use any social media tracking cookies or advertising network cookies.

4. Cookie Duration

Session cookies — deleted automatically when you close your browser. Used for essential site functions.
Persistent cookies — remain on your device for a set period (typically 90 days to 2 years, depending on purpose) or until you delete them.

5. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

You can also manage or delete cookies directly through your browser settings. Instructions for common browsers are below.

Google Chrome

Open Chrome and click the three-dot menu (⋮) → Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. From here you can block cookies, clear existing cookies or manage exceptions for individual sites.

Mozilla Firefox

Open Firefox and click the menu (≡) → Settings → Privacy & Security. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection and Cookies, you can set cookie handling preferences and clear existing stored data.

Apple Safari

On Mac: open Safari → Preferences → Privacy. On iPhone/iPad: go to Settings → Safari → Privacy & Security. You can block all cookies or manage them site by site, and use "Clear History and Website Data" to remove existing cookies.

Microsoft Edge

Open Edge and click the three-dot menu (···) → Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data. You can block cookies, clear existing data and set exceptions for specific sites.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of this website. Essential cookies cannot be blocked through our preference controls, but can be blocked at the browser level — doing so may prevent the site from loading correctly.

6. Your Rights

You may withdraw or change your cookie consent at any time using the controls on this page.
You have the right to request information about what data has been collected and to ask for its deletion, as set out in our Privacy Policy.
Disabling optional cookies does not affect your ability to use the core features of this website or to submit an enquiry.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about how we use cookies, please contact us:

Bik Wan Senior Living Residence
5 Conduit Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
Email: [email protected]