Cookie Policy - Aster Hospital
Last Updated: 25 May 2025
The Cookie Policy explains how Aster DM Healthcare uses cookies and similar technologies in the course of our business, through our website
www.asterhospitals.ae/. It explains what these technologies are, and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are small text files that a website asks the user’s browser to save on the user’s system/device, when a user visits the website, in order to remember the user’s device upon revisiting the website or during the session. Cookies set up by the domain
www.asterhospitals.ae/ are called first-party cookies and cookies set by other domain(s) than the website(s) you are visiting are termed as third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are generally used for marketing and advertising purposes.
PURPOSE OF USING COOKIES
Our website www.asterhospitals.ae/ (“Aster DM Healthcare” or “We” or “Our” or “Website”) uses cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
- To analyze your use of our website
- For promotional and marketing purposes
- To understand your preferences such as preferred lang usage
- To deliver information that matches your interests
- To help us understand our audience and traffic patterns
- To let you automatically log into programs and parts of our site that require membership
- To manage and present the information displayed on our website
TYPES OF COOKIES USED BY Aster DM Healthcare
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
- Targeting Cookies
- Performance Cookies
COOKIE LIST
The table below provides additional details on the specific cookies used on www.asterhospitals.ae/:
Strictly Necessary Cookies - Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our websites to support functions such as logging in, and payment transactions.
| Name of Cookie |
Cookie Provider |
Type of Cookie |
Duration |
Purpose |
| AWSALBTGCORS |
www.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
7 days |
This cookie is used to support load balancing, ensuring that visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
| AWSALBTGCORS |
asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
7 days |
This cookie is used to support load balancing, ensuring that visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
| PHPSESSID |
www.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
Session |
Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
| li_gc |
.linkedin.com |
Third-party |
6 months |
Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA |
.youtube.com |
Third-party |
6 months |
This cookie is used to store the user's consent and privacy choices for their interaction with the site. It records data on the visitor's consent regarding various privacy policies and settings, ensuring that their preferences are honored in future sessions. |
Targeting Cookies - These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store direct personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.
| Name of Cookie |
Cookie Provider |
Type of Cookie |
Duration |
Purpose |
| _gat_gtag_UA_83640966_3 |
.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
48 seconds |
This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). |
| _fbp |
.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
3 months |
Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
.youtube.com |
Third-party |
6 months |
This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| bcookie |
.linkedin.com |
Third-party |
1 year |
This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
| lidc |
.linkedin.com |
Third-party |
1 day |
This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
| _gcl_au |
.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
3 months |
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| YSC |
.youtube.com |
Third-party |
Session |
This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
Performance Cookies - Performance cookies are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use a website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the site as the user interacts with it. These cookies don’t collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of a website.
| Name of Cookie |
Cookie Provider |
Type of Cookie |
Duration |
Purpose |
| AWSALBTG |
www.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
7 days |
This cookie is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. |
| AWSALBTG |
asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
7 days |
This cookie is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. |
| _gat_UA-83640966-3 |
.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
48 seconds |
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| _ga_XFBY8WRLFE |
.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
1 year 1 month |
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| _gid |
.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
1 day |
This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
| _ga |
.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
1 year 1 month |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| first_visit |
www.asterhospitals.ae |
First-party |
Session |
For marketing and analytical purposes. |
How can I control the cookie preferences?
You can also manage your cookie preferences through our Cookie Settings. We attempt to provide clear information and options regarding cookies and privacy preferences for each cookie that this website requests your browser to store.
Review and Update
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, therefore, we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on the Policy.
