1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are pieces of information that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are used to recognize your browser or device, learn more about your interests, and provide you with essential features and services and for additional purposes. Cookies could be browser centric or flash cookies. Flash cookies may be used to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our website to personalize your visit. If you disable flash cookies, you won’t have access to some features that make your guest experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

2. How do we use Cookies?

When you visit our website for the first time, Helios (“we”, “us”, “our”) will ask for your cookie preferences. This cookie collects no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. We may use cookies to bring together information we collect about you. You may opt to save your name, email address and website through cookies on our Website. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to repeatedly fill in your details. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Keeping track of your specified preferences. This allows us to honour your preferences, such as whether or not you would like to see interest-based ads.
• Conducting research and diagnostics to improve our content, products, and services.
• Preventing fraudulent activity.
• Improving security.

3. Types of cookies that we may use.

The cookies that may be used on our website fall into the four categories described below. These descriptions can help you determine if and how you would like to interact with our websites and other online services.

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
   These cookies are essential in order to enable you to navigate our website and use certain features. Without these strictly necessary cookies, our services like shopping cart or creating your bill at checkout, cannot be provided.
2. Performance Cookies
   We (or service providers operating on our behalf) may place our performance cookies on your device. The information collected using our performance cookies is used by us to improve our website experience or for other statistics gathering purposes.

   Our performance cookies are used to generate aggregated, anonymous information about how you and other users use Our website and its features. Some information collected by performance cookies includes:

   • Which pages on our website you visit most often
   • Which advertisements you view or interact with on our website or other websites on which our advertisements appear
   • Whether you encounter or receive any error messages.

   Our performance cookies don’t collect information that identifies you personally.

   We also may allow third-party advertisers to place their performance cookies on your browser/ device through their advertisements on our website. The information these third-party performance cookies collect is used to determine which third-party advertisements to display on this website, how often to display them, and in which locations of this websites the third-party advertisements perform best. These third-party performance cookies do not collect information that identifies you personally.

   You can delete or manage performance cookies as instructed in the last section of this Cookies Policy.

3. Functionality Cookies

   We (or service providers operating on our behalf) may place our functionality cookies on your device. Functionality cookies are used to remember choices you make (such as language preference, country location, or other online settings) and provide the personalised or enhanced features that you select. Our functionality cookies can be used to provide online services to you, or to prevent online services from being offered to you if you previously indicated you did not want to receive such services.

   We do not collect information on your browsing behaviour on websites which we do not operate. If you delete these functionality cookies, any preferences or settings you selected will not be retained for later visits.

4. Disabling/enabling cookies via your browser

Through your browser settings, you can accept or decline cookies or set your browser to prompt you before accepting a cookie from our website. You should be aware that you may not be able to use all our interactive features if you set your browser to disable cookies entirely.