Cookie Policy

1. The short version

This site uses the cookies it needs to work: a session cookie, a security cookie, a sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in when you choose to be remembered or sign in from an email link, and an offer cookie that finds your personal offer if you came to it from one of our emails. We also use Google Analytics 4, which sets two cookies to measure how the site is used.

The records of clicks that we keep on our own server do not use cookies at all.

2. Cookies this site sets

These four cookies are set by this website itself, so they are first-party cookies. They are needed for the site to work, or for a feature you asked for.

Blocking the session and security cookies stops sign-in, forms and checkout from working. Blocking the offer cookie only means that an offer page opened without its link cannot be found again, and that the reminder of your offer does not appear on other pages.

• Session cookie (malaysia-property-guide-session). Holds a random identifier for your visit, so the pages and forms you use are recognised as one visit. It also remembers your language choice and keeps you signed in during the session. Page scripts cannot read it. It lasts two hours from your last request to the site.
• Security cookie (XSRF-TOKEN). Holds a token that proves a form was sent from our own pages, which stops another website from submitting a form in your name. It lasts two hours and is renewed in the same way as the session cookie.
• Sign-in cookie (remember-me). Set when you sign in with the “remember me” box ticked, which is ticked by default on the sign-in form, and whenever you sign in through a link we send to your email. It keeps you signed in on that browser for up to 30 days, or until you sign out. If you untick the box and sign in with a password, it is not set.
• Offer cookie (mpg_offer). Set only when you open a personal offer page that came from one of our promotional emails. It holds an encrypted reference to your offer, so the page can find it again if you open it without its link, and so that, while your offer is open, other pages of the site can show a short reminder of the time left on it. It lasts 30 days. It holds no price and no time, only that reference.

3. Google Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics 4, under the measurement ID G-TZPVY14G44, to measure how visitors arrive at the site and which pages they read. Its tag runs on every page of the site, and it sets two cookies, both set by Google rather than by this site:

• _ga, which tells one visitor apart from another. It lasts up to two years.
• _ga_TZPVY14G44, which keeps the state of a visit for this site’s Google Analytics property. It lasts up to two years.

4. Google advertising features and consent

Google signals and ad personalisation are switched on for this site. That means Google can use the data its tag collects to build audiences for Google’s advertising, so that our advertising can be shown to people who have visited this site, on Google services and on websites in Google’s advertising network. Where you are signed in to a Google account, Google may link this visit to your activity on your other devices, according to your account settings.

Where advertising storage is allowed, Google may also set its own advertising cookies on its own domains, under its own policies.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics and advertising storage is switched off before the page loads and stays off, because Google requires consent first in those countries and this site does not show a consent banner. The tag is set up so that the cookies in section 3 are not stored for visitors there. Everywhere else these features run by default, with no consent banner. Section 9 explains how to stop them.

5. Your language is not a separate cookie

Whether you read in Arabic or English depends on the address you use: the plain address is Arabic, and the address with “/en” is English. Your last choice is remembered inside the session cookie, so that checkout and your account come up in the same language. There is no separate language cookie to accept or refuse.

6. Our own click records do not use cookies

We keep counts of clicks on buttons and links on the site on our own server, not on your device. These records do not use cookies, do not store anything on your device, and carry no user identifier. What they record, and how long we keep it, is set out in our Privacy Policy.

7. Services from other companies

Some pages load services run by other companies. Those companies may set their own cookies or similar identifiers, under their own policies:

• Payment providers. On the checkout, payment link and ebook purchase pages, the payment provider’s script is loaded to take your payment securely and to help prevent fraud. For some payments you are taken to the provider’s own pages or to your bank’s pages. Stripe, for example, may set its own cookies for security and fraud prevention. This script is not loaded on the rest of the site.
• Google Fonts. The typefaces are downloaded from Google’s servers. No cookies are set, but the request tells Google your IP address and the browser you use.

8. What this site does not set

For the avoidance of doubt, and as at the date at the top of this page, this site does not set:

• advertising or tracking cookies of its own;
• retargeting, conversion or social-media pixels from any company other than Google;
• social-media sharing or “like” trackers;
• data-broker or profiling tags;
• any cookie designed to follow you across other websites.

9. Controlling cookies

Every major browser lets you see, block and delete cookies from its settings, usually under “Privacy” or “Site settings”, on a computer and on a phone. Clearing cookies signs you out of the site. What each choice changes:

• Session and security cookies: blocking them stops sign-in, forms and checkout from working.
• Sign-in and offer cookies: deleting them signs you out on that browser, or stops the site from finding your offer. Nothing else is affected.
• Google Analytics: block cookies for this site, turn on your browser’s tracking protection or use a content blocker, or install Google’s own opt-out browser add-on for Google Analytics. To change how Google uses your data for advertising, use the ad settings in your Google account. None of these affects your use of the site, your sign-in or any purchase.

10. Changes and contact

We update this policy when the cookies we use change, and the date at the top shows when it was last revised. Questions about cookies go to info@malaysiapropertyguide.com. For how we handle personal data more generally, see our Privacy Policy.