Cookie policy

This policy may change from time to time, so please visit this page periodically to make sure you’re up to date.

This policy provides Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC’s ("Hikma", "we", "us" or "our") cookie policy and describes how Hikma uses cookies and similar technology. For more information about privacy and how we process personal data more generally, please see our Privacy Policy here.

  • A cookie is a small file that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored on your computer / device. Cookies track, save and store information about your interactions and usage of the website. You can exercise your rights over some categories of cookies.
  • A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer / device or any information about you, other than information about how you use the website and the personal information you choose to share with us (including personal information you automatically share with us by way of your browser settings).

Hikma’s website uses cookies to better your experience while visiting the website. Cookies help us to analyse web traffic and identify which pages of our website are being used.


As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing you to give explicit permission or to deny the use of / saving of cookies on your computer / device.
In particular, we may use the following cookies on our website:

  1. Essential cookies. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features.
  2. Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to identify you when you return to the website. This enables us to personalise the website content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies can also help to keep your visit to the site secure.
  3. Session cookies. These cookies allow us to identify your device as you use the website, so that you are not treated as a new visitor each time you go to another part of the website. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer / device when you close your browser.
  4. Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to the website and collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from the web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor; all information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
  5. Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.


You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Necessary Cookies

Cookie / Domain Type

Provider

Purpose

Duration

CookieControl

Civic Cookie

Used to remembers
user choices regarding
Cookies.

3 Months

UMB_UCONTEXT_C

Umbraco

Used by CMS to store
an ID of the users'
session.

15 minutes

UMB-XSRF-TOKEN

Umbraco

Used by CMS to pass
authentication token
used for antiforgery.

Session

UMB-XSRF-V

Umbraco

Used to store the
backoffice antiforgery
token validation value.

Session

UMB_UPDCHK

Umbraco

Used by CMS to check
for Umbraco software
updates.

Session

disclaimer-*

Hikma

Used to determine if
the disclaimer was
already shown to the
user.

Session

.AspNetCore.Mvc.Cookie
TempDataProvider

ASP.NET CORE

With this cookie,
information or error
messages in the
website are stored. It
is used for effective
running of the
website. Your
personal data is not
processed through
this cookie.

Session

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.*

ASP.NET CORE

ASP.NET Core looks for
this cookie to find the
X-CSRF token.

Session

Analytics/Statistics Cookies

Name

Provider

Purpose

Duration

_gid

Google Analytics

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

1 Day

_gat_UA-*

Google Analytics

Used to provide technical monitoring, track visitor behaviour and measure site performance.

1 Minute

_ga_*

Google Analytics

Used to identify and track an individual session.

1 Year

_ga

Google Analytics

Enables a service to distinguish one visitor from another.

1 Year

_gcl_*

Google Analytics

Used to measure ad and campaign
performance and
conversion rates for Google ads on a site you visit. Cookies used for measuring conversion rates are not used to personalize ads.

3 Months

receive-cookie-deprecation

Google

Used to receive the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header.

6 Months

To the extent that any applicable laws consider the information collected by cookies and other similar technologies to be personal data, we will treat that information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Please note that third parties may also use cookies to assess the ways in which you make use of the website, over which we have no control. These third parties may include, for example, streaming video services and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies, performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Cookie / Domain Type 

Provider 

Purpose 

Duration 

Session

Collect

Google Analytics

This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice.

Session

Performance

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Youtube.com

This cookie tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

180 days

Functional

CONSENT

Youtube.com

Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category

2 years

Functional

DEVICE_INFO

Youtube.com

Track user interaction with embedded content

180 days

Functional

LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY

Youtube.com

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

Session

Functional

LogsDatabaseV2

Youtube.com

YouTube

Persistent

Functional

YSC

Youtube.com

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen

Session

Functional

ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY

Youtube.com

Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

Persistent

Functional

YtidbMeta#databases

Youtube.com

Persistent

In most cases cookies cannot be deployed without consent. When you first enter our website, you will usually be shown a pop-up cookie notification banner. The banner informs you that our website uses cookies and similar technologies and gives you details and options around the use of cookies.

You can also manage cookies via your browser settings (this will allow you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies) and your browser provider may ask you to confirm your settings. Note, however, that if you block all cookies (including essential cookies) via your browser settings you may lose some of the website’s functionality and/or not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Details on how to disable cookies for common browsers are as follows:

For Microsoft Edge :

  1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
  2. Click on the “privacy” tab
  3. Select the appropriate setting


For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

  1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
  2. Click on the “privacy” tab
  3. Select the appropriate setting


For Google Chrome:

  1. Choose Settings > Advanced
  2. Under "Privacy and security," click “Content settings”.
  3. Click “Cookies”


For Safari:

  1. Choose Preferences > Privacy
  2. Click on “Remove all Website Data”


For Opera 6.0 and further:

  1. Choose the menu Files”> “Preferences”
  2. Privacy

If you have any questions regarding the use of cookies on our website, please contact us by email at: privacypolicy@Hikma.com. 

This policy was last updated on Feb 15th 2023.