MiWay Blink Cookie Policy

MiWay Blink, a division of MiWay Insurance Limited (“MiWay Blink”) uses cookies and similar technologies to help provide, protect, and improve MiWay Blink’s website. This policy explains how and why we use these technologies and the choices you have.

A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your device (e.g. your phone or your computer). For example, a cookie could allow us to recognise your browser, while another could store your preferences. There are two types of cookies used on the MiWay Blink website: (1) “session cookies” and (2) “persistent cookies.” Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser and can be used again the next time you access the MiWay Blink website.

We also use other technologies with similar functionality to cookies, such as web beacons, pixels, mobile identifiers and tracking URLs, to obtain Log Data. For example, our email messages may contain web beacons and tracking URLs to determine whether you have opened a certain message or accessed a certain link.

We use these technologies for a number of purposes, such as:

  • To enable you to use and access the MiWay Blink website.
  • To enable, facilitate and streamline the functioning of and your access to the MiWay Blink website.
  • To better understand how you navigate through and interact with the MiWay Blink website and to improve it.
  • To serve you tailored advertising (on MiWay Blink’s website and on third-party websites).
  • To show you content (e.g. advertisements) that is more relevant to you.
  • To monitor and analyse the performance, operation, and effectiveness of www.miwayblink.co.za and MiWay Blink advertisements.
  • To enforce legal agreements that govern the use of the MiWay Blink website.
  • For fraud detection, prevention and investigations.
  • For purposes of our own customer support, analytics, research, product development, and regulatory compliance.

Third Parties

We may also allow certain business partners to place these technologies on the MiWay Blink website. These partners use these technologies to (1) help us analyse how you use the MiWay Blink website, such as by noting the third-party services from which you arrived, (2) market and advertise MiWay Blink products or services to you on the MiWay Blink website and third-party websites, (3) help us detect or prevent fraud or conduct risk assessments, or (4) collect information about your activities on the MiWay Blink website, other sites, and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. For example, to help us better understand how people use the MiWay Blink website, we work with a number of analytics partners, including Google Analytics. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser by clicking here.

Third parties may also use such tracking technologies to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements both on the MiWay Blink website and on other websites and online services. Targeting and advertising cookies we use may include Google, and other advertising networks and services we use from time to time. For more information about targeting and advertising cookies and how you can opt out, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or http://youronlinechoices.eu. To opt out of Google Analytics for display advertising or customise Google display network advertisements, you can visit the Google Ads Settings page. To the extent advertising technology is integrated into the MiWay Blink website and you opt-out of tailored advertising, you may still receive advertising content. In that case, the advertising content will just not be tailored to your interests. Also, we do not control any of these opt-out links and are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of these mechanisms.

Third Party Social Plugins

The MiWay Blink website may use social plugins provided and operated by third parties, such as Facebook’s Like Button. As a result of this, you may send a third party the information that you are viewing on a certain part of the MiWay Blink website. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, then the third party may not know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then the third party may be able to link information or actions about your interactions with the MiWay Blink website to your account with them. Please refer to the third party’s privacy policies to learn more about its data practices.