Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how www.degroup.co.za may use cookies and similar technologies. It is intended to be read together with the website Privacy Policy.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They can help a site work properly, remember your preferences, improve performance, and provide reporting about how the site is used.

2. Why we use cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

• to keep the website secure and functioning properly
• to remember your preferences and cookie choices
• to understand how visitors use the website and improve site performance
• to support embedded tools or third-party content where these are used on the site

3. Categories of cookies

Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are required for the website to operate, for security, and for core features such as form submissions, session management, load balancing or remembering your cookie preferences.

Performance or analytics cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, which pages are visited, and how the site performs, so that we can improve the website.

Functionality cookies: These cookies remember choices you make, such as language, region or other saved preferences, to improve your experience.

Third-party cookies: These cookies may be placed by third-party services integrated into the site, such as maps, videos, analytics providers, social media tools or spam-protection services, where used.

4. Consent and control

Strictly necessary cookies may be used without asking for consent where they are genuinely required for the site to function.

Where non-essential cookies are used, users should be given the option to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or manage preferences before those cookies are activated, except where the law permits otherwise.

You can also manage or disable cookies in your browser settings, but doing so may affect parts of the website.

5. How long cookies stay on your device

Some cookies operate only for the duration of your browsing session and are deleted when you close your browser.

Other cookies may remain on your device for a longer period so that the website can recognise you when you return or remember your saved preferences.

6. Third-party services

If third-party tools are used on the website, those third parties may place their own cookies or collect technical information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie notices. Users should review those third-party notices where relevant.

7. Updates to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. The latest version published on the website will apply from the date of publication.

8. Contact

If you have questions about the website’s use of cookies, please contact D&E Group using the website contact details published on www.degroup.co.za.