Abu Dhabi boasts first-class infrastructure and unparalleled global connectivity, making it a premier international destination. Its exceptional qualities make it an ideal location to live, work, and conduct business.
A financial centre that provides transparency, efficiency, and integrity, through its progressive frameworks, future focused infrastructure, all within a familiar independent legal jurisdiction – ADGM is the perfect platform for success.
AccessRP is a next-generation digital platform transforming the real estate experience in ADGM. Designed to streamline interactions across the ecosystem, AccessRP brings together landlords, developers, and tenants in one seamless environment, providing real-time access to services, data, and insights.
Our community of business professionals, entrepreneurs, and investors can depend on ADGM to provide timely news and reliable insights.
At ADGM, we offer various support options, including contact details, FAQs, enquiry forms, and a whistleblowing form.
ADGM Cookie Policy (Last Updated on 29/09/2026)
1. Overview
This Cookie Policy explains the manner in which Abu Dhabi Global Market (“ADGM”) uses cookies and how you can disable them if you choose to do so.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside ADGM’s Privacy Policy. which provides information on how and why ADGM processes personal data that is collected through cookies.
ADGM wishes to help you make informed decisions, so please take the time to read this policy carefully.
For the purposes of this Cookie Policy, “we”, “our”, and “us” refer to ADGM.
2. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on a visitor’s browser, computer or mobile device. The information in this Cookies Policy will explain why we use cookies and the different types of cookies used.
3. Why do we use cookies?
We use different types of cookies on our website for different reasons, but we primarily use cookies for technical reasons to improve the user experience, or for analytics of website traffic. Cookies can improve the user experience, for example, by storing user preferences about our website.
TheThe data we collect using cookies helps us understand our customers better so that we can provide a more focused user experience. By using the knowledge of your previous visits to our website, we can enhance your subsequent visits by suggesting content to match your requirements.
4. First-party and third-party cookies
Cookies are classified, on the basis of who places them, as first-party cookies or third-party cookies.
First-party cookies are placed by the host domain and are used to add to the user experience. These cookies contain only the information that you enter on the host website and your IP address. Importantly, the data collected by first-party cookies is only available to the website owner.
Third-party cookies are placed by parties other than the website owner. These cookies tend to be more commercial and are used for cross-site tracking, retargeting and ad serving.
We use both first-party cookies and third-party cookies on our website. The cookies used on our website are set out in Annex A to this Cookies Policy.
5. What types of cookies do we use?
The types of cookies we use fall into one of the categories listed below.
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. They allow you to navigate back and forth between pages without losing your previous actions from the same session.
Functional
These cookies allow a website to remember your site preferences and choices you make on the site, including username, region and language. This allows the website to provide personalized features like local news stories and weather if you share your location and boost your overall user experience on our website. The data collected via these cookies is anonymous and these cookies do not track browsing activity across other websites.
Performance and Analytics
Performance cookies are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use our website, which pages of our website are visited most often and whether the users get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the website as the user interacts with it. These cookies do not collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of our website. We also use these cookies to gather statistical data on how our website is performing in order to make improvements.
Marketing and Tracking
Marketing and Tracking cookies collect information about how you interact with the website so that your browsing behaviour can be analysed over time. They help understand which pages you visit, how long you stay, and how you navigate between sections. These cookies allow the website to recognize your device, enabling consistent behaviour analysis and supporting improvements to site performance, user experience, and personalization.
Persistent
These cookies are stored on your device to help our website remember information, settings, preferences or sign-on credentials that you have previously saved. This helps us to create a convenient and faster website experience for you. These cookies have an expiration date issued to it by the webserver so, when you close your browser and start it up again, the cookie is still there. Once the expiration date is reached, the cookie is destroyed. Persistent cookies track visitors as they move around our website to figure out what users like about the website to help improve the user experience.of these cookies.
Session
The session cookie is a server-specific cookie that cannot be passed to any machine other than the one that generated the cookie. The session cookie allows the browser to re-identify itself to the single, unique server to which you had previously authenticated. The session key stored in the session cookie contains only a random number identifier that is used to index the server's session cache. There is no other information exposed in the session cookie.
6. Do not track function
Do not track is a function that allows you to opt out from being tracked by websites for any purpose, including the use of analytics activities, advertising networks and social platforms. Do not track function is available in a number of browsers including:
If you have enabled the do not track function, you will not be tracked.
7. Secure Cookie Management
We are committed to assure that any data collected through cookies is managed securely with industry standards and best practices. To maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this information, we apply a range of protective measures, including the following:
Security of Cookie Collected Data - We implement administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect any data collected through cookies from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
Encryption and Secure Transmission - All data transmitted between your browser and our website is encrypted using industry standard protocols (e.g., HTTPS/TLS).
Access Controls - Access to cookie derived data is restricted to authorized personnel who require it for legitimate business purposes.
Retention and Deletion Controls - Cookie related data is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy, after which it is securely deleted or anonymized.
8. Questions?
If you have any questions about the use of cookies on our website, or the storage and use of data collected from cookies, please email our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@adgm.com
9. Changes to our Cookie Policy
We may amend this Cookie Policy from time to time due to changes in technology, regulatory environment, business needs, or to meet customer and service provider expectations. Any changes we make to our Cookie Policy will be posted on our website and date stamped so that you are always aware of the latest update.
10. ANNEX A
This annexure provides a detailed breakdown of all cookies active on our website, including their purpose, duration, and provider. To support transparency and compliance with data protection standards.
The cookies on our website are listed in the table below:
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Category |
Cookie Name |
Cookie Type |
Description |
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1. |
Functional |
.EPiForm_BID |
Persistent |
Optimizely Forms browser identifier used to support form functionality and help prevent duplicate form submissions. |
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2. |
.EPiForm_VisitorIdentifier |
Optimizely Forms visitor identifier used to recognize visitors interacting with forms. Where configured, it may include submitted form identifiers or email addresses. |
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3. |
cookies_accepted |
Stores the user's cookie consent preference so the cookie banner is not repeatedly displayed. |
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4. |
Marketing and Tracking |
APISID |
Google cookie used for user preferences, personalization and advertising-related functionality across Google services. |
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5. |
_fbp |
Meta (Facebook) Pixel cookie used to measure advertising effectiveness, track conversions and support remarketing. |
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6. |
Performance & Analytics |
_ga |
Google Analytics 4 cookie used to distinguish unique visitors and generate statistical reports about website usage. |
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7. |
_ga_32ND7917CT |
Google Analytics 4 property-specific cookie used to maintain session state and collect analytics for a specific GA4 property. |
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8. |
_ga_E8VJ108T1K |
Google Analytics 4 property-specific cookie used to maintain session state and collect analytics. |
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9. |
_ga_HMS9V26BRM |
Google Analytics 4 property-specific cookie used to maintain session state and collect analytics. |
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10. |
_ga_2JXJGRMJ1P |
Google Analytics 4 property-specific cookie used to maintain session state and collect analytics for the Dispute Resolution website. |
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11. |
_ga_22CYB5GG5Z |
Google Analytics 4 property-specific cookie used to maintain session state and collect analytics for the Academy website. |
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12. |
__ncuid |
Vendor-specific unique visitor identifier used for analytics and visitor recognition. |
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13. |
is |
Vendor-specific session identifier used to distinguish the current browsing session for analytics and visitor tracking. |
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14. |
iv |
Vendor-specific persistent visitor identifier used to recognise returning visitors across sessions. |
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15. |
Strictly Necessary |
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.* |
Session |
Protects against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks by validating secure requests and form submissions. |
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16. |
.AspNetCore.Session |
Maintains the user's server-side session during browsing. The cookie expires when the browser session ends. |
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17. |
.AspNetCore.Identity.Application |
Maintains authenticated user sessions after login. Not issued to anonymous public visitors. |
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18. |
.AspNetCore.azure-cookie |
Indicates that the ASP.NET authentication cookie has been split into multiple chunks due to its size. |
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19. |
.AspNetCore.azure-cookieC1, |
Stores the chunked parts of a large ASP.NET authentication cookie to maintain secure authenticated sessions. |
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20. |
ARRAffinity |
Azure App Service load-balancing cookie that ensures requests from the same user are routed to the same backend server instance. |
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21. |
ARRAffinitySameSite |
Same purpose as ARRAffinity, with SameSite support for modern browser compatibility. |
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22. |
TiPMix |
Azure routing cookie used to distribute traffic across application instances and maintain service availability. |
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23. |
x-ms-routing-name |
Azure routing cookie used to route requests to the appropriate deployment slot or application instance. |
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24. |
__cf_bm |
Persistent |
Cloudflare Bot Management cookie used to distinguish legitimate users from automated traffic and protect the website. |
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25. |
AEC |
Google security cookie used to prevent fraudulent requests and ensure requests are made by legitimate users. |
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