What cookies HALA MOVE uses, why, and how to manage them. We keep it minimal and we keep it honest.
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work, to remember your preferences, and to give site owners basic information about how their site is being used.
Not all cookies are the same. Some are essential for the website to function at all. Others remember your preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each visit. Some are used to understand how visitors use a website in aggregate, with no personal data attached. And some are used for advertising, to track your behaviour across different websites and serve targeted ads.
The HALA MOVE website sets no cookies of its own. We do not use advertising cookies. We do not track you across other websites. We do not share your browsing behaviour with any advertising network.
HALA MOVE does not use Facebook Pixel, Google Ads tracking cookies, or any third-party advertising or retargeting technology on halamove.co.za or in the HALA MOVE mobile applications.
The HALA MOVE website sets no cookies of its own. Two things are kept or counted, and neither uses a cookie.
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| hm_ft (browser session storage, not a cookie) | Functional | On some pages, remembers for this browser tab where your visit started (a campaign code, or the website that sent you), so that a business enquiry you choose to send carries it. It leaves your device only inside an enquiry you send. | Until you close the tab |
| Vercel Web Analytics (no cookie) | Visitor statistics | Counts page views so we can see which pages help visitors. Our host, Vercel, recognises a visit by a code made from the incoming request and discards it after 24 hours. Nothing is stored on your device. Codes in personal links, such as a live trip link, are removed before a page view is counted. The page where you set a new password is not counted at all. | 24 hours, on Vercel’s side |
HALA MOVE does not use cookies in the category of Marketing or Advertising. No cookie on halamove.co.za is used to track you across other websites, build an advertising profile, or serve you targeted advertisements.
When you use certain features of the HALA MOVE website, a small number of third-party services set their own cookies. These are functional cookies only, required for specific features to work. They are not advertising or tracking cookies.
| Service | Purpose | Cookie type |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps | Powers the address picker and live driver tracking map on the platform. Google Maps sets functional cookies to load map tiles and remember map state. These are functional, not advertising. | Functional |
| PayFast | When you are redirected to the PayFast payment page to process a transaction, PayFast sets session cookies to manage the secure payment flow. These are essential for payments to work. | Strictly necessary |
| Google Fonts | The HALA MOVE website loads two fonts (Syne and Plus Jakarta Sans) from Google Fonts. This request may set a browser-level cookie. No personal data is attached to this interaction. | Functional |
| Google preferred sources button | The footer of our home page loads a small script from Google (news.google.com) that shows an "Add to preferred sources" button. If you tap it, Google asks whether you want HALA MOVE marked as a preferred source in Google Search, and handles your answer under its own privacy policy. We receive nothing from it. Google may set its own cookies when the script loads or when you use the button. | Functional |
None of the third-party services we use for platform functionality (Google Maps, PayFast, Google Fonts, the Google preferred sources button) are authorised to use the data collected through our site for their own advertising purposes in connection with our platform.
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Each browser is different:
You can also visit aboutcookies.org for browser-specific instructions on managing cookies.
Important: Disabling strictly necessary cookies (hala_session and hala_csrf) will prevent the HALA MOVE platform from working correctly. You will not be able to log in, post jobs, or complete transactions without these cookies enabled. Disabling functional cookies (hala_prefs) will not break the platform but will mean you need to re-enter your location each time you post a job.
The HALA MOVE mobile applications (Android and iOS) do not use browser cookies. Instead, they use secure device storage to maintain your session token. This is managed through the device’s own secure storage mechanisms and is not accessible to other applications on your device. You can clear this data by logging out of the HALA MOVE app or by uninstalling the application.
If you have questions about how HALA MOVE uses cookies, or about privacy on the HALA MOVE platform more broadly, contact us:
For full information about how we handle your personal data, see our Privacy Policy.
This Cookie Policy was last updated in November 2026.