Cookie Policy

Our Privacy Policy explains our principles and Terms of Use when it comes to the collection, processing, and storage of your information on our platforms. Our policy vividly explains how we deploy cookies to provide our services and how you can control the use of cookies.

Defining Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data, usually stored in text files, and may be saved to your computer or other devices when you visit the websites. They are used by many websites to enhance user experience. Cookies are used to collect and remember your essential information to ensure consistent and efficient interaction with the visitors. Cookies allow users to login and remain login during your session.  Cookies can be set by the site you are visiting or by a third parties.

Types of Cookies

Essential (Mandatory)

Essential cookies are text files that provide you with basic services and features available on our Sites. One of their main function is to remember that you are still active on our Sites and therefore they kept you login during your session or until your session times out.

Performance, Analytics and Functionality (Mandatory)

Performance and functionality cookies are used to optimize the perform of our Sites.  These types of cookies collect statistics and analyse them for us. They provide essential information such as how our website is used, which is important to help us optimize our services and improve our performance. Without these cookies, some features may become obsolete and unavailable.

Analytic cookies collect essential information that when processed help us understand the depth of impact we are making.  This information helps us understand how our Sites are used and how best we can improve our performance.

Advertising

These cookies  are used to show ads that are relevant to our visitors who use our services or visit our Sites. Because of these types of cookies, we understand and report on ads served our websites.  These cookies keep track of number of times each ads has been services, number of unique visitors and how many ads were served. Advertising cookies also build user profiles to be able to show you ads of your interests based on your past history such as products you have viewed or activities you have carried out on our Sites. These cookies are set by third parties like Automattic, Google and other trusted third party networks, and are generally persistent in nature.

Security:

These cookies are used to identify and prevent potential security risk. These cookies help us provide our services with very minimal interruption.

Social Media

They are used to enable sharing on social media or/and following of content that you find interesting on our Sites.

Characteristics of cookies

First Party Cookies

First Parties Cookies are cookies that are set and controlled by the website you are visiting while Third Party Cookies are cookies that are set and controlled by the third parties who serve content or provide advertising and analytic services on the Sites you are visiting.

Session and Persistent Cookies

These are temporary cookies that only serve for the duration of your visit and erased once you close your browser. On the other hand, persistent or permanent cookies are those that stay on your device for the duration specified in the persistent cookies file or until you manually delete them or until your browser deletes them.

How To Change Your Cookie Settings?

Some categories of cookies are mandatory, which mean they are required not only to enhance users’ experience but not having them at all could drastically affect your experience when browsing Sites. Some services may not display without these cookies!

Nonetheless, you can change your cookie settings at your choosing by going to the ‘Cookie Preferences’ at the bottom of each website and enabling or disabling the non-mandatory cookie categories. We strongly recommend that you enable all cookie categories to ensure that you get the best experience possible on our Sites.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for varieties of reasons. While we use some cookies to improve technical experience of our readers on our Sites, we use some cookies to personalize users’ experiences or ensure that our visitors benefits from services that are provided by third parties and partners.  Some of these cookies may be loaded when the Sites load or after the user permit them to open and display certain content usually by taking actions such as by clicking “allow cookies” follow” buttons.

For more information about cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org or automatic.com/cookies

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