Cookie Notice

BooksAfrrik uses cookies and similar technologies to operate, secure, improve and personalise our digital platforms and services. This Cookie Notice explains what cookies are, how we may use them, the types of cookies that may be used on our platforms and the choices available to you.

BooksAfrrik is an African-focused literary and publishing platform with continental and global reach. Our websites and services may be accessed by users across Africa and in other countries around the world. Accordingly, the cookies and similar technologies used on our platforms may be subject to different privacy and data-protection requirements depending on where you are located.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other internet-connected device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow a website to recognise a device, remember certain information and support functionality during current or future visits.

Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, software development kits and other technologies that perform functions similar to cookies.

2. Why BooksAfrrik Uses Cookies

Depending on the features available on our platforms, BooksAfrrik may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Keep our website functioning properly.
• Maintain security and protect against abuse.
• Remember user preferences.
• Maintain sessions and account functionality.
• Understand how visitors use our website.
• Improve website performance and functionality.
• Analyse traffic and platform usage.
• Improve our services and content.
• Support relevant communications and marketing where permitted.
• Measure the effectiveness of campaigns.
• Provide a more consistent and personalised experience.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

The specific cookies used by BooksAfrrik may change as our website, services and technology evolve. Cookies can generally be grouped into the following categories:

4. Essential Cookies

Some cookies may be necessary for our website to function properly. These may support security, authentication, session management, accessibility, navigation or other essential functionality.

Because these technologies may be necessary to provide a service you have requested or to operate the website, they may not always be capable of being disabled through a cookie-preference tool.

5. Preference and Functional Cookies

Preference and functional cookies may allow BooksAfrrik to remember information that makes your experience more convenient.

For example, they may remember certain choices or settings so that you do not have to provide the same information repeatedly.

6. Analytics Cookies

BooksAfrrik may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with our websites and services.

Analytics information may help us understand areas such as:

• Which pages are visited.
• How visitors navigate through the website.
• Which features receive the most engagement.
• General website performance.
• Traffic patterns.
• Technical errors and usability issues.

Analytics data is used to help us improve BooksAfrrik and provide a better experience to users across Africa and internationally.

7. Marketing and Advertising Technologies

Where BooksAfrrik uses marketing, advertising or campaign-measurement technologies, these technologies may help us understand engagement with promotional content, measure campaign performance or provide relevant communications.

Non-essential marketing technologies should only be used where permitted by applicable law and, where required, after obtaining appropriate consent.

BooksAfrrik does not intend for cookies to be used as a means of unnecessarily collecting sensitive personal information.

8. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies or similar technologies may be placed by third-party services that appear on or support our website.

These third parties may include technology, analytics, embedded-content, payment, security or other service providers, depending on the features implemented on the BooksAfrrik platform.

Third-party cookies are governed by the relevant third party's own privacy practices. BooksAfrrik does not control the privacy practices of independent third parties.

Where appropriate, users should review the privacy and cookie policies of third-party services before interacting with them.

9. Cookies and Personal Information

Some cookies may be associated with information that can identify or relate to an individual. Where cookie information constitutes personal information under applicable law, BooksAfrrik will handle that information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable privacy and data-protection requirements.

Not every cookie identifies an individual. Some cookies contain technical identifiers or information that is used only to operate a website or understand aggregate usage.

10. Your Cookie Choices

Depending on your location and the technologies implemented on our website, you may be able to control non-essential cookies through a cookie-consent or preference mechanism.

Where such a mechanism is available, you may be able to:

• Accept all available cookies.
• Reject non-essential cookies.
• Select specific categories of cookies.
• Change your preferences at a later time.

Your available choices may vary depending on your location, applicable law and the functionality of the BooksAfrrik platform.

11. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most modern web browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings.

You may be able to configure your browser to notify you when cookies are being set, block certain cookies or delete existing cookies.

However, blocking or deleting cookies may affect the functionality of BooksAfrrik or other websites you visit. Some essential website functions may not work correctly if required cookies are disabled.

12. Do Not Track and Similar Signals

Some browsers and devices provide privacy signals or "Do Not Track" settings.

Because there is no universal technical standard for all such signals, the way they are handled may depend on the technology and legal requirements applicable to the relevant service.

BooksAfrrik will seek to respect legally applicable privacy signals where required.

13. International Users

BooksAfrrik serves users across Africa and around the world. Privacy and cookie requirements can differ significantly between countries and regions.

We may therefore apply different cookie-consent mechanisms or controls depending on where a visitor accesses our services and what legal requirements apply.

Nothing in this Cookie Notice is intended to remove or limit any mandatory privacy rights available to you under the laws applicable to your location.

14. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally remain on your device only while your browser session is active and are normally removed when the browser is closed.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a specified period or until they are deleted manually or automatically.

The actual duration of a cookie depends on its purpose and the technology responsible for setting it.

15. Changes to This Cookie Notice

BooksAfrrik may update this Cookie Notice when our website, technologies, services or legal requirements change.

When we make significant changes, we may provide an appropriate notice through our website or other communication channels.

The effective date shown at the beginning of this Cookie Notice indicates when the current version took effect.

16. Relationship With Our Privacy Policy

This Cookie Notice should be read together with the BooksAfrrik Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy provides broader information about how BooksAfrrik collects, uses, stores, protects and otherwise processes personal information.

17. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Notice, our use of cookies, your privacy choices or the way BooksAfrrik handles personal information, please contact us.