Cookie policy
We use Cookies to personalize and improve the usability of africaimages.com.
Every time you visit a domain name address https://africaimages.com (hereinafter - africaimages.com), you will be prompted to accept or refuse some types of cookies.
The objective of this Policy is to provide you, as a user of africaimages.com services, with clear and accessible information about the cookies that africaimages.com uses, the role they play in helping us provide the best possible experience to you and the choices you have when it comes to your cookie settings.
1. What are cookies?
- Cookies are small files that store information on your computer, mobile phone, or other device.
- The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences for a certain period of time.
- That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit. Cookies serve many useful purposes.
- Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
2. What types of cookies and for what purposes do we use?
We use Cookies for:
- essential operations, like site navigation;
- analyzing visitor numbers and behaviors, such as what pages are frequently visited;
- assessing the success of our advertising campaigns, offers and communications;
- understanding which Affiliates have helped us reach out to new customers, or have promoted our products on their site;
- identify and prevent fraud, ensure security and guarantee trust, as well as to conduct an investigation.
The table shows the most frequently used type of Cookies with information on the purpose of their use.
There are main types:
Type | Cookie | Description and purpose | Storage time |
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Strictly Necessary Cookies | jj gdpr-cookies __stripe_mid __stripe_sid | There are indispensable due to the fact that the functionality of the website is contingent on their existence. Their deactivation will cause important difficulties for using the site, or even the impossibility to use the services that it proposes. | These Cookies are automatically enabled and cannot be turned off because they are essential to enable you to browse africaimages.com. |
Analytics and audience measurement cookies | Google Analytics _ga _gat _git | The audience measurement cookies help to recognize you as Visitor of the africaimages.com across different visits. These cookies only stock and save: an internet user’s ID (specific to each cookie), the pages visited by you, the duration of each visit, and the error messages encountered. | For more information, please, visit the page Google Analytics Cookie Usage on websites |
3. Third party cookies
Third parties may also use Cookies and similar technologies in connection with the africaimages.com on third-party sites, plugins and tags. In addition, africaimages.com may partner with third parties to provide africaimages.com Services and for africaimages.com marketing purposes.
Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
3.1. Google products
We use Google products including: Google Analytics, Google Search Console.
We use these products to understand how the africaimages.com is being used in order to improve the Visitor experience. User data is all anonymous. For an overview of privacy policies, click on them:
How to Opt-out from using your information by Google?
Anyone has ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, click here. To learn more, click.
3.2. What is reCAPTCHA v2 ("I'm not a robot" checkbox)?
- reCAPTCHA is a service that protects africaimages.com from spam and abuse.
- reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on website. It does this while letting your valid you pass through with ease.
- The "I'm not a robot" Checkbox requires you to click a checkbox indicating you are not a robot. This will either pass the user immediately (with No CAPTCHA) or challenge you to validate whether or not you are human.
For more information, please visit Google reCAPTCHA.
3.3. Social networks plugins
To use some of our services as the leaving the User content, you will have to accept cookies from external organizations.
These plugins allow you to set up quickly on the social networks as a Facebook / LinkedIn platforms and automate much of the prior blocking process.
When you access to the africaimages.com via a third party various social networks, we may use it to identify you on the africaimages.com, collect, analyze attached content as personal and non-personal information which is available social networks about you as:
- name;
- profile picture (that is visible to the public in the context of your comment);
- URL;
- Country;
- public profile information.
When you visit africaimages.com these buttons are disabled by default, which means they do not send any information to the social networks in question without action on your part.
Before you can use these buttons, you have to click to enable them. The buttons remain enabled until you disable them again or you delete your cookies.
Once they have been enabled, the system connects directly to the server of the social network selected. The content of the button is then transferred directly from the social networks to your web browser, which incorporates them into the website you are visiting.
As soon as you have enabled a button, the social network in question can collect data, irrespective of whether or not you use the button. If you are logged on to a social network, it can link your visit to your social network account.
If you are a member of a social network and you do not want it to link the data collected from your visit to africaimages.com to the information provided when you joined the network, you must log out of the social network in question before enabling the buttons.
Please note that we have no influence over the scope of data collected by the social networks through your buttons. Please refer to the data protection statement published by the social networks in question for more information about the scope and purpose of the data collection and how they process and use such data, as well as the rights and setting options to protect your privacy.
For more information about social network privacy policy and plugins, please visit:
Why do we use it?
- To enable you share the User Content on the africaimages.com.
3.4. Stripe payment initiation services
We use this Stripe payment initiation service to accept payments on the africaimages.com website.
Stripe, with registered office at 510 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.
For more information about Stripe privacy policy and plugins, please visit Stripe Privacy Policy.
Why do we use Stripe services?
We need this payment system to provide you with Stripe's services, including initiating easy payments on africaimages.com.
4. Choices
You can decide how africaimages.com will use Cookies and similar technologies. Please note us if you prohibit africaimages.com from saving Cookies and using similar technologies, this may reduce the usability of africaimages.com, since africaimages.com will probably no longer be personalized for you. In addition, you may lose the ability to save personalized settings, such as personal information.
5. Changes to cookie policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes, we will notify you about this, but please check this Policy regularly to keep up to date with the latest version.
6. Contact us
If you have questions related to this Cookie policy, contact us. You can contact us by email: [email protected].
Your request must include the name and other information necessary for identification and comprehensive and full consideration of your request.
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