Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how East Africa Legal Insight uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the Website, improve user experience, understand traffic and support advertising.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files placed on a browser, computer or mobile device when a person visits a website. Cookies can help a website remember preferences, recognise repeat visits, improve security, understand traffic and display relevant advertising.
Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, beacons, local storage, device identifiers and log files. In this policy, references to cookies include these similar technologies where appropriate.
2. How we use cookies
- Essential cookies: to enable core website functions, maintain security, prevent abuse, load pages correctly and remember basic settings.
- Analytics cookies: to understand visits, page views, traffic sources, reading patterns, broken links and performance so that we can improve the Website.
- Advertising cookies: to support advertisements, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, help detect invalid activity and enable contextual or personalised advertising where permitted.
- Preference cookies: to remember choices such as display settings, consent choices or similar user preferences where available.
3. Google advertising cookies
The Website may use Google AdSense or other Google advertising services. Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to this Website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this Website and/or other sites on the internet.
Users may learn more about Google advertising cookies at Google advertising technologies and about how Google uses information from partner sites at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
4. Third-party cookies
Third-party service providers may place or read cookies on your browser or use web beacons, IP addresses and similar technologies when you visit the Website. These providers may include advertising networks, analytics tools, security services, embedded content providers and social media platforms.
Third-party cookies are governed by the policies of the relevant third parties. We do not control all third-party cookie operations.
5. Consent and choices
Where required by applicable law, we will request consent for non-essential cookies or provide relevant privacy choices. Your choices may depend on your location, browser, device settings and advertising partner requirements.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete cookies, receive warnings before cookies are placed or restrict certain third-party cookies.
6. Managing Google ad personalisation
Users may manage Google ad personalisation settings at Google Ads Settings. Users may also use browser controls or device settings to limit advertising identifiers or cookies.
Blocking or deleting cookies may not remove all forms of advertising, but it can affect whether ads are personalised and how frequently ads are shown.
7. Effect of disabling cookies
If you disable cookies, some pages or features may not work properly. The Website may not remember preferences, analytics may be less accurate and some advertising features may be limited.
8. Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in technology, law, advertising partners, analytics tools or website features. The latest version will be posted on this page.
Effective date: 31 May 2026.
9. Contact
For questions about cookies on this Website, contact info@eastafricalegalinsight.com.