Cookie statement

More information about cookies

Afrovibes Foundation strives to make your online experience and interaction with our websites as informative and relevant as possible. We use cookies or similar techniques to achieve this. We believe it is important that you know which cookies our website uses and for what purposes. On the one hand, this helps protect your privacy, while on the other hand our website remains as user-friendly as possible.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal equipment (computer or mobile device) when you visit certain websites. We may use similar techniques, such as pixels, web beacons, etc. For the sake of consistency, all these techniques are referred to below as ‘cookies’.

Why are cookies used?

Cookies can be used for various purposes. Firstly, cookies may be required to make the website work properly. Without cookies, for example, it would be difficult to remember that you are logged in to a website or which products you have placed in your shopping cart. These cookies are called functional cookies.

Cookies can also be used to analyze how a website is used, to keep track of the number of visitors, to know how the website can be improved. We do not link the website statistics and other reports to individual users. These cookies are called analytical cookies.

Thirdly, social media cookies are used to enable integration of social media on the website. This allows you to like or share a page or product directly on your favorite social media.

A fourth important application of cookies is online advertising. This enables personalized advertisements that are relevant and interesting to you. This is done using cookies for (targeted) advertising.

Other third-party cookies

Depending on the specific content of a page or message on this website, other third-party cookies may be placed. This happens, for example, with ’embedded content’, such as a YouTube video or tweet. An external party, in this example YouTube or Twitter, then uses cookies to optimize the user experience.

Blocking or deleting cookies

For more information on disabling cookies or managing cookie settings for your browser, please refer to the following list:

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Concluding remarks

Afrovibes Foundation may amend this cookie statement from time to time, for example because our website or the rules for cookies change. We reserve the right to change the content of the cookie statement and the cookies listed at any time and without prior notice. The new cookie statement will become effective at the time of publication. If you do not agree with the amended statement, you should change your preferences or consider ceasing to use the Afrovibes Foundation websites. By continuing to access or use our services after the changes have become effective, you agree to the revised cookie statement. The latest version can be found on this web page.

If you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact info@afrovibes.nl or visit our contact page.