Welcome to The National (https://thenational.co.ke). This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used when you visit our website.
We use cookies to help our website function properly, understand how visitors interact with our content, and improve the browsing experience. This policy explains what cookies are, how they may be used, and how you can manage your preferences.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites remember certain information about your visit, such as your preferences, browsing activity or login status.
Cookies may be temporary, meaning they expire when you close your browser, or persistent, meaning they remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
How We May Use Cookies
The National may use cookies for several purposes, including:
Essential Cookies: These cookies help ensure that the website operates correctly and that its core features function as intended.
Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies may help us understand how visitors use our website, which pages attract interest and how we can improve our content and website performance.
Preference Cookies: These cookies may remember certain settings or preferences to provide a more convenient browsing experience.
Advertising Cookies: If advertising services are used on our website, cookies may help deliver, measure or personalise advertisements in accordance with the relevant providers’ policies and applicable requirements.
The cookies used on our website may vary depending on the features, services and third-party tools we implement.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services integrated into our website. These may include analytics providers, advertising partners, embedded content providers or other services.
Third parties may use cookies and similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies. We encourage visitors to review those policies to understand how their information is handled.
Managing Cookies
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies or receive notifications when cookies are being placed on your device.
Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of our website.
Where required by applicable law, we will provide appropriate options for managing consent to non-essential cookies.
Privacy and Personal Information
Cookies may collect information such as browser type, device information, pages visited and general browsing activity. Depending on the technology used, this information may be linked to other information handled by the relevant service provider.
For more information about how we handle personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, the technologies we use or applicable legal requirements.
Any updates will be published on this page, together with the revised update date.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies may be used on our website, please contact us through our Contact Us page.
