This Cookie Policy explains which cookies agmark.org uses, what each one does, how long it lasts, and how you can control or refuse them. The short version: we set two analytics cookies, we set them on every visit without asking first, and the sections below tell you exactly how to stop them. Read this alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers how we handle personal data more generally.
What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store, so something can be remembered between page loads or between visits: that you are signed in, which language you prefer, or that you have already dismissed a notice. Cookies cannot run programs, install anything, or read other files on your device.
A cookie is called first-party when the site you are visiting sets it, and third-party when it is set by another domain whose content the page has loaded. Both kinds are covered below.
Cookies We Currently Use
agmark.org uses Google Analytics 4 to measure how visitors use the Site. It loads on every visit and sets the two first-party cookies below. We do not ask permission first, so if you would rather not have them, the sections on managing and opting out further down are the ones to read.
"_ga" tells one visitor's browser apart from another's between sessions. It expires roughly 2 years after it is set or last updated.
"_ga_PK2V687125" holds Google Analytics 4 session state for our particular property, such as whether a visit counts as a continuation of the same session. It expires roughly 2 years after it is set or last updated.
Neither cookie identifies you by name. Google Analytics 4 does not store your IP address in the reports we see: it uses the address to work out an approximate location, then discards it. We do not use this data for advertising and do not share it with anyone for their own marketing purposes. Our Privacy Policy has the fuller explanation.
Apart from those two, agmark.org sets no cookies of its own. There is no login, no comment system and no advertising script, and our own fonts are served from our server rather than from a third-party font service.
Beyond those cookies, the Site stores nothing else in your browser: no local storage and no session storage of its own.
Cookies Set by the Google Map
Our Contact page shows a Google map of AGMARK's Nairobi office. It loads from Google's servers, along with the tiles, fonts and scripts it needs to draw itself, and Google may set its own third-party cookies in your browser at that point. Those are Google's cookies rather than ours: we cannot read them, and their use is governed by Google's privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy).
Simply opening the Contact page is enough for Google to receive that request. If you would rather it did not, blocking third-party cookies in your browser stops the cookies Google would otherwise set, and the Site works normally without them.
On every other page of the Site the map is never requested at all. Our address, phone number, and email address are printed as text beside it, so nothing about reaching us depends on the map loading.
How We Handle Choice
The Site does not show a cookie banner, and the two Google Analytics cookies described above are set on every visit without asking you first.
The same applies to the Google map on our Contact page, which loads with that page. What none of it changes: nothing on the Site advertises to you or builds a profile of you, and no data is sold or handed to anyone for their own marketing.
What you can do about it: blocking cookies for agmark.org in your browser stops both of ours, and Google's own opt-out add-on stops Google Analytics everywhere you go. The two sections below explain how. Neither breaks anything here, because nothing on this Site depends on cookies to work.
You can also object to the measurement directly under section 36 of Kenya's Data Protection Act, or Article 21 of the GDPR if it applies to you, by writing to the address in the Contact section at the end of this page.
If we ever add something that needs your consent under Kenyan law, or another law that applies to you, it will be described on this page first and will not run until you have agreed to it.
Third-Party Sites and Cookies
Pages on this Site link out to AGMARK's profiles on Facebook, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and to funder, partner, and news websites. These are ordinary links, so nothing loads from those sites while you are on ours and none of them can set a cookie until you click through.
Once you are on one of those sites, its own cookie and privacy policies apply, and we have no control over what it sets or what it does with it.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Every major browser lets you see which cookies have been stored, delete them, and block new ones, either across the board or site by site. Blocking all cookies will stop the Google Analytics cookies described here; blocking third-party cookies will stop the ones the Google map can set.
The instructions for each browser are here: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
Nothing on agmark.org depends on cookies to work. If you block all of them, every page, form, and download still functions normally.
Opting Out of Google Analytics
To stop Google Analytics measuring you on every site you visit rather than just this one, Google publishes a browser add-on that does exactly that: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. It is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera.
Most browsers also offer a "Do Not Track" setting. Because no industry-wide standard was ever agreed for how sites should respond to it, we do not change our behaviour based on that signal. The controls above do work.
What Could Change This
If we add a tool that needs cookies we do not currently set, a live chat widget, a video embed, or anything to do with advertising or retargeting for instance, we will update this page before it goes live and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent before any non-essential cookie is set.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We update this page, and the "Last updated" date at the top of it, whenever what is written here stops matching what the Site actually does.
