About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy applies to the AfricaTourVisa website available at https://www.africatourvisa.com/ and explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used when you visit our website.
AfricaTourVisa provides independent travel information and visa-support services for African destinations. We are not an embassy, immigration authority, government department, or tourism ministry.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website can place on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can store limited information about your browser or website session. Depending on their purpose, they may help a website remember preferences, maintain security, measure website performance, or understand how visitors interact with pages.
Cookies do not normally contain complete documents or files from your device. The information stored depends on the cookie and the technology that created it.
2. Why AfricaTourVisa may use cookies
Cookies may be used on AfricaTourVisa for purposes including:
- keeping important website functions working correctly;
- remembering your cookie-consent choice;
- protecting forms, sessions, and website services from abuse;
- remembering certain visitor preferences;
- understanding how visitors use pages and website features;
- identifying technical errors or performance problems;
- improving navigation, content, and website usability;
- measuring campaigns or advertising where those technologies are actually used and permitted.
3. Main types of cookies
Cookies can be classified according to their purpose and how long they remain on your device.
4. Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies support functions that are required for the website to work safely and reliably. They may be used without relying on optional tracking.
Depending on the particular AfricaTourVisa service you use, necessary cookies may support functions such as:
- website security;
- session management;
- fraud or abuse prevention;
- form processing;
- remembering your cookie-consent preference;
- technical load balancing or server operation.
Blocking these cookies through your browser may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.
5. Analytics and performance cookies
Analytics cookies may be used to help us understand how visitors interact with AfricaTourVisa.
For example, analytics information may help show:
- which pages are visited most often;
- how visitors navigate between pages;
- whether visitors encounter technical errors;
- general website performance;
- how visitors reach particular sections of the website.
Where analytics cookies require consent, they should not be activated until you have chosen to allow them.
6. Preference and functionality cookies
Preference cookies may remember choices you make so that the website can provide a more convenient experience.
Examples could include:
- language preferences;
- interface preferences;
- previously selected website settings;
- certain travel-search or form preferences.
Whether a preference cookie requires consent depends on its specific purpose and whether it is necessary for a feature that you have requested.
7. Marketing and advertising cookies
Marketing cookies may be used where AfricaTourVisa operates advertising, campaign measurement, remarketing, or similar marketing technologies.
Such cookies may be used to:
- measure advertising effectiveness;
- limit repeated advertisements;
- understand whether a campaign resulted in a website visit;
- support interest-based advertising where applicable.
Optional marketing cookies should only be activated when the relevant consent has been provided.
8. First-party and third-party cookies
First-party cookies
First-party cookies are set directly by AfricaTourVisa or by technologies operating under the AfricaTourVisa domain.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are created by another service provider whose technology is used on a website.
Examples of third-party technologies could include analytics providers, payment providers, embedded media, maps, advertising services, or other external features.
9. How cookie consent works
When you first visit AfricaTourVisa, you may see a cookie notice or preference panel explaining the available cookie choices.
Depending on the cookies used, you may be able to:
- accept all cookies;
- reject optional cookies;
- allow only selected cookie categories;
- save customized preferences.
Necessary cookies may remain enabled because they support the operation, security, or requested functionality of the website.
Your consent choice can be stored so the website does not have to ask for the same preference on every page visit.
10. How to manage or withdraw your cookie choices
You can change your cookie preferences after making an initial choice.
Use the cookie preference control to review or change optional cookie settings.
Browser controls
Most web browsers also allow you to view, block, or delete cookies through browser settings.
Browser controls vary between Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and other browsers. Blocking all cookies may affect website functions that depend on necessary cookies.
11. Session cookies and persistent cookies
Session cookies
Session cookies normally remain active only while your browser session is open and are generally removed when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies can remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them. They may be used to remember preferences between visits.
The exact lifetime of each cookie depends on its purpose and configuration.
12. Similar technologies
Websites can use technologies other than traditional browser cookies. Examples may include local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, or other browser technologies that perform similar functions.
Where such technologies are used for purposes requiring consent, they should be managed in a manner consistent with the relevant cookie preference.
13. Personal information and cookies
Some cookie or analytics information may be associated with identifiers such as browser information, device information, session identifiers, IP-related information, or usage data.
More information about how personal information is handled should be read together with the AfricaTourVisa Privacy Policy .
14. Changes to this Cookie Policy
AfricaTourVisa may update this Cookie Policy when website technologies, services, cookie categories, or privacy practices change.
Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically, particularly after significant changes to the website or the cookie-consent system.
15. Questions about cookies or privacy
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, cookie preferences, or how AfricaTourVisa handles website information, please contact us through our support page.