Cookie Policy
We value your privacy
When you visit any web site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience.
Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) respects the personal information and data that is collected from you through our website www.icpak.com. We understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technology we use.
This cookie policy outlines how ICPAK entities use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies on our websites and any related URLs. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as the choices for how to control them.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by you – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information, The next time you visit the same website, the browser will give back the cookie to identify you. Then the website loads with a personalized experience.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
By using our websites and/or our Apps, you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with this cookie policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, please disable cookies on your computer or other devices (by navigating to “Managing your cookies preferences” section on your browser settings).
What we use Cookies for
We use cookies for the following:
- Helping the users optimize their visit on the website by enabling the browser to remember information specific to a given user.
- To facilitate the operation and functionality of our website.
- To improve your experience of our website and make navigating around them quicker and easier.
- To allow us to make a bespoke user experience for you and for us to understand what is useful or of interest to you.
- To analyze how our website is used and how best we can customize it
- Remember your username and preferences. This makes it possible to match your preferred interests more quickly and make the content displayed more relevant to you.
- Protect you from fraud and keep improving security.
- Decide which of our products, services and offers may be relevant for you.
Types of Cookies
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
1.Session cookies
These are cookies are created temporarily in your browser’s subfolder while you are visiting a website. These cookies expire and are automatically deleted when you close your internet browser.
2.Persistent cookies
They remain in your browser’s subfolder and are activated again once you visit the website that created that particular cookie. A persistent cookie does not expire when you close your browser, it remains in the browser’s subfolder for the duration period set within the cookie’s file.
3.Performance cookies
These are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how you use our website e.g., which pages of the website are visited most often, or if you get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the site as the user interacts with it. These cookies don’t collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of a website.
4.Third party cookies
Third-party cookies are installed by some of our third parties with the aim of collecting certain information from web users to carry out research into, for example, behaviour, demographics or spending habits.
5.Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies allow ICPAK websites to remember the user’s site preferences and choices they make on the site including username, region, and language. This allows the website to provide personalized features/ products if you share your location. They are anonymous and don’t track browsing activity across other websites.
Managing/ Changing your cookies settings
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use some or all of the features on the website, to enable or disable cookies, follow the instructions provided by your browser.
Any enquiries regarding this cookie policy can be sent to memberservices@icpak.com.
