Gear Africa Cookie Notice

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how Gear Africa uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, policy pages, landing pages, and other online services.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, share, store, and protect personal information.

2. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember preferences, improve performance, protect against misuse, and understand how visitors use a site.

Cookies may be set directly by Gear Africa or by third-party providers that help us operate, secure, analyze, or improve our website.

3. Similar technologies

We may also use similar technologies such as local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, SDKs, device identifiers, and analytics scripts.

These technologies may perform similar functions to cookies, such as remembering settings, measuring usage, supporting forms, protecting the website, or improving service performance.

4. Cookies we use

Gear Africa may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies on the website:

• Strictly necessary cookies that are required for the website to work, load securely, remember cookie choices, prevent abuse, and provide core functionality.
• Preference cookies that remember choices such as language, region, display settings, or other website preferences.
• Analytics cookies that help us understand page visits, traffic sources, user interactions, errors, performance, and how visitors use the website.
• Functional cookies that support enhanced features such as forms, embedded content, support tools, maps, media, or other interactive website features.
• Security cookies that help detect suspicious activity, protect sessions, prevent fraud, and improve website reliability.
• Marketing or measurement cookies that may help us measure campaigns, understand referrals, or show more relevant content, where these are enabled and permitted by law.

5. Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to function and cannot usually be switched off through our cookie tools. These cookies may be used for security, network management, load balancing, fraud prevention, session management, and remembering your cookie choices.

You can set your browser to block these cookies, but parts of the website may not work properly.

6. Analytics and performance cookies

Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors use the Gear Africa website. For example, they may help us know which pages are visited, how users move through the site, whether pages load correctly, and where improvements are needed.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential analytics cookies.

7. Functional and embedded content cookies

Functional cookies support optional website features such as forms, support tools, maps, videos, social media embeds, or other third-party content.

When you interact with embedded third-party content, the third party may set its own cookies or similar technologies. Those cookies are controlled by the third party and may be subject to its own privacy and cookie policies.

8. Marketing and referral cookies

Gear Africa may use marketing, referral, or campaign measurement cookies to understand how visitors reach our website, measure the performance of campaigns, and improve public information about our services.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using marketing or advertising cookies.

9. Third-party cookies

Some cookies and similar technologies may be provided by third parties that support our website, analytics, hosting, security, maps, forms, customer support, or embedded content.

These third parties may process information according to their own terms and privacy policies. We recommend reviewing their policies where their services are linked or displayed.

10. How long cookies stay on your device

Cookies may be session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.

The exact retention period depends on the cookie type, provider, purpose, and your browser settings.

11. How to manage cookies

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies, receive alerts before cookies are stored, or limit cookies from specific websites.

If Gear Africa provides a cookie banner or preference center, you can also use it to accept, reject, or manage non-essential cookie categories where available.

If you block or delete some cookies, parts of the website may not work as intended, and your preferences may need to be set again.

12. Consent and choices

Where required by applicable law, Gear Africa will request your consent before placing non-essential cookies or similar technologies on your device.

You may withdraw or change your cookie choices at any time where a cookie preference tool is available. You can also use your browser settings to manage cookies directly.

13. Do Not Track and browser signals

Some browsers offer "Do Not Track" or similar signals. Because there is no single industry standard for responding to these signals, Gear Africa may not respond to them unless required by applicable law.

We will continue to provide available cookie controls through browser settings and, where implemented, our cookie preference tools.

14. Updates to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, technologies, providers, legal requirements, or business practices.

If we make material changes, we may notify you through the website, app, email, or other reasonable means.

15. Contact

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how Gear Africa uses cookies and similar technologies, contact the Gear Africa support team through the app or website support channels.

For privacy-related requests, you may also use the contact details provided in our Privacy Policy.