Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small pieces of text a website asks your browser to keep and send back on your next request. They are how a website remembers that the basket you filled a minute ago is yours.

A cookie is called strictly necessary when the shop cannot do what you asked without it — hold a basket, keep you signed in, take you through checkout. Everything below is in that category.

2. Cookies we set

This is the complete list. Nothing else is set by us.

The basket and sign-in cookies are marked HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax, which means no script on the page can read them, and your browser never sends them to another website. Lax lets your browser hand them back to us when you return from paying — without it, your basket would look empty the moment you came back from the payment page.

3. Other things kept in your browser

Alongside the cookie, your choice on the cookie notice is also written to your browser's local storage under the key iv_cookie_notice, so the notice stays dismissed even if the cookie is lost. It stays until you clear your browsing data.

We store nothing else in local storage or session storage.

4. What we do not use

The shop runs no analytics, no advertising tags and no third-party tracking scripts. To be specific, we do not use:

• Google Analytics, or any other analytics or measurement tool;
• advertising or remarketing pixels, including those of any social network;
• cross-site tracking or advertising profiles; or
• session-recording, heatmap or A/B-testing tools.

We do not sell or share information about your browsing with anyone.

5. Third parties

Two other parties are involved in running this site, and neither of them tracks you for advertising.

Paystack

When you pay, you are taken to Paystack's own payment page to enter your card or Mobile Money details. That page is Paystack's, and any cookies it sets are set by Paystack under its own terms. Once payment is finished you are returned to us. See our Privacy Policy for what we receive back.

Cloudflare

Our site sits behind Cloudflare for security and speed. Cloudflare may set its own short-lived cookie when it needs to check that a request is coming from a person rather than an automated script. That is a security measure, not advertising, and it is outside our control.

6. The cookie notice

On your first visit you will see a short notice at the bottom of the screen telling you that the shop uses cookies that are needed to make it work. Choosing “Got it” records that you have read it.

There is nothing to opt out of, because there is nothing non-essential to switch off. We are not asking for your consent to track you — we are telling you what the shop stores and why. Blocking the cookies above in your browser is always open to you; see the next section.

If we ever add analytics or advertising cookies, we will update this Policy and ask for your consent before setting them.

7. How to clear or block cookies

Every browser lets you see, delete and block cookies. To remove ours, clear the cookies for ivillageafrica.com:

Clearing our cookies signs you out, empties your basket and brings the cookie notice back. If you block cookies for this site altogether, sign-in, the basket and checkout will not work.

Browsers also offer a private or incognito window, which throws away all cookies when you close it.

8. Changes to this Policy

We will update this Policy whenever the cookies the shop sets change, and the table above is meant to match the software exactly. If you think it does not, please tell us.

9. Related privacy information

For more information about how we use personal data, see our Privacy Policy.

10. Contact

Questions about our use of cookies can be sent to [email protected].