Published: 11 October 2026
Effective: 11 October 2026
Website: https://nairobipostalcodes.org
Operator: Nairobi Postal Codes
This Cookie Policy explains how Nairobi Postal Codes uses cookies and similar technologies, why they are used and how you can manage them.
It applies to our website and should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains our wider handling of personal information and your privacy rights.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser when you visit it. They can help a website remember information, recognise a browser, support functionality or measure activity.
A cookie does not necessarily contain your name or email address. However, cookie identifiers and associated information may constitute personal data where they identify you or can reasonably be linked to you.
Cookies have different lifetimes:
- Session cookies generally last for a browsing session.
- Persistent cookies remain until they expire or are deleted.
Cookies can also have different origins:
- First-party cookies are set under the website’s own domain.
- Third-party cookies are set under another domain by a service involved in delivering website features, analytics or advertising.
2. Similar technologies
Services used on the website may also use technologies such as browser storage, tags, pixels or other identifiers.
These technologies can support functions similar to cookies, including storing preferences, measuring interactions and delivering advertisements.
References to cookies in this policy include similar technologies where relevant. Browser cookie controls may not affect every form of storage or information processing.
3. Why we use these technologies
Cookies and similar technologies may support:
- Website functionality.
- Remembering privacy choices.
- Visitor statistics and performance measurement.
- Advertising delivery and measurement.
- Limiting repeated advertisements.
- Detecting misuse, invalid traffic or fraudulent activity.
- Convenience features associated with visitor interactions.
The information involved may include browser or device identifiers, pages visited, interaction events, referral information and technical characteristics.
We use Google Analytics for website measurement and Google AdSense for advertising.
4. Necessary functionality and preference storage
Some cookies or storage technologies may be necessary to provide a requested feature, maintain essential functionality or remember a privacy choice.
For example, a consent preference record can help the website remember whether you accepted or declined optional processing.
Necessary technologies should be limited to their relevant purposes. Describing a technology as necessary does not make unrelated analytics or advertising processing essential.
Blocking necessary storage may cause preferences to be forgotten or affect particular website functions.
5. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand website usage and improve our content.
Depending on the configuration and your choices, Google Analytics may use cookies or similar identifiers to distinguish browsers, associate interactions with visits and produce usage reports.
The information involved may include:
- Pages viewed and interactions.
- Visit and session information.
- Referral sources.
- Browser and device characteristics.
- Approximate location.
- Online identifiers.
Analytics reports help us understand which information visitors find useful and how they navigate the website. The use of aggregated reports does not mean that all underlying processing is anonymous.
Further information is available in:
Google provides an Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Its compatibility and coverage depend on your browser and the technologies involved. It does not control all website cookies or advertising services.
6. Google AdSense
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements that support the website.
Google and participating advertising providers may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Deliver and display advertisements.
- Measure advertisement views and interactions.
- Control how often an advertisement appears.
- Detect invalid traffic and prevent fraud.
- Personalise advertisements where permitted and supported by the relevant choices and settings.
Advertising-related information may include browser or device identifiers, technical information, advertisement interactions and browsing activity.
Where personalised advertising is enabled, the information used may relate to activity across websites or services.
Non-personalised advertising does not necessarily mean that no cookies or personal information are processed. Technologies may still be involved in measurement, reporting, frequency controls or fraud prevention.
You can learn more through Google’s advertising information.
Google provides advertising controls through:
These controls apply within their stated scope. Changing a Google advertising preference may not remove advertisements or stop all technical processing.
7. Comments and visitor interactions
Visitors can comment on website posts.
If a comment form offers an option to remember your details, choosing that option may store information in your browser so you do not need to enter it again.
Such convenience storage is separate from publishing a comment or retaining the comment in website records.
Deleting browser cookies does not automatically delete a published comment, an enquiry or information already held by a service provider. Requests about those records should be made through our Contact page.
8. Cookie categories
The following table explains the purposes relevant to our website. It is a category overview, rather than a fixed inventory of individual cookies.
| Category | Purpose | Relevant services or features |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary functionality | Support essential features and remember privacy choices | Website operation and consent preference storage |
| Analytics | Measure visits, interactions and website performance | Google Analytics |
| Advertising | Deliver, personalise where permitted, and measure advertisements; support frequency controls and fraud prevention | Google AdSense and participating advertising providers |
| Optional convenience | Remember details for a feature selected by a visitor, where offered | Comment-form convenience settings |
Actual technologies can vary according to service configuration, visitor choices, browser settings and interactions. A category label does not replace the need to assess the purpose and legal basis of the processing.
9. Consent and the cookie banner
We provide a cookie banner to communicate information and present available privacy choices.
Where consent is the legal basis required for optional processing, it must be based on an informed, affirmative choice. Simply visiting the website, scrolling or continuing to browse is not blanket consent to optional cookies.
Use the controls presented in the banner to make your selection. Where category-specific preferences are offered, you can use them to choose between available purposes.
Storage needed to remember a consent decision may remain active so the website can respect that decision.
Declining optional processing should not, by itself, prevent access to the website’s general informational content.
10. Changing your choice
Where a cookie settings or privacy control is displayed, use it to review or change your selection.
If you cannot locate a control, or need assistance withdrawing consent, contact us through our Contact page.
You may also delete cookies or change your browser settings. Deleting preference cookies may cause the banner to appear again because the browser no longer holds your previous choice.
Withdrawing consent affects the processing covered by that consent going forward. It does not automatically erase information already collected or invalidate processing lawfully carried out before withdrawal.
11. Browser controls
Most browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies and website data.
- Delete cookies for a particular website or all websites.
- Block some or all cookies.
- Restrict third-party cookies.
- Manage permissions and tracking protections.
These controls are usually found under Privacy, Security, Cookies or Site Settings. Their names and effects vary by browser and device.
Blocking or deleting cookies may:
- Remove saved preferences.
- Cause privacy notices to reappear.
- Affect convenience features.
- Change how analytics or advertising services operate.
Private browsing is not a guarantee of anonymity. Websites and service providers may still receive technical information during a visit.
12. Cookie duration and information retention
Cookie lifetimes depend on their purpose, provider, configuration and browser behaviour.
A cookie may expire at the end of a session, remain for a specified period or be renewed when a service is used again. Browser restrictions or manual deletion may shorten its lifetime.
Cookie expiry and information retention are different. Removing a cookie from your browser does not necessarily delete records previously collected through that cookie.
Analytics and advertising information is retained according to the relevant service settings, provider practices and applicable legal requirements. Broader information about retention is set out in our Privacy Policy.
13. Third-party processing
Google and advertising participants may receive information directly when their services operate on the website.
Depending on the activity, a provider may process information on our behalf or for purposes it determines under its own privacy terms.
Our use of these services does not mean that Nairobi Postal Codes controls every aspect of their independent processing. Please review the linked Google privacy information to understand the applicable practices and controls.
An external link is different from an embedded service: following a link takes you to another website, while an embedded service may receive information as part of loading or using our page.
14. International processing
Our website is hosted on servers in Europe. Google and other providers involved in website services may process information in additional countries.
International processing is subject to applicable legal requirements. Hosting in Europe does not, by itself, establish compliance with Kenya’s data protection law.
Our Privacy Policy provides further information about international processing and the relevant legal conditions.
15. Children and privacy choices
The website provides general information that may be accessed by visitors of different ages.
Parents and guardians should assist children with privacy choices where appropriate. A child’s interaction with a banner does not remove any applicable requirement for parental or guardian consent when processing the child’s personal information.
If you are concerned about processing involving a child, contact us through our Contact page.
16. Your privacy rights
Where information associated with cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal data, you may have rights under Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019 and applicable regulations.
Depending on the circumstances, these include access, correction, erasure, objection, restriction, portability and withdrawal of consent.
Our Privacy Policy explains these rights and how to submit a request. Browser identifiers may not allow us to identify a particular person or locate a particular record without additional information.
You may also raise a concern with Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner through its complaint procedure.
17. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when website features, service configurations, technologies or legal requirements change.
Updates will be published on this page with a revised date. Where required, changes to processing will involve additional notice or a new consent request.
Publishing an updated policy does not, by itself, constitute consent to new optional processing.
18. Contact
For questions about cookies, privacy choices or this policy, contact Nairobi Postal Codes through our Contact page:
