norwegianafrican.no

Cookie Policy

Last updated 15 April 2020

By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites to improve your experience. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well. For more information on cookies, please visit this article.

How we use Cookies

The cookies on our website are used for various reasons that may include:  

  • Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited

  • Personalizing content that you see on our website

  • Our website analytics (see below)

  • Remarketing our products or services to you

  • Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests

  • Allowing you to post comments on our blog

  • Allowing you to share content with social networks

What Cookies we use

We use the following type of cookies on our website:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies
    These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functionality. 

  • Performance Cookies
    These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements. 

  • Functional Cookies
    These cookies enable the website to remember a user’s choices, such as their language and other personal choices while using the website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.

  • Media Cookies
    These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company.

  • Session Cookies
    These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. Session cookies expire after a browser session and are not stored long term. 

  • Persistent Cookies
    These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website.

Cookies

Our websites use cookies to collect information. This includes information about browsing behaviour by people who access our websites. This includes information about pages viewed and the customer journey around our websites.

Disabling Cookies

Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies - see your browsers settings or help pages for more info. However, it is important to note that disabling cookies is extremely likely to prevent many features and functionality of this site from working properly. It is generally recommended that cookies are not disabled.

If you do decide to disable cookies, please refer to the following pages for common browsers:

Third Party Cookies

In some instances we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties:

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website in order to help us understand how you use our site and ways that we can improve your experience. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often people visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyse traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing/advertising, and to improve our website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website.

For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit the Google Analytics Privacy Page.

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out on this page.

Squarespace

This website is built and hosted on the Squarespace platform. Squarespace may use cookies which are necessary for the proper operation of their system (e.g. attributing comments on a blog post, or putting a product into your shopping cart), and to track the usage of this website in order to help us understand how the site is being used – and ultimately provide an improved user experience. For more information please refer to Squarespace's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp for our email marketing, which may also use a technology called 'Web Beacons' to track the performance of our email newsletter. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons also help us to understand the behavior of our customers, members, and visitors. More information on Mailchimp's performance tracking can be found here.

Contact Us

For more information about our Cookie Policy and Privacy Notice please contact us by email at hello@norwegianafrican.no, or write to us at the addresses below:

Norwegian-African Business Association (NABA)
P. O. Box 5250 Majorstuen
0303 Oslo