Cookie Policy
Gitari N. Law Advocates (“the Firm”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your experience on our website is secure, efficient, and user-friendly. This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website, what information they collect, and the choices available to you regarding their use.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or other internet-enabled device when you visit a website. They enable a website to recognise your device, remember your preferences, improve website functionality, and provide insights into how visitors interact with the website.
Cookies do not typically identify you personally. However, where information collected through cookies is linked to information that identifies you, it will be treated as personal data and processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies to improve the functionality, security, and performance of our website and to provide visitors with a seamless browsing experience. Cookies help us understand how our website is used, remember user preferences, enhance navigation, and maintain the security and integrity of our online services.
The information collected through cookies also enables us to identify opportunities to improve our website, develop relevant content, and ensure that our digital services continue to meet the needs of our clients and visitors.
Types of Cookies We Use:
-Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are necessary for the operation of our website. They enable core functions such as page navigation, secure access to certain areas of the website, fraud prevention, and website security. Because these cookies are required for the website to function properly, they cannot be disabled through our website.
-Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember your preferences and choices, such as language settings or other customization, providing a more personalized browsing experience whenever you return to our website.
-Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website by collecting information such as the pages visited, the amount of time spent on each page, navigation patterns, and the sources of website traffic. This information is aggregated and used solely to improve the performance, usability, and effectiveness of our website. Where analytics providers process this information on our behalf, they do so subject to appropriate contractual safeguards.
-Performance Cookies
Performance cookies enable us to monitor the reliability and responsiveness of our website by identifying technical issues, measuring loading times, and evaluating the overall performance of our online services. These cookies help us maintain a high-quality user experience.
-Third-Party Cookies
Certain features available on our website may be provided through trusted third-party service providers. These providers may place cookies on your device to facilitate services such as website analytics, embedded content, interactive maps, video content, or social media integration.
We do not control the cookies placed by third-party providers, and their use of cookies is governed by their respective privacy and cookie policies. We encourage you to review those policies before using such services.
How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Some cookies remain on your device only for the duration of your browsing session and are automatically deleted once your browser is closed. These are commonly referred to as session cookies.
Other cookies remain on your device after your browsing session has ended and are used to recognize your device when you return to our website. These are known as persistent cookies and remain active for a specified period or until they are manually deleted.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can modify your browser settings at any time to refuse cookies, delete existing cookies, or notify you whenever a cookie is placed on your device.
Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality, performance, or availability of some features of our website, and certain services may not operate as intended.
Instructions for managing cookies are generally available within your browser’s help section or through the support pages of your browser provider.
Personal Data Collected Through Cookies
Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal data under the Data Protection Act, 2019, we process such information lawfully, fairly, and transparently. The information collected may include your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, language preferences, browsing behaviour, referring website, and pages visited.
This information is processed solely for the purposes described in this Policy and our Privacy Policy and is not sold to third parties.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in applicable laws, technological developments, or the manner in which we use cookies. Any changes will become effective immediately upon publication on this website, together with the revised effective date.
We encourage you to review this Policy periodically to remain informed about how cookies are used.