We use “cookies” to store specific information about you and track your visits to the Sites, either through a compute or via a mobile device. It is not uncommon for websites to use cookies to enhance identification of their visitors
A “cookie” is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s or mobile device’s hard drive. If you do not de-activate or erase the cookie, each time you use the same browser or mobile device to access the Sites, our web servers will be notified of your visit to the Sites and in turn we may have knowledge of your visit and the pattern of your usage. The cookies will enable us to remember your information, so you do not have to re-enter it every time you use the Site.
In addition, we use cookies to manage the security of our Sites, to gather information about usage by users; to research visiting patterns and conduct interest-based advertising; to assist our partners to track user visits to the Sites and process orders; and to track progress and participation in promotions.
For these additional purposes identified above, you can determine if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring the privacy setting of the browser you are using to access the Sites or the privacy setting of your mobile device. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. If you adjust the privacy setting in the browser, your mobile device will continue collecting data unless you adjust the privacy setting of the device, and vice versa.
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. If you choose to set your web browser controls to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com
Certain features of the Site depend on cookies. Please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use those features, and preferences that are dependent on cookies may be lost.
We use two types of cookies: session cookies (which are erased once you close the browser or shut down the device) and persistent cookies (which remain even after closing the browser or shutting down the device/application and which are activated each time you visit the Sites). The session cookies use encrypted data to unambiguously authenticate you. The persistent cookies do not store account numbers or passwords.
We use both first party cookies (cookies that are set by us at Paytree Group and serve mainly to enable basic functionality on our Sites, including web analytics cookies that help us understand how users use our web pages and how we can improve their use) and third party cookies (these cookies are not set by Paytree Group, but by our selected partners).
In addition, we also use social media cookies. Some pages on our Sites allow you to “share” content through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes we embed videos from websites like YouTube. These websites set their own cookies on which we have no influence. To refuse their cookies, please follow the instructions on their websites. In addition, these websites have their own privacy policy, which you can find on the respective websites.
Below we briefly identify the cookies we use on our Sites:
Provider | Cookie | Cookie-Type | Purpose |
Google, Inc. | _ga, _gat, _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmt, _utmz | Analyse-Cookie | Helps us assess how users interact with the content of the web pages so we can improve our website. The cookies are installed by a tool called “Google Analytics”. For more details please consult: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Persistent Cookie | Generates and allocates an ID which we assign to you to verify behaviour on the Sites |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Session Cookie | Generates and allocates an ID which we assign to you to verify behaviour on the Sites |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Persistent Cookie | Generates and allocates an ID which we assign to you to verify behaviour on the Sites |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Persistent Cookie | Generates a tag that shows a user’s login status and how data is shown to the user |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Session-Cookie | Generates a tag that shows a user’s login status and how data is shown to the user |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Persistent Cookie | Sets the location, region and currency, according to user settings |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Session Cookie | Generates a temporary tag to identify a session in the browser |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Persistent Cookie | Sets the location, region and currency, according to user settings, mainly for Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke and Paytree Group compatibility |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | | Persistent Cookie | Generates and allocates an ID which we assign to you to track affiliate links |
Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke (. Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke .com) | intl_locale | Session Cookie | Sets the location, region and currency, according to user settings, mainly for Mzizzi.com and Basket.co.ke and Paytree Group compatibility |
Google Analytics
Our Sites uses Google Analytics, an internet analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, California, 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files that are stored on your computer and used to analyze the use of the Sites. For example, Google’s cookies allow us to tell us which pages our users are viewing, which ones are most popular, what time of day our Sites are visited, if users have previously visited our Sites, from which website users are redirected to our Sites were and the like. The data generated by the cookie about your use of the Sites will be transmitted to Google and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
The website uses an anonymization tool of IP addresses so that the IP addresses are truncated within the territory of the Member States of the European Union and the other members of the agreement on the European Economic Area. The non-truncated IP address are only exceptionally transmitted to Google’s servers in the US and then truncated there.
Google uses the data on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for the website operators and for other website activity and internet usage services. Google may disclose this information to third parties under the terms of the law or for further processing by third parties on behalf of Google.
For more information about Google Analytics cookies, visit the Google Help pages and Privacy Policy:
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Analytics Help Center: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
The IP address that your browser will pass on to Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data stored by Google. Through your browser settings, you can block cookies; however, this can lead to problems with the use of some functionalities of the website. Through the add-on “Google Analytics Opt-out” you can through your current web browser opt-out to the use of Google Analytics from then on: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
More information can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.