Cookie Policy
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This site sets one cookie. This page says what it is, what it does, how long it lasts and how to get rid of it. The whole list, not a representative sample.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep, and which your browser sends back on your next visit. Sites use them to recognise a returning browser. Related technologies, local storage and session storage, do a similar job, and where we use them they are listed below too.
2. The cookie we set
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| hauzisha_vid | Holds a randomly generated identifier so we can tell that a series of page views came from the same browser. It lets us count visitors rather than clicks, and see which listings someone looked at across a visit. It contains a generated number and nothing else. No name, no contact details. | 12 months |
| hauzisha_attr | Session storage, not a cookie. Remembers how you arrived, whether that was a referring site or a campaign, so a later enquiry can be attributed to it. Your browser discards it when you close the tab. | End of session |
The cookie is first-party and set for .hauzisha.co.ke, so the same identifier applies across our subdomains. It is not readable by other websites and is not used to follow you around the internet.
3. What we do not use
There are no advertising cookies on this site, no third-party tracking pixels, and no cookies set by social networks or ad networks. Our analytics provider, Plausible, is cookieless by design.
We do not use cookies to build a profile of you for advertising, and we do not share cookie data with advertisers.
4. Refusing or deleting it
You are in control of this. You can:
- delete cookies for hauzisha.co.ke in your browser settings, which removes the identifier, so a later visit is simply counted as a new one
- block cookies for this site, or all sites, in your browser settings
- browse in a private or incognito window, which discards the cookie when you close it
- turn on Do Not Track or a similar setting in your browser, which we honour by not setting the cookie
The site works normally either way. Refusing the cookie costs you nothing. No feature depends on it, because it exists for our measurement rather than for your experience.
5. Why we do not show a cookie banner
The single cookie we set is first-party, holds no personal detail, is used only to count and understand visits to our own site, and is not shared with advertisers. On that basis we consider it low-risk and rely on this policy plus your browser controls rather than interrupting every visit with a consent dialog. If we ever add advertising or third-party tracking cookies, we will ask for your consent first.
6. More detail
What we do with the data this cookie helps us collect, and your rights over it, is set out in the Privacy Policy.
Questions about this policy
Write to support@hauzisha.co.ke and a person will answer. Our other policies: Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.