Cookie Policy

We use cookies and similar tools on our website (www.akf.org) to improve its performance, enhance your user experience, and support our analytics and outreach activities. This policy explains how we use these technologies and the choices available to you.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website may place on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. They help the website recognise your device on subsequent visits. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all technologies that collect information in this way.

Cookies serve a variety of functions. For example, they can help us remember your preferences, analyse how well the Website is performing, or recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you. Some cookies contain personal information — for example, if you select “remember me” when logging in, a cookie may store your username. Most cookies do not identify you directly but instead collect general information such as how users arrive at and use the Website.

What sort of cookies does the Website use?

Essential cookies

Some cookies are essential for the operation of the Website. If you opt to disable these cookies, you will not be able to access or use all of the features that the Website incorporates.

Performance Cookies

We utilise other cookies to analyse how our visitors use the Website and to monitor performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.

Functionality Cookies

We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, cookies save you the trouble of typing in your username every time you use the Website, and recall your customisation preferences.

Advertising & Measurement Cookies (Google Ads)

With your consent, we use Google Ads and related Google advertising technologies to help us measure the effectiveness of our outreach and improve our services. Google may collect and process certain information for purposes such as ad personalisation, analytics, and measurement.

You can learn more about how Google uses data by visiting Google’s Business Data Responsibility site.

Does anyone else use cookies on the Website?

We do use or allow third parties to serve cookies that fall into the three categories above. For example, like many companies, we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our traffic. We may also use third party cookies to help us with market research, revenue tracking, improving site functionality and monitoring compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.

Managing your cookie preferences

You can disable cookies through your browser settings.

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie banner or cookie settings tool. You may choose to accept or reject non‑essential cookies. Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for the Website to function.

You can also disable cookies through your browser or device settings, although doing so may affect the functionality of certain sections of the Website.

More information

More details on how businesses use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.