Welcome to the Explore Uganda website. This Cookies Policy explains how Explore Uganda Ltd. ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at [website address, e.g., www.exploreuganda.com], and any related services, applications, or platforms (collectively, the "Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can do many different things, such as remembering your preferences, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, and generally improving your experience.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes, including:
Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for example, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the way our Website works. We use Google Analytics and similar tools for this purpose. This information is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization. We may use third-party advertising partners who use cookies to show you Explore Uganda-related ads on other websites.
Types of Cookies We Use
The following table provides details about the types of cookies we use on our website:
Explore Uganda's Cookie Usage
Cookie Name
Purpose
Provider
Duration
Type
_ga
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Google Analytics
2 years
Performance
_gid
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Google Analytics
24 hours
Performance
cookieConsent
Remembers if the user has accepted the cookie policy.
Explore Uganda Ltd.
1 year
Essential
languagePreference
Stores the user's preferred language for the website.
Explore Uganda Ltd.
Persistent
Functionality
advertisingCookie
Tracks user browsing habits to deliver targeted advertising.
AdNetwork Partner
30 days
Targeting
How to Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:
Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. 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.
Cookie Consent Tool: We provide a cookie consent tool on our website that allows you to manage your cookie preferences. This tool will appear when you first visit our website, and you can revisit it at any time to change your settings.
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Ms. Aisha Nakato, at: