This Cookie Policy explains how The Philosophy of a Village Boy uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit villageboy.co.za.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with the website’s Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device when you visit a website. Cookies help websites function properly, remember visitor preferences, and understand how visitors interact with website content.
Some cookies are essential for the operation and security of the website. Other cookies, including analytics and advertising cookies, are optional and may require your consent.
How This Website Uses Cookies
The Philosophy of a Village Boy may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- operate and secure the website;
- remember your cookie preferences;
- support essential WordPress functions;
- enable and manage comments;
- prevent spam and misuse;
- measure website traffic and performance through Google Analytics;
- support content or services provided by third parties; and
- support advertising if Google AdSense is approved and activated in the future.
The specific cookies used by the website may change when features, plugins, or third-party services are added, removed, or updated.
Types of Cookies Used
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support essential website functions, including:
- page navigation;
- website security;
- spam prevention;
- WordPress functionality; and
- remembering your cookie-consent choices.
These cookies are necessary for the website to operate and cannot always be disabled through the website’s cookie-preference controls.
Blocking essential cookies through your browser may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.
Cookie-Preference Cookies
Cookie-preference cookies remember the choices you make through the cookie banner, including whether you have accepted or rejected optional cookies.
These cookies prevent the website from repeatedly asking you to make the same cookie selection whenever you visit another page.
Comment Cookies
When you leave a comment on this website, WordPress may offer to save your name, email address, and website in cookies.
These cookies are provided for your convenience so that you do not have to enter the same information again when leaving another comment.
Leaving a comment and allowing comment-related cookies are voluntary. Information submitted through the comment form is handled in accordance with the website’s Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- pages visited;
- approximate visit duration;
- referring websites or sources;
- browser and device type;
- general geographic information;
- interactions with website features; and
- technical information about website performance.
This information helps The Philosophy of a Village Boy understand website traffic, improve navigation and identify content that visitors find useful.
Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect usage information. Where consent is required, analytics cookies will only be activated after you have accepted them through the cookie banner.
You may reject analytics cookies or change your cookie preferences through the website’s cookie-preference controls.
Information collected through Google Analytics is processed according to Google’s applicable privacy and data-protection terms.
Future Use of Google AdSense
The Philosophy of a Village Boy is in the process of applying to Google AdSense. Advertising is not currently active on the website.
If the website is approved and Google AdSense is activated, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- deliver and measure advertisements;
- limit how often an advertisement is displayed;
- measure advertising performance;
- detect invalid traffic or fraudulent activity; and
- personalise advertisements where the visitor has provided the required consent.
Advertising cookies will not be activated merely because an AdSense application is being prepared or reviewed.
If Google AdSense is approved and advertising services are enabled, this Cookie Policy and the website’s cookie-consent settings will be reviewed and updated where necessary.
Visitors will be given the required information and cookie choices before non-essential advertising cookies are used.
Embedded Content and External Websites
Some pages may include or link to content and services provided by external websites. These may include:
- videos;
- social-media services;
- employment and career-opportunity platforms;
- university funding noticeboards;
- bursary and scholarship providers; and
- other external resources.
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. The third party may place cookies, collect information about your interaction with its content or track that interaction according to its own privacy and cookie policies.
A normal hyperlink does not necessarily place a third-party cookie on this website. However, an external website may use cookies after you follow the link and visit that website.
The Philosophy of a Village Boy does not control cookies placed directly by external websites. Visitors should review the privacy and cookie policies of those websites before interacting with their content or submitting personal information.
Your Cookie Choices
When the cookie banner appears, you may be offered options to:
- accept all cookies;
- reject non-essential cookies;
- allow only essential cookies; or
- manage individual cookie categories.
Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent you from reading the main content of the website. However, some non-essential features or embedded services may not function as intended.
Where available, you may change or withdraw your consent through the website’s Cookie Preferences option.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through the browser settings.
You may also configure your browser to:
- block all cookies;
- block third-party cookies;
- delete cookies when the browser is closed; or
- notify you before a cookie is placed.
Blocking all cookies may affect:
- cookie-preference settings;
- comment-form convenience features;
- embedded third-party content;
- analytics preferences; and
- other website functions that depend on cookies.
Instructions differ between browsers. Consult the help or privacy section of your browser for information about managing cookies.
Personal Information and POPIA
Some cookies and similar technologies may collect online identifiers, device information or other information that can be associated with a visitor or device.
Where this information constitutes personal information, it will be processed in accordance with the website’s Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection requirements, including South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, commonly known as POPIA.
The website aims to collect only the information reasonably required for its legitimate functions and disclosed purposes.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated when:
- website features change;
- plugins or service providers are added, removed or updated;
- the cookies used by the website change;
- analytics services change;
- Google AdSense or another advertising service is activated; or
- legal or regulatory requirements change.
The effective date displayed at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last materially revised.
Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically for updates.
Contact
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the website’s use of cookies, please use the contact information provided in the website’s Privacy Policy.
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