This Cookie Policy explains how the Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Hub website uses cookies and similar technologies.

We use cookies and similar technologies where necessary to operate the website and, subject to your choices where applicable, to improve your browsing experience, understand how visitors interact with the website and improve our digital services and content.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with the BecA Hub Privacy Policy.

• Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit them.
• Cookies allow websites to recognise a device or browser and may store information about your visit, such as preferences, session information and how you interact with a website.
• Some cookies are necessary for a website to operate correctly, while others may be used for purposes such as analytics and improving the user experience.

The BecA Hub website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• ensure that the website operates correctly and securely;
• maintain essential website functionality;
• remember choices or preferences;
• understand how visitors use the website;
• analyse website traffic and performance;
• identify and resolve technical or usability problems;
• improve website content, navigation and functionality; and
• provide visitors with a more effective browsing experience.

We do not intend to use cookies to collect more information than is reasonably necessary for these purposes.

a) Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required for the website to operate properly or to provide functionality requested by the visitor.

They may support functions such as website security, session management, network management and storage of your cookie-consent preference.

Because these cookies are necessary for operation of the website, they cannot normally be disabled through the website's cookie-consent mechanism.

b) Preference and Functional Cookies

These cookies may allow the website to remember choices you have made and provide enhanced functionality.

For example, they may remember certain website preferences so that these do not have to be selected again during subsequent visits.

Where such cookies are not essential, their use may depend on your consent.

c) Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the BecA Hub website.

They may provide information such as:

• which pages are visited;
• how visitors navigate between pages;
• approximate duration of visits;
• referring websites;
• browser or device characteristics; and
• general website usage patterns.

This information helps us understand website performance, identify areas that may need improvement and provide more useful digital content and services.

Where required, analytics cookies will be activated only after appropriate consent has been provided.

d) Third-Party Cookies

Some pages may incorporate content or services supplied by third parties, such as video, mapping, social-media, analytics or other external services.

Those services may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

Where non-essential third-party technologies require consent, we will seek to prevent them from being activated until the appropriate consent has been provided.

Third-party cookies and information collected through third-party services are also subject to the respective provider's privacy and cookie policies.

When you first visit the BecA Hub website, you may be presented with a cookie-consent notice.

You may choose between:

Accept All — This allows the website to use essential cookies and any optional cookie categories that have been implemented and identified in the consent mechanism.

Reject All — This disallows all cookies EXCEPT the essential cookies that are required for the proper operation, security and functionality of the website. All optional cookies controlled through our consent mechanism will thus remain disabled.

Your selection may itself be stored in an essential cookie so that the website can remember your preference and does not need to ask you on every page or every visit.

You may change or withdraw your consent to optional cookies through the provided "Cookie Settings" panel. On the BecA site, bottom right hand side, you will find a cookie settings button denoted with a crumbled cookie icon. Press this and you will be presented with the Cookie Settings panel where you can make the desired changes / preferences.

You can also manage cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies and configure how websites are permitted to store them.

Please note that blocking or deleting essential cookies may affect the operation of the website or cause certain functionality to become unavailable.

Deleting the BecA Hub consent cookie through your browser may cause the website to ask for your cookie preference again on a subsequent visit.

Cookies do not necessarily identify you directly by name. However, certain cookie identifiers, IP addresses or other online identifiers may constitute personal data in some circumstances.

Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal information, it will be handled in accordance with the BecA Hub Privacy Policy and applicable ILRI data-protection practices.

The BecA Hub may use analytics technologies to understand website traffic, usage patterns and performance.

Analytics information may be used to:

• measure website traffic;
• understand which information visitors find useful;
• evaluate website performance;
• identify technical or usability issues; and
• improve the design, navigation and content of the website.

Where an analytics service uses non-essential cookies or similar technologies requiring consent, those technologies should not be activated until the visitor has provided the relevant consent.

The BecA Hub website may contain links to websites operated by third parties.

Once you follow a link to another website, that website may use its own cookies and similar technologies. The BecA Hub and ILRI do not control cookies placed by independent third-party websites.

You should review the cookie and privacy policies of those websites to understand their practices.

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The duration of a particular cookie depends on its purpose and configuration.

The BecA Hub seeks to retain cookies only for periods reasonably necessary for their intended purposes.

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in the cookies and technologies used by the BecA Hub website, changes to our services, institutional requirements or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Any updated policy will be published on this page.

We encourage visitors to review this Cookie Policy periodically.

If you have questions about the BecA Hub's use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:

Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Hub
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
P.O. Box 30709
Nairobi 00100, Kenya

Email: Contact the BecA Hub

For enquiries specifically concerning personal-data protection and privacy, you may contact ILRI through its data privacy support channel:

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya
P.O. Box 30709-00100
Email: Contact Us About Privacy