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This site sets no advertising or analytics cookies, and no tracking pixels. Here is exactly what it stores in your browser, what it asks of anyone else, and how to clear all of it. Last updated October 2026.
The short version. No advertising cookies. No analytics. No pixels, no social plug-ins that report back, no cross-site identifiers, and nothing sold to a data broker. The site keeps five small items in your own browser’s local storage — one remembering that you dismissed the notice, four holding your unfinished drafts of forms — and none of them ever reaches us. The pages do fetch their fonts from Google, which means Google sees your IP address; that is set out below, with how to stop it.
1. What a cookie is, and what this site actually uses
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep and to send back with each request. Cookies are how most of the commercial web recognises you across pages and across sites — which is exactly why we do not use them for that.
This site sets no cookies of its own. It uses your browser's local storage instead, which is a different mechanism: what is written there stays on your device and is never transmitted to our server or anyone else's. We cannot read it, and neither can any third party. It exists so that the site behaves sensibly between one page and the next.
2. Everything this site stores in your browser
The complete list. There is nothing else.
| Name | What it holds | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| apm_cookie_choice_v1 | Which button you pressed on the cookie notice. | So the notice does not reappear on every page you open. | Until you clear your browser data. |
| apm_newsletter | Your own draft of the newsletter sign-up form. | So a half-typed email address survives a page reload. Removed once the form is sent. | Until sent, or until you clear your browser data. |
| apm_contact | Your own draft of the contact form — name, email, message and the options you chose. | So a long message is not lost if you navigate away. Removed once the form is sent. | Until sent, or until you clear your browser data. |
| apm_marketplace | Your own draft of the marketplace listing form. | Same reason: a listing description is slow to write twice. Removed once the form is sent. | Until sent, or until you clear your browser data. |
| apm_radio | Your own draft of the radio noticeboard form, including the announcement text. | So an announcement is not lost mid-sentence. Removed once the form is sent. | Until sent, or until you clear your browser data. |
One thing worth knowing about those drafts. They are stored on the device you are using, unencrypted, readable by anyone who has access to that device and its browser profile. If you are writing something private on a shared or public computer, use a private window, and close it when you are done.
3. What the site asks of other companies
Fonts
Our pages use typefaces served by Google Fonts. When a page loads, your browser requests the font files directly from Google's servers — fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com — and Google therefore receives your IP address, your browser's user-agent string, and the address of the page that made the request. That is the ordinary information any web server receives when it hands over a file. Google states that serving fonts this way does not set or read cookies, and we do not send Google any identifier of ours, any form content, or anything about what you read here.
This is the only automatic request our pages make to a company that is not ours. If you would rather it did not happen, a content blocker or privacy extension that blocks Google's font domains will stop it: the page falls back to the fonts already installed on your computer and stays fully readable, just set in a different typeface.
Maps and social platforms
The contact page links to Google Maps, and the header, footer and contact page link to Facebook, Instagram and X. Those are links, not embedded widgets: nothing is requested from those companies unless you actually click one. If you do, you arrive on their service and their cookies and privacy policies apply, not ours. We do not embed social plug-ins, share buttons that report back, embedded videos, or comment systems, because all of them track readers who never interact with them.
What is not here
For completeness, and because these are the things that most often are present without a reader knowing: no Google Analytics or other analytics service; no advertising network or retargeting tag; no Meta pixel; no session recording or heat-mapping tool; no A/B testing framework; no third-party chat widget; no externally hosted fonts beyond Google's; no CDN that profiles readers. There is nothing on this site that follows you to another one.
4. Server logs, which are not cookies
Our hosting provider keeps ordinary server logs — IP address, browser, page requested, time — for security and fault-finding. Those logs are described in the Privacy Policy, section 2. They are not cookies, they are not used to recognise you on a later visit, and they are not shared for advertising.
5. Clearing what is stored
You can remove everything this site has saved at any time, and the site will keep working. It will simply forget that you dismissed the notice and forget any unfinished drafts. In most browsers:
- Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Delete browsing data → Cookies and other site data. To remove just this site: click the padlock in the address bar → Cookies and site data → Manage.
- Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Manage Data, and remove africanpridemagazine.com from the list.
- Safari — Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data, then search for the domain and remove it.
- Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.
- On a phone — the same settings exist under the browser's own privacy menu, usually under “Clear browsing data” or “Website data”.
Private or incognito windows discard all of it when you close the window, which is the simplest way to read the site on a computer that is not yours.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, we honour it by doing nothing at all — because there is nothing to switch off. We do not track you across sites, we do not build a profile of your reading, we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are used in privacy statutes, and no advertising identifier is created for you here. That is true whether or not your browser sends the signal.
7. Changes to this policy
If we ever add something that stores data on your device or requests a file from another company, it will appear in the tables above and the date at the top of this page will change. We will not add a tracker and leave this page as it was.
Last updated: October 2026. This policy was written for this site and this business. It is not legal advice to you, and it is not a template borrowed from another company.