Cookie Notice.

Your choice

When you first visit, a banner offers two equal choices: Decline or Accept all. Until you choose, nothing optional is set. To change your choice later, use “Cookie settings” at the foot of any page. Clearing this site’s data in your browser also resets it.

Your choice itself is kept in your browser’s local storage under the name indaba-consent for 12 months, so that we do not ask on every page. It contains only your choice and its date.

Analytics cookies (Accept all)

• _ga: Google Analytics. Distinguishes visitors so that visits can be counted. Up to 2 years.
• _ga_XXXXXXXXXX (the X part is our account code): Google Analytics. Keeps the state of your current visit. Up to 2 years.

Advertising cookies (Accept all)

• _gcl_au: Google Ads. Links a visit to an advertisement you clicked, to measure our campaigns. 90 days.
• _fbp: Meta (Facebook and Instagram). Measures visits from our Meta advertising and helps reach relevant audiences. 90 days.
• li_fat_id and LinkedIn’s own cookies (such as bcookie and lidc, set on linkedin.com): LinkedIn Insight Tag. Measures visits from our LinkedIn advertising. Up to 1 year.

These cookies are set by or for Google, Meta and LinkedIn, whose own policies explain how they use the data. If you decline, none of them is set. Google’s tags may still send cookieless signals, as described in the privacy notice.

Indaba Guide pages

Guide pages also use your browser’s local storage for an optional usage-measurement choice, which is off by default, and session storage for the page and link used to reach a Guide form. Neither is sent to us unless you submit a form.

The investor portal

Invited partners and investors sign in to a separate investor portal at partners.indaba.co. After you sign in, the portal sets one cookie:

• __Host-ib_session: keeps you signed in for up to seven days. It is strictly necessary for the portal to work. It is marked HttpOnly and Secure, so page scripts cannot read it and it is only sent over encrypted connections. Signing out removes it.

The portal’s cookie is not used for analytics or advertising, and it is not set when you browse indaba.co.

Other Indaba sites

The Indaba Foundation and the Indaba Institute run their own sites, which explain their own use of cookies.

If this changes

If we add or change a cookie, we will list it here first and update the date at the top of the page. A new kind of optional cookie will ask for your agreement again.

Questions: write to greg@indaba.co.

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