This Cookie Policy is a working draft. Dates, company details and service-specific information are still pending verification. It is not a final policy or agreement.

AkilIQ Cookie Policy

Effective date: June 1, 2026
Last updated: [LAST UPDATED DATE]

This Cookie Policy explains how AkilIQ Inc., trading as AkilIQ (“AkilIQ”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies on akiliq.net and any other website to which this Policy is expressly linked.

Draft notice: The final cookie table must be generated from the technologies actually deployed on the production website. Do not publish placeholder cookies as though they are active.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files stored on or accessed from your device when you visit a website.

Similar technologies may include:

local storage;
pixels;
tags;
software development kits;
device identifiers;
other browser or device storage technologies.

In this Policy, we refer to these collectively as “cookies” where appropriate.

2. Why AkilIQ Uses Cookies

AkilIQ may use cookies for:

essential website functionality;
security;
remembering preferences;
measuring website performance;
understanding website usage;
improving the website;
marketing, but only where such technologies are actually enabled and lawfully used.

We aim to minimize unnecessary tracking.

3. Cookie Categories

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for functionality such as:

security;
consent-management choices;
load balancing;
fraud prevention;
session functionality where applicable.

Where permitted by law, strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent because the requested service cannot operate correctly without them.

Preference Cookies

These remember choices such as:

language;
display preferences;
consent selections.

Where legally required, these are activated only after consent.

Analytics Cookies

These may help us understand:

page visits;
navigation paths;
traffic sources;
website errors;
aggregate usage patterns.

Where consent is required, analytics cookies will not be activated until consent is provided.

Marketing Cookies

If AkilIQ later uses advertising or retargeting technologies, they may be used to measure campaigns or personalize advertising.

AkilIQ should not enable these technologies for EU/UK visitors before obtaining the consent required by applicable law.

If no marketing technology is used, remove this category from the active cookie banner rather than implying that it is deployed.

4. Cookies Currently Used

Production audit status: [TO BE COMPLETED AFTER PRODUCTION COOKIE SCAN]

Replace this table with actual cookies/technologies.

Cookie / technology	Provider	Purpose	Category	Duration
[CONSENT COOKIE]	AkilIQ / [PROVIDER]	Stores cookie choices	Strictly necessary	[DURATION]
[SECURITY COOKIE]	[PROVIDER]	Security / abuse prevention	Strictly necessary	[DURATION]
[ANALYTICS COOKIE, IF ENABLED]	[PROVIDER]	Website analytics	Analytics	[DURATION]
[PREFERENCE COOKIE, IF ENABLED]	AkilIQ	Stores user preference	Preference	[DURATION]
[MARKETING COOKIE, IF ENABLED]	[PROVIDER]	Advertising/measurement	Marketing	[DURATION]

Delete all unused rows.

5. Cookie Consent

Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies will remain disabled until you make a choice.

The cookie interface should offer, where applicable:

Accept all
Reject non-essential
Manage preferences

Rejecting non-essential cookies should be as straightforward as accepting them.

Consent must not be obtained through pre-selected optional categories.

6. Changing Your Preferences

You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time using:

Cookie Settings

The website should make this control persistently available, for example in the footer.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before withdrawal.

7. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.

Browser controls are separate from AkilIQ’s consent mechanism.

8. Third-Party Technologies

Where AkilIQ uses third-party analytics, embedded content, video, scheduling, chat, or other services, those providers may set or access cookies depending on implementation.

Only third parties actually used by akiliq.net should be listed.

Third-party services currently used:

DigitalOcean — website and application hosting infrastructure
Google Analytics — website usage analytics (see Section 9)

Their privacy practices may be governed by their own policies in addition to AkilIQ’s obligations.

9. Analytics

Analytics provider: Google Analytics 4
Configuration: Default configuration with IP anonymization; analytics cookies are activated only after consent where required by applicable law
Retention: 14 months

If AkilIQ uses consent-requiring analytics for EU/UK visitors, the analytics scripts must not execute before the required consent is obtained.

If AkilIQ chooses cookieless analytics, document the actual technology and assess whether consent is still required under applicable law rather than assuming “cookieless” means exempt.

10. Advertising

Advertising/retargeting technologies: [NONE / LIST PROVIDERS]

If AkilIQ does not use advertising cookies, state:

AkilIQ currently does not use advertising or retargeting cookies on akiliq.net.

Only use that statement while it remains factually correct.

11. Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

website functionality changes;
cookie providers change;
analytics or marketing technologies change;
applicable legal requirements change.

The latest version will display the date at the top of this page.

12. Contact

For questions about cookies or privacy:

AkilIQ Inc.
00100, Nairobi, Kenya
[email protected]

For additional information about how AkilIQ processes personal data, see our Privacy Policy at https://akiliq.net/privacy.