Cookie Policy

1. Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy applies to the Alafia Central Mosque public website, donor services, donor portal, enquiry forms, public programme forms, and related community platform features.

Cookies and similar technologies may be used to keep the website working, protect forms and accounts, support secure logins, remember basic preferences, and improve the visitor experience.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on a visitor's device by a website or browser. Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, pixels, or security tokens used for website functionality.

Cookies can help websites:

• Remember preferences
• Maintain secure sessions
• Improve functionality
• Enhance the visitor experience
• Protect forms, accounts, and services from abuse

3. Types of Cookies We Use

The exact cookies used may change as the website develops, but they generally fall into the categories below.

4. How This Website Uses Cookies

Alafia Central Mosque may use cookies or similar browser storage for purposes such as:

• Maintaining donor portal sessions
• Maintaining admin or authorised user sessions
• Protecting public forms against spam, abuse, and automated submissions
• Remembering user preferences where applicable
• Supporting secure login and logout
• Improving website reliability and visitor experience

5. Payment Services

When donations are processed through approved payment providers, those providers may use cookies or similar technologies as part of secure payment processing, fraud prevention, checkout operation, and payment verification.

Payment providers may include:

• Stripe
• Paystack
• Flutterwave

Visitors and donors should also review the privacy and cookie policies of those providers when using their checkout or payment pages.

6. Third-Party Services

Some public website features may rely on trusted third-party services. These services may place their own cookies or use similar technologies when their content is loaded or interacted with.

Examples may include:

• Google Maps for location and directions
• Embedded videos, such as YouTube videos
• Payment providers for online donations
• Future analytics providers if analytics are introduced

Third-party services are governed by their own policies. Alafia Central Mosque does not control every cookie placed by external services.

7. Managing Cookies

Visitors can manage cookies through their browser settings. Most browsers allow people to accept cookies, block cookies, delete cookies, or receive alerts before cookies are stored.

Disabling some cookies may affect:

• Login and logout
• Donor portal access
• Admin or authorised user sessions
• Donation checkout redirects
• Contact, enquiry, volunteer, and programme forms
• General website functionality

8. Consent

Where required by law, visitors may be asked to consent to certain categories of cookies. Essential cookies may still be required for the website to operate safely and securely.

If optional analytics or marketing-style cookies are introduced in future, they should be explained clearly and handled in line with applicable consent requirements.

9. Updates to This Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time as the website, donor services, payment providers, public forms, or legal requirements develop. The latest version will always be available on this page.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact Alafia Central Mosque: