Last updated: 19 April 2026
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make sites work, improve user experience, and gather analytical information. Similar technologies — including local storage and session storage — serve the same purpose, and this policy covers them too.
2. How SAF Africa uses cookies
We use cookies and related technologies to:
- Keep the website and donation flow secure (for example, by protecting forms from cross-site request forgery).
- Remember your session while you complete a donation or a NUFIC registration.
- Remember small preferences — such as whether you dismissed the NUFIC announcement bar — so we don't bother you again.
- Measure, in aggregate, how people use the Site so we can improve it (only after you consent to analytics cookies).
We do not use cookies for advertising or cross-site tracking, and we do not sell any data.
3. Cookie categories
Always on Strictly necessary
These cookies are required to run the website — you cannot disable them. They support session management, form security (CSRF), and remembering your cookie-consent choice itself.
Opt-in Preference
Remember small, non-identifying preferences — such as dismissing the NUFIC announcement bar — so the site feels personal between visits. You control whether we set these.
Opt-in Analytics
Help us understand, in aggregate, which pages are popular and which are confusing. We only load analytics scripts (for example, Google Analytics or Plausible) after you give consent. Analytics data is never used to identify you personally.
4. Cookies we set
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
saf_session |
Strictly necessary | Laravel session — keeps you logged in where applicable and carries data between form steps. | Session / 2 hours |
XSRF-TOKEN |
Strictly necessary | Protects forms from cross-site request forgery attacks. | Session / 2 hours |
saf_cookie_consent_v1 (local storage) |
Strictly necessary | Remembers your cookie-consent choices so we don't ask again on every page. | 12 months |
saf_nufic_strip_dismissed_v1 (local storage) |
Preference | Remembers that you dismissed the NUFIC announcement bar. | 12 months |
| Analytics provider (if enabled) | Analytics (opt-in) | Aggregated usage measurement. Only loaded after consent. | Up to 24 months |
5. Third-party cookies
Embedded content — such as the Google Map on our Contact page, YouTube videos on our programme pages, or social-media share widgets — may set their own cookies when the content loads. SAF Africa does not control these cookies; please refer to the provider's own policy.
6. Manage your choices
You can change your cookie choices at any time:
Updating your choice here takes effect immediately. Essential cookies cannot be switched off because the website would stop working correctly without them.
7. Browser controls
You can also block or delete cookies directly in your browser. Instructions for the major browsers:
Blocking all cookies may break parts of this website — for example, donations and NUFIC registration may not work because the anti-CSRF protection relies on session cookies.
8. Changes to this policy
If we add new cookies or change how we use them, we'll update this page and, where the change is significant, re-prompt you for consent. The "Last updated" date always reflects the current version.