Privacy Policy

The African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

• Register for our Knowledge Management Portal (KMP).
• Subscribe to our newsletters or news updates.
• Contact us regarding membership or partnerships.
• Register for events or forums.

We use the information we collect to:

• Facilitate regional technical cooperation (TCDC).
• Provide access to specialized research and policy documents.
• Communicate regarding continental agricultural finance developments.
• Improve our digital services and user experience.

We use cookies and similar technologies to support site performance and understand how visitors interact with our portal.

Vercel Web Analytics counts page views for every visitor without setting cookies or identifying you, so that we know how much each page is read. Everything else in this section waits for your explicit consent to analytics: Vercel Speed Insights, which measures page speed, and custom engagement events such as search, filter use and document downloads. We do not currently enable marketing analytics.

With the same consent, we record the pages you view on this site in our customer relationship system (Odoo), under a random identifier held in the afraca-visitor cookie. While you have not contacted us, that record does not identify you. If you then submit a form or register for an event, we link your page history to that submission, so that we can see which pages and publications brought you to us. Withdrawing analytics consent deletes the cookie and stops any further recording under it.

If you decline analytics, or have not yet answered, we still count the pages you view in the same system, without a cookie, your location or anything else that tells you apart from other visitors who declined. Those counts are never linked to you.

For a full list of cookies, their purposes, and durations, please refer to our dedicated Cookie Policy.

Some pages also offer Google Maps, Google Docs Viewer, or user-initiated YouTube embeds. Those providers may receive technical request data when their embedded content loads. They are described separately in the Cookie Policy.

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure.

You have the right to access, rectify, or request the deletion of your personal data held in our systems. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. You can change your cookie preferences by clicking the “Manage Preferences” button in the site footer.

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact the AFRACA Secretariat.