Cookie Policy

1. Scope

This Cookie Policy applies to cookies and similar browser or device technologies used in connection with Esposearch.net and website functionality controlled by Esposearch Limited.

It may apply to public pages, account and authentication features, WooCommerce and checkout functionality, service purchase pages, support and Live Chat, Academy-related functionality, website analytics, security features and other browser-facing technologies used by Esposearch.net.

Third-party websites linked from Esposearch.net are governed by their own privacy and cookie practices.

2. Who We Are

Esposearch Limited operates Esposearch.net as a specialist WordPress & AI services agency. WordPress is the primary commercial specialization, with practical AI website services and integrations as a complementary capability.

Esposearch Limited is a private limited company incorporated in Kenya on 13 May 2021 under the Companies Act, 2015.

Public Company Number: PVT-9X••••27
Registered Address: K.K. Building, Church Road, P.O. Box 222, Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya 20116
Website: https://esposearch.net/
Email: admin@esposearch.net

3. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data that a website or related service may store on, or read from, a browser or device. They can help a website recognize a browser, maintain a session, remember choices, protect accounts, support checkout or understand how the website performs.

A cookie does not always identify a person by name, but some cookies or identifiers can constitute personal information when linked to an account, device, browser or other information.

4. Similar Technologies

This Policy also uses the term “cookies” as a convenient collective description for similar technologies that may perform related functions. Depending on the website implementation, these can include local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, scripts, software-development components, browser identifiers or comparable technologies.

Not every technology described in this Policy is technically a cookie. The relevant legal and privacy treatment depends on what the technology does and the law that applies.

5. Why We Use Cookies

Esposearch.net may use cookies or similar technologies to provide requested website functionality, maintain sessions, secure accounts, support WooCommerce and checkout, remember preferences, provide Live Chat or support, monitor technical performance, prevent abuse and, where implemented, support analytics, marketing or referral measurement.

Esposearch should use a technology only for a defined and appropriate purpose and should apply consent or other controls where required by applicable law.

6. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Some technologies may be necessary to deliver website functions specifically requested by the visitor or to support security, session continuity, authentication, checkout, fraud prevention, consent preferences or comparable essential functions.

Where legally permitted, strictly necessary technologies may not require consent before use because the requested function cannot reasonably operate without them. Transparency obligations may still apply.

Necessary cookies can still involve personal information or online identifiers; “necessary” does not mean “non-personal.”

7. Authentication & Account Cookies

Where account functionality is available, authentication and session technologies may be used to keep a user signed in, recognize account state, maintain session continuity, support security and help prevent unauthorized access.

Security-sensitive cookie values, tokens and authentication architecture should not be exposed publicly through this Policy or other customer-facing content.

8. WooCommerce & Shopping Cookies

Esposearch uses WooCommerce-related commerce functionality. Cookies or similar technologies may be required to maintain cart contents, checkout sessions, selected products, order workflow and continuity between shopping steps.

Some of these technologies may be necessary to provide functions specifically requested by the customer. The exact cookie names and durations should be published only after they have been technically verified on the live website.

9. Preference & Functionality Cookies

Preference or functionality technologies may remember user choices such as interface settings, language, consent choices, selected options or other website preferences where those features are implemented.

Whether these technologies require consent depends on their purpose, implementation and applicable law.

10. Security & Fraud Prevention

Cookies and related technologies may support website security by helping identify suspicious sessions, reduce automated misuse, protect login processes, detect abusive traffic or assist fraud-prevention measures.

These technologies reduce risk but do not guarantee that fraud, abuse, account compromise or other security incidents will never occur.

11. Analytics & Performance

Where analytics or performance technologies are used, they may help Esposearch understand page visits, website traffic, navigation patterns, user journeys, technical errors, browser compatibility and page performance.

Esposearch should not represent analytics information as anonymous unless the actual configuration supports that claim. Depending on the provider and configuration, information may instead be aggregated, pseudonymous or linked to other online identifiers.

Where applicable law requires consent for non-essential analytics, the relevant technologies should remain inactive until the required choice has been made.

12. Live Chat & Support Technologies

Esposearch.net includes Live Chat functionality. The chat technology in use may rely on cookies, browser storage, session identifiers, device information or similar technologies to deliver chat sessions, maintain conversation continuity and provide support functionality.

The exact provider, cookie names, retention periods and processing locations should only be stated after they are verified against the live implementation.

Personal information submitted through Live Chat is addressed further in the Privacy Policy.

13. Payment Technologies

Payment providers may use cookies, security scripts or comparable technologies to maintain payment sessions, authenticate payment activity, reduce fraud or process transactions.

Some payment technologies may operate on third-party pages or embedded payment components and can be governed by the provider’s own privacy and cookie policies. Esposearch does not control every technology used inside an independent provider’s payment flow.

14. Embedded Content & External Tools

If Esposearch.net embeds videos, maps, forms, social content, media, widgets or other external tools, the relevant provider may set or access cookies or similar technologies when that content loads or when the user interacts with it.

Where applicable law requires consent before loading a non-essential third-party embed, the website implementation should defer the relevant technology until an appropriate choice has been made.

This Policy does not state that a particular embed is currently active unless the live implementation has been verified.

15. Advertising & Marketing Technologies

Esposearch may use advertising, remarketing, conversion-measurement or audience technologies only where they are actually implemented and lawfully configured.

This Policy does not assume that Esposearch currently operates an advertising stack. If material new advertising technologies are introduced, the cookie disclosures and any required consent or opt-out controls should be updated before or when those technologies become active.

Esposearch does not make a blanket representation that advertising cookies are never used unless the website has been technically audited to support that statement.

16. Affiliate & Referral Tracking

Esposearch may participate in affiliate or referral relationships. Where an affiliate or referral link uses tracking technology, the referring or destination provider may use identifiers to attribute a referral, determine whether a transaction qualifies or calculate commission.

Not every outbound link is necessarily an affiliate link, and no affiliate provider or cookie should be named here unless it has been verified.

17. First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are generally set through the Esposearch.net domain and are associated with functionality controlled through the website. They can include technologies used for sessions, security, account features, preferences, WooCommerce or other first-party website functions.

The fact that a cookie is first-party does not determine whether consent is required. Purpose and applicable law remain important.

18. Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies or similar technologies are associated with an external service integrated into, loaded by or linked from Esposearch.net. Examples can include payment, analytics, chat, embedded media or other external services where implemented.

Third-party providers may independently determine some processing purposes and may apply their own privacy and cookie policies. Esposearch cannot unilaterally control every technology used by an independent provider once the visitor interacts directly with that provider.

19. Local Storage & Session Storage

Some website functions may use browser storage rather than traditional cookies. Local storage can persist information beyond a single browsing session until removed, while session storage is generally limited to the active browser session.

These technologies may support similar purposes to cookies, such as preferences, application state, authentication support or service functionality, and may be subject to similar privacy or consent requirements depending on the circumstances.

20. Cookie Consent

Depending on the visitor’s location, the purpose of the technology and applicable law, some non-essential cookies or similar technologies may require consent before they are placed or accessed.

Where prior consent is legally required, relevant non-essential technologies should remain disabled until valid consent is obtained, consent choices should be recorded appropriately, and users should be able to change or withdraw applicable choices later.

This Policy does not claim that a particular consent-management platform is currently deployed unless that implementation has been technically verified.

21. Managing Cookie Preferences

Where Esposearch.net provides a functional cookie-preference interface, visitors may use that tool to manage available non-essential categories. A preference control should only be presented to users when it is connected to a real consent-management process.

This page deliberately does not provide a decorative or non-functional “Manage Cookies,” “Accept,” “Reject” or “Do Not Sell” control.

If website-level controls are not available for a particular technology, browser settings and provider-specific controls may offer additional choices.

22. Browser Controls

Most modern browsers provide settings that allow users to block, limit or delete cookies and other site data. The exact steps differ by browser and can change over time.

Browser controls may not stop every non-cookie technology, and deleting cookies may also remove stored preferences or require a user to sign in again.

23. Global Privacy Signals & Do Not Track

Browser-based privacy signals can have different legal effects depending on the jurisdiction and the type of processing involved.

Esposearch does not claim support for a specific Global Privacy Control, Do Not Track or universal opt-out signal unless the live implementation has been verified.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a legally valid browser-based opt-out preference signal, Esposearch should review and implement appropriate handling for the technologies and obligations that apply.

24. Cookie Duration

Cookies can be session-based or persistent. Session cookies typically expire when the relevant session ends, while persistent cookies can remain for a defined period or until they are removed.

Esposearch does not publish invented durations. Exact retention periods should be stated only after a technical cookie audit verifies the name, provider, purpose and actual duration of each relevant technology.

A future verified cookie inventory may include the technology name, provider, purpose, category, first- or third-party status and duration.

25. International Visitors

Esposearch serves customers internationally. Cookie-consent and tracking requirements can differ depending on visitor location, applicable law, technology purpose and whether the technology is necessary, analytical, advertising-related or otherwise optional.

No single cookie-consent rule should be assumed to apply identically to every visitor worldwide.

26. United Kingdom & EEA Visitors

Where applicable UK or European rules govern the interaction, non-essential cookies and similar technologies may require prior consent. Where consent is required, it should be appropriately informed, specific, freely given and capable of withdrawal in accordance with the law that applies.

Consent-dependent technologies should not be activated before the required choice is made. Non-essential categories should not be pre-selected merely to encourage acceptance where applicable law requires a genuine affirmative choice.

Esposearch does not make a blanket regulatory-compliance representation for UK or European privacy law. Applicability and implementation must be assessed against actual processing and website behavior.

27. United States Visitors

Privacy rules in the United States vary by state. If Esposearch becomes subject to an applicable state law, technologies used for targeted advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising or legally defined sale or sharing may create disclosure or opt-out obligations.

This Policy does not assume that the California Consumer Privacy Act or another state law automatically applies merely because a visitor is located in that state.

Esposearch should not provide a “Do Not Sell or Share” control unless such a control is legally required and technically functional.

28. Canada & Australia

Canada

Where Canadian privacy law applies, tracking technologies should be disclosed transparently and consent should be handled according to the type of information, sensitivity and legal framework that applies. Esposearch does not make a blanket PIPEDA-compliance claim.

Australia

Where Australian privacy law applies, information collected through cookies or online identifiers that relates to an identifiable individual may be subject to applicable privacy requirements. Esposearch should provide transparent disclosure and appropriate handling without making a blanket Australian Privacy Principles compliance claim.

29. Personal Information & Cookies

Cookies and online identifiers can sometimes identify a person directly, be linked to an account, be associated with a browser or device, or be combined with other information to create a profile of activity.

Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal data or personal information, the Privacy Policy may also apply.

30. Children & Cookie Technologies

Esposearch’s commercial WordPress and AI website services are not specifically directed at young children.

If Academy, CSR or educational activities involve minors, Esposearch should review whether additional privacy notices, consent mechanisms or cookie controls are required for the particular program and jurisdiction.

Esposearch should not introduce child-targeted behavioral advertising without appropriate legal and technical review.

31. Updates to Cookie Technologies

Cookie technologies can change when WordPress, plugins, WooCommerce, security services, payment providers, chat tools, analytics systems or other website features change.

Esposearch should periodically audit browser-facing technologies and update this Policy when material cookie, tracking or consent practices change.

A Cookie Policy is not a substitute for technical implementation. Where consent is required, the website itself must correctly block, enable, record and withdraw technologies according to the visitor’s choice.

32. Changes to This Policy

Esposearch may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in technology, website functionality, service providers, legal requirements or consent practices.

The current version should display an Effective Date and Last Updated date. Where applicable law requires additional notice for a material change, Esposearch should provide an appropriate form of notice.

33. Related Policies

This Cookie Policy should be read together with:

• Privacy Policy — broader personal-information practices, privacy roles, international processing and rights.
• Content Privacy — customer website content, credentials, databases and project materials.
• Terms and Conditions — contractual website use, service purchases and legal responsibilities.
• Contact Esposearch — general support and privacy clarification.
• FAQs — customer-facing service and support guidance.

34. Contact

For cookie or privacy questions, contact:

Esposearch Limited
Private Limited Company incorporated in Kenya
Public Company Number: PVT-9X••••27
Registered Address: K.K. Building, Church Road, P.O. Box 222, Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya 20116
Website: https://esposearch.net/
Email: admin@esposearch.net
Contact: https://esposearch.net/contact/

Live Chat may be used for general cookie or privacy clarification. Formal privacy-rights requests or sensitive identity verification should use the appropriate email or Contact process instead.