Cookie Policy

This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) describes the types of cookies we use on the Tolafghan Platform and our purposes for using them.

What Is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit the Tolafghan site.

Key Concepts

First and third-party cookies: whether a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party refers to the domain placing the cookie.

First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time (e.g., cookies placed by http://www.tolafghan.com).
Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.

Persistent cookies: these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies: these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

How to Delete and Block our Cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of the Tolafghan site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit the Tolafghan site.

Changing your Cookie Settings. The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.

More information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

What Cookies Do We Use and Why?

Generally the Tolafghan platform uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of Tolafghan. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse Tolafghan and also allows us to improve it.

The cookies we may use on Tolafghan may be categorized as follows:

Strictly necessary

‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies let you move around the Tolafghan site and use essential features like secure areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services.

We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:

Identify you as being logged in to Tolafghan site and to authenticate you
Make sure you connect to the right service on Tolafghan when we make any changes to the way it works
For security purposes

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the Tolafghan, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee how Tolafghan or the security on Tolafghan site will perform during your visit.

Third Party Analytics and Service Providers

Facebook:

Facebook Connect. For more information about what Facebook collects when you use Facebook buttons on the Tolafghan site, please see: Data Policy.

Facebook Ads. For more information about what Facebook collects and your choices around Facebook Ads, please see: AdChoices.

Twitter: For more information about what Twitter collects when you use Twitter buttons on the Tolafghan site or visit pages on the Tolafghan site that include these buttons, please see: the Twitter Privacy Policy.
LinkedIn: For more information about what LinkedIn collects when you use LinkedIn buttons on the Tolafghan site or visit pages on the Tolafghan site that include these buttons, please see the LinkedIn Privacy Policy
Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Tolafghan site. You can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google’s Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Help pages.

Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on; if you want to opt out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the add-on for your web browser here.