Last Updated: June 14, 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Electronics Place (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website, Electronics Place, to enhance your Browse experience, analyze site usage, and support our marketing efforts.

By continuing to use our website, you agree to the use of cookies as described in this policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, please adjust your browser settings or refrain from using our website.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies allow a website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time.

There are different types of cookies:

First-party cookies: These are cookies set by the website you are visiting (e.g., cookies set by Electronics Place).
Third-party cookies: These are cookies set by a domain other than the website you are visiting (e.g., cookies set by Google, Hotjar, etc.).

Cookies can be either “persistent” (remaining on your device for a set period or until you delete them) or “session” (deleted automatically when you close your browser).

2. How Electronics Place Uses Cookies

We use cookies for several reasons, primarily to provide a functional and enjoyable shopping experience, to understand how our website is used, and to personalize your interactions. Our use of cookies aligns with the principles of the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

To make our website work: Essential cookies enable core functionality, such as adding items to your shopping cart and proceeding to checkout.
To improve your Browse experience: Cookies remember your preferences, like language settings or items recently viewed.
To analyze website performance: We use cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website, which pages are most popular, and identify areas for improvement.
For marketing and advertising: Cookies help us deliver relevant advertisements to you on our site and across other platforms.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Here are the categories of cookies typically used on Electronics Place:

3.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies (Essential Cookies)

These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site or adding items to your shopping cart. Without these cookies, services like secure login or the checkout process cannot be provided.

Purpose: Enable core website functionality, user authentication, security, and cart management.
Data Collected: Primarily technical, session-related data.
Impact if disabled: The website will not function correctly.
Example: Cookies that remember items in your shopping cart.

3.2. Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages they visit most often, how much time they spend on a page, and if they encounter error messages. This helps us understand and improve how our website performs.

Purpose: Measure website performance, traffic sources, and user engagement.
Data Collected: Anonymous or aggregated data about Browse patterns (e.g., number of visits, pages viewed, time spent, referral sources).
Third-party Services Used:
- Google Analytics: A widely used web analytics service by Google, which helps us understand website traffic and user behavior.
- Hotjar: A technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g., how much time they spend on which pages, what links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like), and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback.

3.3. Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

Purpose: Enhance user experience, personalize content, and remember user preferences.
Data Collected: User preferences, selected settings.
Example: Remembering your login details for a quicker sign-in next time.

3.4. Targeting and Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.

Purpose: Deliver personalized ads, track ad campaign performance, and show relevant content based on Browse history.
Data Collected: Browse habits, interests, and interaction with ads.
Third-party Services Used:
- Google Ads: Used to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and deliver relevant ads across Google’s network.
- Other advertising networks may also set cookies to help track campaign performance and display personalized ads.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These third parties include, but are not limited to, Google (for Analytics and Ads) and Hotjar. We do not have control over how these third parties collect or use your information; their practices are governed by their own privacy policies.

5. Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.

Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, which allows you to decide whether or not to accept it. You can also configure your browser to decline all cookies or to delete specific cookies that have already been placed.
Opt-Out Tools:
- To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- To understand how Hotjar collects and processes data and to opt-out, visit: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/do-not-track/
- For more general information on how to control advertising cookies, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Opt-Out Page at: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/

Please note that if you choose to disable or delete cookies, some parts of our website may not function correctly or your access to certain functionalities may be limited.

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page. We will also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Cookie Policy.

You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookie Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

7. More Information

For more details on how we collect, use, and protect your personal data, please refer to our comprehensive Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us:

By email: [email protected]
By phone number: +254 111 630 930
By visiting our Contact Us page on our website.