Cookies & Analytics
Necessary storage, optional Google Analytics and how to change your analytics preference.
Operator and purpose
African Ranked operates https://africanranked.com. Contact info@africanranked.com for questions about browser storage or the website's analytics choices. This notice explains the website's implemented controls and supplements the Privacy Policy.
Necessary storage
Session and security storage supports functions such as staff sign-in and protection of forms. Disabling necessary cookies can affect those functions. The optional Google Analytics integration is controlled separately.
Optional Google Analytics
When enabled, Google Analytics 4 uses Measurement ID G-8XMRKYBLQ6. Its purpose is to help African Ranked understand visits and improve editorial content. The website loads the external Analytics tag only after an analytics choice is granted.
Before acceptance, and after choosing Reject analytics, the integration leaves the Analytics tag unloaded. The consent code grants analytics storage only. It keeps advertising storage, advertising user-data consent and ad-personalisation consent denied.
Google may receive browsing events, identifiers, device information and network information when Analytics operates. Its cookies and data retention depend on Google's service and the configured property settings. This notice does not assign an unverified expiry period to Google's cookies or account data.
Your stored choice
The browser preference is named ar.analytics.consent.v1. It records the granted or denied choice locally and is not submitted to the African Ranked server. The application does not impose an automatic expiry on that preference. It can remain until you change it or clear the relevant local browser storage.
If browser storage is unavailable, a choice can still control the current page, but it may not persist when you visit another page.
Changing your decision
Open Analytics preferences in the website footer to show the choice again. Choosing Reject after previously accepting reloads the page to stop the website from loading the Analytics integration. Existing Google cookies may remain until their own expiry or until you remove them through browser settings.
Declining analytics does not prevent access to ordinary articles. Website fonts and some photographs may still be requested from their hosting providers as part of displaying a page; those requests are distinct from the optional Google Analytics tag.
Further information
The Privacy Policy describes the operator, contact details, service providers and handling of privacy requests. Google's privacy information explains its own processing. For questions concerning African Ranked's implementation, email info@africanranked.com.