Cookie Policy

Effective date: 15 October 2026·

1. About this policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Africa Energy Investment Corporation (AEICORP), Société Africaine d’Investissement en Énergie (“AEICORP”, “we”, “us” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies on the Africa Energies Report website at africaenergiesreport.com (the “Website”) and the Africa Energies Report data platform at app.africaenergiesreport.com, including any staging or mirror address (the “App”). The Website and the App are together the “Services”.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data more generally, and our Terms and Conditions.

2. What cookies and similar technologies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device when you visit it. Cookies allow a site to recognise your device, remember your preferences and understand how the site is used.

We also use similar technologies, which this policy refers to collectively as “cookies”:

• Local storage and session storage: data held in your browser to remember settings such as language, dashboard filters and display preferences.
• Pixels and web beacons: small graphics embedded in pages or emails that tell us whether a page was viewed or an email was opened.
• SDKs and scripts: code from service providers that supports functions such as analytics, payment and security.

Cookies may be first-party (set by the Services) or third-party (set by another organisation whose features we use). They may be session cookies, deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain until they expire or you delete them.

3. How we use cookies

We group cookies into four categories. Only strictly necessary cookies are set without your consent. All other categories are switched off until you opt in through our cookie banner or preference centre, and you can change your choice at any time.

Category	Purpose	Consent required	Examples of use on the Services
Strictly necessary	Make the Services work and keep them secure	No	Keeping you logged in to the App, protecting forms against spam and fraud, load balancing, remembering your cookie choices, completing checkout
Functional	Remember choices you make to give you a more personal experience	Yes	Language preference (English or French), saved dashboard filters, recently viewed countries
Analytics and performance	Help us understand how the Services are used so we can improve them	Yes	Counting visits and traffic sources, measuring which dashboards and reports are most used, detecting errors and slow pages
Marketing	Measure the effectiveness of our communications and campaigns	Yes	Measuring newsletter opens and clicks, measuring the effect of campaigns on social media platforms

We do not use cookies to build profiles for selling advertising, and we do not sell information collected through cookies.

4. Cookies we use

The table below lists the main cookies set on the Services. It is reviewed at least every six months and whenever we add a new tool.

Name	Provider	Category	Purpose	Duration
Session and authentication cookie	Africa Energies Report (App)	Strictly necessary	Keeps you signed in and links requests to your account	Session, or up to 30 days if you choose to stay signed in
CSRF or security token	Africa Energies Report (App)	Strictly necessary	Protects forms and account actions against cross-site request forgery	Session
Cookie consent record	Africa Energies Report (Website and App)	Strictly necessary	Stores your cookie choices so we do not ask again on every visit	12 months
WordPress and form security cookies	Africa Energies Report (Website)	Strictly necessary	Support site operation and protect the contact and newsletter forms	Session to 12 months
Payment session cookies	PayPal, Flutterwave	Strictly necessary	Process a payment securely and prevent fraud when you upgrade	Set by the provider; see their policies
Hosting and security cookies	Vercel and the Website host	Strictly necessary	Route traffic, mitigate attacks and keep the Services available	Session to 12 months
Language preference	Africa Energies Report (App)	Functional	Remembers your chosen language	12 months
Dashboard state	Africa Energies Report (App)	Functional	Remembers filters, year range and sector view between visits	Up to 12 months
[Analytics provider]	[Provider name]	Analytics	Measures visits, page views and feature use in aggregate	Up to 13 months
[Social media or email marketing tags]	[Provider name]	Marketing	Measures campaign and newsletter performance	Up to 13 months

Where a third party sets a cookie, that provider’s own privacy and cookie policy also applies. We choose providers that commit to appropriate data protection safeguards.

5. Embedded content and social media

Some pages include content or links from other services, such as video players, maps or social media buttons for LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. If embedded content loads from another service, that service may set its own cookies. We load such content only after you consent to the relevant category, or show a placeholder you can click to load it.

6. Cookies in our emails

Our newsletters and sector email alerts may contain pixels that tell us whether an email was opened and which links were clicked. We use this to improve the relevance of our communications. You can stop this by setting your email client to block images, or by unsubscribing using the link in every email.

7. Managing your choices

Our cookie banner and preference centre. When you first visit the Services, a banner lets you accept all cookies, reject all non-essential cookies or choose by category. “Reject all” is as easy as “Accept all”. You can reopen your preferences at any time through the “Cookie settings” link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before you withdrew it.

Browser controls. Most browsers let you view, delete and block cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent parts of the Services, such as signing in and checkout, from working. Guidance is available from your browser’s help pages.

Global privacy signals. Where your browser sends a recognised opt-out signal such as Global Privacy Control, we treat it as a rejection of non-essential cookies for that browser.

Analytics opt-out. Some analytics providers offer their own opt-out tools. Details will be listed here alongside the provider once confirmed.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when we change the tools we use or when the law changes. We will post the updated version with a new “Last updated” date and, where changes are significant, ask for your consent again.

9. Contact us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected], or write to: Data Protection Officer, Africa Energies Report, AEICORP, Lotissement 332, Quartier Zongo Mifongou, 5e Arrondissement de Cotonou, Immeuble Espace Antou, Republic of Benin.