How cookies and similar technologies may support your TradEdge website experience.

What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are

Cookies are small pieces of information that a website can ask a browser to store on a computer, mobile phone or other device. When the browser later interacts with the same website, that information can help maintain a session, remember a setting or perform another defined function.

Similar functions can also be performed by local storage, session storage and technologies associated with integrated services. Some operate only for a browser session, while others remain for a defined period or until removed.

Why TradEdge May Use These Technologies

Depending on the functionality actually deployed, they may be used to:

• maintain website or authenticated user sessions;
• support login, account and security-related functionality;
• remember essential or user-selected preferences;
• protect services against misuse or abnormal activity;
• understand technical performance and website reliability;
• identify errors and improve digital experiences;
• support integrated third-party functionality; and
• record cookie choices where a consent mechanism is implemented.

Categories of Cookies and Similar Technologies

Necessary Cookies and Core Functionality

Necessary technologies support functionality fundamental to the operation, security or delivery of the relevant website or application. They may maintain authentication state, preserve a session, support security controls, route requests or remember technically essential choices.

Blocking necessary technologies through browser settings may cause login, protected pages, session continuity or other interactive functionality to stop working correctly.

Preference Technologies

Preference technologies may remember choices that make a digital service more convenient or consistent, including interface options or other non-essential settings.

TradEdge should only identify a particular preference technology as active where it is genuinely configured on the production service.

Analytics and Performance Technologies

TradEdge may use analytics or performance tools to understand how digital services are functioning. Depending on the tool, this may include page visits, navigation patterns, device or browser characteristics, technical errors or aggregate interaction information.

This information can help identify website problems, improve navigation and support technical optimisation.

Third-Party and Embedded Technologies

Some website functions may rely on services supplied by third parties, such as embedded media, maps, communication tools, analytics, security services, payment interfaces or other external components.

Where an external provider independently sets or controls cookies or similar technologies, its processing may also be governed by its own privacy notice, cookie policy, terms or technical configuration.

Consent and Optional Technologies

Where applicable requirements or the nature of a technology require a user choice before a non-essential technology is activated, the relevant consent mechanism should provide that choice before activation.

Any TradEdge cookie preference interface should be configured around technologies actually present on the production website and should not imply that a technology is installed when it is not.

How You Can Manage Cookies

Most modern browsers allow users to view, delete, block or restrict cookies. These controls are usually available under privacy, security, site-data or cookie settings.

• view cookies stored by websites;
• delete individual cookies or stored website data;
• block cookies from particular websites;
• restrict third-party cookies;
• configure automatic deletion of site data; or
• use a website-specific consent interface where provided.

Restricting cookies can improve privacy in some contexts, but blocking technologies required by a service may affect functionality.

Cookie Duration and Retention

The period for which a cookie or identifier remains available depends on its purpose and technical configuration. Session technologies may expire when a browser session ends, while persistent technologies may remain for a defined period unless deleted earlier.

Where TradEdge controls the relevant technology, retention should be proportionate to its intended purpose. Independent third-party providers may determine their own applicable duration.

Cookies and Personal Information

Some browser technologies may involve information associated with a user, device, account or session. Where that information constitutes personal information, its handling should be considered together with the principles described in the TradEdge Privacy Policy.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

TradEdge may update this policy when website functionality, integrated services, browser technologies, operational practices or applicable requirements change. The current version will be published on this page.

Contact TradEdge

Questions about this Cookie Policy, website privacy or browser technologies can be submitted through the following channels.

• Email: support@tradedge.ng
• Phone: +234 901 728 7101
• Address: No 1 Gabriel Street, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria