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Last updated: 24 October 2026
Welcome to the Afghan Trade Center.
This Cookie Policy explains how the Afghan Trade Center uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website. These technologies may help our website function correctly, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use our services and improve the overall browsing experience.
Afghan Trade Center provides a business directory and B2B platform that helps users discover businesses, explore products and services, and find potential trade and business connections.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other internet-connected device when you visit a website.
They allow websites to recognise a browser, remember certain preferences and support specific functionality.
Some cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
We may also use similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, scripts or local storage, where applicable. These technologies can help support website functionality, measure usage or provide other services.
Depending on the technologies enabled on our website, cookies may be used for the following purposes:
The cookies and technologies actually used will depend on the website’s configuration and the third-party services integrated with it.
These cookies are required for essential website operations or for providing a service that you have requested. They may support functions such as security, session management and account access.
Where these cookies are strictly necessary under applicable law, they may be used without consent. They cannot generally be disabled through a website preference tool without affecting essential functionality, although you may be able to block them through your browser settings.
Functional cookies may remember choices you make, such as language, region or other website preferences, where those features are available.
They can help provide a more convenient browsing experience. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before using non-essential functional cookies.
Analytics cookies, if enabled, help us understand how visitors interact with Afghan Trade Center.
They may provide information about page views, navigation patterns, referring websites, browser types and website performance. We can use this information to identify technical issues and improve our business directory and user experience.
Where required, these cookies will only be placed after you have provided valid consent.
If advertising or marketing technologies are used on our website, they may help measure campaign performance, understand interactions with promotional content or personalise advertising.
These technologies may be provided by third parties and could involve the processing of information across different websites or services.
We will obtain consent before using non-essential advertising cookies where required by applicable law. If these technologies are not used on our website, this category will not apply.
First-party cookies are set by Afghan Trade Center’s website or its infrastructure.
Third-party cookies may be set by external service providers whose tools or services are integrated into the website. Depending on the services enabled, these could include analytics, embedded content, security or marketing providers.
Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable legal requirements.
We encourage you to review the relevant third-party privacy information where appropriate.
When you visit Afghan Trade Center, a cookie consent mechanism may allow you to manage your preferences for non-essential cookies.
Where applicable, you can:
Strictly necessary cookies may continue to operate where they are required to provide essential website functionality or a service you have requested.
Where consent is required, non-essential cookies and similar technologies will not be activated before valid consent is obtained.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. However, blocking certain cookies may affect website features, account functionality or your overall browsing experience.
Most modern browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their privacy or security settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
Please note that browser controls are separate from any cookie preference mechanism provided on our website. Deleting cookies may also remove saved preferences, including your cookie consent settings, meaning you may be asked to make your choices again.
Some cookies or similar technologies may collect or relate to information that can identify you directly or indirectly, particularly when combined with other information.
Depending on the technologies used, this information may include device identifiers, online activity, IP addresses, browser information or usage data.
We handle personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection legislation.
We do not assume that all cookie data is anonymous. Where information constitutes personal data, the relevant legal requirements apply.
Some third-party service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where our use of cookies or similar technologies involves an international transfer of personal data, we will take the measures required by applicable data-protection law, where relevant.
Further details about any applicable transfers and safeguards should be provided in our Privacy Policy where appropriate.
Cookie duration depends on the purpose of the cookie and the provider that sets it.
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period or until they are deleted.
The actual duration of each cookie depends on the website configuration and the relevant service provider. Details of specific cookies, their purposes and expiry periods should be made available through our cookie preference tool or cookie information table where applicable.
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes to our website, the technologies we use, our services or applicable legal requirements.
Any revised version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to remain informed about our use of cookies and similar technologies.
Where required, we will seek renewed consent if material changes affect the cookies or purposes for which consent is necessary.
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on our website, please contact us using the details below.
Afghan Trade Center
Email: info@afghantradecenter.co.uk
Address:
Unit 1 & 2 Chepstow House
Bryan Street
Stoke-on-Trent
ST1 5AJ
United Kingdom
Website: https://afghantradecenter.co.uk/
We will review your enquiry and respond as appropriate.
