What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files or identifiers stored by a website or service in a visitor’s browser or device.
They can perform functions such as:
- Keeping a website secure.
- Remembering a visitor’s preferences.
- Maintaining a session.
- Measuring page performance.
- Understanding how visitors navigate a website.
- Recording that a visitor followed an affiliate link.
- Limiting repeated advertising.
- Supporting embedded content.
Some cookies remain only while the browser is open. Others stay on the device for a defined period or until they are deleted.
Similar Technologies
NaijaScore9 may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:
- Local storage.
- Session storage.
- Tracking pixels.
- Tags.
- Scripts.
- Software development kits.
- Link identifiers.
- Affiliate parameters.
- Device or browser identifiers.
- Content-delivery and security tokens.
References to “cookies” in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.
The final cookie inventory should cover all storage and access technologies—not only files whose technical name includes “cookie.”
First-party and third-party cookies
First-party cookies
First-party cookies are set through the NaijaScore9 domain.
They may support:
- Website security.
- Cookie-preference records.
- Display settings.
- User sessions.
- Interface functionality.
- Performance management.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies or technologies are provided by external services used on NaijaScore9.
These may include services relating to:
- Analytics.
- Advertising.
- Affiliate attribution.
- Embedded videos.
- Social-media content.
- Website security.
- Performance monitoring.
- Customer-support forms.
- Content delivery.
Third-party providers may process information under their own privacy and cookie policies.
The final policy should name every relevant provider actually active on the website.
Cookie categories used by NaijaScore9
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for the website to operate securely and reliably.
They may be used for:
- Website and network security.
- Fraud and abuse prevention.
- Traffic management.
- Server load balancing.
- Maintaining administrator or user sessions.
- Remembering cookie-consent choices.
- Protecting forms from spam or automated submissions.
- Delivering pages requested by a visitor.
These cookies should be limited to what is genuinely necessary.
Disabling them through a browser may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.
Examples of functions—not a final cookie list
- Consent-preference storage.
- Security tokens.
- Session identifiers.
- Content-delivery cookies.
- Load-balancing identifiers.
Do not place analytics, affiliate attribution or personalised-advertising cookies in this category merely because they benefit the business.
Preference and Functionality Cookies
Preference cookies help remember choices that improve how the website appears or behaves.
They may remember:
- Light or dark appearance.
- Previously selected navigation settings.
- Display preferences.
- Language or regional choices.
- Expanded or collapsed content.
- Recently selected competitions or markets.
Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, they should follow the visitor’s cookie choice where required.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics technologies help NaijaScore9 understand how the website is used and where technical or content improvements may be needed.
They may collect information such as:
- Pages visited.
- Approximate visit duration.
- Referral source.
- Device category.
- Browser type.
- Approximate geographic area.
- Page-loading performance.
- Navigation events.
- Error or diagnostic information.
- Interactions with buttons, menus, or tools.
NaijaScore9 may use aggregated reports to:
- Identify popular pages.
- Improve website navigation.
- Diagnose performance problems.
- Understand traffic sources.
- Assess whether pages are useful.
- Improve mobile and desktop experiences.
Where consent is required, these technologies should remain disabled until the visitor selects the relevant option.
The final policy must identify the analytics services actually installed, such as Google Analytics, Search Console-related tags, Microsoft Clarity or another provider. Do not list services that are not active.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising technologies may be used to:
- Deliver advertisements.
- Measure advertising performance.
- Limit how often an advertisement appears.
- Attribute a visit or conversion to a campaign.
- Understand interaction with promotional content.
- Support contextual or personalised advertising.
Personalised advertising may involve information about browsing activity, device identifiers or inferred interests.
Where legally required, personalised advertising and related profiling should remain disabled unless the visitor has given the appropriate consent.
The final policy must identify:
- Each advertising provider.
- Whether advertising is contextual or personalised.
- The categories of information processed.
- The provider’s retention period.
- How the visitor can withdraw consent.
Affiliate-tracking Cookies
NaijaScore9 may publish affiliate links to bookmakers, betting platforms and other commercial partners.
When a visitor follows an affiliate link, the link or destination provider may use:
- A referral identifier.
- A click timestamp.
- A campaign code.
- A publisher identifier.
- A cookie or similar identifier.
- Conversion-attribution information.
These technologies may be used to determine whether NaijaScore9 should receive a commission for a qualifying registration or another action.
Using an affiliate link does not mean that NaijaScore9 controls the personal information later collected by the external bookmaker.
Any account registration, identity verification, deposit, withdrawal or wager is handled by the external provider under its own privacy and cookie policies.
Where consent is required for affiliate tracking, the relevant technology should not activate until the visitor has selected the appropriate preference.
Embedded-content Cookies
Some pages may include third-party content such as:
- Videos.
- Social-media posts.
- Sports-data widgets.
- Advertising units.
- Bookmaker widgets.
- Maps.
- Forms.
- Other interactive services.
Loading this content may allow the external provider to receive information about the visitor or place cookies on the visitor’s device.
Where possible, optional embedded content should remain blocked until the required preference has been selected.