Last updated: 7 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Books To Africa International, trading as Books2Africa ® (“Books2Africa”, “we”, “us” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our websites.
Books To Africa International is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company number 08528635 and registered charity number 1152599.
Our registered office is:
Books2Africa
Unit 2, Barton Business Park
New Dover Road
Canterbury
Kent CT1 3AA
United Kingdom
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy and Data Protection Policy, which explains more generally how we collect, use, share, retain and protect personal information.
Cookies are small text files or pieces of information stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can enable a website to recognise your device, remember information about your visit, maintain a shopping basket, remember your preferences, understand how the website is being used or support other website functions.
Cookies may be:
Session cookies – which normally expire when you close your browser; or
Persistent cookies – which remain on your device for a specified period or until they are deleted.
Cookies may also be:
First-party cookies – set by Books2Africa’s website; or
Third-party cookies – set by another organisation whose services or content are used on our website.
The rules described in this policy apply not only to traditional cookies but also to other technologies that store information on, or access information from, your device.
Depending on the services used on our website, these technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, scripts, software development kits, tracking links and similar technologies.
For simplicity, we generally refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies” in this policy.
Books2Africa uses Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics as our Consent Management Platform.
Cookiebot helps us:
identify cookies and similar technologies used on our website;
provide information about their purposes and providers;
obtain and record cookie choices where consent is required;
prevent relevant technologies from operating before the required choice has been made;
remember your cookie preferences; and
provide a mechanism for you to change or withdraw your choices.
Cookiebot is provided by Usercentrics A/S, Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, Denmark.
More information about our use of third-party service providers and international transfers of personal information is available in our Privacy and Data Protection Policy.
Cookies and similar technologies that require consent are not activated until you have made the relevant choice through our cookie controls.
Where consent is required, it must be freely given, specific, informed and indicated by a clear positive action.
Simply continuing to browse the Books2Africa website does not constitute consent to cookies requiring consent.
Our cookie controls allow you to:
Accept relevant optional cookies;
Reject relevant optional cookies; or
Manage your preferences by category.
You can change your choices or withdraw consent at any time using Cookie Settings.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
UK law provides limited exceptions in which certain storage and access technologies may be used without prior consent.
These can include technologies used:
solely to transmit a communication over an electronic communications network;
where they are strictly necessary to provide a service that you have requested;
solely for qualifying statistical purposes intended to improve a website or service;
for qualifying purposes relating to the appearance or functionality of a service according to a user’s preferences; or
for certain emergency-assistance purposes.
These exceptions are subject to specific legal conditions.
Where Books2Africa relies on an exception for statistical or appearance/functionality purposes, we will provide appropriate information and a simple means for users to object, as required by law.
Where the requirements for an exception are not satisfied, we will seek consent before using the relevant technology.
The particular cookies in use can change as our website and services change. The live Cookie Declaration below provides the current details.
Cookiebot generally groups technologies into the following categories.
Necessary cookies support essential functions of the website and services you request.
They may be used for purposes such as:
website and network security;
fraud prevention;
maintaining a shopping basket or checkout session;
remembering privacy and cookie choices;
maintaining a secure login or user session;
distributing website traffic appropriately; and
other functions that are necessary to provide a service you have specifically requested.
Where a cookie is strictly necessary within the meaning of applicable law, we do not need to obtain consent to use it.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent necessary cookies from operating.
Preference cookies may enable the website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or appears.
For example, they may remember language, region, display or other website preferences.
Some preference technologies may qualify for an exception under applicable law where all of the relevant requirements are satisfied. Where they do not qualify for an exception and consent is required, they will only operate following the necessary consent.
Statistics or analytics technologies help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
They can help us understand matters such as:
how many people visit our website;
which pages are visited;
how visitors move through the website;
whether visitors encounter errors;
how long visitors spend on particular sections; and
how we can improve the website and user experience.
Some limited statistical technologies may qualify for the statistical-purpose exception under UK law where all applicable conditions are satisfied, including restrictions on how the information is used and an appropriate means of objecting.
Where a statistics or analytics technology does not satisfy an applicable exception, we obtain the required consent before using it.
Marketing cookies and similar technologies may be used to measure advertising, understand campaign performance, prevent the same advertisement being displayed excessively, or help make advertising more relevant.
They may also enable advertising or social-media providers to recognise visits to our website and associate activity with information held by those providers.
Where consent is required, marketing and advertising technologies are not activated until you provide that consent.
Books2Africa does not treat simply visiting or continuing to browse our website as consent to marketing technologies.
Some functionality on the Books2Africa website is provided using services operated by other organisations.
Depending on the services currently enabled on our website, these may include services relating to:
website analytics;
video or multimedia content;
social-media features;
online advertising;
payment processing;
maps or embedded content;
ecommerce;
security; and
other website functionality.
Third-party services may use cookies or similar technologies when their content or functionality is loaded.
Where their technologies require consent, Cookiebot is used to manage the relevant choice.
The current third-party providers and technologies detected on our website are identified in the Cookie Declaration below.
Third parties may also process information in accordance with their own privacy notices and legal obligations.
Our website may contain embedded content such as videos, maps, social-media features or other third-party content.
Loading embedded content can allow the third-party provider to receive information about your device or interaction with the content and may result in cookies or other technologies being used.
Where consent is legally required for such technologies, the relevant content or tracking functionality may remain blocked until you provide the appropriate consent.
Cookiebot records information needed to remember and demonstrate the cookie choices made through our consent mechanism.
This may include limited technical and consent information such as:
an anonymous consent identifier;
the date and time of the consent choice;
consent preferences or status;
browser or device-related information;
the URL from which consent was submitted; and
limited IP-address information processed for the purpose of recording the consent.
These records help Books2Africa demonstrate and respect the choices made by website visitors.
Cookiebot end-user consent information is generally retained for up to 12 months, subject to Usercentrics’ applicable privacy and retention arrangements.
Different cookies remain on a device for different periods.
Some are deleted when you close your browser, while others may remain for days, months or longer where this is justified by their purpose.
We periodically review cookie durations and aim to ensure that they are proportionate to the purpose for which the technology is used.
The current duration of individual cookies detected on the Books2Africa website is provided in the Cookie Declaration below.
You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time using our Cookie Settings control.
You can also use the controls displayed in the Cookie Declaration below.
When you change or withdraw a preference, Cookiebot will update your consent status.
Please note that withdrawing consent cannot necessarily remove information already lawfully processed by an independent third party before consent was withdrawn, although the relevant technology should cease operating for future activity in accordance with your updated choice.
Most web browsers also allow you to view, delete or block cookies through the browser’s settings.
You may be able to:
delete existing cookies;
block all or particular cookies;
receive a warning before a cookie is stored; or
configure different settings for different websites.
Browser controls operate separately from Books2Africa’s Cookiebot controls.
Blocking all cookies through your browser may affect functions that depend on necessary cookies, such as shopping baskets, secure sessions or other requested website features.
You do not, however, need to accept optional marketing or analytics cookies simply to use the Books2Africa website.
Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal information, for example online identifiers, IP-address information, device information or information about interactions with our website.
Where personal information is processed, our handling of that information is also subject to applicable data-protection law.
Please see our Privacy and Data Protection Policy for information about:
the personal information we process;
our purposes and lawful bases;
third-party processors and other recipients;
international transfers;
retention;
security;
your data-protection rights; and
how to contact us about privacy matters.
The Cookie Declaration below is generated and maintained using Cookiebot.
It provides the current information detected through Cookiebot’s scans of the Books2Africa website, including, where available:
the name of each cookie or similar technology;
its provider;
its purpose;
its category;
its duration or expiry; and
information about your current cookie consent status.
The declaration may change as our website, plugins and third-party services change.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:
changes to the cookies or technologies used on our website;
changes to our suppliers or website functionality;
changes to Cookiebot or our consent-management arrangements;
changes in applicable law or regulatory guidance; or
improvements to our privacy and data-protection practices.
The date at the top of this policy shows when it was last updated.
Where a change materially affects a consent choice, we may ask you to make a new choice through our cookie controls.
If you have a question about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies or the way we process personal information, please contact Books2Africa.
You also have rights in relation to personal information under UK data-protection law. Further information about those rights and how to exercise them is provided in our Privacy and Data Protection Policy.
We try our best to get your order to you as soon as possible. After dispatch, our standard delivery (Royal Mail First Class) typically arrives the next day in the UK (but can take up to 7 days), in 6 days to the EU and 10 days worldwide. It is important to note that delivery times are out of our control, as we do not deliver the goods ourselves.
If the error is ours, we will reprint free of charge. If the error is yours, we will reprint for 25% of the original amount. If we have sent you the wrong size garment, we will absolutely remake it for you in the right size when you return it.
The guidance measurements given next to the shirts are supposed to represent what size person they fit. They are not the actual measurements of the garment itself, which naturally need to be larger than the person they are designed to fit.
Firstly, please ignore the washing instructions in the garment itself. These are for blank garments and not printed ones.
Wash your shirts at 40 degrees or less. Iron on reverse (cool). Do not tumble dry.
Whilst Royal Mail normally deliver all first class post within 1-2 working days, they can on occasion take longer. In the unlikely event that your goods do not arrive, allow 7 days before calling us. We cannot authorise any remakes before this time has passed as Royal Mail have been known to deliver within this time.
However, if you paid to have Express delivery, contact us immediately as we can provide you with the tracking reference to chase it with the carrier.