Last updated: 10 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how cynthiaakiotu.com uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the website.
The aim is simple: to be transparent about the technologies used on this site, why they are used, and the choices available to you.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookies are small pieces of information that websites can store on your browser or device.
They can help websites operate correctly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use a website and, in some circumstances, support features provided by third parties.
Similar technologies—including local storage, pixels, tags and scripts—can perform related functions. UK privacy rules apply more broadly to technologies that store information on, or access information from, a user's device and are therefore not limited to traditional browser cookies.
For simplicity, this policy refers to these technologies collectively as “cookies.”
cynthiaakiotu.com may use cookies to:
The website does not use cookies simply because they are available. The intention is to use only technologies that have a clear purpose.
These cookies support functions required for the website to operate properly, such as security, network management or storing your cookie choices.
Where a cookie is genuinely necessary to provide a service requested by the visitor, consent is not generally required, although visitors must still receive appropriate information about its use.
Because these cookies are necessary for the operation of the website, they cannot normally be disabled through the website's cookie preference controls.
These technologies help understand how visitors use cynthiaakiotu.com—for example, which pages are visited, how visitors navigate through the site and whether particular content is useful.
The information can be used to improve website structure, performance and content.
Where consent is legally required for the analytics technology being used, these cookies will not be activated until you make the appropriate choice.
UK law now provides an exception for certain technologies used solely for statistical purposes, subject to specific conditions, including appropriate safeguards and a simple means for users to object. Whether that exception applies depends on how the particular analytics technology is configured and used.
Preference cookies may remember choices you have made so that the website can provide a more consistent experience when you return.
For example, they may remember settings relating to the way website content is displayed.
Some preference-related technologies may fall within an applicable legal exception, while others may require consent depending on their purpose and implementation.
Some pages may contain content or functionality provided by third parties.
For example, this could include:
These providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies. Where those technologies require consent, they should not be activated before the required choice has been made.
Third-party services have their own privacy and cookie practices, which Cynthia Akiotu does not control.
cynthiaakiotu.com is primarily a professional, educational and thought-leadership website.
If advertising, audience measurement, remarketing or similar technologies are introduced, cookies requiring consent will only be used after the required permission has been obtained.
Visitors will be given the opportunity to accept or reject applicable optional cookies.
The ICO states that where consent is required, it must meet the UK GDPR standard and users must have meaningful control over non-exempt technologies.
When you first visit cynthiaakiotu.com, you may be presented with a cookie notice or preference centre.
Depending on the technologies currently used on the website, you may be able to:
Allow the website to use the optional technologies described in the cookie preference centre.
Continue using the website without cookies that require your consent.
Choose which categories of optional cookies you wish to allow.
Your decision can be changed later using the Cookie Settings link available on the website.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the main content of cynthiaakiotu.com, although some optional or third-party functionality may not operate as intended.
The cookies and similar technologies actually present on the website may change as the site develops.
The current cookie preference tool should provide information including, where applicable:
| Information | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Cookie/technology name | The identifier used by the technology |
| Provider | Who places or operates it |
| Purpose | Why it is used |
| Category | Necessary, analytics, preference, marketing, etc. |
| Duration | How long it remains active |
Cookie duration should be appropriate for the purpose for which the technology is being used. ICO guidance notes that persistent-cookie duration should be considered rather than simply accepting a technology's default expiry period.
Most browsers also allow you to view, remove or block cookies through their settings.
You may therefore be able to:
Browser-level controls are separate from the choices provided through the cynthiaakiotu.com cookie preference centre.
Blocking all cookies through your browser may affect functionality that relies on necessary storage.
Some cookie technologies may process information that constitutes personal data.
Where personal information is processed through cookies or similar technologies, the Privacy Policy explains how that information is handled, the purposes for which it is used and your applicable data-protection rights.
Where stored or accessed information constitutes personal data, the UK GDPR may apply in addition to PECR.
Articles and resources on cynthiaakiotu.com may link to Microsoft documentation, research, conference websites, social-media platforms and other third-party resources.
Visiting a third-party website means that the third party's own cookie and privacy practices will apply.
A link from cynthiaakiotu.com to another website does not give Cynthia Akiotu control over the cookies used by that website.
This Cookie Policy may be updated when:
The Last updated date at the top of this page will indicate when the policy was most recently revised.
If you have questions about the use of cookies or privacy on cynthiaakiotu.com, please get in touch through the Contact page on the website.