Introduction
When you visit the Kasarani Maternity and Nursing Home website, a small amount of information is exchanged between your browser and our site to make it work properly, to keep it secure, and to help us understand how it is being used. Some of that information takes the form of cookies, small text files placed on your device that let the site remember things from one visit to the next, or from one page to the next within the same visit.
This Cookie Policy explains what those cookies are, why Kasarani Maternity and Nursing Home uses them, and what choices you have over them. It works alongside our Privacy Policy rather than replacing it. The Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect and why, including the limited technical data gathered automatically when you browse our site. This Policy goes a step further and sets out, specifically, how cookies and similar technologies are used on our website.
1. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your device, whether that is a computer, tablet or phone. The cookie is then sent back to the website on later visits, allowing the site to recognise your browser and respond accordingly, for instance by remembering a preference you set or by helping us see, in aggregate, how visitors move through the site.
Cookies do not, on their own, identify you by name, and Kasarani Maternity and Nursing Home does not use cookies to build a profile of who you are or to target you with advertising. Where cookies do involve information that could relate to an identifiable person, such as an IP address captured alongside analytics data, that information is treated as personal data under the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019, and handled in line with the principles set out in our Privacy Policy.
Alongside cookies, our website may use closely related technologies, such as pixels or locally stored data used by embedded third-party content like Google Maps. Where this Policy refers to cookies, it should be read as covering these similar technologies as well, unless stated otherwise.
2. Purpose of This Policy
The purpose of this Policy is to be transparent with every visitor to our website about the cookies we use, why we use them, and how long they last, and to explain how you can control or disable them if you wish. Kasarani Maternity and Nursing Home is a healthcare provider, and we recognise that a visitor to our site may be researching a sensitive health matter, sometimes at a difficult or anxious moment. Being clear and honest about something as ordinary as cookies is part of the same commitment to trust and transparency that runs through everything else we do with personal data.
3. Scope
This Policy applies to anyone who visits kasaranihospital.co.ke, whether browsing our services, reading the blog, or submitting an enquiry through our contact forms. It covers cookies set directly by our website and cookies set by third-party services embedded within it, such as Google’s analytics and mapping tools. It does not cover how we handle personal data you share with us directly, for instance through a phone call, an in-person visit, or the contents of an enquiry form, which remain governed by our Privacy Policy and our internal data protection policies.
4. Categories of Cookies We Use
4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for our website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They support basic tasks such as loading pages correctly, maintaining security, and allowing the site’s underlying WordPress platform to operate as intended. Without these cookies, parts of the website may not display or work properly. Because they are essential to the site functioning, these cookies do not require your consent, though you can still block them through your browser if you choose, at the risk of parts of the site not working as expected.
4.2 Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make as you browse, such as settings related to how a page is displayed, so that your experience is more consistent from one page to the next. These cookies are not strictly essential to the site working, but they support a smoother visit.
4.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies
Our website uses analytics tools, including Google Analytics, run through Google Site Kit, to help us understand how visitors use the site. These cookies gather information such as which pages are visited, how long visitors spend on them, and general navigation patterns, in a way that does not identify you by name. We use this information to see what is working well on our site and what could be improved, and to keep the site secure and performing properly, consistent with the automated technical data described in our Privacy Policy.
4.4 Third-Party and Embedded Content Cookies
Some pages on our website include content provided by third parties, most notably an embedded Google Map showing our location. Loading this kind of content may set cookies belonging to that third party, over which Kasarani Maternity and Nursing Home has no direct control. These third parties operate under their own privacy and cookie practices, and we encourage you to review Google’s own privacy policy for more detail on how it handles data collected through its embedded services.
4.5 Advertising Cookies
Kasarani Maternity and Nursing Home does not use cookies to build advertising profiles of visitors or to serve you targeted advertisements based on your activity on our site. Where any underlying platform we use has the technical capability to support advertising features, we do not activate it for that purpose. Should this ever change, this Policy will be updated in advance, and, where required by law, your consent will be sought.
5. Legal Basis and Consent
Strictly necessary cookies are used on the basis that they are essential to the operation of our website. For cookies that are not strictly necessary, such as analytics cookies, we rely on your consent, obtained in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 2019, before those cookies are set, and you retain the right to withdraw that consent at any time in the way described in Section 7 below. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before you did so.
6. Cookies Duration
Some cookies last only for the duration of your visit and are automatically deleted once you close your browser. These are known as session cookies. Others remain on your device for a set period after your visit, sometimes for a matter of days and sometimes considerably longer, so that the website or a third-party service can recognise your browser on a future visit. These are known as persistent cookies. The exact duration varies depending on the specific cookie and the service that sets it.
7. Managing and Disabling Cookies
You are in control of whether cookies are stored on your device. Most browsers allow you to view, delete, and block cookies through their settings, and many will let you choose whether to accept cookies at all, accept them only from certain sites, or be notified each time a cookie is offered. Because the steps for doing this differ from one browser to another, we would encourage you to consult your browser’s own help resources for guidance specific to the browser and device you are using.
Please bear in mind that disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect how parts of our website function, and disabling other categories of cookies may mean the site does not remember your preferences from one visit to the next. Choosing to disable or delete cookies does not affect your ability to contact us or access general information about our services.
8. Children’s Data
As a maternity and nursing home, we recognise that pregnancy, infant and child health are central to why many visitors come to our site, and that some visitors browsing on behalf of a child may themselves be quite young. Our website does not knowingly direct cookie-based tracking at children, and the cookies described in this Policy operate at the level of the browser or device rather than targeting any individual by age. Where a parent or guardian has concerns about cookies set during a visit made on behalf of, or by, a child, they are welcome to contact us using the details in Section 10.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for instance to reflect a change in the cookies our website uses or a change in the law. Any update will be published on this page, and the version shown here will be the one currently in effect. Where a change is significant, particularly one that introduces a new category of cookie requiring your consent, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to your attention.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, or about how cookies are used on our website, please reach out to us.
Email: admin@kasaranihospital.co.ke
Address: P.O. BOX 31524-00600, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone Number: +254 777803694 +254 722 782216
Policy Effective Date: 19th August 2026
This Cookie Policy was last updated on: 19th August 2026