Who we are
Our website address is: http://vafrica.africa.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Any information provided by you on our contact forms is viewed by the appropriate team or personal. VAfrica follows the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as set by the European Union for more information on this please follow the link https://gdpr-info.eu.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
All VAfrica data is used to improve our site.
Who we share your data with
No one 🙂
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Mara Drive Freetown Sierra Leone
Additional information
Any information provided by you on our contact forms is viewed by the appropriate team or personal. VAfrica follows the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as set by the European Union for more information on this please follow the link https://gdpr-info.eu.
How we protect your data
All data is kept on secure severs only relevant personal have access. We constantly monitor our teams and servers to insure the best protection we can provide.
What data breach procedures we have in place
We notify the supervisory authority without undue delay, and at the latest within 72 hours after having become aware of the breach.
If the data breach poses a high risk to you we will also be inform you, unless there are effective technical and organisational protection measures that have been put in place, or other measures that ensure that the risk is no longer likely to materialise.
As an organisation we implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to avoid possible data breaches.
What third parties we receive data from
As a online magazine we receive information for a verity of sources examples being; other channels, advertisers, software or plugins and contributors.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We use data to understand what our audience needs and to judge how well we are performing.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We follow the best practices and try to continuously keep on top of new legal regulations. If you ever have questions for us, please contact us, we are glad to discuss it with you.
