WHO WE ARE
We are an online newspaper called Sundiata Post with web address as https://sundiatapost.com, published by Sundiata Post Media Ltd, a subsidiary of Leo Africanus Ltd.
We are making this privacy policy statement to demonstrate our commitment to the privacy of our readers, website visitors and content users.
Collection of Data and Use of Your Personal Information
We use your data and personal information in the following ways:
•To improve our website, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and to enable third parties carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf;
•To provide you with requested information or correspondence or a response from us to an enquiry made by you.
•To send you details of your new account or login information, usually via email.
•To contact you in the event of changes to terms and conditions of this privacy policy.
With your permission, your contact details may be used to supply information to you by telephone, email or post, about our company. and to send you occasional promotional material, such as information about special offers which we think you may find valuable. If you do not agree to receive this information, you may opt out from receiving future information at any time.
We may also provide aggregate statistics about our advertising, marketing or traffic patterns and related website information to reputable third parties but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.
Non-disclosure to Third Parties
The information and data we collect is important to us and we would not want to share this with anyone else. Unless we have your express consent, we will never disclose, trade or sell your personal data to any third parties for their marketing or mailing purposes.
In the event that the business or any part of it is sold to or integrated with another entity, Sundiata Post Media Ltd/Leo Africanus Ltd may disclose your personal information to the new owners (and their professional advisers on the transaction) to be used by the new owners and their group of companies in the same ways as set out in this Privacy Policy, including to continue providing you with the same services as are currently provided by us.
Cookies & Comments
We use cookies and tags. A cookie is a small file that can be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and allows the browser to pass small amounts of information to a web server. Tags are transparent graphic files that appear on web pages that collect anonymous information about usage of the web pages.
If you have an account and you log in to this website, 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.
We use our own cookies and tags as well as those from third parties to allow us to do a number of things that improve your website experience. They are used to compile anonymous statistics related to the use of the website or actions that you may take whilst visiting the website. They can also be used to ensure the website works efficiently or by third parties to present you with appropriate offers and advertising as you view other sites on the internet.
Whilst cookies/tags may identify you as a user of the website, your personal details are not stored or used to individually identify you and the cookie/tag cannot access or store any personal information which you have not provided to the website during your visit. They are also not able to put malicious software or viruses on your computer or change the operation of your equipment.
We also use cookies/tags to enable the smooth operation of the website, such as the use of the basket function or to automatically log you in when you visit (with your permission). We also use cookies/tags to monitor website visits and actions to understand the performance of the website and continuously look for places to improve your website experience.
If you leave a comment on our website 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.
In addition 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.
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.
Our marketing/advertising partners also use cookies and tags to monitor the performance of our advertising and to serve appropriate advertisements to you on other websites. We will never share any personal information about you with these third parties and the cookies and tags used maintain your anonymity.
You can usually change your browser’s settings so that it will not accept cookies, although this may restrict some website functionality. You may also manage the cookies on your browser using the security or privacy settings. Usually the browser help function will provide you with instructions on how to manage your settings. Removing cookies is something that can be done at any time but unless permanently disallowed they will be re-applied next time you visit the website.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
Security of Your Information
We follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given to us. This is to prevent unauthorised access or unlawful processing of your personal information.
Your Consent
By using our website you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information by us in the manner set out in this privacy policy. Should we change our privacy policy, we will post the changes on this website so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this website 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
Who we share your data with
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 website, 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.