Privacy Policy

This notice explains how Afritech Connect handles information when you read our website, post a comment, subscribe to our newsletter or contact us. For privacy enquiries and requests, email contact@afritechconnect.com.

You can read our articles without submitting your name or email address. Website requests still involve technical information needed to deliver pages. Please do not post private contact details, financial information or identity documents in public comments.

Information we receive

• Comments: the display name and comment you submit, the article it relates to and its submission time. Your display name and published comment are public. If you choose reply or article-comment notifications, we also store your email address and notification preferences privately. We use that address to confirm your choice and send the comment alerts you selected. Leaving both options unchecked does not subscribe you or save an email address for that comment. These choices do not sign you up for our newsletter. Each notification includes a link to stop comment emails for that article. Do not include information you want to keep private.
• Newsletter: your email address and subscription information when you choose to subscribe.
• Correspondence: your contact details and the information you send when asking a question, requesting a correction or making a business enquiry.
• Website requests: technical information such as IP address, browser, device, requested page and request time that our infrastructure processes to deliver and protect the website.
• Optional measurement and advertising: page interactions, device information and cookie or similar identifiers, depending on the services enabled and your choices.

Automatically collected information

Our hosting and security infrastructure processes request information such as IP addresses, requested URLs, request times and browser details to deliver pages, diagnose faults and detect abuse. While optional measurement or advertising are enabled, the configured services may also receive page views, referring URLs, interactions, device information and cookie or similar identifiers. The information depends on the service, configuration and your choices.

Purposes and legal grounds

We use submissions to publish comments, provide requested newsletters, answer enquiries and investigate corrections or abuse. We process technical information to operate, secure and troubleshoot the site. Optional analytics helps us understand readership; advertising services deliver and measure ads.

Where consent is required for optional analytics, advertising or marketing, we rely on your choice and allow you to withdraw it. Other processing may be necessary to provide a service you request, meet a legal obligation or pursue legitimate interests such as security and responding to enquiries, subject to applicable law. Sending a correction or posting a comment does not by itself subscribe you to marketing.

• Reader comments: we use the submitted name and text to provide the discussion you request, and to pursue our legitimate interest in maintaining a useful, safe discussion and handling abuse reports.
• Newsletter: we use your email address and subscription record on the basis of your subscription consent to deliver the newsletter and related subscription messages.
• Enquiries and corrections: we use correspondence to respond to you and pursue our legitimate interests in reader support, accurate reporting and managing business enquiries. A contractual basis may apply where an enquiry concerns a service or agreement you request.
• Operation and security: we process necessary technical information for our legitimate interests in delivering, securing and maintaining the website.
• Optional analytics and advertising: these are on by default, and our cookie banner lets you switch each category off for this browser. You can change that choice at any time.
• Legal requirements: we may process or preserve information when necessary to meet an applicable legal obligation.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, those interests must be balanced against your rights and freedoms. The applicable legal basis depends on the purpose and law that applies; we do not treat merely visiting the website as consent to optional tracking.

Service providers and disclosures

Providers involved in the website include Cloudflare for hosting, delivery and security, Supabase for stored site data and authentication, and Brevo for email delivery. They may process the information needed for those services. Authorised people administering the publication may also access submissions when necessary for their work.

When enabled and permitted by your preferences, Google Analytics measures site use. Google AdSense and its advertising partners may process device, browsing and identifier information to deliver and measure advertising. These providers have their own privacy terms; they are not all limited to acting only on our instructions.

Read more at Cloudflare, Supabase, Brevo and Google. Information may also be disclosed where legally required or necessary to investigate misuse or protect rights, subject to applicable law.

Cookies and Google advertising

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to Afritech Connect or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to serve ads based on those visits. Other advertising vendors may use similar technologies when their ads are served.

Use Manage cookies in the footer to accept, change or reject optional categories for this browser. Our optional analytics and advertising are on by default; turn a category off to stop its scripts from loading. Read our Cookie Policy for details about browser storage and changing your choices.

You can opt out of personalised Google advertising in My Ad Center, read how Google uses information from partner sites, or visit YourAdChoices to opt out of personalised advertising cookies from participating third-party vendors. Opting out of personalised advertising does not necessarily stop all ads. These controls do not replace the choices available on this website.

Public comments

Your published display name and comment are visible to other readers and may be indexed by search engines or copied by others. Avoid sharing your address, email, phone number or other sensitive details in a comment. To request correction or removal, email us with the article URL and enough detail to identify the comment. Removal from our website does not immediately remove copies in search-engine caches or on third-party services.

External links and embedded media

Following a retailer, social-media or other external link takes you to a service with its own privacy practices. Embedded media, such as a video, may connect to its provider when it loads or is played; browser controls can also restrict third-party storage. Avoid entering sensitive information into third-party services without reviewing their terms.

International transfers

Our service providers may process information outside your country. Applicable protections and transfer requirements depend on the service and location. Contact us for information about processing relevant to your request.

Where applicable law requires a transfer safeguard, the relevant transfer must have an appropriate legal mechanism, such as an adequacy decision or approved contractual safeguards. Contact us to ask about the destination and safeguards relevant to your information.

Retention of personal information

We retain information for the purpose it was collected: subscription data while needed to manage your subscription; correspondence while handling the issue and related records; and published comments while they remain part of the discussion, subject to valid removal requests. Security, legal requirements and backup cycles may require some records to be retained longer.

Retention depends on the type of record, whether the purpose is still active, outstanding disputes or abuse investigations, and legal obligations. Provider-managed logs and backups may have different retention schedules. You can ask us about the records relevant to you; we do not promise a single deletion period for every system.

Data security

Access controls and authentication help restrict access to administrative functions and stored submissions. No website or storage system can guarantee absolute security. If you believe information shared with us has been compromised, contact us promptly without sending passwords or further sensitive information. Where a breach requires notification, we will notify affected people and the relevant authorities as required by applicable law.

Your choices and rights

Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK data-protection law or other applicable law gives you these rights, you may request:

• Access: information about processing and a copy of your personal data.
• Correction or erasure: correction of inaccurate information or deletion where the conditions for erasure are met.
• Restriction or objection: limits on processing, or an objection to processing based on legitimate interests. You may object to direct marketing at any time.
• Portability: qualifying data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format where processing is automated and based on consent or contract.
• Withdrawal of consent: withdrawal at any time without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
• A complaint: the right to raise a concern with the competent data-protection authority.

You can ask to access, correct or delete your personal information, withdraw consent, object to processing or request a copy or restriction where applicable law provides those rights. Contact contact@afritechconnect.com and describe the request. We may need proportionate information to verify your identity; do not send identity documents unless requested through an appropriate channel.

Use the subject “Privacy request” and identify the relevant email address, comment or interaction. We will respond within the period required by applicable law and explain any applicable exception or permitted extension. These rights are not absolute; legal duties and the rights of others may affect what we can provide or delete.

To stop newsletter emails, use an unsubscribe option where provided or email us with “Unsubscribe” from the subscribed address. You can request removal of a public comment by identifying the article and comment. Withdrawal does not undo processing already lawfully carried out. If you are dissatisfied with our handling of a privacy matter, you may complain to your local data-protection authority, including the Nigeria Data Protection Commission where applicable.

Children

The site is intended for a general audience and its interactive features are not intended for children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action.

Changes to this notice

We update this page when our practices change and show the revision date above. Where a change requires new consent or additional notice, continued browsing alone does not supply that consent.