Privacy Policy

Effective date: 3 September 2026
Last updated: 3 September 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how The Biafra Herald ("we", "us" or "our") handles information when you visit and use the website www.thebiafraherald.co (the "Site").

We are a news publication. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our readers, and to limiting the information we process to what is reasonably necessary to publish, operate and improve the Site.

1. Information We Process

Technical and log information. Like most websites, our hosting and content-delivery providers automatically record technical information when a page is requested. This may include your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, language and regional settings, referring page, pages viewed, and the date and time of your visit. This information is used to deliver pages, diagnose technical problems, prevent abuse and maintain security.

Cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files placed on your device. The Site and its third-party providers may use cookies and similar technologies to remember preferences, measure traffic, and deliver and measure advertising. You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how parts of the Site work.

Approximate location. Technical services may infer a general geographic area, such as a country, region or city, from an IP address. The Site does not request or receive precise GPS location.

Comments. Where commenting is enabled on an article, the comment you submit, and any name or profile you choose to attach to it, is published on the Site and processed by the comment provider under its own privacy policy.

Information you provide voluntarily. If you contact us, submit a news tip, or make a privacy request, we process the information you choose to send us, which may include your name, contact details and the contents of your message.

2. Information We Do Not Collect

The Site does not require an account to read, and we do not request:

• contacts or address books;
• SMS messages or call logs;
• health information;
• financial or payment information;
• precise GPS location;
• personal photos, videos or files stored on your device.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not exchange it for money.

3. How Information Is Used

• to display and deliver the Site and its content;
• to maintain and improve performance and reliability;
• to diagnose errors and technical problems;
• to understand general readership and traffic patterns;
• to display and measure advertising, where advertising is shown;
• to moderate comments and protect the Site against spam, fraud and abuse;
• to respond to enquiries, corrections, news tips and privacy requests;
• to comply with applicable legal obligations.

4. Advertising

The Site displays advertising served by Google AdSense and its partners. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this Site and other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising through the industry opt-out pages operated by the Network Advertising Initiative and the Digital Advertising Alliance.

Where required, advertising in certain regions is limited to non-personalised advertising unless consent is given.

5. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content

Articles on the Site may include content served by third parties, such as embedded video players, social media posts, comment functionality and advertising. These providers may set their own cookies and process technical data under their own privacy policies, which we do not control. Where an article embeds a video hosted by a platform such as YouTube, that platform receives a request from your browser in order to deliver the video, and may record playback activity under its own terms. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party service whose content appears on the Site.

6. Data Sharing

We share information only:

• with service providers who host the Site, deliver content, provide analytics or serve advertising, and only so far as needed to provide those services;
• where we are required to do so by law, or in response to a valid legal request;
• where necessary to protect the rights, safety or property of The Biafra Herald, our readers, or the public.

7. Sources and Correspondents

We treat the protection of sources as a core obligation of journalism. Where a person contacts us in confidence, we do not publish information that would identify them without their agreement, and we do not disclose it to third parties except where we are compelled to do so by law after exhausting the remedies available to us.

8. Data Security

The Site is served over the public internet, and we rely on our hosting and platform providers for the security of the infrastructure that delivers it. We take reasonable steps to protect the information we hold, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Data Retention

We keep information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, or as required by law. Technical logs are typically retained for a short period by our providers. Messages you send us are kept for as long as needed to deal with the matter raised, and to keep a record of how it was handled. Published articles and the comments attached to them remain available as part of the public record unless there is good reason to remove them.

10. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask us to:

• confirm whether we hold information relating to you, and give you access to it;
• correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete;
• delete information, where there is no lawful basis for us to keep it;
• restrict or object to certain processing;
• withdraw consent, where processing is based on consent.

To make a request, use our Privacy Contact form. We respond within the period required by applicable law. For security reasons we may need to verify that a request relates to the person making it before we act on it.

Requests to remove or amend published journalism are considered on their merits, and are weighed against the public interest in keeping an accurate record. Where an article is corrected, we say so on the article.

11. Children's Privacy

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to remove it.

12. External Links

The Site links to other websites, including news sources and social media platforms. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites. This policy applies only to www.thebiafraherald.co.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes will be made clear on this page. Continued use of the Site after a change takes effect means you accept the revised policy.

14. Contact

For any privacy question, or to make a request about information relating to you, please use our Privacy Contact form.

We do not publish an email address on this page, so the form is the fastest way to reach us.