Privacy notice

Afroconomy ("we", "us", or "our") operates the website, digital magazine, API endpoints, and business directory available at afroconomy.com. We are committed to processing personal data in full compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA), the South African Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the UK GDPR. For inquiries, subject access requests, or regulatory notices, our designated legal contact point is hello@afroconomy.com.

Reading our news coverage, economic analyses, guides, and business listings is anonymous and free. We do not require registration to access public articles, and we do not track unauthenticated individuals across external websites. To monitor aggregate publication reach, our servers generate an ephemeral, cryptographic daily token derived from transient request headers and IP addresses. This token rotates every 24 hours, cannot be reverse-engineered to identify a natural person, and is never linked across calendar days. We do not maintain or commercialize individual browsing histories for unauthenticated readers.

When you create an account to save articles, participate in opinion polls, submit article reactions, contribute columns, or manage directory listings, we collect your name, email address, secure password hash, and the records you generate. Associating poll votes and article reactions with your authenticated account is strictly necessary to preserve platform integrity and enforce our one-person, one-vote rule. Reader taste profiles used for personal feed recommendations operate on exponential decay algorithms that overwrite previous signals rather than compiling a perpetual behavioral archive.

Third-party measurement tools, including Google Analytics, are loaded only if you provide prior affirmative consent through our cookie and measurement preferences. When enabled, IP address anonymisation is strictly enforced. Web push notifications are delivered solely upon explicit, device-level user opt-in. Both features are deactivated by default, and your consent may be withdrawn at any time through our settings without degrading your reading experience.

All commercial transactions, including Business Plan subscriptions, advertising bookings, and featured placements, are securely processed by Stripe, Inc. Afroconomy does not process, receive, or store credit card numbers, banking credentials, or card security codes on our infrastructure. We retain only customer identifiers, transaction receipts, active subscription statuses, and statutory accounting records required for financial audit and tax compliance.

We maintain industry-standard administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, including Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption and restricted server access, to safeguard stored personal data. Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill the operational purpose for which it was gathered, defend legal claims, or satisfy statutory record-keeping obligations.

You retain full statutory rights to access, rectify, or request deletion of your personal data, and to object to or restrict specific processing activities. Any individual or business entity may request the correction or removal of published editorial or directory material concerning themselves via our dedicated public takedown form at /legal/removal or by writing to hello@afroconomy.com. Every formal request receives an automated acknowledgment and a prompt administrative determination.