Privacy Policy

1. What personal data is collected and why

When you register on naijasay.com, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. User profiles may be visible to any site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator. User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed in the Profile Settings menu. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.

You are required to provide your email address and create a username and password. These are required in order to create a unique account for you on NaijaSay.

You may also receive notifications from time to time through email about latest posts and upcoming services and promotions. If you do not wish to receive such notifications, you can unsubscribe by sending a request through the contact form or by using the unsubscribe link in a notification email sent to you.

You may optionally provide your location details and biographical information. This is to optimize the networking feature of naijasay.com as it enables people to connect with whom they consider relevant in regard to specific interests. You may also upload your photograph to your profile to optimize your networking activities as these might enable other members to ascertain who you are.

Your IP address address, browser details, and device details may be collected and retained for up to 30 days when you visit naijasay.com or register. This is needed for analysis as part of security measures to prevent instances of spam and abuse of naijasay.com.

2. Protection of your data

Naijasay.com uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to ensure that data transmitted over our web traffic, both incoming and outgoing, is kept safe from security threats or data breaches. We also strive to ensure that collected data is prevented from unauthorised access.

3. Comments

When visitors leave comments on naijasay.com, data provided in the comment form may be retained as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

4. Media

If you upload images to naijasay.com, 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.

5. Social Share

When you use the Facebook or Whatsapp share feature on naijasay.com, Meta Platforms Inc. may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Meta’s data privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

When you use the Twitter share feature on naijasay.com to share a post, naijasay.com makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to share using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update.

6. Contact form

When you use the contact form on naijasay.com, you would be required to provide your name and email address for the purpose of correspondence.

7. Cookies

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie may be set 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, If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for 1 year. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

8. 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.

9. Activity

Naijasay.com records certain user actions which may include updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using naijasay.com. Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrator can edit all activity items.

10. How long your data is retained

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is in order to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on naijasay.com (if any), the personal information provided in their user profiles will be stored. 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.

11. Your rights over your data

If you have an account on naijasay.com or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal held about you, including any data you have provided to naijasay.com. You can also request for the erasure of any personal data held about you. This does not include any data is obligatory to be kept for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

12. Transmission of your data

Your personal data will not be shared with third parties for marketing purposes. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

13. AI Tools

Tools on naijasay.com that that automatically generate texts utilize artificial intelligence (AI) provided by OpenAI OpCo, LLC. When you use such tools on naijasay.com, OpenAI may collect your personal data. You can find information about OpenAI privacy policy at https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy.

14. Contact

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please send an email to info@naijasay.com.