Who we are
Our website address is: http://newshubafrica.com and you know more at http://newshubafrica.com/about/
News and journalism are public activities. Your name, business contact details, professional interests and affiliations may already be publicly available, particularly if you are a journalist, a recognized expert, or a PR professional.
NewsHubAfrica is a powered by RONEL – as a n Advertising and Marketing Agency, handles a lot of professional information from journalists and PR professionals, and we have always strived to keep this data private and secure. As such, we have taken steps to make sure we are compliant with the recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Collecting and treating journalist and PR professionals’ data is the essence of NewsHubAfrica’s activity and is a legitimate interest in order to provide both PR professionals and journalists with accurate and useful services.
NewsHubAfrica does not provide any professional data from journalists to third parties. This has always been our internal policy and has been enforced since day one.
To find out what information we have collected about you or if you want any changes made you can email privacy@apo-opa.org, and our Data Compliance Officer will make sure to treat your request within reasonable time.
To read our full Data Protection Policy, please click here
Privacy Policy
NewsHubAfrica is the leading media relations consultancy in Africa.
This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and protect information about you, an individual person, as you visit the public pages available through this website, http://newshubafrica.com, or register for one of its personalized services;
Information We Collect About You
You may visit a number of pages throughout the website without registration. We collect the information you, or the member company you represent, give us when you subscribe to our mailing list and when you contact us with questions or comments.
Our log servers collect standard web information about visits and system capabilities as you access and use the web pages covered by this policy. We do not collect any personal information while doing so.
How We Use Information About You
How we use information about you depends upon the capacity in which you visit our sites. For example, if you simply visit our pages for news and do not register, we will not know who you are and will not collect information that identifies you. But if you subscribe to our mailing list, we may use the information about you in any of the following ways:
- To provide the services you or the member company you represent requests.
- To provide information you request.
- To evaluate and improve our websites and services.
Disclosure to Third Parties
We reserve the right to disclose information about you:
- To investigate potential unauthorized access or misuse of our services,
- To protect our assets or rights,
- In response to valid legal process, or
- As part of a merger or an acquisition by or other transfer to a third party of some or all of our business assets.
Children
Our services are directed to media and public relations professions. Our website and services are not intended for children 12 or under.
Security
NewsHubAfrica uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect information against theft, loss, or misuse.
Changes to This Policy
We may change the provisions of this policy from time to time and urge you to check back here periodically. Your continued use of any of the websites or pages within the scope of this policy will be your acceptance of the version of the policy in place at the time of your visit.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site 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.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: http://newshubafrica.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site 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.
If you visit our login page, 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.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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.
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.
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 site, 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.
Your contact information
For more information contact us at info@newshubafrica.com
