Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 2, 2025

At Vice News Lagos, we are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we use your information. This policy explains what information we collect about you when you use our services, how we use it, and your rights concerning that information.

This Privacy Policy applies to the following “Vice News Lagos Services”:

• Our websites (like vicenews.com)

• Our mobile apps

• Our email newsletters

• Our social media pages

• Anywhere else we gather your information and link to this policy

How we handle your information depends on how you use our Services. For instance, we may use different information for website visitors than for newsletter subscribers. Some services may have additional terms that apply to them.

If you have any questions, please email us at privacy@vicenews.com.

Table of Contents

1. What Information We Collect

   • (A) Information You Provide

   • (B) Information We Collect Automatically

   • (C) Information from Other Sources

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3. How We Use Your Information

4. Who We Share Your Information With

5. Your Rights and Choices

6. Data Retention

7. Data Security

8. Children’s Privacy

9. International Data Transfers

10. Legal Basis for Processing

11. Third-Party Services

12. Policy Changes

13. Contact Us

1. What Information We Collect About You?

We collect information that identifies you, either by itself or when combined with other data.

(A) Information You Provide Directly:

• Registration: When you sign up for an account, we collect your name, email address, and a username.

• Billing: For payments, we collect your name, address, phone number, email, and payment card details.

• User Content: If you post comments, we collect that information. Please note that anything you post publicly can be seen and used by others.

• Contests and Offers: If you enter a contest or special offer, we may collect your name, email, and any other required information.

• Surveys and Feedback: We collect your responses to our surveys and feedback programs, which may include information on your interests, and demographics.

• Customer Care: When you contact our support team, we collect information to help you, including your name, contact information, and account details.

• Referrals: If you refer a friend, we collect their contact information to send them an invitation to our services and track how many use the service after a referral.

We try not to collect sensitive information (like government IDs, health data, or religious beliefs) unless absolutely necessary.

(B) Information We Collect Automatically:

When you use our Services, we collect some information automatically. This includes:

• Identifiers and Device Information: Your IP address, browser details, operating system, device identifiers, unique ID.

• Location Information: Your approximate location (city/state/zip code) based on IP address to show relevant content and weather updates. We collect GPS locations only if you choose to enable these features and that data will be handled with extra caution.

• Usage Data: The URLs of pages you visit, how long you spend on each page, searches, and interactions with our services and marketing materials.

(C) Information From Other Sources:

• Databases: We may access marketing databases and social media to obtain information about users, such as public data, demographic data, and survey data, including your mailing address, gender, age, and income.

• Social Media: If you sign in through social media, we may collect your email address and other information available on that platform.

• Employers and Schools: When your employer or school provides you with a subscription to our service, they may share your name and email address with us.

2. How We Use Your Information?

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide Our Services: Enable access to our services, fulfill payments, respond to inquiries, and send important updates.

• Personalize Your Experience: Track your reading habits and interests to recommend stories, content, and advertising we think you'd like.

• Allow User Content Sharing: Share user-generated content and profile information publicly.

• Develop and Analyze: Improve our services, analyze user behavior, and make business decisions.

• Carry out Administrative or Legal Tasks: For legal compliance, fraud prevention, customer satisfaction, and security monitoring.

• Offer Contests and Promotions: For contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions.

• Provide Personalized Advertising Tailor advertisements for you and create audiences for advertisers by combining data we collect.

• Market Our Services: Promote Vice News Lagos to you using targeted ads, newsletters and special offers.

• Aggregate Data: Create aggregate (or de-identified) data for analysis, reporting, and understanding trends without identifying you personally.

3. Who We Share Your Information With

We share your information:

• Within Vice News Lagos: Our affiliates may access your information for purposes outlined in this policy.

• With Service Providers: We share data with companies that help us with payments, tech support, advertising, analytics, customer service, and other business needs. They are required to protect your data.

• With Other Third Parties:

  • If you are a print subscriber, we may share your address with companies that may mail marketing material to you.

  • We share information with third party advertisers to deliver targeted advertising

  • We share attendee information with event sponsors.

  • We share sweepstakes information with sponsors of such promotions.

  • If you use a promo code to purchase services, we will share the fact that you used that code with that provider.

  • In case of a business change, such as a sale, merger, or transfer, we will share information with the new entity and its advisers.

  • We can share information to comply with laws or legal processes, protect our rights, and ensure public safety.

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4. Your Rights and Choices

You have the right to control how we use your personal data. This includes:

• Email Preferences: You can unsubscribe from our emails by using the unsubscribe links in our emails or by emailing us.

• Mail/Phone Preferences: Call us or email us at privacy@vicenews.com with "Opt Out" in the subject line with your account number and phone number in the body of the email if you would like to be unsubscribed from our mail or phone solicitations.

• Push Notifications and Text Messages: Turn off notifications on your device or reply "STOP" to text messages from us.

• Access, Correct, or Delete: Contact us to access, correct, modify, delete or restrict the processing of your information.

• Data Portability: Receive a copy of your data in an electronic format.

• Browser Controls: Delete or reject cookies through your browser settings. You can also use "Global Privacy Control" signals to indicate your privacy preference. Please note that the browser setting “Do Not Track” is not recognized by our website.

• Mobile Ad ID Control Use your device to limit tracking and/or reset your advertising ID.

• Opt out of targeted advertising You can also opt out of personalized advertising through our privacy setting.

• Account Deletion: You can delete your registered user account in our app, however, you must unsubscribe from our marketing emails independently.

We will respond to your requests in a manner consistent with applicable law, including any exceptions that may result in a request being denied in whole or in part.

5. How Long Do We Retain Data?

We store your personal data as long as needed for the reasons we obtained it, or as required by law. This means that even after you close your account we may store your information.

6. How Do We Protect Your Information?

We protect your data using organizational, technological and physical safeguards. However, we can not guarantee complete security. Please keep your password secret.

7. Are There Guidelines for Children?

Our services are intended for a general audience and are not designed for children under 13. We don't collect personal information from children knowingly. Please contact us immediately if you believe we have collected any data from your child, and we will remove it.

8. International Data Transfers

If you are located outside of Nigeria, your data may be transferred to and stored in Nigeria. If this is the case, we will implement at least one of the following safeguards:

• We will transfer your information to countries recognized by the relevant authority as providing an adequate level of protection.

• We will use contractual obligations to ensure that the recipient will protect your information in accordance with our standards.

• We will use other safeguards to ensure your data is protected

9. What Is Our Legal Basis for Processing?

In some jurisdictions, we only collect, use, or share your data when we have a valid legal reason. This is either your consent, our contract with you, legal obligation, or our legitimate interests.

10. Third-Party Services

Our Services may contain links to other websites or may be available via other platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.

11. How Are Changes to This Policy Communicated?

We will post any updates on this page, and notify you of any significant changes via email or on our website.

12. How Can You Contact Us?

For any questions, please email us at privacy@vicenews.com

Having said that, a privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, processes, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It usually also includes a statement regarding the website’s commitment to protecting its visitors’ or customers’ privacy, and an explanation about the different mechanisms the website is implementing in order to protect privacy.

 

Different jurisdictions have different legal obligations of what must be included in a Privacy Policy. You are responsible to make sure you are following the relevant legislation to your activities and location.

Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website’s practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors and customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific practices regarding minors’ data collection; and much, much more.

 

To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Privacy Policy”.