Louisa Mugabo – Journalist (“me”, “I”, or “my”) operates the louisamugabo.com website (the “Service”). The website is created with WordPress and hosted on a private server. All pages were done in all conscience.
This page informs you of my policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use my Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
I use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
I collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve my Service to you.
Personal Data: While using my Service, I may ask you to provide me with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Usage Data, Tracking & Usage Data, Comments & Media
Usage Data: I may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of my Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data: I may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on my Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze my Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of my Service. Examples of Cookies I can use: Session Cookies to operate my Service, Preference Cookies. to remember your preferences and various settings, Security Cookies for security purposes. If you leave a comment on my 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 have an account and you log in to this site, I 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, I 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.
Comments & Media: When visitors leave comments on the site, the data shown in the comments form is collected, 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. 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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
I use the collected data for various purposes: To provide and maintain the Service, to notify you about changes to our Service, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so, to provide customer care and support, to provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service, to monitor the usage of the Service, to detect, prevent and address technical issues.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on my website, I 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.
When subscribing for the newsletter offered by my Service, your data is retained until your abjuration of this Privacy Policy the newsletter goes along with via email. Your email address or phone number provided for newsletter subscription will solely be used to send the newsletter and is only available and identifiable to myself. The same applies to any message you send via the contact form on my pages.
At any given moment, you can request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Please send your requests for deletion via email.
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to the transfer of your data to the location of this Service.
I will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. I do not share your data with anybody other than named in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Requirements: I may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of the Service, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, protect against legal liability.
Service Providers: I may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate my Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on my behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist me in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on my behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Statistics: This website is using WordPress Analyse Plugin WP Statistics by wp-statistics.com. The data collected is transformed into simple statistics. No user profiles are compiled and no cookies are used. All data collected by WP Statistics is made anonymous and saved on this server. No personal identification of any visitor is possible, also not afterwards (More information of WP Statistics).
Links To Other Sites: My Service contains links to other sites that are not operated by me. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Embedded Content From Other Sites: My Service 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Twitter & Social Media: Twitter functions are incorporated on this website. Those functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. By using Twitter, websites you have visited are automatically connected with your Twitter account and disclosed to other users. Data is therefore transferred to Twitter. As an independent Service, I do not have any information of the content and use of the data received by Twitter. Please check Twitter’s privacy therefore (/twitter.com/privacy). You can change your privacy protection settings directly in your Twitter account. The same Terms and Conditions apply to any other “Share” and Social Media buttons on this website. They are treated as any other links to other websites and/or embedded content on this website.
Children’s Privacy: My Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children have provided me with Personal Data, please contact me. If I become aware that I have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, I take steps to remove that information from my servers.
Security Of Data: The security of your data is important to me, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.
You can request to receive for free an exported file of the personal data I hold about you, including any data you have provided to me. At any given moment, you can avail yourself of your right of rescission and contradict the use of your data such as request the deletion of your data. Please contact me therefore via email.
More Information: Privacy Policy of WordPress
Changes To This Privacy Policy: I may update my Privacy Policy from time to time. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. I will update the effective date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me.
Effective date: March 10, 2021
(This Privacy Policy was created by FreePrivacyPolicy.com and edited by me. It is conform to the German DSGVO (Art. 13 Abs. 3).)
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