Privacy policy
General Data Protection Regulation
Here is how we use and protect the personal data you provide to us.
We are committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to https://www.sportnewsafrica.com (our website).
Please read the following Policy to understand:
the personal data we collect about you;
the purpose for which we collect personal data about you;
how we process your personal data;
with whom your personal data may be shared; and
how we protect the personal data you provide to us.
By registering as a user of any services provided by us on this website and/or by using this website in general, you consent and agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy.
The site is published by the company SPORT NEWS AFRICA
03 rue Tréchot, Centre-Ville,
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Tel. : +242 06 697 13 10
Mail: info@sportnewsafrica.com
Website: https://www.sportnewsafrica.com
Personal data we collect
1.1 We collect personal data about you when you:
create a new user account with us on our website;
contact us or write to us via our website;
contact us by post, email or telephone;
write to us via our social media pages, such as LinkedIn
1.2 Personal data collected in the above manner may include:
full name;
postal address;
email address;
telephone number;
payment details; and
your user account details.
If you provide us with personal data relating to another person when ordering a service, you confirm that you have the permission of that other person to share their personal data with us.
Use of your personal data
2.1 We may collect personal data about you so that we can:
register you on our website and manage any account you have with us;
administer our website services;
fulfil our agreement with you in relation to the services you purchase and to process your purchases and obtain payment;
notify you of important changes and developments to our website or services;
analyse and profile your shopping preferences, for example (market, customer and service analysis) to enable us to:
provide you with a personalised browsing experience when using our website;
respond to queries, refund requests or questions relating to your order;
carry out security screening and detect and prevent fraud.
2.2 We will only use your personal data in the circumstances described in paragraph 2.1 where this is permitted by law and where:
we need to use your personal data to perform a contract with you;
we need to use your personal data in order to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations;
you have given us your consent to use your personal data (if consent is required, we will ask you for it separately);
it is reasonably necessary to use your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligations we are subject to in the performance of our contract with you;
we need to use your personal data in pursuit of the legitimate interest of improving our website for the benefit of you and other customers to whom we provide services.
Marketing
2.3 We would like to send you information by post, email, telephone, text message (SMS) or otherwise about our services and special offers that may be of interest to you.
2.4 We will only send you messages when you tick the relevant consent box when you provide us with your personal data. If you have agreed to receive information from us, you can unsubscribe at any time. For details on how to request to be removed from our mailing list, please refer to section 4 of this Policy.
Payment Details
2.5 We do not hold or store any payment details you provide to us when you order a Service. Any payment details you provide will be held by the relevant third party payment provider Paypal.
Disclosure of your personal data
3.1 We may share your personal data with the following third parties who may use it for the same purposes as described in section 2 above:
to employees and agents of SNA (Sport News Africa), to administer the accounts and Services provided to you by SNA but
nnow or in the future;
to third parties who provide us with technological support to enable us to administer the accounts and services provided to you. Examples include our web hosting providers, our e-commerce platform providers, our software as a service providers or SaaS providers and our payment service and payment gateway providers;
if we are required to do so by law or if the law allows us to do so.
3.2 We may also share your personal data with third parties in order to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations.
3.3 We do not and do not sell your personal data to third parties for their marketing purposes.
How do I remove my name from the Sportnewsafrica.com mailing list?
4.1 If you have opted in to our mailing list and no longer wish to receive our newsletter or other promotional communications, you may opt out of receiving such communications by following the instructions included in each communication. You can also opt out by:
writing to our Data Protection Officer quoting “security and privacy inquiry” at SNA 03 rue Tréchot, Centre-Ville, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo; Tel: +242 06 697 13 10;
Or by email at info@sportnewsafrica.com
4.2 Please note that you may still receive communications from us while we process your request.
Consent
5.1 In cases where we require your consent to hold and process your personal data, we will ask you to tick a box on the form or webpage requiring consent. By ticking these boxes, you indicate that you have been informed of the purposes for which we collect your personal data, how it will be used, how long it will be retained, who else will have access to it and what are your rights as a data subject.
How we keep your personal data secure
6.1 To protect your personal data, we have put in place policies and procedures to ensure that only authorised personnel have access to your personal data, that personal data is processed and stored securely and that all systems that may access personal data have the necessary security measures in place.
6.2 Please note that the web is not a secure medium and we cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. You accept the inherent security risks involved in providing information and transacting online over the web and do not hold us responsible for any breach of your data protection rights that may result from the transmission of your personal data over the web.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We will keep your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes listed in paragraph 2.1, unless we are required by law to keep your personal data for a longer period.
Your rights
8.1 You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the contact details in section 15 of this Policy.
The right to access the personal data we hold
8.2 At any time, you can contact us to request the personal data we hold about you as well as the purposes for which we have that personal data, who has access to the personal data and where we obtained the personal data. Once we have received your request, we will respond to you within a reasonable time (and in any event not later than 30 days from the date of your request). Please contact our Data Protection Officer or email info@sportnewsafrica.com to request to see your personal data.
The right to correct and update the personal data we hold about you
8.3 If the data we hold about you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and we will ensure that it is updated. If you are concerned that any of the personal data we hold about you is incorrect and you are unable to change it yourself, please contact our Data Protection Officer or email info@sportnewsafrica.com
The right to erase your personal data
8.4 If you believe that we should no longer use your personal data or that we do not have the right to use your personal data, you can request that we erase the personal data we hold. When we receive your request, we will confirm whether the data has been deleted or advise you of the
reason why they cannot be deleted. Please contact our Data Protection Officer or email info@sportnewsafrica.com to request that we delete your personal data.
The right to object to the processing of your personal data
8.5 You have the right to request that we stop processing your personal data. Upon receipt of the request, we will contact you to advise you whether we are able to comply or whether we have legitimate grounds to continue processing your personal data. If we no longer process your personal data, we may continue to retain your personal data to comply with your other rights or our legal regulatory obligations. Please contact our Data Protection Officer or email info@sportnewsafrica.com to request that we stop processing your personal data.
The right to request that we stop contacting you for direct marketing
8.6 You have the right to request that we stop contacting you for direct marketing. You can find more details about this in section 4 of this Policy.
Cookies
Use of Cookies
9.1 New technologies are emerging on the web that help us provide personalized user experiences. In particular, there is a technology called “cookies” that we may use to provide you with, for example, personalized information on our website. In most cases, we will need your consent to use cookies on the website. The exception is where the cookie is essential for us to provide you with the services you have requested.
9.2 A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your computer (or other electronic device), which may then store it on your system. Cookies allow us to track who has seen which pages and advertisements on our website, to determine how often particular pages are visited, and to determine the most popular areas of our website. Non-personal information such as browser type, operating system and domain names may be collected when visitors use the website and this information may be used by us to measure the number of visitors to the website. Unless you have indicated your objection when disclosing your details, our system will issue cookies to your computer when you log on to the website.
Consent to cookies
9.3 There is a notice on the home page of our website that describes how we use cookies. If you continue to use this website after this notice has been presented to you, we will assume that you consent to our use of cookies for the purposes described in this Policy.
What types of cookies do we use?
9.4 We may use cookies and similar tools on our website to improve its performance and enhance your user experience.
First party cookies: We set these cookies and they can only be read by us.
Persistent Cookies: We may use persistent cookies that will be saved on your computer for a set period of time (usually 1 year or more). They will not be deleted when the browser is closed. We may use persistent cookies to recognize your device for more than one browsing session.
Session Cookies: We may use session cookies that are only stored temporarily during a browsing session and will be deleted from your device when the browser is closed.
Third-party Cookies: We may use a number of third-party vendors who also set cookies on our website in order to carry out the services they provide. These cookies are known as third-party cookies. The sportnewsafrica.com website does not use third-party cookies.
Depending on the type of cookies we use, cookies also allow us to make our website more user-friendly. For example, persistent cookies allow us to save your password so that you do not have to enter it each time you visit our website. Our website may also use cookies to monitor traffic on the website and/or to ensure that you do not see the same content repeatedly and/or to deliver content specific to your interests.
The cookies we use can be divided into four main categories depending on the function they perform on the website.
Essential cookies:
Essential cookies enable a website to function at its best. For our website, this means making your experience more user-friendly.
shopping experience as easy as possible. The site requires essential cookies to:
remember what is in a customer’s basket;
enable the contents of a shopper’s basket to be transferred to the checkout page and purchased; and
determine whether a customer is logged into a secure area of the website, such as the checkout area.
Essential cookies are not harmful to your computer and do not store personal data such as your payment card details.
Functionality cookies:
Functionality cookies are designed to store personal data, such as names and addresses, which, when you return to the site, will not need to be re-entered. Functionality cookies also remember important information such as your response if you are asked to fill in a questionnaire which will be remembered to avoid unnecessary repetition. In summary, functionality cookies do the following:
Let us know if you are already logged into your account.
Let us know if this is your first visit to the website; and
to enable the Chat Online services – to function properly.
The details and functions of the categories of cookies currently used on our website are set out in the following table:
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use this information to improve the website experience.
_ga Stores session analytics data.
_gid Stores the session ID.
_utma Identifies customers and their sessions.
_utmb Allows new sessions/visits to be identified.
_utmc Determines whether the customer is a new visit/session.
_utmz Allows the campaign or source of a session to be recorded and identifies how the customer reached the site.
Disable Cookies
9.5 The essential cookies we use are necessary to enable you to process your data on the site and without these cookies the site would not function properly. They enable the creation of the shopping cart, online payment and the proper functioning of these features. Essential cookies are not harmful to your computer and do not store personal data such as your payment cards.
9.6 If you wish to ensure that no further non-essential cookies are placed on your computer, please follow the steps outlined in paragraph 9.7. This will not delete current cookies but will ensure that no further non-essential cookies are placed on your browser when you visit our website. Please note however that this means that you lose key functionality on the site and may result in it no longer being possible to purchase certain services.
9.7 You can usually set your browser so that your computer does not accept cookies:
Go to the “Manage cookies” section and click on the option you prefer, either stopping cookies being installed or informing you about them.
In the list provided, click on the program your computer is using; if it is not listed, click on the “help” tab on the bar at the top of this page, look for information on “cookies” – an explanation of how to delete cookies will appear, then follow the instructions.
9.8 You can also adjust your browser to tell you when a website is trying to place a cookie on your computer (or other electronic device).
How you adjust your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies or to inform you about them will depend on the type of web browser our computer is using. You can follow the appropriate instructions for your browser type by clicking on this link http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=2 (please note that this link will open a new window and lead to a page on an external website and that we are not responsible for the content of external websites).
9.9 Remember that cookies do not contain confidential information such as your home address, telephone number or payment card details. We do not exchange cookies with third party websites or external data providers. If you choose to disable cookies, you may find that some areas of our website do not function properly.
How to disable third party cookies
9.10 Users based in the European Union can visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/en to opt out of these third party cookies. The above site is not connected to our website and we are not responsible for its content. We only keep cookies for the duration of your
tre visit to our website, except in the case of cookies that remember you for future visits or when you save your login name as indicated above.
IP Address
Your browser also generates other information, including the language in which the website is displayed and your web protocol address (IP address). An IP address is a set of numbers assigned to your computer (or other electronic device) during a browsing session when you connect to the web through your internet service provider or network (if you access the web, for example, through a computer at work). Your IP address is automatically recorded by our servers and used to collect traffic data about visitors to our website. We also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We do not use your IP address to personally identify you.
Other Sites
Please note that our website may contain links to other websites that can be accessed through our website. These sites are outside our control and are not covered by this Policy. If you access other websites using links on our website, we are not responsible for the data policies or procedures or the content of these linked websites.
Anti-Spam Policy
What is spam?
12.1 Spam, also known as junk mail, is unsolicited commercial electronic messages, usually sent by bulk email. Unsolicited means that the recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all with substantially the same content. The term “spamming” means the transmission, broadcast or distribution of any unsolicited commercial correspondence, especially in large quantities, by electronic means of communication.
Measures to prevent spam
12.2 We take the following measures to prevent spam:
mailing list subscribers must expressly opt-in to sportnewsafrica emails to receive them. The nature of the emails people will receive is clearly announced, both on the page from which the subscription is made and with a link referring to this Policy;
we do not use purchased lists, rented lists or lists that use appended email addresses;
we do not use email addresses that are scraped or copied and pasted from the web, or collected in any way;
we do not send offers external to our site or content external to our site to our recipients on our newsletter list;
we do not write by email to people who have asked to be removed from our mailing lists.
Mailing Practices
13.1 We do not alter the headers of a message in such a way that the origin of the message is unclear.
13.2 All undelivered addresses are removed from all future mailings after a maximum of 3 failures.
13.3 All mailings contain clear and simple to follow instructions for opting out of further mailings and all reasonable attempts are made to facilitate the removal of a mailing list subscriber upon request.
13.4 Personal data submitted to us is only available to employees who manage that personal data for the purpose of contacting our list members. We have security policies in place to ensure that our mailing list data is protected from theft and misuse.
13.5 If you receive an email that you believe to be spam sent from or on behalf of sportnewsafrica, please notify us by email using the email address provided below and we will then investigate the matter.
13.6 If you have any questions about our Anti-Spam Policy, please contact us by sending an email to the following email address: info@sportnewsafrica.com
Contact Us
14.1 If you have any questions/comments about this Policy in general, you can send us an email to: info@sportnewsafrica.com
14.2 You can also write to our Data Protection Officer with the subject line “Security and Privacy Questions” by post at:
03 rue Tréchot, Centre-Ville,
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Tel. : +242 06 697 13 10
Changes to the Policy
15.1 We keep our Policy under regular review. We may change and update this Policy from time to time. You should check this Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version.
which will apply each time you use our website.
15.2 Where we have made changes to this Policy that affect the way we use your personal data, these changes will be posted on our website and, where appropriate, by email.
Data Protection Officer
16.1 All comments, questions and requests relating to the use of your personal data are welcome and should be addressed to:
03 rue Tréchot, Centre-Ville,
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Tel.: +242 06 697 13 10
Or by email to info@sportnewsafrica.com
16.2 This Policy was last updated on 30 November 2021
