The privacy of our visitors at our site scholarafrika is very important to us. It is appropriate you know how we handle personal data we collect from visitors, also, to know what we do with it when you visit us at scholarafrika.com.
Hence, it is good you know what we do with your information and data collected from our site. See below for all information on our privacy policy.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.scholarafrika.com. We aim at making it all easy for students.
Comments
When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent thread to help spam detection.
An anonymized string generated from your email address (also called a hash) may be made available to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. We made your Gravatar service privacy policy available here: https://scholarafrika.com/privacy/. Thus, after authorization of your comment, your profile picture is noticeable to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
When you upload images to the website, kindly avoid uploading pictures with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors of the site can download and obtain any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save your email address, name, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience. So that you do not have to fill in details again when you write another comment.
If you visit our login page, we will set a momentary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie comprises no personal data and we will discard it when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to help save your login details and your screen display options. Login cookies may last for two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will continue for two weeks. Thus, If you log out of your account, we will discard the login cookies.
When you edit or publish an article, we will have saved an additional cookie in your browser. This cookie comprises no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Contact forms
When you try to reach us via our contact form on the contact us page, we will save the information we receive from you in our database and not share it with any other source.
Embedded content from other websites
Most if not all of the articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). While embedded content from other websites reacts in the 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 have logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, we will include your IP address in the reset email.
How long do we retain your data?
If you leave a comment, we retain the comment and its data 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 must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Note that we may check visitors’ comments through an automated spam detection service.