Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are a news portal with sole responsibility to feed our followers with unique and authentic news. Our website address is: https://elvisanokyenews.net owned by a Ghanaian Journalist, Mr. Elvis Anokye. The website is a subsidiary of Elvis Anokye Media.

Comments

To detect spam from causing harm to the website, our Technicians and IT Experts collect the date shown in the comments form anytime visitors leave comments

We use a hash created from every E-mail address to provide to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy has been provided in https://automattic.com/privacy/. And we ensure that your profile picture is visible to the public in the milieu of your content when your comment is approved.

Media

Uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included is not allowed in this portal so that visitors cannot download and remove any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

People participating in our activities by leaving comments on the website may choose to save their names, email addresses and website in cookies. The cookies can stay for twelve months. And this reduces our workload of providing your details again when leaving a comment.

We provide temporary cooking for  those who have an account to log in to our website to see if they will accept the cookies with their browsers. It is safe because it doesn’t use personal data and immediately you close your browser. 

We use many cookies to keep your login details when you login. This will stay for two days while screen options cookies stay for twelve months. For those who choose “Remember Me”, their login information will last for14-days but the login cookies delete when your account is logged out.

Extra cookies will be kept in your browser if you edit or publish an article. Personal date is not included and can easily show the post ID of the article that will be edited with these cookies. And it lasts for 24 hours.

Embedded content from other websites

Videos, Images and articles on this website may contain embedded content . Embedded content from other websites perform the same functions. 

These websites may combine your data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and track your communication with that embedded content, such as monitoring  your communication with the embedded content if you login to the website with your account.

Who we share your data with

We take your IP address when you request a new password. 

How long we retain your data

Comment and its metadata are saved forever if you comment. This helps us to quickly approve follow-up comments rather than keeping them in a line.

We keep personal details in the user profile of users who register on our website. All users don’t have full access, they can only see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time but cannot change their username. Website administrators have full access which helps them to see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

You can get an exported file of the personal information we keep about you if you have an account on the site or have left comments. You can also request for deletion of these data. Unless data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

We use an automated spam detection service to check visitor’s comments.