Afrivogue Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 03 March 2025

Note for California Residents:

This Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, sell, share, and retain your personal information when you use our website and mobile applications, participate in events, and subscribe to our magazine or newsletter. It outlines your rights over our processing of your data under California law, including your right to opt out of “sales” and/or “sharing” of personal information.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Afrivogue Magazine and its worldwide affiliates and subsidiaries (“Afrivogue,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collect, use, disclose, and retain personal information about individuals interacting with our website, mobile applications, marketing campaigns, events, email newsletters, print magazine, and other online or offline offerings that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”). This Policy also outlines the rights you have regarding our processing of your data under applicable law.

By accessing or using any of our Services, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described here. Your use of the Services and any dispute is subject to this Policy and our Terms of Use.

You may download a printable PDF copy here.

Table of Contents

  1. Categories of Personal Information
  2. How We Use Your Information
  3. How We Disclose Your Information
  4. Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies
  5. Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) Opt-Out
  6. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
  7. Opt-Out of Marketing
  8. Security of My Information
  9. Third-Party Links
  10. Public Postings
  11. International Transfers
  12. Children
  13. Contact Us
  14. Changes to this Policy

1. Categories of Personal Information

Depending on the Services used, we collect personal information about you from various sources, including:

  • Identifiers like name, postal address, email, and account credentials.
  • Demographic information like age and gender.
  • Commercial data like purchase history, registration, and subscription data.
  • Financial information like payment card details.
  • Internet activity like browsing history, search history, clickstream data.
  • Location data like device location.
  • Audio/visual data like voice and video recordings.
  • Inferences like individual preferences, trends, and predispositions.

Information We Collect Directly:

We collect data directly from you when you subscribe, make a purchase, register for an event, enter contests, and communicate with us.

Information from Other Sources:

We also collect personal information about you from third-party sources like data brokers, behavioral advertising partners, social networks, and affiliates.

Automatically Collected Information:

We and our partners automatically collect certain information about you when you use our Services via cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other tracking technologies.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the personal information collected for purposes like:

  • Providing our Services and responding to your requests.
  • Improving, personalizing, and developing new Services.
  • Authenticating users.
  • Marketing and promotions via email, text, postal mail, and telemarketing.
  • Analytics, research, and product development.
  • Complying with legal obligations.
  • Security and fraud prevention.

Our legal bases for processing your information:

  • Performing contractual obligations.
  • Complying with legal obligations.
  • Pursuing our legitimate interests in business administration, analytics, fraud prevention, network and information security.
  • Consent where required by law before collecting and processing your information for specific purposes.

3. How We Disclose Your Information

We disclose your information to various recipients, including:

  • Related entities like our parent company, subsidiaries, and affiliates.
  • Vendors and service providers that perform functions for us like payment processing, order fulfillment, database management, and analytics.
  • Advertising partners, advertising tech providers, and social networks so they can tailor ads to your preferences and enable us to measure performance and effectiveness.
  • Professional service providers like auditors, lawyers, and accountants that provide consulting services to us.
  • Authorities and third parties involved in legal proceedings if compelled by court order or other legal process.

4. Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and our partners use tracking technologies like cookies, web beacons, pixels, and clear GIFs on our Services and communications to determine if you’ve seen an ad before, understand your interests and browsing patterns, personalize your experience, and measure the performance of ads and content.

You can disable cookies through your browser settings, but our Services may not function properly with cookies disabled.

5. Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) Opt-Out

We allow third-party ad tech providers to use tracking tech on our Services to show you tailored advertising in our Services and elsewhere based on your browsing history and perceived interests over time and across sites.

To opt out of receiving tailored advertising, go to the privacy controls page accessible through the Privacy Policy link on our website footer and flip the Ad Personalization toggle switch. You can also use the Global Privacy Control signal to opt out.

6. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you reside, you may have certain rights available to you under privacy laws, such as:

  • Right to access the personal data we hold on you
  • Right to correct your information
  • Right to delete your information
  • Right to opt out of sales or sharing of data
  • Right to limit our processing of your sensitive information

To opt out of sales/sharing of your information:

To access, delete, or limit processing of your information:

Verification: We may take steps to verify your identity before responding to the above requests.

7. Opt-Out of Marketing Communications

Follow the opt-out instructions in the marketing messages you receive to stop getting further communications. Please note that you may still receive some communications necessary for the Services.

8. Security of My Information

We use technical and organizational measures aimed to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no security measures can provide absolute security.

9. Third-Party Links

Third-party websites accessible through our Services have their own privacy policies not governed by this Policy. Please review the privacy policies of all third-party sites you choose to visit.

10. Public Postings

Content and personal information you voluntarily disclose in public areas of our Services may be viewed by others, used by third parties outside our control and should be posted with care.

11. International Transfers

We store data on servers located globally. Where required by law, we have the appropriate data transfer mechanisms with adequate safeguards in place per legal requirements to ensure protection of your information. Contact us below for details on the safeguards used.

12. Children

Our Services are not for children under 13 years. If we discover personal information of children provided to us, we will promptly delete it.

13. Contact Us

If you have any privacy-related questions or requests, please contact our Privacy Coordinator at: [email protected]

14. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time and will post changes here. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.