Draft — not yet legally reviewed. This policy accurately describes how the site currently works, but it has not been reviewed by a lawyer and the data controller has not yet been registered with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission. It must be reviewed against the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 before Yola Times launches publicly, and updated whenever the site's data practices change (for example, if advertising, comments, or a newsletter are added).
Yola Times is a news website. This policy explains what information the site collects and how it is used. In plain terms: the site is deliberately built to collect very little.
Information we collect
Yola Times does not ask readers to create an account, log in, subscribe, or comment, and it does not ask you for personal information to read the news. You can read the site without giving us your name, email, or any other personal detail.
Analytics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand, in aggregate, how many people visit and which stories are read. Cloudflare Web Analytics is privacy-focused: it does not use cookies and does not track or identify individual visitors across sites. We see totals and trends, not people.
Hosting and technical data
The site is served through Cloudflare. Like any website host, Cloudflare processes basic technical information — such as your IP address and the request your browser makes — in order to deliver pages and protect the site against attacks. This is standard operational data used for security and reliability.
Cookies
The site currently sets no cookies for tracking or advertising. If this changes — for example if advertising is introduced — this policy will be updated and, where the law requires it, we will ask for your consent first.
Sharing to social media
Each article has buttons to share it on WhatsApp, Facebook, or X. These are ordinary links: they do nothing until you click them, and they do not load third-party trackers onto the page. If you choose to share an article, the service you share it to handles that under its own privacy policy.
Who runs the site
Yola Times is published by publisher / data controller — to be confirmed, which is the data controller for the purposes of the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.
Your rights
Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 you have rights over your personal data, including the right to ask what data is held about you, to have inaccurate data corrected, and to have data deleted in certain circumstances. Because the site collects so little, in most cases there will be nothing to act on — but if you wish to make a request, contact us at [email protected].
Changes to this policy
We will update this page if the site's data practices change. Where a change is significant, the updated policy will describe what changed.