This policy explains what personal information zambianeconomist.com collects, why, and what we do with it. It applies to this website and to the services we sell through it.
Information we collect
- Comments and contact forms, the name, email address and message you submit, plus your IP address and browser details, which help us detect spam.
- Article submissions, the contact details and material you send us through the submission page.
- Orders, when you buy a directory listing, event listing or advertising placement, the billing and contact details needed to fulfil and account for that order.
- Technical data, server logs recording pages requested, approximate location and device type.
- Cookies, small files used to keep you logged in, remember cart contents and measure how the site is used.
How we use it
We use this information to publish and moderate comments, respond to enquiries, deliver and account for the services you have purchased, keep the site secure, and understand which articles readers find useful. We do not sell your personal information.
Payments
Payments are processed by third-party payment providers. Card and mobile money details are handled by those providers under their own security arrangements and are not stored on our servers.
Sharing
We share personal information only with service providers who help us operate the site, hosting, payment processing, spam filtering and analytics, and where we are required to do so by law.
Advertising and Third-Party Cookies
We use Google AdSense and may work with other third-party advertising vendors to display ads on this site. These vendors use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect information about your visits to this and other websites, and to serve ads based on your interests.
Google uses cookies, including the DoubleClick/Google Ads cookie, to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet. We do not control the cookies placed by these third-party vendors, and this policy does not cover their use of your information; we encourage you to review their own privacy policies directly.
You can opt out of personalised advertising using Google’s Ads Settings (adssettings.google.com), the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page (networkadvertising.org/choices), or by reviewing Google’s page on how it uses information from sites that use its services (policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). You can also disable cookies generally through your browser settings, though this may affect how parts of this site function.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential advertising and analytics cookies on your device. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie preferences link in the site footer.
Retention
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so that follow-up comments can be recognised automatically. Enquiries are retained while the matter is open and for a reasonable period afterwards. Order records are retained for as long as accounting and tax obligations require.
Your rights
You may ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to erase it. Requests that conflict with a legal, accounting or security obligation may be refused, and we will explain why.
Contact
For any privacy question or request: Email info@zambianeconomist.com or call +260 775 574 228.