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Last updated: 16 July 2026
The short version: you can read this whole site without telling us anything. We only hold personal data if you hand it over — by subscribing or commenting — plus what we need to keep the site up and to show ads.
AfroEuropa is published by Doyenify OÜ (registry code 16881089), of Juhan Sütiste tee 52-35, Tallinn, Estonia. For anything in this policy, write to editorial@afroeuropa.com. We are the data controller for the processing described below, except where we say otherwise.
We store your email address and a one-time confirmation token. We use double opt-in: we email you to confirm before you are actually subscribed, so nobody can sign you up. We use the address only to send the newsletter you asked for.
Lawful basis: consent. You can withdraw it at any time with the unsubscribe link in any issue, or by emailing us — we delete the record.
We store the name you type, your comment, and an email address if you choose to give one (it is optional and never published). Comments are held for moderation before appearing. Your name and comment are public once approved — please do not put anything in a comment you would not want indexed by a search engine.
Lawful basis: consent, and our legitimate interest in moderating our own site.
We increment a counter on the article. It is a single number per story — no profile, no identifier, nothing tied to you. We do not run Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics on this site.
Our hosting provider processes standard server logs (IP address, request time, user agent) as part of serving the page to you. Separately, when a request looks like automated scraping, we log the IP address, user agent, path and country of that request so we can see who is hammering the site and block them. We keep those records for up to 12 months.
Lawful basis: legitimate interest in the security and availability of our service.
We show ads through Google AdSense. Ads are how this site pays for itself.
Nothing advertising-related runs until you say yes. The Google ad script is not loaded at all unless you accept in the cookie banner. If you decline, no AdSense script, no ad cookies. Your choice itself is stored locally in your own browser — it never reaches our servers, and it is not a tracking cookie.
If you do accept:
To change your mind on this site, clear this site's data in your browser and the banner will ask you again.
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing. Data reaches only:
These providers may process data outside your country. Where that involves transfers out of the EEA or UK, they are made under the safeguards those rules require, such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
Under the GDPR and equivalent laws you can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how we use it, or hand it over in a portable form. You can also withdraw consent at any time, which does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.
Email editorial@afroeuropa.com and we will deal with it within one month. There is no charge, and you do not have to explain why. If you think we have got it wrong, you can complain to your local data protection authority (for us, the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon, aki.ee)).
This is a technology news site for a general audience. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given us data, tell us and we will delete it.
We publish news, which necessarily includes information about people — founders, executives, public officials. We only report what our cited sources support, and we hold ourselves to our Editorial & Sourcing Policy. If a story about you is wrong, please tell us — we would rather fix it than argue about it.
If we change how we handle data, we will update this page and the date at the top. We will not quietly start collecting something new and leave this page saying otherwise.