Privacy Policy for Ethio Insight
Last Updated: June 12, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Ethio Insight (https://ethioinsight.org/). At Ethio Insight, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data with transparency and care. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, process, and protect your information when you visit our website, ethioinsight.org, and interact with our content and services.
We believe that well-informed individuals are the foundation of a progressive society, and this extends to how we manage your personal information.
2. What Information We Collect
We may collect various types of information from and about you, including:
- Personal Identification Information: This may include your name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to newsletters, submit comments, create an account (if applicable), or contact us directly.
- Non-Personal Identification Information: We may collect non-personal information about users whenever they interact with our Site. This may include the browser name, the type of computer, and technical information about users’ means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
- Usage Data: Information about how you access and use the Site, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, links clicked, and your navigation paths.
- Device Information: Information about the device you use to access our Site, including IP address, device type, operating system, and unique device identifiers.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: As detailed in Section 5, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.
3. How We Collect Information
We collect information through various methods:
- Direct Interactions: You provide us with information when you subscribe, comment, or contact us.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our Site, we automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, Browse actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
- Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics).
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Operate and Maintain Our Website: To ensure the proper functioning and security of ethioinsight.org.
- To Provide and Personalize Our Content: To deliver content relevant to our categories (Africa, Refugees Affairs, Technologies, Business, Environment, Grants and Opportunities, World Politics) and to customize your experience on our Site.
- To Improve Our Website: To understand how our users interact with our content, which helps us improve our articles, layout, and user experience.
- To Send Periodic Emails: If you opt-in to our mailing list, we may send you newsletters, updates, and other information related to Ethio Insight. You can unsubscribe at any time.
- To Respond to Your Inquiries: To respond to your questions, comments, or requests.
- For Analytics and Research: To analyze trends, track user engagement, and gather demographic information for internal research and reporting.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: To meet our legal and regulatory requirements.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our Site uses “cookies” to enhance user experience. Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.
We may use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website.
- Functionality Cookies: Used to recognize you when you return to our website.
- Targeting Cookies: Record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.
6. How We Protect Your Information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our Site.
While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
We may use third-party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or conducting surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
8. International Data Transfers
As Ethio Insight operates globally, your information may be stored and processed in countries outside of your own. By using our Site, you consent to the transfer of your information to countries outside your country of residence, which may have different data protection laws than your country. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
9. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [insert your contact email address, e.g., info@ethioinsight.org].
10. Third-Party Websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browse and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Ethio Insight has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
13. Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
14. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: – global@ethioinsight.org
