Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible, and how to reach us

African Pride Magazine publishes this site. For the purposes of Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), we are the organisation responsible for the personal information described here.

Our privacy officer is the person to write to about anything on this page:

• Privacy officerAfrican Pride Magazine — CONTACT_TBD
• EmailCONTACT_TBD
• PostDowntown Calgary, Alberta, Canada — street address CONTACT_TBD

2. What we collect

What you type into a form

We receive the information you choose to put into the forms on this site. In each case it is what the form asks for, and nothing is collected in the background:

• Contact form — your name, email address, optional telephone number, the subject you chose, your message, and your reply preferences.
• Marketplace listing form — the business name, category, description, location, website, email and telephone number you supply, plus your own name and role as the person submitting.
• Radio noticeboard form — your name, email address, the kind of announcement, preferred timing, the language it should be read in, the place it concerns, and the text of the announcement. The announcement text is read aloud on air, so treat it as public.
• Newsletter sign-up — your email address, and only that.

Please do not put sensitive information — health details, financial account numbers, copies of identity documents, immigration file numbers — into these forms. If a matter requires that, we will tell you how to send it once a person has replied to you.

What your browser saves, which we never see

The site stores a few small items in your own browser so that it works sensibly: whether you have dismissed the cookie notice, and your own draft of a form you have started but not sent. These stay on your device. They are not transmitted to us and we have no way to read them, and clearing your browser data removes them. They are listed key by key in the Cookie Policy.

Technical information kept by our hosting provider

Like every website, ours is served by a hosting provider, and its servers record ordinary technical information when a page is requested: the IP address making the request, the browser and operating system in the request header, the page requested and the time. We use this to keep the site running, diagnose faults and deal with abuse such as automated form submissions. We do not use it to build a profile of you, and we do not combine it with anything you submit.

What we do not collect

To be explicit about the things a reader might reasonably assume a magazine does: we do not run Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics service. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, social-media buttons that report back, or cross-site identifiers. We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not infer sensitive characteristics about you.

3. The one third-party request our pages make

Our pages load their typefaces from Google Fonts. That means your browser makes a direct request to Google's servers (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com) to fetch the font files, and Google necessarily receives your IP address, your browser's user-agent string and the page that referred the request, in the ordinary way that any web server receives them when it serves a file. Google states that this request does not set a cookie, and we do not send Google anything else — no form content, no identifier we have created, and nothing about what you read here.

We are telling you this because you would not otherwise know it, and because Canadian privacy law requires us to be open about service providers who may handle information in connection with our site. If you would rather avoid the request entirely, a browser extension or content blocker that blocks Google's font domains will stop it; the site falls back to the fonts already on your computer and remains fully readable. The fonts themselves are used under the SIL Open Font License.

4. Consent, and how to withdraw it

We rely on your consent for the personal information you send us. You give it by filling in a form and ticking the box that says you have read this policy, or by writing to us. For the newsletter and any other commercial electronic message, we rely on the express consent required by Canada's anti-spam legislation, which you give by signing up and confirming.

You can withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal and contractual limits. Withdrawing it may mean we can no longer publish your listing, read your announcement, or reply to you. Ask the privacy officer and we will act on it, and we will tell you what the consequence will be before we do it. Withdrawing consent for the newsletter takes effect immediately; every message we send carries a working unsubscribe link.

5. Email, and the anti-spam rules

If you sign up for our newsletter or ask us to keep in touch, we will send you email. Every such message identifies us clearly, gives a mailing address, and contains a one-click way to unsubscribe that works without you having to log in or explain yourself. Unsubscribe requests are honoured within ten business days, which is the period CASL allows.

We do not buy, rent or trade email lists, and we do not add you to a list because you sent us a story tip or a listing. Sending us something is not consent to be marketed to.

6. Who we share it with

We disclose personal information only in these situations:

• Service providers who help us run the site — our hosting provider and, where relevant, an email service provider. They may handle information only on our instructions and only for that purpose, and we expect them to keep it confidential.
• Professional advisers — a lawyer or accountant, where we need advice about a specific matter.
• Where the law requires it — in response to a valid subpoena, warrant or court order, or where we are legally obliged to report something.
• Where publication is the point — a marketplace listing is published because you asked us to publish it, and a radio announcement is broadcast because you asked us to broadcast it. That is disclosure to the public, by your instruction.
• A change of ownership — if the magazine were ever sold or merged, information could transfer to the buyer as part of the business, and we would tell you on this page if that happened.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share your email address with advertisers, and an advertiser never receives a list of who read what.

7. Where your information goes

We are in Canada and we store information in Canada where we can. Some service providers — in particular large hosting and email providers — may store or process data in the United States or elsewhere. When information is held outside Canada, it is subject to the laws of the country where it is held, and it may be accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of that country without notice to you. By sending us information, you understand this. If that is not acceptable to you, please do not use the forms; a telephone call to the number on the contact page may be a better route once it is published.

8. How long we keep it

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purpose we collected it, plus whatever period we must keep it to answer a complaint or satisfy the law:

• Marketplace listings — while the listing is published, and for twelve months after it is removed or withdrawn, so we can deal with a complaint about it.
• Radio announcements — twelve months from broadcast, which covers the period in which a correction or complaint usually arrives.
• Editorial correspondence, tips and corrections — twenty-four months from the last exchange. A correction we have published stays on the piece permanently, because that is what a correction is for.
• Newsletter subscriptions — until you unsubscribe. We then keep a record that you subscribed and that you unsubscribed, for as long as the law requires us to be able to prove consent.
• Declined or refused submissions — twelve months, so that we can explain a decision if it is challenged.

When a period ends we delete or destroy the information, or, where it is in a backup we cannot reasonably reach, we leave it in place and do not use it for anything.

9. Keeping it safe

We protect what we hold with the ordinary measures a small publisher can sustain: encrypted connections to the site, access limited to the people who need it, and passwords and devices that are managed. No system is perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise.

If a breach of security occurs and it creates a real risk of significant harm to you — the test Canadian law sets — we will report it to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and notify you, as promptly as we can, telling you what happened and what you can do about it. We will also keep a record of the breach as required.

10. Your rights

You have the right to:

• see the personal information we hold about you, and to be told how we have used it and to whom we have disclosed it;
• correct anything inaccurate or incomplete;
• ask us to delete information where we no longer have a reason to keep it;
• withdraw consent, as described in section 4;
• complain about how we have handled your information — to us first, and then to a regulator.

Write to the privacy officer. We will answer within 30 days, which is the deadline Canadian law gives us, and we will tell you if we need an extension and why. We may ask you for enough information to confirm who you are before we release anything — that is a safeguard for you, not an obstacle. We do not charge a fee for an access request. If we refuse a request, we will say so in writing and explain the basis for the refusal, and tell you how to take it further.

11. Children

This site is written for adults. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent us information, write to the privacy officer and we will delete it. A radio announcement about a birth or a naming ceremony is sent by an adult, and the child's name in it is published on the instruction of that adult.

12. Complaints

Complain to us first — most things are settled with an email. Write to the privacy officer with as much detail as you can, and we will investigate and reply within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may take it to a regulator:

• the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, for organisations subject to PIPEDA;
• the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, whose Personal Information Protection Act governs provincially regulated private organisations in Alberta.

You do not need our permission to do that, and doing it will not affect how we treat you.

13. Changes to this policy

We will update this page when our practices change, and the date at the top will change with it. If a change matters — a new service provider, a new purpose — we will say what changed rather than quietly editing the text.

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Last updated: October 2026. This policy was written for this site and this business. It is not legal advice to you, and it is not a template borrowed from another company.