
NewsTurkana.com is a subsidiary of TurkMediaHub Ltd
TurkMediaHub LTD and its subsidiaries and affiliates, respects the privacy rights of our online visitors and recognizes the importance of protecting all information that you may choose to share with us.
To further this commitment, we have adopted this Online Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to guide how we collect, store and use the information you provide to us.
Our Privacy Policy respects the privacy of its users and has developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to protecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures.
We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our Service or transacting business with us. By using our Service, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.
Information we collect about you In General. We may collect information that can identify, contact, or locate you such as your name and email address (“personal information”) and other information that does not identify you. When you provide personal information through our Service, the information may be sent to servers located in different countries around the world. Information you provide.
We may collect and store personal information when you register and use the Service or provide to us in some other manner. This includes identifying information, such as your name and email address.
Information may also be provided by corresponding with us (by email or chat, for instance), when you report a problem with the Service on our Service, when you subscribe for any of our services, search for a service or share data via any of the social media functions on our Service.
Social Connect.
When you choose to connect your social media account to your Service profile, we collect Personal Information from that social media website. For example, when you connect your Facebook account, we may collect the Personal Information you have made publicly available in Facebook, such as your name, user ID, profile picture, cover photo, username, gender, networks, age range, language, country, friend list, and any other information you have made public. We may also obtain other non-public information from social media websites with your permission.
Geo-location from your device.
We may collect and store your location information if your device settings are enabled to send it to us. We use this information to analyze user behavior show you personalized content and advertisements. Information about others. We may collect and store personal information about other people (your friends, relatives, colleagues, etc.) that can be obtained when you invite them to use our Service, including their name, address and email address.
Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information.
We use various technologies to collect information from your computer and about your activities on our Service. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use our Service or browse the Website and also allows us to improve the Service. In particular, we may use Identifier for Advertising (IDFA), Advertising ID or other similar technologies to track activity of the device you are using for advertising purposes. The detailed information on how we use cookies and other similar technologies may be found in the section “Cookies and Other Similar Technologies” below.
Information collected automatically.
This Privacy Policy applies only to personal information collected on the websites where this Privacy Policy is posted:
✅ https://newsturkana.com
✅ https://turkmediahub.com
We collect information from you when you register on our site or fill out a form. However, we do not require personal information to access our websites and you may visit our websites anonymously. In the event that you prefer not to disclose personal information, please keep in mind that you may not be able to enjoy certain features of our websites. Personal information is information that identifies you and may be used to contact you. To offer our guests certain features on our websites, we may collect several types of personally identifiable information. Personal information that you provide to us can be attained via various means:
- Information You Provide to Us: The majority of the personal information we receive comes directly from our guests. This information may include: Name, E-mail Address, and/or Telephone Number. We may collect personal information from our guests to:
i. Participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions;
ii. Report piracy, offer feedback, or other business inquiries; and/or
iii. Sign up to receive newsletters.
- Information Collected Through Technology: We collect information through technology to make our websites more interesting and useful to you. For example, when you come to one of our websites, we collect your IP address. An IP address often is associated with the portal through which you enter the Internet, like your ISP (Internet service provider), your company or your university. Standing alone, your IP address is not
- Cookies: Our websites also use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. We and other companies use cookies for a variety of purposes. For example, when you return to one of our websites after logging in, cookies provide information to the website so that the website will remember who you are. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You can do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you
3. Use of Personal Information
We do not share, sell or rent your personal information to third parties without your consent. We do not require disclosure of personal information to access our websites as our websites can be accessed anonymously. However, if you prefer not to disclose any personal information, you may not be able to enjoy certain features of our website.
- won’t have access to many features that make your web experience smoother, like the features mentioned above, and some of our services may not function properly.
- personally identifiable. At times, we also use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests visit various parts of our websites. We do not combine the information collected through technology with your personally identifiable information.
We will only collect information to the extent reasonably necessary to fulfill your requests and our legitimate business objectives, such as:
- To personalize your experience: Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs. Information collected from those who voluntarily submit it to us is used to provide services like updates on special events and e-mail announcements of interest to our users. We do not share your personally identifiable information with third party marketers.
- To send periodic emails: The email address you provide may be used to send you information and updates, including but not limited to, receiving occasional company news, updates, or administrative communications either about your account with us or about features of our websites, including any future changes to this Privacy Policy. NOTE: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, TurkMediaHub LTD. includes detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
- To improve our customer service and our websites: We occasionally use third parties (other companies, agents or contractors) to perform services necessary to our operations. For example, we have partnered with other companies to personalize our web pages, analyze customers’
- interaction with our website, send newsletters and process consumer surveys. In the course of providing such services, these private, third party companies may have contact with your personally identifiable information and have agreed to securely store and maintain the personal information received from us and only use your personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- To help protect the security and safety of Our websites and others: TurkMediaHub LTD. will disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that such disclosures (a) are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our terms of use; enforce contests, sweepstakes, promotions; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or protect the safety and security of our websites or third parties.
Cookies and Use of Cookie Data.
When you visit our Service, we may assign your device one or more cookies to facilitate access to our Service and to personalize your online experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on the Service, such as the web pages you visit, the time and date of your visits, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our Service. During your visits to other websites or online services where we advertise, we (or third parties) may use certain data collected on our Service to show you the type of advertisements likely to be of greater interest to you. Although you may not opt out of receiving online advertisements generally, you may stop targeted globalnews.co.ke advertising during your visits to other websites and online services. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on our Service. Other Technologies. We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use of our Service. We also may include web beacons in advertisements or email messages to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the Service we offer our visitors and users to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities.
Information collected by third-parties.
We may allow third-party partners, including our authorized service providers, analytics providers, advertising companies and ad networks, to use “cookies” and other similar technologies to collect information about how the Service, advertisements, and email are viewed and accessed. We do not provide any personal information to these third parties. This information allows us to learn more about how the Service is used and for them to deliver targeted advertisements and gauge their effectiveness. Our partners also may collect information about your online activities over time, on other devices, and on other websites or online services when they also use our partners’ services. When they provide such services, they are governed by their own privacy policies.
How we use the information we collect General.
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our websites. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. For instance, clicking on an advertisement or on links or other elements on the website may take you to an entirely different website. Links to other sites may use our website logo or style as a result of a co-branding agreement. These websites may send their own cookies to you and may collect data and make use of that data in ways that this website would not. Once you have left this website, this Privacy Policy will no longer apply to personally identifiable information or any other data collected from or provided by you. Please check the applicable privacy policy to determine how that website will handle such data.
PG Inc. therefore have NO responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked websites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our websites and welcome any feedback about these third party sites.
Aggregate Data.
We may anonymize or aggregate data collected through the Service and use and disclose it for any purpose. With whom we share your information Personal information. We share your personal information with others as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared.
¶We may share personal information with: Service providers. We may share your personal information, which may include your name and contact information (including email address) with third parties that perform certain service on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, member screenings, supporting our Service functionality, and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered through our Service. Other Users.
¶We will share your profile information with other users of the Service. We will also facilitate sending the messages between you and other users, and so your message content will be shared with the recipient.
¶Marketing. We may allow access to data collected by the Service and our service providers to enable the delivery of online advertising on the Service or on other websites and online services, or to send you information we think may be useful or relevant to you.
¶We may also provide your contact information to others for their marketing purposes. Business partners. When you register on our Service or click-through our advertisements offered on third party websites and online services, we may share personal information with the businesses with which we partner to offer you the applicable products, services or any advertisements. When you elect to engage in a particular merchant’s offer or program, you authorize us to provide your email address and other information to that merchant. In addition, when you click on an advertisement on our Service relating to a particular merchant, you authorize us to provide your personal information (such as your photograph, age and gender) to that merchant for the purposes of facilitating the completion of your registration with that merchant’s web-site or service and for other purposes in accordance with the privacy policy and terms of use of that merchant (please refer to the “Third-Party Websites” section below for additional information). Other Situations.
¶We also may disclose your information, including personal information: In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Service terms or other agreements or policies. In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Aggregated and/or non-personal information.
We may share non-personal information we collect under any of the above circumstances. We may combine non-personal information we collect with additional non-personal information collected from other sources. We also may share aggregated, non-personal information, or personal information in hashed, non-human readable form, with third parties, including advisors, advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis or other business purposes.
Personalized Advertising.
You may be able to opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from advertisers or advertising networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative or who subscribe to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt-out sections on the websites of each of those organizations. Links to those sites are here: Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ You may opt out of personalized ads from AdCash at https://www.adcash.com/legal-info/#h.ew5sib19a7w8. When you opt out of personalized advertising, you may continue to see online advertising on the Service and/or our ads on other Internet websites and online services. How to unsubscribe from future email marketing messages You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in a marketing email. Please note that even after you opt-out of marketing messages, we may still communicate with you by email for administrative and informational purposes unrelated to marketing. The subscribers of our Service’s app may also unsubscribe from all notifications by following the appropriate steps in the “Manage notifications” section of the settings. Third-party websites There are a number of places on our Service where you may click on a link to access other websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. For example, if you click on an advertisement on our Service, you may be taken to a website that we do not control. These third-party websites may independently solicit and collect information, including personal information, from you and, in some instances, provide us with information about your activities on those websites.
We recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites you visit by clicking on the “privacy” link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting. How you can access your information If you would like to update or correct any information that you have provided to us through your use of the Service, you may use the Service to do so. If you need help, or if you have suggestions for improving this Privacy Policy, please send an email to info@turkmediahub.com.
If you have an online account with us, you may close it via request to Support. After you close you r account, you will not be able to sign in to our Service or access any of your personal information. However, you can open a new, separate account at any time or re-activate your previous account by following instructions we will give you at the time you close your account. If you close your account, we may still retain certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and record keeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our Service or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. In addition, if certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third parties’ policies. Your choices about collection and use of your information You can control information collected by cookies. See section “Cookies” below for information about declining or deleting cookies. How we protect your personal information We take reasonable security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. We want you to feel confident using our Service to transact business. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure.
Users should also take care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal information through insecure email. Information you provide about yourself while using our Service We provide areas on our Service where you can post information about yourself and others and communicate with others. In addition, such postings may appear on other websites or when searches are executed on the subject of your posting. Also, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on publicly-viewable web pages, that information will be publicly available and can be collected and used by others. For example, if you post your email address, you may receive unsolicited messages.
We cannot control who reads your posting or what other users may do with the information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise discretion and caution with respect to your personal information.
Children’s privacy
Although our Service is a general audience service, we restrict the use of our Service to individuals age 18 and above. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under 18 years of age, and no part of the Service is directed to children under the age of 18. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may alert us at info@newsturkana.com . If we learn that we have collected any personal information from children under 18, we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the child’s account.
International Data Transfer
NewsTurkana.com is a global business platform. We may transfer personal information to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your personal information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy. In particular, to offer our Service, we need to transfer your personal information to the United States. The United States is not considered to provide an adequate level of protection under EU data protection law. By agreeing to the Privacy Policy, you consent to the transfer of your personal information for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but please note that if you do not consent to the transfer of if you withdraw your consent to transfer, you may not be able to benefit from all or some of our services. If you would like to withdraw your consent to the transfer of your Personal Information to the U.S., please send us an email to info@turkmediahub.com
No Rights of Third Parties
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the website.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check our Service from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies. If our practices change regarding previously collected Personal Information in a way that would be materially less restrictive than stated in the version of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time we collected the information, we will make reasonable efforts to provide notice and obtain consent to any such uses as may be required by law.
California Privacy Rights
Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses.
To obtain this information from us, please send an email message to info@turkmediahub.com or mail us at the address below with “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of your message. If you are a California resident, we will provide the requested information to you at your e-mail address in response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.
Cookies and Other Similar Technologies Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record keeping purposes. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when you close your browser and is used to make it easier for you to navigate our Service. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Cookies on our Service do not link to or store your personal information. For example, when you sign in to our Service, we will record your user ID and the name associated with your user ID in the cookie file on your computer. We also may record your password in this cookie file, if you indicated that you would like your password saved for automatic sign-in. For security purposes, we will encrypt any usernames, passwords, and other user or member account-related data that we store in such cookies. In the case of sites and services that do not use a user or member ID, the cookie will contain a unique identifier. We may allow our authorized service providers to serve cookies from our Service to allow them to assist us in various activities, such as doing analysis and research on the effectiveness of our Service, content and advertising.
You may delete or decline cookies by changing your browser settings. (Click “Help” in the toolbar of most browsers for instructions.) If you do so, some of the features and services of our Service may not function properly. We may allow third-parties, advertising companies, and ad networks, to display advertisements on our Service. These companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with their advertisements. Our Service does not provide any personal information to these third parties, but they may collect information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the advertisements they deliver (such as click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, etc.), and possibly associate this information with your subsequent visits to the advertised websites. They also may combine this information with personal information they collect from you to provide advertisements about goods and Service likely to be of greater interest to you. The collection and use of that information is subject to the third-party’s privacy policy. This information allows them to deliver targeted advertisements and gauge their effectiveness. Web Beacons Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies. Unlike cookies which are stored on the user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on the web pages (or in email) and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence..
Web beacons may be used to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count users who have visited certain pages and to understand usage patterns. We also may receive an anonymous identification number if you come to our Service from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website. Third parties may use anonymous information about your visits to our Service and other websites in order to improve its products and Service and provide advertisements about goods and Service of interest to you..
10. Amendments and Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes made will be conducted by prominently posting notice of the changes on this webpage. Any material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective 30 days following our posting of notice of the changes on the websites covered by this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy was Last Modified on 2nd January, 2023