Effective Date: August 20, 2026
Last Updated: August 20, 2026
My Story Magazine Africa (“My Story Magazine Africa,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates mystorymagazine.com (the “Website”).
We respect the privacy of our visitors, readers, contributors, advertisers, partners, and other users of the Website. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, how we may share it, how cookies and advertising technologies are used, and the rights available to individuals whose personal information we process.
By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
- Who We Are
The Website is operated by:
My Story Magazine Africa
Website: https://mystorymagazine.com
Email: officialmystoryafrica@gmail.com
For privacy-related questions, requests, complaints, or concerns, please contact us using the email address above.
- Applicable Privacy Law
We seek to handle personal information in accordance with applicable privacy and data-protection laws.
Where applicable to our processing activities, this includes Ghana’s Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) and other applicable laws and regulations concerning privacy and personal information.
The Data Protection Act provides rights and protections to individuals whose personal data is processed, including rights relating to access and objection. (Data Protection Ghana)
Where visitors are located in other jurisdictions, additional privacy rights or requirements may apply to them depending on the circumstances.
- Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with the Website, we may collect or receive the following categories of information.
3.1 Information You Provide Directly
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- Contact us by email.
- Submit an enquiry.
- Request information.
- Submit a story, article, photograph, interview request, or other material.
- Communicate with us regarding advertising, sponsorship, partnerships, or business opportunities.
- Participate in promotions, surveys, competitions, or other activities, where applicable.
This information may include your name, email address, telephone number, organisation, professional information, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not send sensitive personal information to us unless it is necessary for the purpose for which you are contacting us.
3.2 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically by our Website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising partners, security tools, or other third-party technologies.
This may include:
- IP address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device type.
- Operating system.
- Language preferences.
- Pages visited.
- Links or buttons interacted with.
- Date and time of visits.
- Referring website or URL.
- Approximate geographic information derived from an IP address.
- Website performance and diagnostic information.
- Information about how you interact with advertisements.
Some of this information may constitute personal data under applicable law.
- How We Use Information
We may use information we collect for legitimate business and operational purposes, including to:
- Operate and maintain the Website.
- Provide and improve our content and services.
- Respond to enquiries and communications.
- Process submissions and requests.
- Communicate with contributors, readers, advertisers, and partners.
- Understand how visitors use the Website.
- Analyse Website traffic and performance.
- Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity.
- Maintain the security and integrity of the Website.
- Display and measure advertising.
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
- Protect our rights, property, users, and business.
- Carry out other purposes that are disclosed to you at the time information is collected or otherwise permitted by applicable law.
- Legal Basis for Processing
Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following:
- Your consent.
- Performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering into a contract.
- Compliance with a legal obligation.
- Our legitimate interests, where permitted by applicable law and where those interests are not overridden by your rights.
- Protection of vital interests.
- Other lawful grounds permitted by applicable law.
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw your consent where applicable. Withdrawal of consent does not necessarily affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before withdrawal.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files or pieces of information that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the Website functioning properly.
- Remember preferences.
- Understand Website traffic and usage.
- Improve Website performance.
- Provide security and fraud prevention.
- Measure advertising performance.
- Display advertisements.
- Help deliver more relevant advertising where permitted.
Some cookies may be placed by third parties that provide services on our Website.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect Website functionality.
- Google AdSense and Advertising
We may use Google AdSense to display advertisements on the Website.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device information, or similar technologies in connection with advertising and measurement.
Google states that advertising technologies may use cookies for purposes including measuring advertisements, preventing fraud, limiting repeated advertisements, and, depending on applicable settings and consent, showing advertisements that may be more relevant to users. (Google Policies)
Third parties, including Google, may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons or IP addresses as a result of advertising being served on the Website. Google requires publishers using its products to provide appropriate disclosures concerning these technologies. (Google Support)
Google may process information received from websites that use its services, including information such as the URL of the page visited and IP address, in accordance with Google’s own policies and applicable law. (Google)
For more information about Google’s advertising practices, please review:
Google Advertising Privacy & Terms
How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
Users may also be able to manage certain Google advertising preferences through Google’s advertising settings.
- Personalised Advertising
Depending on the user’s location, applicable consent requirements, browser/device settings, and Google’s advertising systems, advertisements displayed on the Website may be personalised or non-personalised.
Where applicable, users may have choices regarding personalised advertising and the use of advertising cookies or similar technologies.
Even when personalised advertising is disabled, users may still receive advertisements based on contextual or other non-personalised factors. (Google Policies)
- Google Analytics and Site Measurement
We may use Google Analytics or other analytics technologies to understand how visitors use the Website, measure traffic, identify technical problems, and improve our content and services.
Where such services are enabled, information may be processed by the relevant third-party provider in accordance with its privacy policy and applicable law.
If we add, remove, or change analytics providers, this Privacy Policy may be updated accordingly.
- Google Site Kit
The Website may use Google Site Kit to connect and manage Google services such as Search Console, Analytics, and AdSense.
The information processed through those services may be subject to the privacy policies of the relevant Google services.
- Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal information simply because you visit our Website.
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to operate our Website and business, including to:
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers.
- Website security and technical service providers.
- Analytics providers.
- Advertising and advertising-measurement providers.
- Email and communication service providers.
- Professional advisers.
- Legal or regulatory authorities where required or permitted by law.
- Business partners or successors in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, sale, or transfer of some or all of our business or assets.
We may also disclose information where necessary to protect our legal rights, prevent fraud or abuse, protect the safety of users, or comply with a lawful request.
- Third-Party Services and Links
The Website may contain links to websites, social-media platforms, advertisements, embedded content, or other services operated by third parties.
Those third parties may collect information independently of us and may have their own privacy policies and terms.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites or services.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing personal information.
- User-Submitted Content
If you voluntarily submit stories, photographs, articles, comments, testimonials, interviews, or other material to My Story Magazine Africa, we may process information contained in those submissions for editorial, publishing, promotional, administrative, or related purposes.
You should only submit personal information or material that you are authorised to provide.
Where publication of personal information requires your consent or another lawful basis, we will seek to handle it accordingly.
- Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including to:
- Provide requested services.
- Maintain business and communication records.
- Meet legal, accounting, tax, regulatory, or reporting obligations.
- Resolve disputes.
- Enforce agreements.
- Prevent fraud and abuse.
- Protect the security and integrity of our Website.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type and purpose of the information.
When personal information is no longer reasonably required, we may securely delete, anonymise, or otherwise dispose of it, subject to applicable legal requirements.
- Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, loss, misuse, or destruction.
However, no website, electronic transmission, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should therefore understand that transmission of information over the internet carries inherent risks.
- Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including rights to:
- Know whether your personal information is being processed.
- Request information about personal information held about you.
- Request access to your personal information.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Object to certain processing.
- Request deletion or removal where applicable.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request restriction of processing where applicable.
- Lodge a complaint with an applicable data-protection authority.
- Receive other rights provided by applicable law.
Ghana’s Data Protection Commission identifies rights including access and objection among the rights available to data subjects under Act 843. (Data Protection Ghana)
Some rights may be subject to legal limitations or exceptions.
To exercise a privacy right, contact us using:
officialmystoryafrica@gmail.com
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
- Direct Marketing
Where we send direct marketing communications, we will seek to do so in accordance with applicable law.
If you receive marketing communications from us and no longer wish to receive them, you may contact us and request that we stop sending such communications.
Where applicable, you may also use an unsubscribe mechanism provided in the communication.
- International Data Transfers
Some of our service providers, including providers of hosting, analytics, advertising, communications, security, or other technology services, may process information in countries outside Ghana or outside the country where you are located.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we will seek to use appropriate safeguards or another lawful basis for the transfer.
Third-party providers may also process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
- Children’s Privacy
The Website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.
We do not knowingly request personal information from children for purposes that are unlawful or inappropriate.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where it should not have been collected, please contact us at:
officialmystoryafrica@gmail.com
We will consider appropriate steps to address the matter.
- Complaints and Concerns
If you have concerns about how we handle your personal information, please contact us first:
My Story Magazine Africa
Email: officialmystoryafrica@gmail.com
We will consider and respond to privacy-related complaints as reasonably practicable.
Where applicable, you may also contact the Ghana Data Protection Commission, the statutory regulator responsible for data protection in Ghana. (Data Protection Ghana)
- Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:
- Our Website.
- Our services.
- Technology.
- Advertising or analytics providers.
- Applicable laws or regulations.
- Our privacy practices.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
You should review this page periodically for the latest version.
- Contact Us
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information, please contact:
My Story Magazine Africa
Website: https://mystorymagazine.com
Email: officialmystoryafrica@gmail.com
Last Updated: August 20, 2026
