Privacy Policy

Effective Date: sept 10, 2025

At Remote Africa Life, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website or interact with our content.

By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information
    When you sign up for our newsletter, contact us, or leave a comment, we may collect your name, email address, and any message you send.
  • Non-Personal Information
    We may automatically collect data such as your browser type, device, IP address, pages visited, and time spent on the site. This helps us understand how users interact with our website.
  • Cookies
    We use cookies to improve your browsing experience, track site traffic, and customize content. You can disable cookies through your browser settings.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

  • Send newsletters, updates, or promotional emails (if you opt in)
  • Improve website performance and content based on analytics
  • Respond to your inquiries or comments
  • Detect and prevent spam or unauthorized access

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties.

3. Third-Party Services

We may use trusted third-party tools such as:

  • Google Analytics – to track website traffic and user behavior
  • Email marketing platforms Mailchimp to manage newsletter subscriptions
  • Affiliate links – to recommend products or services we genuinely believe in

These third parties may collect information in accordance with their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for their practices, so we encourage you to review them separately.

4. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access, update, or delete your personal information
  • Unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time
  • Disable cookies through your browser
  • Contact us if you have concerns about how your data is use

To make a request, please use our Contact page.

5. Data Security

We take reasonable precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, or unauthorized access. However, no system is 100% secure, and you use this site at your own risk.

6. Children’s Privacy

Remote Africa Life does not knowingly collect data from children under the age of 13. If we learn that a child has submitted personal information, we will delete it promptly.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Effective Date.” We encourage you to review it regularly. 

8. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

9. Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

10. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

11. How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

12. What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

13. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via our [Contact page] or email us info@remoteafricalife.com directly.