Last Updated: August 26, 2026
At Safi News, we value your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information of our readers, users, contributors, and visitors. Safi News is dedicated to providing digital audiences with transformative, positive, neutral, and impactful journalism while rejecting the culture of cynical reporting.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, and protected when you visit or interact with the Safi News website and its digital platforms.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Personally Identifiable Information
Some features of the Safi News website may require you to voluntarily provide personally identifiable information. This may include your name, email address, telephone number, and other information you choose to provide.
For example, we may collect information when you:
- Contact us through our website or email;
- Participate in questionnaires, polls, competitions, or other interactive features;
- Subscribe to newsletters or notifications, where available;
- Submit comments, feedback, articles, tips, or other material; or
- Participate in other activities offered through Safi News.
You are generally free to choose whether to provide such information. However, certain features or services may not be available if the requested information is not provided.
1.2 Non-Personally Identifiable Information
When you visit or use the Safi News website, certain information may be collected automatically. This information may not directly identify you and may include:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address;
- Browser type and version;
- Operating system;
- Device type;
- Pages and articles visited;
- Date and time of your visit;
- Website or page from which you accessed Safi News;
- Websites or pages you visit after leaving Safi News;
- General geographic or location information; and
- Other technical information relating to your use of the website.
This information may be used for website administration, security, analytics, performance monitoring, and improving our content and services.
2. Information Obtained Through Social Media
Safi News may use social media features, plugins, or links that allow users to interact with social media platforms, including sharing articles, commenting, or engaging with content.
If you choose to interact with Safi News through a third-party social media platform, that platform may collect information about you in accordance with its own privacy policy and terms of service.
Depending on the service and your privacy settings, information associated with your social media account may include your name, email address, profile information, photographs, location, posts, likes, followers, or other information that you have made available to the relevant platform.
Safi News does not control the privacy practices of third-party social media platforms. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those platforms before interacting with their services.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Safi News may use cookies and similar technologies to improve the functionality, performance, and user experience of our website.
Cookies are small data files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website. They may help us understand how visitors use our website, remember preferences, improve website performance, and support certain website functions.
You may be able to control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality or availability of some features of the website.
Third-party services used on the website may also use cookies or similar technologies subject to their own privacy policies.
4. How We Use the Information We Collect
Information collected by Safi News may be used for legitimate business, editorial, operational, and communication purposes, including to:
- Provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Safi News website;
- Deliver news, articles, features, and other content;
- Respond to enquiries, comments, and requests;
- Process participation in competitions, polls, questionnaires, or other activities;
- Communicate with users regarding services, updates, or other relevant information;
- Send newsletters, notifications, or other communications where you have requested or consented to receive them;
- Understand how users interact with our website and improve our content and services;
- Monitor website performance and security;
- Detect, prevent, and address fraud, misuse, security issues, or technical problems; and
- Comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
We may also use information in an aggregated or otherwise non-personally identifiable form for research, analysis, reporting, and improving our digital services.
5. Sharing of Information
Safi News does not intend to sell your personally identifiable information simply for the purpose of selling personal data.
We may, however, disclose information where reasonably necessary to operate our website, provide requested services, protect our users and organization, or comply with applicable law.
This may include sharing information with trusted service providers, technology providers, hosting providers, website support providers, analytics providers, or other third parties that assist us in operating our digital services.
We may also disclose information where required or permitted by applicable law, regulation, court order, or lawful request from a competent authority.
6. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Safi News website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, advertisements, videos, applications, or other external services.
Once you leave the Safi News website and access a third-party service, that service’s own privacy policy and terms may apply. Safi News is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites or services.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites they visit.
7. Data Security
Safi News takes reasonable measures to protect information in our possession against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Therefore, while we take reasonable steps to protect information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to provide our services, maintain appropriate business and editorial records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, protect our interests, or comply with applicable legal obligations.
The period for which information is retained may vary depending on the nature of the information and the purpose for which it was collected.
9. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information.
You may also have the right to object to or restrict certain uses of your information, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
To make a privacy-related request or enquiry, please contact Safi News using the contact details provided on our website.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
10. Children’s Privacy
Safi News is committed to protecting the privacy of children. We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the website where such collection is not appropriate or permitted by law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate consent, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Safi News may update or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
When changes are made, the updated policy will be published on this page together with the revised Last Updated date.
We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically to remain informed about how we handle information.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the way Safi News handles personal information, please contact us through the official contact details provided on the Safi News website.
Safi News
Website: https://safinews.co.ke/
We value the trust of our readers and remain committed to responsible journalism and the responsible handling of information entrusted to us.