Who we are
Our website address is: http://safijournal.com (referred to as “Safi Journal,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
Safi Journal is an independent digital news and media platform dedicated to delivering timely reporting, policy analysis, and community insights. As a modern digital publication committed to media ethics and transparency, we place the highest priority on protecting the privacy of our readers, subscribers, and contributors.
This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, process, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our site, read our articles, engage with our digital content, or interact with our advertisement placements.
Comments
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Safi Journal, we collect the data shown in the comment submission form to facilitate public discussion. To maintain the integrity of our comment sections and protect our platform from automated cyber threats, we also automatically collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in real-time spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you are an active user of their platform. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available publicly at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon the editorial approval of your comment by our moderation team, your profile picture becomes visible to the general public alongside your comment within the context of the respective article.
Media
For contributors, guest authors, and community members who upload images or media assets directly to Safi Journal, we advise that you ensure all embedded location data (EXIF GPS) is stripped from the files prior to upload.
Media files published on open digital platforms are accessible to the public. Visitors to our website have the technical capacity to download published media assets and extract any embedded metadata, including geographic location histories. Safi Journal does not assume liability for metadata inadvertently published via user-submitted media assets.
Cookies
To enhance your user experience, Safi Journal utilizes standard browser cookies. If you leave a comment on our platform, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in these cookies. This function is designed solely for user convenience, ensuring you do not have to re-enter your details when participating in future discussions. Comment-related cookies are safely retained in your browser for a duration of one year.
If you visit our administrative login page, a temporary cookie will be established to determine if your browser is configured to accept cookies. This specific cookie contains absolutely no personal identifiers or data and is immediately discarded upon closing your browser session.
When authorized users log into our system, we configure multiple cookies to securely store login credentials and user interface preferences. Standard login session cookies persist for two days, while screen display configuration cookies are stored for one year. If you select the “Remember Me” option during authentication, your login access will persist securely for two weeks. Logging out of your user account will systematically purge these authentication cookies from your browser.
For editorial contributors and administrators who edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is generated within the browser. This cookie contains zero personal data, simply records the post ID of the digital article you recently modified, and systematically expires after 24 hours.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles published on Safi Journal may occasionally feature embedded digital content (including but not limited to videos, images, social media posts, and interactive charts). Embedded content sourced from external platforms behaves in the exact same manner as if the visitor had directly navigated to the third-party website itself.
Please be advised that these external websites retain the technical capacity to collect data about your browsing behavior, deploy their own proprietary cookies, integrate supplementary third-party tracking mechanisms, and dynamically monitor your direct interaction with that embedded content. This includes tracking your specific interactions if you currently maintain an active account and are concurrently authenticated/logged into that external website (such as YouTube, X, or Instagram) during your session on our platform.
Who we share your data with
Safi Journal does not sell, rent, or trade reader data to third-party data brokers. Your personal information is kept strictly confidential and is only utilized to maintain your experience on our platform.
For site security and account management purposes, if you initiate a request for a password reset, your current IP address will be dynamically included in the automated security reset email sent to your inbox. This standard technical tracking is utilized strictly to verify the legitimacy of the request and to prevent unauthorized administrative or user account access.
How long we retain your data
If you submit a comment on Safi Journal, the comment text and its associated metadata are securely retained indefinitely. This long-term retention allows our system to automatically recognize, validate, and publish any subsequent follow-up comments you make, skipping the administrative moderation queue to streamline public discussion.
For individuals who register a user account on our platform (if applicable), we systematically store the personal information provided within their active user profile. All registered users maintain full autonomy to view, modify, or delete their personal profile information at any given time (with the technical exception of changing their primary username). Authorized website administrators also possess the necessary technical credentials to view and modify that specific information for security and maintenance support.
What rights you have over your data
If you possess a registered account on Safi Journal or have actively participated in our comment sections, you retain the right to request a digital export file detailing the personal data we currently hold about you, including any specific information you have directly provided to our platform.
Furthermore, you may formally request the permanent erasure of any personal data maintained within our databases. Please be advised that this right to erasure does not encompass any data assets that Safi Journal is legally, administratively, or contractually obligated to retain for regulatory compliance, archival security, or institutional bookkeeping purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Visitor comments and form submissions on Safi Journal may be routed through an automated, third-party spam detection and cybersecurity service. This automated screening is utilized exclusively to analyze text submissions for malicious code, phishing links, and known spam patterns, ensuring our news network remains secure and accessible for authentic readers.