Privacy

Ahlfigh Limited (RC 1813694) runs this website. We are a private company registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, Nigeria, based in Calabar. We decide how the details you give through this site are used, and we answer for it.

Questions about your details go to [email protected] or +234 814 932 2169.

The Contact form asks for your name, your email and your project, and lets you add your company, a WhatsApp or phone number, your country, what you need and your timeline. It also notes the page you sent it from.

• We keep each enquiry in the site’s database as a form submission, so we can answer it and keep track of the projects we discuss. Only the studio team can read submissions.
• The form emails your enquiry to the studio, and a copy to you, through Brevo, the service that sends the site’s emails.

We use what you send only to talk with you about your project. We keep your enquiry for 2 years after we last hear from you, then delete it. Ask, and we delete it sooner.

The sign-up at the foot of the Journal and of each article asks only for your email. We add it to our mailing list at Brevo with the name of the page you joined from, send you a welcome email, and let the studio know someone joined.

You are on the list as soon as you press Get the notes. Every newsletter has a link to leave the list, or write to [email protected] and we take you off.

When you send a form, the site’s form software notes the time, your IP address and the browser you used, in a log of its last 1,000 events. We use it to find faults and stop abuse. Older events drop off as new ones arrive.

We use Google Analytics to see which pages people read and how they found us, but only if you allow it. The first time you visit, the site asks. Until you say yes, Google Analytics sets no cookies.

If you allow it, it records the pages you view, how you arrived, your device and browser, and your rough location (country and city, worked out from your connection), and sends the figures to Google. We see totals, not who you are.

If you say no, or have not answered, the site still tells Google that a page was viewed, without cookies and without anything that tells your visits apart. Google uses that only to estimate totals.

To change your answer, use Cookie choices at the foot of any page.

• ahlfigh_consent: remembers your answer to the cookie question, for six months.
• _ga and _ga_ followed by letters: Google Analytics, to tell visits apart, only if you allow it. They last up to 2 years.
• Sign-in cookies, for the studio team only, set when they sign in to run the site.
• Cloudflare, which delivers the site, may set a short-lived cookie to tell people from automated traffic.
• YouTube, only after you press play on one of our films: the film then plays from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, which may store data in your browser.

• Hostinger hosts the site and its database.
• Cloudflare delivers the site’s pages and protects it from attacks. It sees your IP address as you visit.
• Brevo sends the site’s emails and holds the newsletter list.
• Google runs the analytics, and YouTube plays a film when you press play on one.

Some of them keep data outside Nigeria. We do not sell your details, and we share them with no one else unless the law requires it.

Under Nigeria’s Data Protection Act 2023, and the GDPR if you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can ask to see the details we hold about you, correct them, delete them, or stop us using them. Write to [email protected]. We answer within a month.

If you are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, or to the data protection authority where you live.

When what the site collects changes, we change this page. The date at the top shows the last change.