Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 10, 2001
Last updated: September 10, 2026

Qaranimo Online (“Qaranimo,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of its readers, contributors, and website visitors. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and disclose information when you visit www.qaranimo.com, subscribe to our updates, submit content, leave comments, or otherwise communicate with us.

Qaranimo Online is a Somali news and information platform covering Somalia, the Horn of Africa, the Somali diaspora, and important developments from around the world.

Privacy at a Glance

• We collect information you provide directly, such as your name, email address, comments, messages, and news submissions.
• We automatically receive limited technical information when you visit our website, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and pages visited.
• We may use cookies, analytics, embedded media, and advertising technologies.
• We use information to operate the website, communicate with readers, improve our content, prevent misuse, and understand website traffic.
• We may work with service providers that assist with hosting, analytics, email subscriptions, advertising, security, and multimedia content.
• You may contact us to ask about, correct, or request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal and journalistic limitations.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide

We may collect personal information when you:

• Subscribe to newsletters or news alerts;
• Submit a comment on an article;
• Contact us through a form or email;
• Send a news tip, press release, photograph, video, or article;
• Apply to become a contributor;
• Participate in a survey, promotion, or community activity;
• Create an account or use a social-media login feature; or
• Request advertising or business information.

This information may include your name, email address, telephone number, organization, social-media profile, message, submission, and any other information you choose to provide.

Please do not send highly sensitive information through an ordinary contact form or unencrypted email.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Qaranimo Online, our website and service providers may automatically collect:

• Internet Protocol address;
• Browser and device type;
• Operating system;
• Approximate location based on IP address;
• Referring website;
• Pages viewed and links selected;
• Date, time, and duration of visits;
• Cookie identifiers; and
• Information about website errors, security events, and performance.

We use this information to operate, secure, maintain, and improve the website.

How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

• Publish and manage news, articles, comments, and multimedia content;
• Respond to questions, feedback, corrections, and news tips;
• Deliver newsletters or updates requested by subscribers;
• Review submissions from readers and contributors;
• Manage advertising and business inquiries;
• Understand how visitors use the website;
• Improve website performance, accessibility, and reader experience;
• Detect spam, fraud, security threats, and misuse;
• Enforce our website rules and protect our legal rights; and
• Meet applicable legal or regulatory requirements.

We will not use personal information for an unrelated purpose without appropriate notice or consent unless permitted or required by law.

News Tips and Content Submissions

If you send Qaranimo Online a news tip, article, photograph, video, document, press release, or community announcement, we may review, verify, edit, publish, or contact you about that material.

Do not assume that a submission is confidential unless Qaranimo Online has expressly agreed to confidentiality in advance. If protecting your identity is important, clearly state this before providing sensitive information and allow us to confirm whether confidentiality can be offered.

You must have the right or permission to submit any content you provide, particularly photographs, videos, personal information, and copyrighted material involving other people.

Comments

When visitors leave comments, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information, to assist with spam detection, moderation, and website security.

Comments approved for publication may be visible to the public. Do not include private, confidential, or sensitive personal information in a public comment.

We may edit, refuse, or remove comments that contain spam, threats, harassment, hate speech, unlawful content, misinformation, or personal information published without permission.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Qaranimo Online may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Remember visitor preferences;
• Maintain website functionality;
• Measure audience and website performance;
• Detect spam and security threats;
• Support social-media and video features; and
• Deliver or measure advertising.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect the operation of some website features.

Where required, we will request consent before placing non-essential analytics or advertising cookies. Visitors should be able to review or update their cookie choices through the website’s cookie-consent settings.

Analytics, Advertising, and Third-Party Services

Qaranimo Online uses or may use third-party services for website hosting, analytics, subscriptions, security, advertising, social sharing, fonts, and multimedia content.

These services may include Google services such as Site Kit, Analytics, Tag Manager, and Google Fonts, as well as YouTube and social-media platforms. Depending on the features active on a page, these providers may receive technical information such as your IP address, device information, cookie identifiers, and interactions with embedded content.

Third-party providers process information according to their own privacy policies. Qaranimo Online does not control how an external website or platform handles information after you leave our website or interact with its services.

Embedded Content and External Links

Articles may contain videos, images, posts, maps, advertisements, or other content embedded from third-party websites. Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.

Those websites may collect information, use cookies, track your interaction, or connect activity to an account you hold with them. We encourage readers to review the privacy policies of external services before interacting with embedded content.

Qaranimo Online is not responsible for the privacy practices, accuracy, or security of external websites.

When We Share Information

We may disclose information:

• To hosting, analytics, security, email, advertising, and technical service providers;
• When you direct or authorize us to do so;
• To investigate spam, fraud, security incidents, or unlawful activity;
• To protect the safety, rights, and property of Qaranimo Online, our readers, or others;
• When required by a court order, law, or lawful government request; or
• As part of a business restructuring, transfer, or change in website ownership.

Service providers should receive only the information reasonably necessary to perform their assigned services.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including operational, security, journalistic, legal, and recordkeeping requirements.

Published comments and submitted news materials may be retained for archival and journalistic purposes. Newsletter information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to any information we must keep to honour your request or meet legal obligations.

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Ask whether we hold personal information about you;
• Request access to that information;
• Ask us to correct inaccurate information;
• Withdraw consent for certain uses;
• Unsubscribe from promotional emails;
• Request deletion of eligible personal information;
• Object to or restrict certain processing; and
• Submit a privacy concern or complaint.

These rights may be limited where information must be retained for legal, security, recordkeeping, freedom-of-expression, or journalistic purposes.

Every marketing or newsletter email should include an unsubscribe option. You may also contact us directly to withdraw your subscription.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and visitors should exercise care when submitting information online.

International Visitors and Data Transfers

Qaranimo Online serves readers in Somalia, Canada, the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world. Information may be processed or stored in countries outside your place of residence.

Privacy laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live. Where required, we take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information receives appropriate protection.

Children’s Privacy

Qaranimo Online is a general-audience news website and is not intended to collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian consent.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information without proper consent, please contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, technology, or legal responsibilities change. The revised policy will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

If a change significantly affects how we handle personal information, we will provide additional notice or request consent where required.

Contact Qaranimo Online

If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact:

Qaranimo Online
Website: www.qaranimo.com
Email: info@qaranimo.com

Please write “Privacy Request” in the subject line and clearly explain your request. We will respond within a reasonable period and in accordance with applicable law.