Privacy Policy

This privacy policy relates to all ‘Salone Focus (www.salonefocus.com)’ (from here on Salone Focus) services: we are a new media publisher and platform for contributors in Africa that reaches a lot of people, so we are specifically conscious about this topic. Hence, the privacy our visitors is important to us.

Salone Focus is online media agency which is positioned to utilize the fast growing Internet penetration in Sierra Leone to inform and educate its people. With categories ranging from news, politics, arts/entertainment, education, business, music/lifestyle, sports, technology, agriculture, health, e.t.c; We are positioned to delivering accurate, up-to-date and dependable information to millions of Sierra Leoneans both within and outside Sierra Leone. This will be published through our daily reports, analysis & data, opinion articles, features, investigations, audio-visual reports, amongst others.

By visiting our website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. It additionally covers our newsletter and other touch points with our platform – unless they are covered directly by privacy policies of third-party-providers.

This Privacy Policy covers Salone Focus’s treatment of personal information that Salone Focus gathers when you are on the www.salonefocus.com website and when you use any Salone Focus services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Salone Focus does not own or control, or to individuals that Pulse does not employ or manage.

At Salone Focus, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit https://www.salonefocus.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on https://www.salonefocus.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies 

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Lagos, you may see Lagos hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses "non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Cookies & 3rd Party Advertisements

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.


Changes to this Privacy Policy

Salone Focus may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the http://salonefocus.com website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.

Conditions of Use

If you decide to visit Salone Focus's website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.