Website: https://news.qwibik.com
Effective Date: 8 October 2026
Last Updated: 8 October 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to Qwibik News (“Qwibik News,” “we,” “our,” or “us”).
Qwibik News is an independent digital news and information website providing journalism, news coverage, analysis, and editorial content to readers worldwide.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personal information in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws.
This Privacy Policy explains:
- What personal information we collect.
- How and why we collect and use information.
- How cookies, analytics, and advertising technologies operate on our website.
- How information may be shared with third parties.
- How long information is retained.
- How we safeguard personal information.
- Your privacy rights and choices.
- How to contact us about privacy concerns.
This policy is intended to address applicable privacy requirements, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK GDPR, Swiss data protection legislation, relevant United States state privacy laws, Canada’s PIPEDA, Brazil’s LGPD, and other applicable privacy legislation.
Website operator and data controller: Qwibik Inc
Country of establishment: United States
Business or postal address: 651N Middletown, Delaware
Privacy contact: privacy@qwibik.com
Qwibik News acts as a data controller or equivalent responsible organization for the personal information it determines how and why to process.
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with our website and which features are active, we may collect the following categories of information.
2.1 Information you voluntarily provide
This may include:
- Your name and email address when you contact us.
- Information submitted through contact forms.
- Comments, feedback, and messages.
- Newsletter subscription details, where subscriptions are offered.
- Information supplied when submitting news tips, corrections, or editorial inquiries.
- Account information if visitor registration is enabled.
Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information unless necessary for your inquiry.
2.2 Information collected automatically
When you visit Qwibik News, our website and its service providers may process:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address.
- Browser type, language, and version.
- Device type and operating system.
- Pages viewed and links clicked.
- Dates and times of visits.
- Referring website or search engine.
- Approximate geographic location derived from IP address.
- Cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers.
- Website performance and diagnostic information.
- Advertising interactions, where advertising technologies are enabled.
Some of this information may be considered personal information under applicable law, even if it does not directly identify you by name.
2.3 Information from third parties
Where enabled, we may receive information from website analytics providers, advertising partners, newsletter providers, anti-spam services, and security services.
Such information may include aggregated audience statistics, advertising performance reports, referral data, and information necessary to detect fraudulent or abusive activity.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We process information for the following purposes:
Website operations: To provide our news website, publish and deliver content, maintain functionality, and resolve technical problems.
Editorial communications: To respond to reader inquiries, corrections, news tips, and feedback.
Website security: To prevent spam, unauthorized access, fraudulent activity, and misuse of the website.
Audience analytics: To understand website traffic, evaluate content performance, and improve visitors’ experience.
Advertising: Where advertising is active, to display advertisements, measure advertising performance, prevent advertising fraud, and support the financial operation of Qwibik News.
Newsletter communications: To deliver requested subscriptions and related communications, where that service is offered.
Legal compliance: To comply with applicable laws, respond to legitimate legal requests, and protect legal rights.
We do not use personal information for purposes that are incompatible with those disclosed here without establishing an appropriate legal basis and providing additional notice when required.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
Where GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar legislation applies, we rely on an appropriate legal basis for each processing activity.
These may include:
- Consent: For non-essential cookies, personalized advertising, certain analytics technologies, and optional marketing communications where consent is legally required.
- Legitimate interests: For essential website administration, appropriate audience analysis where legally permitted, network security, preventing abuse, and improving our services, subject to a balancing assessment.
- Contractual necessity: Where processing is necessary to provide a service specifically requested by you.
- Legal obligations: Where processing is required by applicable law.
- Other lawful bases: Where permitted under the privacy legislation applicable to a particular processing activity.
Where processing depends on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
We do not treat acceptance of this Privacy Policy, continued browsing, or use of the website as consent where an affirmative choice is legally required.
5. Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies
Qwibik News and authorized service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and comparable technologies.
These technologies help deliver website functions, remember preferences, understand audience activity, secure our services, and support advertising.
5.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies support essential functions such as website security, administration, login sessions, and saving privacy choices.
They are used only to the extent necessary and permitted by applicable law.
5.2 Preference cookies
These cookies may remember choices such as language settings, display preferences, or other optional website settings.
5.3 Analytics cookies
Where analytics services are enabled, analytics technologies may help us understand visitor numbers, page performance, traffic sources, and interactions with content.
5.4 Advertising cookies
When advertising is enabled, advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Display contextual or personalized advertising.
- Measure advertising impressions and clicks.
- Limit repetitive advertisements.
- Detect fraudulent or invalid advertising activity.
- Evaluate advertising effectiveness.
- Recognize browsers or devices across websites, where legally permitted.
5.5 Cookie consent and preferences
Where required by applicable law, we request consent before activating non-essential cookies or similar tracking technologies.
Visitors must have an appropriate opportunity to accept, reject, or customize relevant processing choices.
You may review or change your choices using our website’s Cookie Settings or Privacy Choices control:
[INSERT LINK TO WORKING COOKIE SETTINGS OR CONSENT MANAGEMENT CONTROL]
You may also manage cookies through your browser. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
Rejecting personalized advertising does not necessarily remove all advertisements. You may continue to receive contextual or non-personalized advertisements, subject to applicable privacy rules.
An up-to-date description of active cookies, purposes, providers, and available retention periods should be accessible through our consent management interface or cookie information page.
6. Google Advertising and Third-Party Advertising Networks
Qwibik News may monetize its content through third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense or other Google advertising services when enabled.
Third-party advertising vendors, including Google, may use cookies and similar technologies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to Qwibik News or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements to visitors based on visits to this website and other websites across the internet.
Depending on your location, consent choices, and the advertising services in operation, advertising partners may process information such as:
- IP addresses.
- Cookie identifiers and other online identifiers.
- Browser and device information.
- Advertising impressions and interactions.
- General location information.
- Information about websites and content viewed.
Third parties may place or read cookies on your browser, use web beacons, or process IP addresses and other identifiers as a result of advertisements being served on Qwibik News.
Some advertising providers may act as independent data controllers for their own processing activities, subject to their respective privacy policies.
6.1 How Google uses information
For more information about Google’s advertising practices, please consult:
How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Google Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Advertising Technologies:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
6.2 Advertising personalization choices
You can manage or opt out of certain personalized advertisements through:
Google My Ad Center:
https://myadcenter.google.com/
Digital Advertising Alliance:
https://optout.aboutads.info/
These mechanisms may not prevent all advertisements or all forms of data processing. Your privacy settings on Qwibik News also apply according to the applicable law and our consent management implementation.
6.3 Other advertising vendors
If Qwibik News uses advertising vendors beyond Google, those vendors must be disclosed through our applicable advertising partner list or consent management interface.
Active advertising partners and their privacy information:
[INSERT WORKING ADVERTISING PARTNER LIST OR CMP VENDOR DISCLOSURE LINK]
Advertising vendors may have separate privacy policies, data retention periods, and available opt-out mechanisms.
7. Website Analytics
We may use website analytics services to understand how readers interact with Qwibik News.
Where enabled, these tools may measure:
- Article readership.
- Page views.
- Traffic sources.
- General geographic audience distribution.
- Device and browser categories.
- Website performance.
Analytics providers currently used: [INSERT ACTUAL PROVIDERS, OR STATE “NONE”]
Where Google Analytics is enabled, information about Google’s data practices is available at:
We configure and operate analytics services in accordance with applicable consent requirements and available privacy controls.
8. WordPress, Comments, and Embedded Content
8.1 WordPress
Qwibik News operates using WordPress and supporting website technologies.
These systems may process technical information necessary for content delivery, user authentication, website security, performance, and administration.
8.2 Reader comments
If commenting is enabled, we may collect information entered into comment forms, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user-agent information to help detect spam and maintain website security.
Approved comments and the public name supplied with them may be visible to other visitors.
Where the Gravatar service is enabled, a hashed version of an email address may be shared with Gravatar to determine whether a profile image is available.
Gravatar is operated by Automattic. Its privacy information is available at:
We may use moderation and anti-spam services to review submitted comments.
8.3 Embedded third-party content
Articles may include embedded content such as videos, photographs, social media posts, interactive graphics, or content from external websites.
When such content is loaded, third-party providers may collect information according to their own privacy policies.
Where required by law, non-essential third-party tracking or embedded content will be subject to appropriate consent controls.
8.4 External website links
Our articles may contain links to external websites.
Qwibik News does not control the independent privacy practices of those websites. We encourage readers to review their privacy policies.
9. Newsletters and Communications
Where Qwibik News offers newsletters, we may collect your email address and associated subscription preferences.
We use this information to send communications you request, manage subscriptions, and measure newsletter performance where legally permitted.
Where required, we obtain appropriate marketing consent.
Every marketing newsletter will provide a practical method to unsubscribe.
We do not make newsletter subscription conditional on agreeing to unrelated advertising or tracking activities unless permitted by applicable law.
Newsletter distribution providers, if used, are identified here:
[INSERT NEWSLETTER PLATFORM AND PRIVACY POLICY, OR REMOVE IF NOT APPLICABLE]
10. How We Share Personal Information
We may disclose relevant information to the following categories of recipients when necessary for the purposes described in this policy:
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers.
- Content delivery and security service providers.
- Website maintenance and technical support providers.
- Analytics providers.
- Advertising networks and advertising technology providers.
- Email and newsletter service providers.
- Anti-spam and fraud prevention services.
- Professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
- Courts, regulators, or authorities where disclosure is legally required.
We limit information sharing according to the purpose of processing, applicable law, and the obligations of our service providers.
We do not permit service providers acting solely on our behalf to use personal information for unrelated purposes.
Some advertising-related transfers or disclosures may legally qualify as a “sale,” “sharing,” or processing for targeted advertising under particular US state privacy laws, even where no money is exchanged for the information.
Applicable rights to opt out of such activities are described below.
11. International Data Transfers
Qwibik News serves an international readership.
Personal information may be processed in countries other than your country of residence, including locations in which our hosting providers, infrastructure providers, advertising partners, and other service providers operate.
Privacy protections may differ between countries.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we use appropriate lawful transfer mechanisms. These may include adequacy decisions, recognized contractual protections such as Standard Contractual Clauses, and additional measures where required.
Primary hosting location and relevant international service-provider locations: [INSERT VERIFIED COUNTRIES OR LINK TO AN ACCURATE, MAINTAINED LIST]
Readers may contact us for further information about applicable transfer arrangements.
12. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including website operations, reader communications, security, and compliance with legal obligations.
Our retention approach includes:
- Technical and security logs: [INSERT RETENTION PERIOD].
- Contact inquiries: [INSERT RETENTION PERIOD OR CRITERIA].
- Reader comments: For as long as they remain published or reasonably necessary for moderation, unless removal is required or justified.
- Newsletter subscriptions: Until unsubscribe, followed by any limited retention necessary for suppression records or legal compliance.
- Analytics data: [INSERT RETENTION PERIOD, IF APPLICABLE].
- Consent and privacy preference records: [INSERT RETENTION PERIOD OR LEGAL CRITERIA].
- Website backups: [INSERT BACKUP RETENTION PERIOD].
Certain information may be retained longer where necessary for legitimate legal claims, security incidents, or mandatory legal obligations.
When information is no longer required, we delete, anonymize, or otherwise securely dispose of it, as appropriate.
Third-party providers may have separate retention schedules described in their own privacy notices.
13. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, and disclosure.
These measures may include secure connections, access controls, software updates, appropriate administrative permissions, and security monitoring.
No internet-based system can guarantee absolute security.
If a personal data breach occurs, we will assess our obligations and notify affected individuals or relevant authorities where required by law.
14. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and the laws applicable to Qwibik News, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information held about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of qualifying personal information.
- Object to certain processing activities.
- Request restriction of certain processing activities.
- Request portability of information where legally applicable.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Opt out of targeted advertising or certain sales or sharing of personal information.
- Request information about certain third-party disclosures.
- Appeal certain decisions regarding privacy requests where required by law.
- Lodge a complaint with an applicable privacy or data protection authority.
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exemptions.
To exercise a right, contact:
Privacy email: [INSERT WORKING EMAIL ADDRESS]
Privacy request form: [INSERT URL, IF AVAILABLE]
We may request information reasonably necessary to confirm your identity and protect against unauthorized disclosure.
We will respond within the period required by applicable law and explain any lawful basis for denying a request.
We do not unlawfully discriminate against individuals for exercising their privacy rights.
14.1 European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Where applicable European, UK, or Swiss data protection law applies, individuals may exercise rights provided by the relevant legislation, including rights of access, correction, erasure, objection, and applicable restrictions on processing.
Individuals may withdraw consent for relevant tracking and advertising activities through our consent management controls.
You may also lodge a complaint with the data protection authority responsible for your jurisdiction.
Where a representative or data protection officer is legally required, we will provide the relevant contact information:
[INSERT REPRESENTATIVE OR DPO INFORMATION IF LEGALLY REQUIRED]
14.2 United States — State Privacy Rights
Residents of California and other US states with applicable comprehensive privacy laws may have additional rights, subject to legal applicability and statutory exceptions.
These may include the rights to know, access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of personal information, and opt out of certain personal information sales, sharing, profiling, or targeted advertising activities.
Relevant categories of information handled through our website may include:
- Identifiers, such as IP addresses and email addresses.
- Internet and electronic network activity information.
- Approximate geolocation information.
- Information voluntarily submitted by readers.
- Advertising-related identifiers and inferences where enabled.
These categories may be disclosed to website infrastructure, security, analytics, and advertising service providers for the purposes described in this policy.
Certain disclosures to advertising partners may constitute a sale or sharing of personal information under applicable law.
Where legally required, visitors can opt out using our:
Your Privacy Choices / Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information:
[INSERT FUNCTIONAL US PRIVACY OPT-OUT LINK]
We recognize legally valid opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control (GPC), where applicable law requires them to be honored.
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 without any consent required by applicable law.
We do not use sensitive personal information for purposes that trigger an additional right to limit its use without making that right available where required.
If your request is denied, you may request an appeal where applicable law provides that right, using our privacy contact details.
14.3 Brazil
Where Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) applies, individuals may request confirmation of processing, access, correction, anonymization, blocking, deletion, portability, and information about sharing, subject to applicable conditions.
Individuals may also withdraw consent, object to processing where legally available, and contact Brazil’s Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD) regarding applicable concerns.
14.4 Canada
Where Canadian privacy legislation applies, individuals may seek access to and correction of personal information and withdraw consent where legally permitted.
Individuals may contact us with complaints or questions regarding our privacy practices or approach the relevant Canadian privacy commissioner.
14.5 Other Jurisdictions
We also recognize applicable privacy rights under other laws that govern our processing activities, including relevant legislation in Australia, South Africa, India, and other jurisdictions.
Such rights may include access, correction, erasure, withdrawal of consent, objection, and complaints to an appropriate regulator, depending on local requirements.
15. Children’s Privacy
Qwibik News is a general-audience news and information website and is not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly solicit personal information directly from children under 13 without complying with applicable parental consent requirements.
Where we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child in circumstances requiring deletion or additional safeguards, we will take appropriate action.
We apply age-related safeguards for advertising and personal information processing where required by local law and relevant advertising platform policies.
Parents or guardians who believe a child has submitted personal information may contact us through the privacy email provided in this policy.
16. Advertising, Affiliate Relationships, and Sponsored Content
Qwibik News may support its operations through advertising, sponsorships, or affiliate relationships.
Advertising content may be delivered by third parties and may be contextual or personalized depending on applicable law, the technologies enabled, and visitor preferences.
Where articles contain sponsored content or affiliate links, we will provide appropriate disclosures in accordance with applicable advertising and consumer protection requirements.
Affiliate partners may use referral identifiers or cookies to attribute qualifying transactions, subject to any necessary consent.
If affiliate marketing services are used, the applicable providers and material data practices must be disclosed in this policy or in an accessible supplementary notice.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, services, advertising arrangements, technologies, or legal obligations.
The latest version will be made available on Qwibik News with an updated revision date.
Where required by applicable law, we will provide additional notice or seek renewed consent before implementing materially different processing activities.
18. Contact Us
For questions, requests, complaints, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the handling of personal information, please contact:
Qwibik News
Website: https://news.qwibik.com
Operated by: Samuel Coker Kehinde
Privacy email: privacy@qwibik.com
Postal address: 651 N Middletown Delaware US
We will review legitimate privacy inquiries and respond in accordance with applicable legal requirements.