Last updated: 1 October 2026
Yoruba Heritage ("we", "us", "our") operates yorubaheritage.com, an educational website about Yoruba history, culture, language and spirituality. This policy explains what information is collected when you use the site and how it is used.
Information we collect
- Information you give us — for example your name, email address and message when you use the contact or contribution forms, or your email address when you subscribe to the newsletter.
- Information collected automatically — such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited and referring page, collected through cookies and similar technologies.
How we use information
- To respond to messages and review community contributions.
- To send the newsletter, if you subscribed. You can unsubscribe at any time.
- To understand how the site is used and to improve it.
- To show advertising that helps fund the site.
Cookies and third-party advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Third parties may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons or IP addresses, to collect information as a result of ad serving on this site.
You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. You can learn more about how Google uses data at How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
Where required (for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom), we rely on consent for personalised advertising and analytics cookies.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic and usage. It collects information such as pages viewed and approximate location in aggregated form. See Google's Privacy Policy.
Other services
- Disqus provides the comment sections on some pages and has its own privacy policy and cookies.
- Netlify hosts the site and processes form submissions.
- Embedded media (such as YouTube or Vimeo videos) may set cookies when played.
Children
This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Your choices and rights
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information we hold about you. To make a request, please use our contact page.
Data retention and security
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes above. We take reasonable steps to protect it, but no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Please reach us through the contact page.