PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: 24 August 2026
State of Ghana Affairs (“SGA”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information when you visit or interact with stateofghaffairs.com, submit information through our forms, contact us, participate in our programmes or otherwise interact with our digital services.
By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you use our website, we may collect information such as:
Information You Provide Directly
This may include:
- Full name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- WhatsApp number
- City or location
- Date of birth
- Gender
- Educational information
- Institution
- Programme or course
- Work or internship experience
- Portfolio links
- Areas of interest
- Application responses
- Messages sent to us
- Information provided through contact or application forms
We only request information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant service, application or communication.
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Approximate location
- Referring website
- Date and time of visits
- General website usage information
This information may be collected through cookies, analytics tools, server logs and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use information we collect to:
- Process internship or programme applications
- Respond to enquiries
- Communicate with applicants and users
- Provide requested services
- Publish or manage user-submitted content where applicable
- Improve our website
- Understand how visitors use our website
- Detect and prevent fraud, abuse or security incidents
- Maintain website security
- Send relevant communications where permitted
- Manage partnerships and programmes
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect our legal rights and interests
3. Internship and Application Information
If you apply for an internship, training programme, event or other opportunity through our website, we may collect information necessary to process your application.
This may include your name, age, contact details, education, experience, interests, motivation and other information specifically requested on the relevant application form.
Application information may be accessed by authorized members of our team and, where necessary, organizations or individuals involved in evaluating or administering the relevant programme.
We will not knowingly sell internship applicants' personal information to third parties.
4. WhatsApp Communications
Some forms on our website may provide an option to submit or send application information through WhatsApp.
When you choose to use WhatsApp, your information is transmitted through WhatsApp and is subject to WhatsApp's own terms and privacy practices.
State of Ghana Affairs does not control WhatsApp's processing of information once you leave our website and use the WhatsApp service.
You should review WhatsApp's privacy information before using the service.
5. Cookies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies may help us:
- Remember preferences
- Improve website functionality
- Understand website traffic
- Measure performance
- Improve user experience
- Support advertising or analytics services
You may be able to control or disable cookies through your browser settings.
Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of the website.
6. Analytics
We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our website.
These services may collect information such as device information, browser information, pages visited and general usage patterns.
We use this information primarily to understand website performance and improve our services.
7. Advertising
State of Ghana Affairs may display advertisements from third-party advertising providers.
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to deliver, measure or personalize advertisements.
The collection and processing of information by third-party advertising providers is governed by their own privacy policies.
8. Social Media
Our website may contain links, buttons, embeds or content from social-media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and other platforms.
Interacting with these services may allow the relevant platform to collect information about you according to its own privacy policy.
We do not control the privacy practices of third-party social-media platforms.
9. Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to external websites.
Once you leave our website, this Privacy Policy may no longer apply.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of every external website you visit.
10. How We Protect Your Information
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss or misuse.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us.
11. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including:
- Processing applications
- Providing services
- Maintaining records
- Resolving disputes
- Enforcing agreements
- Meeting legal or regulatory obligations
The retention period may vary depending on the type and purpose of the information.
12. Sharing of Personal Information
We may share personal information where reasonably necessary with:
- Authorized members of our organization
- Service providers assisting us with website operations
- Technology and hosting providers
- Programme or internship partners where necessary
- Professional advisers
- Government authorities or law-enforcement agencies where legally required
- Other parties where you have provided appropriate consent
We do not intend to sell your personal information as a commercial product.
13. Children's Privacy
Our website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate authorization.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate consent or authorization, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.
14. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable Ghanaian law, you may have rights relating to your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion where legally applicable
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Ask questions about how your information is processed
- Lodge a complaint regarding our handling of personal information
Requests should be made using the contact information below.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
15. Data Protection in Ghana
State of Ghana Affairs aims to handle personal information in accordance with applicable Ghanaian data-protection requirements, including the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), where applicable.
Where required, we may adopt additional measures, procedures or policies to meet applicable data-protection obligations.
16. International Services
Some third-party technology providers used by our website may process information outside Ghana.
Where this occurs, information may be subject to the laws and security practices applicable in the relevant jurisdiction.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, technology or legal obligations.
When we make changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page.
We encourage visitors to periodically review this Privacy Policy.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, requests or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or the way State of Ghana Affairs handles personal information, contact us:
State of Ghana Affairs
Website: stateofghaffairs.com
Email: info@stateofghaffairs.com
WhatsApp: +233 50 090 6859
Privacy Requests
For privacy-related requests, please include:
Subject: Privacy Request
Please provide your full name, contact information, the nature of your request and sufficient information for us to identify the relevant records.