How we collect, use, store, and protect the personal information of everyone who visits or interacts with Blein News.
Welcome to Blein News.
Blein News is a digital-first news platform providing coverage across General News, Education, Health, Sports, and Business & Technology.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personal information that we collect, use, store, and process when you visit or interact with our website.
This Privacy Policy explains:
This policy should be read together with our Terms of Use and Editorial Policy.
For purposes of applicable data-protection law, Blein News may act as a data controller in relation to personal information collected through its website and services.
Where third-party service providers process personal information on our behalf, they may act as data processors subject to applicable agreements and legal requirements.
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
This information may include:
You should avoid submitting sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary for the purpose of your communication.
When you access Blein News, certain technical information may be collected automatically. This may include:
This information may be used to maintain security, understand how readers use the website, improve performance, and analyse audience behaviour.
We may use information collected through Blein News to:
We will not knowingly use personal information for purposes incompatible with the purpose for which it was collected without an appropriate legal basis or other applicable permission.
Blein News may receive information from members of the public through news tips, emails, contact forms, social-media channels, or other communication methods.
If you submit information to us, please understand that editorial communications may be reviewed by members of our newsroom.
We may use information provided for legitimate journalistic purposes, subject to applicable law and our Editorial Policy.
Do not send information that you do not want a newsroom to receive.
Where appropriate, we may contact a source to verify information or obtain clarification.
Where the saved-article feature is available, Blein News may store information necessary to maintain your saved articles.
Depending on how the feature is implemented, saved information may be stored:
We may use this information solely to provide and improve the saved-content functionality and related services.
Depending on the circumstances, personal information may be processed on one or more lawful grounds recognised under applicable data-protection law. These may include:
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent subject to applicable legal limitations and the consequences of withdrawal.
Kenya’s data-protection framework requires transparency around processing and provides data subjects with enforceable rights.
Blein News may use third-party services to operate, secure, analyse, or improve the website. Examples may include:
Third-party services may have their own privacy policies and terms.
Where third-party services process personal information on our behalf, we will seek appropriate contractual and technical safeguards.
Blein News may link to websites operated by third parties.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of external websites.
Readers should review the privacy policies of external websites before providing them with personal information.
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against:
Security measures may include access controls, authentication, encryption where appropriate, secure hosting, backups, monitoring, and administrative safeguards.
However, no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may depend on:
When personal information is no longer required, reasonable measures will be taken to securely delete, anonymise, or otherwise dispose of it.
Some technology and service providers used by Blein News may operate outside Kenya.
Where personal information is transferred outside Kenya, Blein News will seek to comply with applicable requirements relating to cross-border transfers and appropriate safeguards.
Kenyan data-protection rules address circumstances in which personal data may be transferred outside Kenya and require appropriate safeguards or other legally recognised grounds.
Subject to applicable law and any lawful limitations, you may have rights including:
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner identifies data-subject rights including being informed, access, objection, correction and deletion, with additional rights recognised in its guidance.
To make a privacy request, contact us at:
Your request should identify:
We may take reasonable steps to verify the identity of a person making a request before disclosing or modifying personal information.
Blein News does not knowingly seek to collect unnecessary personal information from children.
Where content involves children, our editorial team will apply appropriate safeguards consistent with our Editorial Policy and applicable law.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where it should not have been collected, please contact us.
If Blein News becomes aware of a personal-data security incident, we will assess the incident and take appropriate steps in accordance with applicable law.
Where notification is legally required, relevant parties and authorities will be notified through appropriate channels.
We will also take reasonable measures to contain, investigate, and address security incidents.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect:
The updated policy will be published on this page with an updated Last Updated date.
If you have questions, concerns, requests, or complaints about this Privacy Policy or the way Blein News handles personal information, contact:
You may also have the right to raise a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) where applicable. The ODPC is Kenya’s statutory data-protection regulator.
Blein News believes privacy is an important part of building trust with our readers. We will seek to collect only information that is reasonably necessary, use it responsibly, protect it appropriately, and provide transparency about how it is handled.
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Comments and Public Contributions
Where comments or other public contribution features are available, information submitted through those features may be visible to other users.
You will therefore avoid publishing:
Blein News reserves the right to moderate, remove, or restrict content that violates our rules, policies, or applicable law.