PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: May 2026

QUICK SUMMARY

  • Naija Signal collects information you submit through incident reports, correction requests, and contact forms.
  • We may process location-related information connected to reported incidents, such as state, city, road corridor, landmark, or coordinates.
  • We use information to operate the platform, review reports, prevent abuse, improve safety awareness, and maintain data accuracy.
  • We may remove, redact, or restrict sensitive information that could expose, endanger, or unfairly identify private individuals.
  • Incident information may include community-submitted reports and third-party news references, so users should always verify critical information through official channels.
  • You may contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or removal of personal information where applicable.

Do not submit unnecessary personal information about victims, witnesses, minors, private individuals, or vulnerable persons. Naija Signal may redact or remove sensitive information to protect safety and privacy.

WHO WE ARE

Naija Signal is a public safety information platform focused on Nigeria. We provide tools for monitoring security incidents, public safety updates, news references, state-level information, road corridor alerts, and community-submitted reports.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT

When you submit a report, correction request, contact message, or other form, we may collect information such as report title, incident description, incident category, state, city, road corridor, landmark, or other location details, date and time of the incident, source of information, supporting links or evidence, optional contact details, and any other information you choose to provide.

LOCATION-RELATED INCIDENT INFORMATION

Naija Signal may process location-related information connected to reported incidents. This may include Nigerian state or FCT, local government area, city or town, road corridor, landmark, manually entered location description, and map coordinates where available.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

When you use the website, we may collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, referring pages, timestamps, diagnostic logs, and security and abuse-prevention signals.

PUBLIC AND THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION

Naija Signal may collect, reference, summarize, or link to publicly available information from news publishers, official statements, public reports, emergency or safety updates, government or agency communications, and other open public sources.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Naija Signal may receive reports about sensitive public safety situations, including crime, violence, accidents, emergencies, protests, road incidents, or other security-related events.

Please do not submit unnecessary sensitive personal information. This includes unnecessary names, phone numbers, home addresses, identification numbers, private images, medical details, details about minors, or information that could endanger victims, witnesses, vulnerable persons, or private individuals.

We may remove, redact, restrict, or decline to publish information that we believe may expose, endanger, misidentify, harass, or unfairly target any person.

WHY WE USE INFORMATION

  • Receive and review public safety reports.
  • Display incident information on maps, feeds, state pages, and road watch pages.
  • Verify, moderate, correct, restrict, or remove reports.
  • Categorize reports by location, incident type, source, and verification status.
  • Prevent spam, abuse, false reports, impersonation, harassment, or harmful submissions.
  • Improve the website, security, performance, and user experience.
  • Respond to correction requests, privacy requests, and support messages.
  • Maintain audit records where necessary for safety, abuse prevention, or legal compliance.
  • Comply with applicable legal, safety, or regulatory obligations.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we may process information based on your consent where you choose to submit information to us, legitimate interests such as operating, securing, improving, and moderating the platform, public interest or safety-related purposes, legal obligations where we are required to comply with applicable laws, or vital interests where information may relate to serious safety risks or emergencies. We will not rely on legitimate interests where those interests are overridden by your rights, freedoms, safety, or privacy interests.

HOW INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED

We may share or make available information through public incident pages, maps, feeds, state pages, or road watch pages where report information is approved for publication. With service providers that help us host, secure, analyze, or operate the platform. With reviewers, moderators, or trusted team members involved in report verification or correction handling. With legal, regulatory, safety, or law enforcement authorities where required by law or necessary to protect safety. And with the public through aggregated, anonymized, or redacted statistics and summaries.

We do not sell personal information.

PUBLIC REPORTS AND VISIBILITY

Some information submitted to Naija Signal may be published or displayed publicly if it is relevant to public safety awareness. Published reports may include details such as incident category, location, date, summary, source type, and verification status. We may redact or remove personal information before publication. Submitting a report does not guarantee that it will be published.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND SOURCES

Naija Signal may link to third-party websites, news publishers, official sources, and external resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, accuracy, or security of third-party websites. When you leave Naija Signal through an external link, the third party's own privacy policy and terms may apply.

COOKIES AND ANALYTICS

Naija Signal may use cookies, local storage, analytics tools, or similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, improve performance, understand usage, and protect against abuse. Where required, we will provide choices or notices regarding non-essential cookies and analytics tools.

HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION

We keep information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

  • Published incident records: retained while relevant to public safety, historical awareness, research, or public interest.
  • Unpublished, rejected, or flagged reports: retained only as long as needed for review, abuse prevention, audit, or legal purposes.
  • Correction and removal requests: retained as long as needed to resolve the request and maintain an appropriate record.
  • Contact messages: retained as long as needed to respond and provide support.
  • Technical logs: retained for a limited period for security, analytics, debugging, and abuse prevention.

We may anonymize, aggregate, archive, delete, or restrict information when it is no longer needed.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • Request deletion of personal information.
  • Object to certain processing.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Request restriction of processing.
  • Request information about how your data is used.
  • Lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.

To exercise these rights, contact us.

CORRECTIONS AND REMOVAL REQUESTS

If you believe information on Naija Signal is inaccurate, outdated, private, harmful, defamatory, wrongly attributed, or unsafe to display, you may submit a correction or removal request through our Corrections page. We may update, label, redact, restrict, or remove information after review.

SECURITY

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information submitted to Naija Signal. However, no website, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. Users should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive information or information that may endanger themselves or others.

CHILDREN AND MINORS

Naija Signal is not intended for use by children to submit personal information. Users should not submit identifying information about minors unless it is necessary, lawful, and safe to do so. We may remove or redact information involving minors or vulnerable persons.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of the page. Material changes may be highlighted on the website where appropriate.

CONTACT US

For privacy questions, correction requests, removal requests, or data rights requests, contact us through contact@naijasignal.com, our Contact page, or our Corrections page.