Privacy Policy

Last updated: 17 September 2026

Laipo Magazine respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when you use our website, submit work, contact us, or interact with our publication.

Who We Are

Laipo Magazine is the literary and cultural publication of the Sankofa Initiative for Culture and Development and the official magazine of the Ibadan Book and Arts Festival (ÌbàFest).

Our website is laipomag.org.

Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with Laipo Magazine, we may collect information such as your name, email address, phone number, author biography, submitted work, and other information you voluntarily provide to us.

We may also collect limited technical information when you visit our website, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and information about how you interact with the website.

Creative Submissions and Contributor Information

When you submit an article, essay, poem, story, review, artwork, interview, or other creative work to Laipo Magazine, we may collect the personal information provided with your submission for the purpose of reviewing, communicating about, and managing the submission.

Submitted work and contributor information are accessed by members of the Laipo editorial team and others who need access for legitimate editorial or administrative purposes.

We may contact contributors regarding the status of their submission, publication requirements, permissions, editorial matters, or related Laipo Magazine projects.

AI and Creative Submissions

Contributors remain responsible for the originality, authorship, creative vision, and final form of work submitted to Laipo Magazine.

Laipo Magazine permits the limited use of artificial intelligence tools by contributors for editorial assistance such as proofreading, punctuation, grammar, consistency, and clarity.

Content substantially generated by artificial intelligence and submitted as the contributor’s original creative work may not meet Laipo Magazine’s editorial standards.

Contributors may be asked to clarify the extent to which artificial intelligence was used in preparing a submission where this is relevant to the editorial process.

Laipo Magazine does not use unpublished creative submissions to train or develop artificial intelligence models.

Laipo Magazine may use automated technologies for limited technical purposes, such as website security, spam detection, or other functions necessary to operate the website. These technologies are not used to determine whether a creative submission should be accepted or rejected.

How We Use Your Information

We may use information you provide to:

• Receive and manage creative submissions.
• Communicate with contributors, readers, partners, and other contacts.
• Review and process submissions.
• Respond to enquiries and requests.
• Manage our website and digital platforms.
• Protect the security and integrity of our website.
• Send relevant communications where you have requested or consented to receive them.
• Meet legal, regulatory, or administrative requirements.

Email Communications

If you contact Laipo Magazine by email, we may retain your message and contact information so that we can respond to your enquiry and maintain appropriate records.

If you receive communications from us that you no longer wish to receive, you may contact us to request that we stop sending those communications, where applicable.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our website, we collect the information shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available on its website.

After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images containing embedded location data, including EXIF GPS information, if you do not want that information to be accessible to visitors.

Visitors may be able to download and extract location data from images published on the website.

Cookies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to provide essential website functions, remember preferences, improve website performance, and support security.

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment.

Login related cookies may be used where applicable. Temporary cookies may also be used to determine whether your browser accepts cookies.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Some website functions may not work properly if certain cookies are disabled.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, social media content, or other material from external websites.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly. These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

Laipo Magazine does not control the privacy practices of external websites and encourages users to review their respective privacy policies.

Analytics and Website Technologies

We may use website analytics or similar technologies to understand website traffic, identify technical issues, improve website performance, and understand how visitors interact with our website.

Where third party services are used for these purposes, those services may process technical or usage information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell your personal information.

Information may be shared with service providers or other third parties where reasonably necessary to operate our website, manage communications, protect the website from spam or security threats, or provide a service you have requested.

Where appropriate, such third parties may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and contractual obligations.

International Processing and Transfers

Some website, email, hosting, analytics, or other service providers we use may process information on servers located outside Nigeria.

Where personal information is transferred or processed outside Nigeria, we take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are applied in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including editorial, administrative, legal, security, and record keeping purposes.

Published comments and their associated metadata may be retained indefinitely where they form part of the public record of the website.

Security

We take reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information online can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Data Relating to Children

Laipo Magazine does not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the website except where such information is provided in connection with a legitimate programme, festival, educational activity, or other engagement involving young people and appropriate safeguards are in place.

Your Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request access to information we hold about you, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion where applicable, or object to or restrict certain processing.

You may also request a copy of personal information you have provided to us, subject to applicable legal and administrative requirements.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To make a privacy related request, please contact us using the details below. We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

Third Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to websites and services operated by third parties. Laipo Magazine is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of those external websites.

We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any third party website you visit through a link on our website.

Where Data Is Sent

Website comments may be checked through automated spam detection services. Other information may be processed by website, hosting, email, security, or other service providers where necessary to provide their services to Laipo Magazine.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, practices, or applicable requirements.

Any updated version will be published on this page with the revised date.