Effective date: November 15, 2025
Last updated: September 29, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how ARFS K9 Team (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you visit https://arfsk9team.com.ng (the “Site”), subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or otherwise interact with us. It also explains the choices and rights you have.
Please read it together with our Terms of Use, Affiliate Disclosure and Disclaimer.
1. Who We Are
ARFS K9 Team is the operator of the Site and the controller of the personal information described in this policy.
- Business name: ARFS K9 Team
- Address: NADC, Command Road, Ipaja, Lagos, Nigeria
- Email: info@arfsk9team.com.ng
- Privacy contact: Website Admin, reachable at the email above
2. Information We Collect
a. Information you give us
- Newsletter sign-up: your email address (and name, if requested).
- Contact and enquiry forms, email or WhatsApp messages: your name, email address, phone number (if you message us on WhatsApp), and the content of your message.
- Comments: your name, email address, website (optional), IP address and the comment you post.
b. Information collected automatically
- IP address, approximate location (country or city level), browser type and version, device type, operating system, language, referring page, pages viewed, links clicked, date and time of visits, and time spent on pages.
- Server log data that our hosting provider records for security and performance.
- Information collected through cookies and similar technologies (see Section 5).
c. Information from third parties
Advertising and analytics partners such as Google may provide us with aggregated or de-identified reports about how visitors use the Site and how ads perform. We do not receive your name or email address from these partners.
We do not knowingly collect sensitive personal information (such as health data, precise location, or government IDs). Please do not send it to us.
3. How We Use Your Information and Our Legal Bases
Where the GDPR, UK GDPR, or the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (“NDPA”) applies, we rely on the following legal bases:
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Operate, maintain, secure and troubleshoot the Site; prevent spam and abuse | Legitimate interests |
| Understand how the Site is used and improve our content (analytics) | Consent where required by law; otherwise legitimate interests |
| Show ads, including personalized ads, through Google AdSense and other ad partners | Consent (for visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland, and wherever else consent is required) |
| Send our newsletter and marketing emails | Consent (you can withdraw at any time) |
| Respond to your enquiries and comments | Legitimate interests; steps at your request |
| Track affiliate referrals so that we can earn commissions | Consent where required; otherwise legitimate interests |
| Comply with legal obligations and defend legal claims | Legal obligation; legitimate interests |
We do not sell your personal information for money. We do not use your information for automated decision-making that has legal or similarly significant effects on you.
4. Advertising (Google AdSense and Other Ad Partners)
We display ads on the Site through Google AdSense and possibly other advertising partners. Please note the following:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this Site and other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info or, for EU users, www.youronlinechoices.eu.
- To learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. Google’s own Privacy Policy also applies.
- Even if you opt out of personalized ads, you may still see ads. They will simply be less relevant to your interests (for example, contextual ads based on the page’s content).
Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland: We use a Google-certified consent management platform (CMP) that follows the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework to ask for your consent before ad and analytics cookies are used for personalization and measurement. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the “Privacy settings” or “Manage cookies” link on the Site (see Section 13).
A list of Google’s advertising partners is available at https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/94149.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We also use similar technologies such as pixels, local storage and SDKs, which we refer to collectively as “cookies”.
| Category | What it does | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Needed for the Site to work, remember your consent choices and keep the Site secure. These cannot be switched off. | WordPress session and security cookies; consent-preference cookie |
| Analytics and performance | Help us understand how visitors use the Site so that we can improve it. | Google Analytics (via Google Site Kit) |
| Advertising | Deliver, personalize and measure ads and limit how often you see them. | Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager / DoubleClick |
| Affiliate | Recognize when you arrive at a partner site from a link on our Site so we can earn a commission. | Amazon Associates |
| Embedded content | Set by third-party services whose content is embedded on our pages. | YouTube, social media widgets |
You can manage cookies through our consent tool and through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the Site works. For more information on managing cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
6. Affiliate Links and Amazon Associates
Some links on the Site are affiliate links, including links to Amazon. If you click one and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Amazon and other affiliate partners may place cookies on your device to track referrals. Their handling of your data is governed by their own privacy policies (for Amazon, see Amazon’s Privacy Notice). See our Affiliate Disclosure for details.
7. Analytics
We use Google Analytics, connected through Google Site Kit, to measure Site traffic and usage. Google Analytics collects information such as your IP address (truncated or anonymized where applicable), device and browser details, and pages visited. You can opt out by declining analytics cookies in our consent tool or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
8. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services
- YouTube: Some pages embed videos from our YouTube channel. When you play or load an embedded video, YouTube (Google) may set cookies and collect data about you in line with the Google Privacy Policy.
- Social media: Links and widgets for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), Pinterest and LinkedIn may share data with those platforms when you interact with them. Each platform has its own privacy policy.
- WhatsApp: If you contact us through the WhatsApp link, your message is processed by WhatsApp under its own terms and privacy policy.
- Email newsletter provider: We use MailPoet to manage subscriptions and send emails. It processes your email address on our behalf.
- Hosting and security: Telahosting hosts the Site and processes server logs on our behalf.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of third-party websites that we link to. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.
9. How We Share Information
We share personal information only in these circumstances:
- Service providers who process data for us under contract (hosting, email delivery, analytics, security, spam filtering).
- Advertising and affiliate partners such as Google and Amazon, through cookies and similar technologies, as described above.
- Legal and safety reasons: where required by law, court order or a lawful request from authorities, or to protect our rights, users or the public.
- Business transfers: if we merge with, are acquired by, or sell assets to another organization, your information may be transferred, subject to this policy.
We do not sell your email address or contact details to anyone.
10. International Data Transfers
We are based in Nigeria, and our service providers (including Google and our hosting and email providers) may process data in other countries, including the United States and the European Union. Where required by law, we rely on appropriate safeguards for such transfers, such as adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, or the providers’ certified data-transfer frameworks.
11. Data Retention
- Newsletter data: until you unsubscribe, after which we keep only a minimal suppression record so we do not email you again.
- Enquiries and messages: generally up to [24] months after our last correspondence, unless a longer period is needed to resolve a matter.
- Comments: until you ask us to remove them or we delete them.
- Analytics data: up to [14] months, or as set in our analytics settings.
- Server logs: up to [30–90] days.
- Cookies: for the duration stated by each cookie or until you delete them.
We delete or anonymize information when it is no longer needed, unless the law requires us to keep it.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights.
a. All users
You may ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the link in any email or by contacting us.
b. European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland (GDPR / UK GDPR)
You have the right to access your data; to have it corrected or erased; to restrict or object to processing (including processing based on legitimate interests and direct marketing); to data portability; and to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority, such as your national authority in the EU or the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK.
c. Nigeria (Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023)
You have the right to be informed about how your data is used; to access, correct or delete it; to restrict or object to processing; to data portability; to withdraw consent; and not to be subject to solely automated decisions with significant effects. You may complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC).
d. California and other US states (CCPA/CPRA and similar laws)
Residents of California and certain other US states may have the right to know what personal information we collect, use and disclose; to request deletion or correction; to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising; to limit the use of sensitive personal information (we do not collect it); and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. Some ad-related data sharing through cookies (for example with Google) may be considered “sharing” under these laws. You can opt out through our cookie and privacy settings, through Google Ads Settings, or by contacting us. We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as a valid opt-out request where technically able to do so. We have not sold personal information for money in the past 12 months.
e. Other regions
If you live in another region with data protection laws (for example Canada, Brazil, Australia, or South Africa), you may have similar rights, and we will respect them.
How to exercise your rights
Email info@arfsk9team.com.ng with the subject line “Privacy Request” and describe what you would like. We may need to verify your identity before acting. We will respond within one month (or sooner if the law requires), and you may use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, subject to verification.
13. Managing Your Choices
- Consent settings: use the “Privacy settings” / “Manage cookies” link in the footer or on the consent banner to review or change your choices at any time.
- Personalized ads: Google Ads Settings, aboutads.info/choices, or youronlinechoices.eu.
- Browser controls: most browsers let you block or delete cookies and send a Global Privacy Control or “Do Not Track” signal. We honor GPC where possible; because there is no common standard for “Do Not Track”, we may not respond to that signal.
- Marketing emails: click “unsubscribe” in any email.
14. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information, including HTTPS encryption, access controls and trusted service providers. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a data breach affects your rights, we will notify you and the relevant authority as the law requires.
15. Children’s Privacy
The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 where local law sets a higher age of digital consent). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.
16. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology or legal requirements. We will post the updated version on this page with a new “Last updated” date. If changes are material, we will provide additional notice, such as a banner on the Site or an email to subscribers, and we will ask for fresh consent where the law requires it.
17. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns or requests about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us:
- Email: info@arfsk9team.com.ng
- Address: NADC, Command Road, Ipaja, Lagos, Nigeria
- Website: https://arfsk9team.com.ng
