Effective date: 4 July 2026
Last updated: 4 July 2026
InfoSteps respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of visitors who use our website.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when it may be shared, and the choices available to you when you visit InfoSteps.com.ng.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. About InfoSteps
InfoSteps is an informational website that publishes articles, rankings, economic reports, tourism information and data-driven insights relating primarily to Nigeria.
Our website address is:
For privacy-related questions or requests, contact us at:
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information that you provide directly and information collected automatically when you use the website.
Information you provide
You may provide personal information when you:
- Contact us by email or through a contact form
- Submit a comment
- Subscribe to a newsletter, where available
- Report a correction
- Send a business, partnership or advertising enquiry
This information may include your:
- Name
- Email address
- Website address
- Message or enquiry
- Any other information you voluntarily provide
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our website unless it is necessary.
Information collected automatically
When you visit InfoSteps, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages visited
- Date and time of access
- Approximate location derived from your IP address
- Time spent on pages
- Links and features used
- Cookie and advertising identifiers
We may use this information to operate the website, understand audience behaviour, improve content, protect the website and measure advertising performance.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use information collected through InfoSteps to:
- Operate, maintain and improve the website
- Respond to questions, feedback and correction requests
- Moderate comments and prevent spam
- Analyse website traffic and content performance
- Identify technical errors and security threats
- Understand which articles are useful to readers
- Display and measure advertisements
- Prevent fraud, abuse and invalid advertising activity
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
- Enforce our Terms of Use
- Protect our rights, users and website
We do not sell your personal information.
4. Legal Grounds for Processing
Where applicable, we process personal information based on one or more of the following grounds:
- Your consent
- Our legitimate interest in operating, securing and improving InfoSteps
- The need to respond to a request you have made
- Compliance with a legal obligation
- Protection of our legal rights or the rights of others
- Performance of a contract or steps requested before entering a contract
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
5. Comments
When visitors leave comments, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, together with the visitor’s IP address and browser information to assist with spam detection and website security.
An anonymised value created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. Once your comment is approved, a profile image connected to your Gravatar account may be publicly visible beside your comment.
Comments may be reviewed through automated spam-detection services.
You should not include confidential or sensitive personal information in a public comment.
InfoSteps and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files placed on your browser or device. They may be used to:
- Keep the website functioning properly
- Remember visitor preferences
- Improve website performance
- Analyse traffic and usage
- Detect spam, fraud and security problems
- Measure advertising performance
- Display personalised or non-personalised advertisements
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Other cookies, including analytics and advertising cookies, may require your consent depending on your location.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website work.
InfoSteps may use Google AdSense and other advertising services to display advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to InfoSteps or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to display advertisements based on a visitor’s activity on InfoSteps and other websites.
Advertisements may be:
- Personalised, based on interests, browsing activity or previous visits; or
- Non-personalised, based mainly on factors such as the content being viewed, approximate location and general device information.
Non-personalised advertisements may still use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Frequency capping
- Fraud prevention
- Security
- Aggregated advertising reporting
- Performance measurement
Visitors can manage how Google personalises advertisements through Google Ads Settings.
Where other third-party advertising vendors or networks serve advertisements on InfoSteps, those providers may also use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses or similar technologies. Visitors may review the privacy policies of the relevant providers and use their available opt-out tools.
InfoSteps does not directly control cookies placed by third-party advertising providers.
8. Consent for Visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom and Switzerland
Where required by law, visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland will be presented with a consent notice before certain advertising or analytics technologies are activated.
The notice may allow visitors to:
- Accept personalised advertising
- Reject personalised advertising
- Manage advertising and cookie preferences
- Withdraw or change consent choices
We may use a Google-certified Consent Management Platform to collect and manage these choices.
Your ability to access the main content of InfoSteps will not depend on agreeing to personalised advertisements.
9. Analytics
We may use analytics tools, including Google Analytics or similar services, to understand how visitors interact with InfoSteps.
Analytics providers may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Approximate location
- Browser and device type
- Referring source
- Time spent on the website
- Interactions with website features
This data helps us understand website performance and improve our articles and user experience.
Where legally required, analytics cookies will only be activated after consent has been obtained.
10. Embedded Content and External Links
Articles on InfoSteps may contain embedded content such as:
- Videos
- Images
- Maps
- Social-media posts
- Charts
- Third-party articles
- Other interactive material
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.
These third-party services may collect information, use cookies, track interactions or associate activity with an existing account you hold with them.
InfoSteps may also link to external websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, accuracy or content of external websites.
You should review the privacy policy of each third-party website you visit.
InfoSteps may include social-media sharing buttons, links or embedded features.
When you interact with these features, the relevant social-media provider may receive information about your visit. This may occur even when you do not actively share an article, depending on the provider and your browser settings.
Your interactions with social-media platforms are governed by the privacy policies of those platforms.
12. Contact Forms and Email Communications
When you contact us, we may retain your name, email address, message and related correspondence so that we can:
- Respond to your enquiry
- Follow up on a correction or complaint
- Maintain business records
- Protect against fraud or abuse
- Resolve disputes
We do not use contact information to send promotional messages unless you have requested or agreed to receive them.
We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate InfoSteps, including providers of:
- Website hosting
- Security and malware protection
- Spam detection
- Analytics
- Advertising
- Email and contact-form services
- Content delivery
- Website maintenance
- Data storage and backup
These providers may process information only to perform services for us or as otherwise described in their own privacy policies.
We may also disclose information:
- Where required by law, court order or lawful government request
- To investigate fraud, abuse or security threats
- To protect our rights, property or safety
- To protect our users or the public
- In connection with a merger, sale, restructuring or transfer of the website
- With your permission
14. International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by InfoSteps may operate outside Nigeria.
As a result, information may be processed or stored in countries with different data-protection laws.
Where required, we take reasonable steps to ensure that international transfers are handled using appropriate legal and security safeguards.
15. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Retention periods may depend on:
- The nature of the information
- The reason it was collected
- Legal and regulatory requirements
- Security and fraud-prevention needs
- The need to resolve disputes
- The establishment or defence of legal claims
Comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely to recognise previously approved contributors, manage discussions and detect spam.
Messages and business correspondence may be retained for record-keeping, security and legal purposes.
We may retain anonymised or aggregated information that no longer identifies an individual.
16. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical and organisational measures to protect information against:
- Unauthorised access
- Loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Disclosure
- Destruction
However, no website, internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You provide information through the internet at your own risk.
17. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request confirmation that we process your personal information
- Request access to personal information held about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Object to certain processing
- Request restriction of processing
- Withdraw consent
- Request a portable copy of information you provided
- Ask about third parties to whom information has been disclosed
- Lodge a complaint with an appropriate data-protection authority
These rights may be subject to lawful limitations. For example, we may need to retain information to comply with legal obligations, maintain security or establish legal claims.
To exercise a privacy right, email:
Please use the subject line:
Privacy Request – InfoSteps
We may request reasonable information to verify your identity before completing a request.
18. Children’s Privacy
InfoSteps provides general informational content and is not intended specifically for children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian consent.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us, contact us so that we can review and delete it where appropriate.
19. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting.
Because there is no single universally accepted standard for responding to these signals, InfoSteps may not respond to all browser-based Do Not Track requests.
You can manage cookies, advertising preferences and privacy controls through your browser, device and relevant service-provider settings.
20. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when:
- Our website practices change
- We introduce new services
- Advertising or analytics providers change
- Legal or regulatory requirements change
The updated version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
21. Contact Us
For questions, requests or complaints concerning this Privacy Policy or the handling of personal information, contact:
InfoSteps
Website: https://infosteps.com.ng
Email: dapopaulmayomi@gmail.com
You may also lodge a complaint with the appropriate data-protection authority in your country or jurisdiction.