Privacy Policy

Volta Today ("we", "our", "us") operates the website voltatoday.com — a digital news and information platform covering the Volta Region of Ghana. Our registered contact email is info@voltatoday.com.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit our website, how we use it, and your rights regarding that information. We comply with the Ghana Data Protection Act 2012 (Act 843).

Information you provide directly

• Comment submissions — name, email address, and comment text
• Contact form submissions — name, email address, and message content

Information collected automatically

• Log data — IP address, browser type, pages visited, time and date of visits
• Device data — device type, operating system, screen resolution
• Usage data — articles read, search queries, time spent on pages
• Cookies — session cookies and analytics cookies (see Section 5)

Information we do not collect

• Payment card or banking information
• Government identification numbers
• Sensitive personal data (health, religion, ethnicity) unless you voluntarily include it in a contact message

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To operate and deliver our news and content services
• To moderate and publish reader comments
• To respond to your enquiries and contact form submissions
• To analyse site usage and improve the user experience
• To track article and constituency engagement for our rankings dashboard
• To detect and prevent spam, abuse or security threats
• To serve contextually relevant advertisements (where applicable)

We will never sell your personal data to third parties. We will never use your personal data for unsolicited marketing without your explicit consent.

Under the Ghana Data Protection Act 2012, we process your data on the following legal bases:

• Legitimate interests — operating a news website, preventing abuse, ensuring security
• Contract — processing information necessary to respond to your contact form submissions
• Consent — analytics cookies and non-essential cookies (you may withdraw consent at any time)

We use the following types of cookies on voltatoday.com:

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some site functionality.

We use the following third-party services that may collect data independently:

• Google AdSense — serves advertisements. Google may use cookies to personalise ads. See Google's Privacy Policy.
• Google Fonts — loads web fonts from Google servers, which logs your IP address.
• Chart.js (via Cloudflare CDN) — a JavaScript library for our analytics charts. No personal data is sent to Cloudflare.
• Social media platforms — when you click social sharing buttons, you are redirected to Facebook, Instagram or TikTok under their respective privacy policies.

We do not control the data practices of these third-party services and encourage you to review their privacy policies.

• Comments — retained indefinitely unless you request deletion
• Contact form data — stored in server logs for up to 90 days
• Page view logs — retained for up to 12 months for analytics purposes
• Session data — expires after 1 hour of inactivity

Under the Ghana Data Protection Act 2012, you have the following rights:

• Right of access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Right to rectification — request correction of inaccurate data
• Right to erasure — request deletion of your personal data
• Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Right to withdraw consent — for cookie-based processing at any time

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@voltatoday.com. We will respond within 30 days.

Volta Today is a general news website not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately and we will delete it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will reflect any changes. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of Volta Today after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

For any privacy-related questions, requests or complaints, please contact us: