Privacy policy

Maskandi Pulse (https://maskandipulse.co.za) is run by Nonkosi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This page explains what information we collect when you use the site, why we collect it and the choices you have. We handle personal information in line with South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

Information we collect

When you vote. To make sure each person votes only once in a poll, we store a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address and a small cookie on your device. We cannot read your real IP address back from the stored value, and we do not use it for anything other than counting votes fairly.

When you subscribe. If you sign up for updates, we keep your email address so we can tell you about new releases, votes and the awards. You can ask us to remove it at any time.

When you contact us. If you send a message through the contact form, we keep your name, your email or WhatsApp number and your message so we can reply.

We do not sell your personal information to anyone.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser. We use cookies to keep the site working (for example, to protect forms and to remember that you have already voted). Our advertising partners also use cookies, as explained below.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

We show ads on this site through Google AdSense to help cover the cost of running Maskandi Pulse.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.

To learn more, read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

YouTube videos

Music videos on this site play through YouTube, and our chart is built from public YouTube view counts. When you play a video, YouTube (Google) may set its own cookies. See Google's privacy policy.

Links to other sites

We link to artists' pages, social media and streaming services. We are not responsible for how those sites handle your information.

Your rights

You may ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. To do this, contact us.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page.