Privacy

What we never collect

Global Amhara does not operate a victim-reporting or evidence system. No page on this site accepts testimony, victim identities or evidentiary attachments. The Report an Incident page is a directory of other organisations' channels.

What the public site collects

• Server logs (IP address, user agent, requested path) retained for 30 days for security.
• Nothing else, unless you allow visit counting — see below.

Visit counting

We use Google Analytics to count visits, so we can tell which work is reaching people. It is off until you allow it. Until you answer, and permanently if you decline, no request is made to Google at all: the script is never loaded, and no cookie is set.

If you do allow it, Google receives the page addresses you open on this site, your approximate location derived from your IP address (Google truncates the address itself and we never see it), and basic details of your browser and device. We do not send your name, your email address, or anything you type. We do not use advertising features, and we do not share this data with anyone.

Search filters you apply are deliberately left out of what is recorded, so which topics you look into is not reported to us or to Google.

You can change your mind at any time, using the control at the bottom of this page. Declining is remembered in your browser only. If you clear your browser storage, or open the site in a private window, you will be asked again.

If you are in Ethiopia, or anywhere your reading could put you at risk, we suggest you decline. Nothing on this site requires it, and declining costs you no functionality.

Video (AMN episodes)

Amhara Media Network (AMN) episodes are hosted on YouTube. An episode page loads nothing from YouTube or Google: what looks like a player is drawn by this site, with no YouTube image, script or frame. Nothing is requested from Google until you press play.

Pressing play opens a separate player page that loads the video from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. From that moment YouTube (Google) receives your IP address and browser details, and its own privacy policy applies. The player starts the video because you asked for it, so assume YouTube records that view. The "Watch on YouTube" link takes you to youtube.com itself instead.

If you prefer to make no request to Google at all, read the episode's show notes on this site and leave the video unplayed.

Newsletter

When the newsletter launches it will use double opt-in; you can unsubscribe from every message. Your address and language preference are stored with our email provider and nowhere else.

Where data lives

The site is hosted on infrastructure owned by Global Amhara, outside Ethiopia. Published content is additionally archived with the Internet Archive for permanence.

Contact

Privacy enquiries: use the general contact on the About page.