Privacy Policy

Last updated: 4 July 2026

Mzansi News ("we", "us", "the site") respects your privacy. This policy explains, in plain language, what information is processed when you use the site, why, and what choices you have. It is written with the South African Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in mind.

The short version

• You do not need an account, and we never ask you to log in.
• We do not run our own tracking or analytics scripts.
• Headlines you have already loaded are saved in your own browser so the page opens faster. That data never leaves your device.
• If the site displays advertising, the advertising provider (Google AdSense) may use cookies. You can opt out — details below.
• If you contact us, we only use your details to reply.

Information stored in your browser

To make the site fast, recently loaded headlines are cached in your browser's local storage. This cache contains only public news headlines and timestamps — nothing about you. It stays on your device, is never transmitted to us, and you can clear it at any time by clearing your browser data.

News feeds and third-party services

When the page loads headlines, your browser requests the publishers' public news feeds via relay services (such as corsproxy.io, allorigins.win and rss2json.com) and loads story thumbnail images directly from the publishers' servers. Like any web request, these services technically receive your IP address in order to respond. We do not send them your name or any other personal information — we don't have it. Clicking a headline takes you to the publisher's own website, which has its own privacy policy.

Advertising and cookies

To cover running costs, the site may display advertisements served by Google AdSense. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

• You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings.
• You can learn how Google uses data from sites that show its ads at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• You can also opt out of many third-party advertising cookies at aboutads.info/choices.

We do not set any advertising or tracking cookies of our own.

If you contact us

If you email us at the address on our contact page, we receive whatever you choose to include in that email — typically your name, email address and message. We use this solely to respond to you. We do not add you to mailing lists, and we do not sell or share your details with anyone.

Your rights under POPIA

Under the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, you have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to request correction or deletion of it, and to object to its processing. Since we hold no personal information beyond contact-form messages, such requests are usually simple: write to us and we will act on your request promptly. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator of South Africa (inforegulator.org.za).

Children

The site is a general-audience news service and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the "last updated" date above. Significant changes will be noted on the homepage.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us through the contact page.