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Terms of Service

Last updated: [DATE OF PUBLICATION] · Version: [1.0]

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a legally binding agreement between you and the owner of MAGHREB NOW. They explain the rules for reading our articles, subscribing to our newsletter, creating an account and using any other part of maghrebnow.com. Please read them carefully. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the Platform.

Key points at a glance

This summary is here to help you. It does not replace the full Terms below.

Reading MAGHREB NOW is free. Some features, such as commenting, need a free account.
You must be at least [16] years old to create an account or subscribe to the newsletter.
You are responsible for what you post. Content that is illegal, hateful or abusive will be removed.
Our articles are journalism and commentary, not professional advice. See our Disclaimer.
The newsletter is free, requires double opt-in and you can unsubscribe at any time with one click.
We protect your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have as a consumer under the law.

1. Who we are

maghrebnow.com and all related services (together, the “Platform”) are owned and operated by:

Owner: [LEGAL NAME OF THE COMPANY OR SOLE TRADER]
Tax ID (NIF/CIF): [TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER]
Registered address: [FULL REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Registry details: [COMMERCIAL REGISTRY, VOLUME, FOLIO, SHEET — IF A COMPANY]
Email: info@maghrebnow.com
Contact form: maghrebnow.com/contact-us

In these Terms, “MAGHREB NOW”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the owner identified above. “You” means any person who visits or uses the Platform. This information is provided in accordance with Article 10 of Spanish Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE).

2. Definitions

Visitor: anyone who browses the Platform without an account.
Member: a person who has created an account on the Platform.
Subscriber: a person who has subscribed to our newsletter and confirmed the subscription.
Editorial Content: articles, analysis, opinion pieces, images, videos and other material published by MAGHREB NOW or its contributors.
User Content: anything a Member publishes or sends through the Platform, such as comments, profile information, images or messages.
Services: the blog, the newsletter, accounts and any other feature we offer through the Platform.

3. What these Terms cover

At this stage the Platform offers three main services:

The blog: news, features, analysis and opinion about Morocco, the Maghreb and its global community, free to read.
The newsletter: a free email with a selection of our stories, sent to people who subscribe and confirm their subscription.
Accounts: a free account that lets Members comment, keep a profile and take part in the features we make available to them.

We may add new features in the future, such as community spaces, groups, events or paid memberships. If a new feature needs specific rules, we will show them before you use it, and they will apply together with these Terms. If the specific rules and these Terms conflict, the specific rules apply to that feature.

4. Accepting these Terms and changes to them

By browsing the Platform, creating an account or subscribing to the newsletter, you accept these Terms. When you create an account or subscribe, we will ask you to confirm expressly that you have read and accepted them.

We may update these Terms when the law changes, when we change our services or to make them clearer. We will publish the new version on this page with its date. If the changes are significant, we will tell Members and Subscribers by email or with a notice on the Platform at least [15] days before they take effect, unless the change is required sooner by law. If you do not agree with the new Terms, you can close your account or unsubscribe at any time. Previous versions are available on request.

5. Who can use the Platform

Anyone can read the blog.
To create an account or subscribe to the newsletter you must be at least [16] years old. Under Spanish law (Article 7 of Organic Law 3/2018, LOPDGDD), people under 14 can only give consent for the processing of their data with the authorisation of their parents or guardians. We do not knowingly accept accounts or subscriptions from people under the minimum age.
You must have the legal capacity to accept these Terms, and you must not have been banned from the Platform before.
If you use the Platform on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these Terms on its behalf.

6. Your account

6.1 Registration

To create an account you need to provide a valid email address, a username and a password, and accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. We may ask you to confirm your email address through a link we send you. Registration may be open, closed or available by invitation only, depending on the stage of the Platform. We may refuse a registration when there are reasonable grounds, for example signs of spam, automated sign-ups or a previous ban.

To protect the Platform against bots and abuse, the registration, login and password reset pages use Google reCAPTCHA. You can find more about this in our Privacy Policy.

6.2 Accurate information

The information you give us must be true and kept up to date. You may use a pseudonym as your public username, but you must not impersonate another person or organisation, or suggest a connection with MAGHREB NOW that does not exist.

6.3 Keeping your account safe

Your account is personal. Do not share it or let anyone else use it.
Use a strong password that you do not use anywhere else. Where we offer two-factor authentication, we recommend that you turn it on.
You are responsible for activity carried out through your account, unless it happened because of a failure on our side.
Tell us straight away at info@maghrebnow.com if you think someone has accessed your account without permission.

6.4 Closing your account

You can close your account at any time from your account settings or by writing to us. When you close it we will delete or anonymise your personal data as explained in the Privacy Policy. Comments you posted may remain on the Platform in anonymised form, without your name, if removing them would break public discussions, unless you ask us to delete them.

7. The blog and our Editorial Content

We publish news, features, analysis and opinion. We work to make our reporting accurate, fair and up to date, and we follow these principles:

Editorial independence: our editorial decisions are taken independently. Sponsored or partner content, if we ever publish it, will be clearly labelled as such.
Opinion: opinion and analysis pieces reflect the views of their authors and are labelled as opinion. They do not necessarily reflect the views of MAGHREB NOW.
Corrections: if you find a factual error, please tell us through the contact page, choosing the topic “Editorial”. We will review it and, where appropriate, correct the article and say so.
Right of reply: if you are mentioned in a piece and believe the information is inaccurate and harmful to you, you may exercise the right of reply provided by Spanish Organic Law 2/1984. Send your request to info@maghrebnow.com.
Not professional advice: our content is general information. It is not legal, financial, medical, tax or any other professional advice. Read our Disclaimer for more details.

8. Comments and other User Content

8.1 Your responsibility

Members may comment on articles and, where available, publish other content. You are fully responsible for your User Content. Before posting, make sure that you have the right to publish it and that it does not break the law or these Terms.

8.2 What is not allowed

You must not publish or send content that:

is illegal, or promotes or facilitates illegal activity;
incites hatred, violence or discrimination on grounds such as origin, ethnicity, nationality, religion, belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or age;
harasses, threatens, insults or intimidates any person;
defames others or violates their honour, privacy or image;
publishes other people’s personal data without their consent (for example addresses, phone numbers or ID documents);
infringes copyright, trademarks or other intellectual property rights;
is sexually explicit, or exploits or endangers minors in any way;
glorifies terrorism or violent extremism;
is deliberately false or misleading, or impersonates other people;
is spam, unauthorised advertising, chain messages or affiliate links;
contains viruses, malicious code or links to harmful sites.

We ask everyone to debate with respect. Criticism of ideas is welcome. Personal attacks are not.

8.3 Licence you give us

You keep ownership of your User Content. By publishing it on the Platform, you grant MAGHREB NOW a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, store, reproduce, display, adapt (for technical formatting only) and distribute it on the Platform and in our official channels, such as the newsletter or our social media accounts, for as long as it remains published. This licence ends when you delete your content or close your account, except for copies kept in backups for the time stated in the Privacy Policy, or where the content has already been shared by others.

8.4 Moderation

We may review, hide, edit for formatting, or remove User Content, and restrict or suspend accounts, when we reasonably believe that the content or behaviour breaks the law or these Terms. Comments may be held for review before they appear. We do not check all content before it is published, and we do not endorse the opinions expressed by Members.

When we remove content or restrict an account, we will tell the person affected, explain the reason and the rule applied, and tell them how to ask for a review, in line with Article 17 of the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065), except where the law does not allow it or the content is spam.

8.5 Reporting illegal content

Anyone can report content they believe is illegal or breaks these Terms. Use the report option next to the content, where available, or write to info@maghrebnow.com with the subject “Content report”. Please include the exact link to the content, an explanation of why you think it is illegal or breaks the Terms, your name and email (except for reports about child sexual abuse material, which can be anonymous) and a statement that the information you give is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge. We will review every report diligently and objectively and tell you what we decided.

If you disagree with a moderation decision, you can ask us to review it within six months by writing to the same address. A different person from the one who took the original decision will review it whenever possible.

9. The newsletter

Free: subscribing to the newsletter is free.
Double opt-in: after subscribing you will receive an email asking you to confirm. Your subscription is only active once you click the confirmation link.
Content and frequency: the newsletter includes a selection of our stories and news about the Platform. We send it about [FREQUENCY, e.g. once a week].
Measuring performance: our emails contain standard technology that tells us whether an email was opened and which links were clicked. This helps us improve the newsletter. You can find more in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
Unsubscribing: every email includes a link to unsubscribe with one click. You can also manage your preferences from the link in the email or write to us.
Service emails: if you have an account, we may also send you emails that are needed to run it, such as account confirmation, password resets or security notices. These are not marketing and are part of the service.

10. Contact forms

When you write to us through a form on the Platform, you must give accurate information and use the form only for its purpose. We use what you send us to reply to you, as explained in the Privacy Policy. Forms are protected with anti-spam measures. Do not use them to send advertising, unsolicited offers or malicious content.

11. Intellectual property

The MAGHREB NOW name, logo and brand elements, the design of the Platform, its software and the Editorial Content are owned by [OWNER’S LEGAL NAME] or by our contributors and licensors, and are protected by intellectual and industrial property law.
You may read our content, share links to it and quote short extracts with a clear reference and a link to the original article, as permitted by the right of quotation in Article 32 of the Spanish Intellectual Property Law.
Without our prior written permission, you may not copy, republish, sell, modify, frame or publicly distribute our content, in whole or in significant part.
Text and data mining: in accordance with Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and Article 67.3 of Spanish Royal Decree-law 24/2021, MAGHREB NOW expressly reserves the use of its content for text and data mining, including the training of artificial intelligence systems. This reservation may also be expressed through machine-readable means such as our robots.txt file.
If you believe that content on the Platform infringes your rights, write to info@maghrebnow.com and we will act promptly.

12. Acceptable use of the Platform

You agree not to:

access or try to access accounts, systems or areas of the Platform you are not authorised to use;
probe, scan or test the security of the Platform without our written permission (if you find a vulnerability, please report it responsibly to [SECURITY CONTACT EMAIL]);
use bots, scrapers or automated tools to access, copy or collect content or data from the Platform, except for search engines following our robots.txt rules;
overload, interfere with or disrupt the Platform or the servers and networks connected to it;
get around security measures, rate limits, anti-spam systems or technical restrictions;
create accounts automatically or under false pretences, or sell or transfer accounts;
collect personal data of other users.

To protect the Platform we use automated security tools that record technical information about connections (such as IP addresses and the pages requested) and can temporarily or permanently block IP addresses that show abusive patterns, such as repeated failed logins or scanning for vulnerabilities. If you think you have been blocked by mistake, write to us from another connection or to info@maghrebnow.com.

13. Technology and service providers

To provide the Platform we rely on our own installation of WordPress and BuddyBoss, and on trusted service providers for hosting, email delivery, security, backups and content delivery. They include Hostinger, Google (reCAPTCHA), Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services. The full list, what each provider does and where your data is processed is in our Privacy Policy.

The Platform may include links to other websites or embedded content from third parties (for example videos or social media posts). We are not responsible for the content, availability or privacy practices of third-party sites. Embedded content may behave as if you had visited the other site.

14. Availability of the Platform

We work to keep the Platform available, fast and secure, but we cannot guarantee that it will always be available or free of errors. We may suspend access temporarily for maintenance, updates, security reasons or causes beyond our control. Where possible we will announce planned interruptions in advance.

We may change, improve or stop offering features of the Platform. If we stop offering a free feature, we will try to give reasonable notice.

15. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close an account, or limit access to the Platform, if a Member seriously or repeatedly breaks these Terms, puts other users or the Platform at risk, or if we are required to do so by law or by a competent authority. Our decision will be proportionate to the seriousness of the breach. Except in urgent cases, such as spam, fraud, security threats or clearly illegal content, we will first warn the Member.

The sections of these Terms that by their nature should continue after the end of the relationship (such as intellectual property, liability and applicable law) will continue to apply.

16. Liability

We provide the Platform with reasonable care and skill. Reading the blog and using the free services is at your own risk with regard to the decisions you take based on the information published.
We are not responsible for User Content published by Members, but we will act diligently to remove or disable access to illegal content once we have actual knowledge of it, in accordance with Article 16 of the LSSI-CE and Article 6 of the Digital Services Act.
We are not liable for damage caused by events beyond our reasonable control, by viruses or attacks we could not reasonably prevent, or by third-party websites linked from the Platform.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or your statutory rights as a consumer under Spanish Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007 (General Law for the Defence of Consumers and Users).

17. Your responsibility towards us

If you use the Platform in breach of these Terms or the law, you will be responsible for the damage this causes, including reasonable claims by third parties related to your User Content, to the extent permitted by law.

18. Personal data and cookies

We process your personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 (LOPDGDD) and our Privacy Policy. We use cookies and similar technologies as described in our Cookie Policy.

19. Communications

You agree that we may communicate with you electronically, by email or through notices on the Platform, about your account, these Terms and the services. Notices to us must be sent to info@maghrebnow.com or to our registered address.

20. Applicable law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Spanish law.
If you are a consumer, any dispute may be brought before the courts of your place of residence, as provided by consumer protection law. If you are not a consumer, the parties submit to the courts of [CITY OF THE REGISTERED ADDRESS], Spain.
Before going to court, we encourage you to contact us so we can try to resolve the issue amicably. Consumers may also use the out-of-court dispute resolution bodies available under the law, such as the consumer arbitration system. [STATE WHETHER THE OWNER IS ADHERED TO CONSUMER ARBITRATION OR AN ADR BODY]

21. General provisions

Severability: if any clause of these Terms is found to be invalid, the rest will remain in force.
No waiver: if we do not enforce a right at a given moment, this does not mean we have waived it.
Transfer: we may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another entity that takes over the Platform, informing you in advance. Your rights as a user will not be reduced as a result.
Language: these Terms are drafted in English. If we offer them in other languages and there is a contradiction, the English version will prevail, unless consumer law requires otherwise.
Entire agreement: these Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, the Disclaimer and any specific rules of a feature, are the complete agreement between you and us about the use of the Platform.

22. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, contact us:

[LEGAL NAME OF THE COMPANY OR SOLE TRADER]
[FULL REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Email: info@maghrebnow.com
Contact form: maghrebnow.com/contact-us

Privacy Policy

Last updated: [DATE OF PUBLICATION] · Version: [1.0]

Your privacy matters to us. This Privacy Policy explains, in clear language, what personal data MAGHREB NOW collects when you read our blog, subscribe to our newsletter, create an account or contact us; why we collect it; who helps us process it; how long we keep it; and how you can exercise your rights. It complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 on Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD) and Spanish Law 34/2002 (LSSI-CE).

Key points at a glance

We collect only the data we need to run the blog, the newsletter and your account.
We do not sell your data and we do not use it for advertising profiles.
We do not use analytics or advertising cookies. See our Cookie Policy.
The newsletter is only sent if you confirm your subscription (double opt-in). You can leave with one click.
Our website, database and CRM run on our own server. We use carefully selected providers for hosting, email, security and backups, listed below.
You can access, correct or delete your data, or object to its use, at any time by writing to [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL].

1. Who is responsible for your data

Data controller: [LEGAL NAME OF THE COMPANY OR SOLE TRADER]
Tax ID (NIF/CIF): [TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER]
Registered address: [FULL REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Privacy contact: [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL, e.g. privacy@maghrebnow.com]
General contact: info@maghrebnow.com
Data Protection Officer: [NOT APPOINTED, AS NOT REQUIRED BY ARTICLE 37 GDPR AND ARTICLE 34 LOPDGDD — REVIEW IF ACTIVITY GROWS / OR NAME AND CONTACT OF THE DPO]

2. What this policy covers

This policy applies to maghrebnow.com and to the services available today: the blog, the newsletter, member accounts and the contact forms. If we launch new services (for example community spaces or paid memberships), we will update this policy before they start.

3. The data we process and why

The table below summarises each processing activity. More detail follows after the table.

Activity	Data	Purpose	Legal basis	How long we keep it
Reading the blog	IP address, browser and device information, pages requested, date and time	Deliver the website, keep it secure, detect and block attacks	Legitimate interest in providing a secure website (Art. 6.1.f GDPR)	Server and security logs: up to [30] days. IP bans: while active, up to 1 year, or permanently for repeated serious abuse
Account registration and use	Name, username, email, password (stored encrypted), profile photo and profile fields you choose to fill in, account settings, registration date, IP at registration	Create and manage your account and provide the member features	Performance of a contract: these Terms (Art. 6.1.b GDPR)	While the account is active. Deleted or anonymised within [30] days of closing it, except backups
Login security and two-factor authentication	Login attempts, IP address, date and time, two-factor settings when enabled	Protect accounts against unauthorised access and brute-force attacks	Legitimate interest in security (Art. 6.1.f GDPR)	Activity log: 30 days. Security logs and evidence of attacks: up to [30] days
Comments and User Content	Content you publish, username, date and time, IP address when posting	Publish your contributions and moderate the Platform	Performance of a contract (Art. 6.1.b GDPR) and legitimate interest in moderation (Art. 6.1.f GDPR)	While published, or until you delete them or close your account
Newsletter	First name, last name (optional), email, date, time, IP and form used to subscribe, text of the consent accepted, confirmation date, unsubscribe date, email opens and link clicks	Send the newsletter and measure its performance	Your consent (Art. 6.1.a GDPR)	Until you unsubscribe. Proof of consent and of unsubscription: [3 years] afterwards, to demonstrate compliance
Contact form	Name, email, topic, subject, message, organisation (optional), acceptance of the Terms and this policy, date, time and IP	Answer your message and keep a record of the conversation	Your request and our legitimate interest in replying (Art. 6.1.b and 6.1.f GDPR)	[12 months] after the conversation is closed, unless needed for a legal claim
Service emails	Email address, delivery status, date and time	Send account confirmations, password resets, security notices and replies	Performance of a contract and legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.b and 6.1.f GDPR)	Email delivery logs: 14 days
Protection against bots	Information collected by Google reCAPTCHA (see section 6)	Stop spam and automated abuse on login, registration, password reset and forms	Legitimate interest in protecting the Platform (Art. 6.1.f GDPR)	Processed by Google according to its own policies
Backups	Copy of the website and database, which may include all the data above	Recover the service after an incident	Legitimate interest in business continuity and security (Art. 6.1.f and Art. 32 GDPR)	Rolling backups: [14] days on our server and in encrypted cloud storage, plus versioned copies for up to [30] days
Legal obligations and claims	Data strictly necessary in each case	Comply with requests from authorities and defend legal claims	Legal obligation and legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.c and 6.1.f GDPR)	For the applicable limitation periods

3.1 Newsletter in more detail

When you subscribe, we save the information above in FluentCRM, a customer relationship tool installed on our own server (it is not a third-party cloud service). We then send you an email to confirm your subscription (double opt-in). Until you confirm, you will not receive the newsletter.

Our newsletter emails contain a small invisible image and links with tracking parameters. They tell us whether an email was opened and which links were clicked. We use this information only in aggregate to improve the newsletter, and to keep our list healthy (for example, removing addresses that never open our emails after a long time). If you click a link in our emails, our website may save a cookie that recognises you as a subscriber so you can manage your preferences without logging in. See the Cookie Policy.

You can withdraw your consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in every email or by writing to us. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing carried out before.

3.2 Data you must give us

Fields marked as required in our forms are necessary to provide the service you ask for. If you do not provide them, we will not be able to create your account, send you the newsletter or answer your message. Optional fields are clearly marked.

3.3 Where your data comes from

We obtain your data directly from you, from your use of the Platform and from the technical information your browser sends automatically. We do not buy data or obtain it from data brokers.

3.4 No automated decisions with legal effects

We do not take decisions about you based only on automated processing that produce legal effects or similarly significantly affect you. Our security systems automatically block IP addresses that show clearly abusive patterns (for example scanning for vulnerabilities or many failed logins). These blocks are temporary, are reviewed by an administrator and can be lifted on request.

4. Who has access to your data

We do not sell or rent your data. Your data is processed by our own team and by the service providers listed below, who act as data processors under contracts that require them to protect it and use it only on our instructions (Article 28 GDPR).

Provider	Service	Data involved	Location
Hostinger International Ltd.	Virtual private server (VPS) hosting the website, database and CRM, server snapshots and email mailboxes and SMTP sending	All data stored on the Platform, and emails we send and receive	[DATA CENTRE LOCATION OF THE VPS, e.g. EU]. Company in Cyprus (EU)
Google Ireland Ltd. (Google LLC)	reCAPTCHA v3, protection against bots on login, registration, password reset and forms	IP address, browser and device data, behaviour on the page, cookies from Google	EU and United States
Cloudflare, Inc.	DNS for our domain. [CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK, SECURITY PROXY AND MEDIA STORAGE (R2) — WHEN ACTIVATED]	IP address, technical data of requests, [MEDIA FILES]	Global network. Company in the United States
Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL	[ENCRYPTED BACKUPS IN AMAZON S3 AND EMAIL DELIVERY WITH AMAZON SES — WHEN ACTIVATED]	Backups of the website and database, emails we send	[AWS REGION, e.g. eu-south-2 (Spain) or eu-west-3 (Paris)]
[AI ASSISTANT PROVIDER, e.g. Anthropic]	AI-assisted technical administration of the website by our administrators. It may access data stored on the Platform only when needed for maintenance tasks	[DATA ACCESSED DURING MAINTENANCE]	[LOCATION]
[OTHER PROVIDERS, e.g. accountant, legal advisers]	[SERVICE]	[DATA]	[LOCATION]

The software we use to run the Platform (WordPress, BuddyBoss, Fluent Forms, FluentCRM, FluentSMTP and our own security tools) is installed on our server. The companies that create this software do not receive your personal data through it.

We may also disclose data to public authorities, courts or law enforcement when the law requires it.

5. International transfers

Some of our providers are based in, or may access data from, countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular the United States. When this happens, we make sure the transfer is protected by an adequate safeguard:

the European Commission adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, for companies certified under it (such as Google, Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services); and/or
the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, together with additional measures where necessary.

You can ask us for more information about these safeguards by writing to [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL].

6. Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA v3 on the login, registration, password reset and account activation pages, and on our newsletter and contact forms. reCAPTCHA checks whether an action is being performed by a human or by an automated program. To do this, Google analyses information such as your IP address, the time spent on the page, mouse movements and browser data, and may read or set cookies from google.com. This information is processed by Google under its own Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. We use reCAPTCHA because we have a legitimate interest in protecting the Platform and our users from spam, fraud and automated attacks.

7. Security

We apply technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including:

encrypted connections (HTTPS) across the whole Platform;
passwords stored using strong one-way encryption (hashing), never in plain text;
two-factor authentication for administrators and access limited to people who need it;
a firewall, automated blocking of abusive IP addresses and protection against brute-force attacks;
an activity log of administrative actions and login attempts;
regular software updates and security reviews;
regular backups, kept encrypted, with restoration tests.

No online service can be completely secure. If a personal data breach occurs that is likely to put your rights at risk, we will notify the Spanish Data Protection Agency within 72 hours and, where required, inform you without undue delay.

8. Your rights

You have the right to:

Access: know whether we process your data and get a copy of it.
Rectification: correct inaccurate or incomplete data. You can update most of your data from your account settings.
Erasure: ask us to delete your data when it is no longer needed or you withdraw your consent.
Restriction: ask us to limit the processing of your data in certain cases.
Portability: receive the data you gave us in a structured, commonly used format, or have it sent to another controller.
Objection: object to processing based on our legitimate interest, including for reasons related to your particular situation.
Withdraw consent: at any time, without affecting processing carried out before.
Not to be subject to automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise your rights, write to [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL] or to our registered address, saying which right you want to exercise. If we have reasonable doubts about your identity, we may ask for information to confirm it, but only what is strictly necessary. We will reply within one month. This period may be extended by two more months for complex requests, in which case we will tell you why. Exercising your rights is free.

If you believe we have not handled your data correctly, you can file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos), C/ Jorge Juan 6, 28001 Madrid, www.aepd.es, or with the data protection authority of your country of residence in the EU. We would appreciate the chance to resolve your concern first.

9. Minors

Our services are not aimed at children. You must be at least [16] years old to create an account or subscribe to our newsletter. Under Article 7 of the LOPDGDD, people under 14 cannot consent to the processing of their data without the authorisation of their parents or guardians. If we learn that we hold data of someone below the minimum age without valid authorisation, we will delete it. If you believe this has happened, please contact us.

10. Links to other websites

Our articles may link to other websites or include embedded content (for example videos or social media posts). Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for how they process your data. Embedded content may collect data about you as if you had visited the other site directly.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the law, in our services or in the providers we use. We will publish the new version on this page with its date. If the changes are significant, we will inform Members and Subscribers by email or with a notice on the Platform before they take effect.

12. Contact

For any question about this policy or your personal data:

[LEGAL NAME OF THE COMPANY OR SOLE TRADER]
[FULL REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Privacy contact: [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL]
General contact: info@maghrebnow.com

See also our Terms of Service, Cookie Policy and Disclaimer.