Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy of the Yemeni Republican Party (algmhory.com)

Introduction

At the Yemeni Republican Party (hereinafter referred to as \"the Party\", \"we\", \"us\", or \"our\"), we recognize the importance of protecting your personal data and are committed to full transparency regarding how we collect, use, and safeguard this data. This policy outlines our practices regarding the collection and use of personal data for visitors and users of our website algmhory.com.

You are responsible for reading this policy carefully. By using our website, you consent to the collection and processing of your data in accordance with this policy. We may update this policy from time to time, so please review it periodically.

Who We Are

The Yemeni Republican Party is a Yemeni civil political party, founded in 2013, registered with the competent authorities under Yemeni law.

Our website URL: algmhory.com
Contact email: [email protected]

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

We collect specific types of personal data for the following purposes:

1. Data You Voluntarily Provide

Contact Forms: When you fill out a \"Contact Us\", \"Join Us\", or \"Volunteer\" form, we may collect your full name, email address, phone number, governorate of residence, and any message you leave.
Newsletter Signup: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect only your email address.
Comments: If you allow commenting on articles, we will collect the name you choose, your email address (not publicly displayed), and your IP address.

2. Data Collected Automatically

Technical Data: Such as your device\'s IP address, browser type, operating system, pages you visit on our site, time and date, and your approximate geographic location (via IP analysis).
Cookies: Used to improve your experience, such as remembering your preferences and analyzing site traffic (detailed below).

3. We Do Not Collect Sensitive Data

We do not collect or intentionally store sensitive data such as political opinions (other than your membership in the Party), health, religious, or racial data, unless explicitly required by law.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor\'s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture (if any) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website (e.g., in a gallery or as a comment), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (Exif GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Note to Party members: When uploading photos of events, we recommend not including sensitive metadata.

Contact Forms

We use custom contact forms to communicate with the public and members.

Data we capture: Name, email address, phone number (optional), message content.
Purpose: To respond to your inquiries, follow up on membership requests, or communicate regarding volunteering.
Retention period: We retain copies of contact form messages for a maximum of 6 months for customer service purposes, then delete them. We do not use this information for marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience. You can disable them through your browser settings, but this may affect some website functionality.

Session Cookies: Expire when you close your browser.
Preference Cookies: Remain for up to one year to remember your choices, such as language.
If you have an account and log in: We will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in: We will also set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. If you select \"Remember Me\", your login persists for two weeks. Upon logout, the login cookies are removed.

Analytics

We use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics (or a local alternative if available), to understand how visitors use our website and improve its content.

Aggregated data: IP address (partially anonymized), pages visited, time spent, device type.
No ad tracking: We do not use analytics data for targeted advertising purposes.
Opt-out: You can disable Google Analytics tracking via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or through your browser\'s privacy settings.
Analytics retention period: We retain analytics data for 14 months before automatic deletion.

For more information, please review Google Analytics\' privacy policy.

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes. We may share your data only in the following cases:

Technical service providers: Such as our web hosting company, email services, and analytics tools. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and not use it for their own purposes.
Legal authorities: If Yemeni law or a explicit court order requires it, we may be compelled to disclose your data to competent authorities.
Party members: In the case of membership registration, some basic data (name, governorate) will be visible only to the Party administration, not to the public.

By default, we do not share any personal data with anyone outside the framework mentioned above.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Contact form data: Retained for 6 months.
Member data (registered users): Retained as long as the member is active. If a member requests account deletion, we delete their data within 30 days, except for data we are required to retain for legal purposes or internal party elections for up to one year.
Server logs and analytics: Raw logs are retained for 30 days, and aggregated analytics data for 14 months.
Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. Any registered user may request deletion of their comments.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on our site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

For residents of Yemen or those subject to European laws (GDPR) where applicable, you have the right to:

Right of access to your data.
Right to rectification if data is inaccurate.
Right to erasure (\"right to be forgotten\").
Right to restriction of processing.
Right to object to processing for direct marketing purposes.

To exercise these rights, contact us at: [email protected]

Where Your Data Is Sent

Your data may be transferred to servers located outside Yemen, such as:

Cloud hosting services: Our servers may be located in [Europe / America / UAE depending on provider].
Analytics and email services: These providers may have their headquarters outside Yemen.

We ensure that when any data is transferred outside Yemen, we use service providers that provide adequate protection in accordance with international standards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission, contracting with providers under the Privacy Shield framework (if still recognized), or adhering to Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs).

Contact Information

For inquiries related to this policy or our privacy practices, or to file a complaint, please contact:

Data Protection Officer (DPO) – if applicable / or the Legal Affairs Committee
Email: [email protected]

We will attempt to respond to your inquiry within 30 days.

Additional Information

How We Protect Your Data

We take the following security measures:

Data encryption: We use the SSL (HTTPS) protocol to secure data transmission between your browser and our servers.
Restricted access: Only authorized personnel (e.g., IT management and administrators) can access personal data.
Training: Our team is trained on data security and privacy protection basics.
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA): We have conducted an internal privacy impact assessment on our core systems.

What Procedures Are in Place for Data Breaches

In the event of a data breach (security breach), we commit to:

Notifying competent authorities within 72 hours of detecting the breach (as required by law).
Notifying affected users immediately if the breach is likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms.
Documenting the incident and taking immediate corrective actions (e.g., changing passwords, closing vulnerabilities, strengthening firewalls).
Encouraging security researchers to report vulnerabilities through a bug bounty program via email: [email protected].

What Third Parties We Receive Data From

We may receive data about users from third parties in limited cases such as:

Social networks: If you log in via social media accounts (in the future), we may receive your name and email address from the service provider (after your consent).
Advertisers: We do not receive data from advertising networks, as we do not display commercial advertisements.

What Automated Decision-Making and/or Profiling We Do with User Data

Currently, no automated decision-making or profiling that legally or significantly affects users is performed on our website. We may use simple analytics to improve content (e.g., identifying the most read pages) but without individual automated decisions.

If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and inform you.

Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements

As the Yemeni Republican Party is a political entity subject to the Yemeni Political Parties Law and the Party Affairs Committee, we are obligated to disclose certain data to regulatory authorities as required by law (e.g., membership lists to the Supreme Electoral Commission). Such disclosure is carried out in accordance with legal controls and will not be used for other purposes.

Last updated: 14-06-2026

For a printed copy or further inquiries, please contact us at: [email protected]