Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 7, 2026

At Moujli.com (“Moujli”, “we”, “us” or “our”), we respect your privacy and are committed to handling personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect when you visit or use Moujli.com, why we collect it, how it may be used and shared, how long it may be retained, and the rights available to you.

This policy applies to visitors, registered users, newsletter subscribers, commenters, authors, contributors, author applicants, and people who contact or otherwise interact with Moujli.

1. Who We Are

Moujli.com is an independently operated online magazine publishing articles, news, commentary, opinions, and other editorial content.

For the personal information described in this Privacy Policy, the operator of Moujli.com will generally act as the data controller unless otherwise stated.

Privacy enquiries and requests may be submitted through our contact page.

2. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Moujli. You can generally read publicly available articles without creating an account or directly identifying yourself to us.

Information You Provide to Us

Depending on the features you use, we may collect information such as:

Your name, display name, username, or author name;
Email address;
Account and profile information;
Password information in securely hashed form;
Profile photograph, biography, tagline, occupation, location, website, social or professional links, and other information you choose to add to a profile;
Newsletter and communication preferences;
Comments and other user-submitted content;
Articles, drafts, revisions, images, attachments, and other material submitted by authors or contributors;
Information supplied as part of an author or contributor application;
Correspondence and information submitted through contact forms;
Reports, complaints, copyright notices, or other communications sent to us; and
Any other information you voluntarily provide when using Moujli.

Author and Contributor Information

If you apply to become or act as an author or contributor, we may collect additional information reasonably necessary to assess, manage, and administer that relationship. This may include your writing experience, biography, areas of interest or expertise, portfolio information, links to previously published work, application information, editorial communications, submitted articles, revision history, and account activity.

Where an author is paid or enters into a separate commercial arrangement with us, we may also process information reasonably required for administration, accounting, payment, tax, fraud prevention, and legal record-keeping.

Comments and Public Contributions

If you submit a comment or other material intended for public display, information such as your chosen name, profile information, comment, article, or other contribution may become publicly visible.

You should not include information in public submissions that you do not want other people to see.

Information Collected Automatically

When you access Moujli, our systems and service providers may automatically receive technical and usage information, including:

IP address;
Browser type and version;
Device type and operating system;
Date and time of requests;
Pages and articles requested or visited;
Referring pages or websites;
Approximate location derived from an IP address;
Language and device settings;
Cookie or similar identifiers where applicable;
HTTP request information and server logs;
Authentication and account activity;
Security events, failed login attempts, and suspicious activity; and
General website performance and diagnostic information.

Some of this information is necessary for websites and Internet infrastructure to function and may also be used for security, fraud prevention, troubleshooting, analytics, and service improvement.

3. How We Collect Information

We may obtain personal information:

Directly from you when you create or update an account;
When you subscribe to newsletters or other communications;
When you submit comments or other User Content;
When you apply to become an author or contributor;
When you create, edit, save, or submit articles;
When you contact us or respond to communications;
Automatically through our website, servers, cookies, and security systems;
Through analytics and measurement technologies where enabled;
From service providers acting on our behalf; and
From publicly available sources where reasonably necessary, for example when reviewing information supplied in an author application.

4. How We Use Personal Information

Depending on the circumstances, we may use personal information to:

Operate, maintain, secure, and administer Moujli;
Create and manage user and author accounts;
Authenticate users and protect accounts;
Process and manage author or contributor applications;
Receive, review, edit, publish, and manage articles and other submissions;
Display author profiles and attribution alongside published content;
Enable and moderate comments and other community features;
Detect and prevent spam, abuse, fraud, unauthorised access, and other harmful activity;
Respond to enquiries, complaints, legal notices, and support requests;
Send newsletters and other communications where permitted;
Maintain records of subscriptions and communication preferences;
Understand how our website is used;
Diagnose technical problems and improve performance;
Develop, improve, and evaluate our content, features, and services;
Protect our legal rights and the rights and safety of users and third parties;
Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
Comply with legal, regulatory, accounting, tax, and other obligations; and
Carry out other purposes reasonably connected with operating an online publication.

5. Our Legal Bases for Processing

Where UK data protection law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following:

Contract: where processing is necessary to provide an account, author relationship, service, or other arrangement you have requested or entered into with us;
Legitimate interests: where processing is reasonably necessary to operate, secure, administer, develop, and protect Moujli, understand its use, prevent abuse, manage editorial activities, or protect our legal rights, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests;
Consent: where you have given consent for a particular purpose, including where consent is required for particular marketing communications or non-essential cookies;
Legal obligation: where processing is necessary for us to comply with applicable law; and
Legal claims and other lawful grounds: where applicable law permits or requires processing for establishing, exercising, or defending legal rights or for another recognised lawful purpose.

The legal basis applicable to a particular activity depends on the nature and circumstances of that processing.

6. Newsletters and Email Communications

If you subscribe to a Moujli newsletter or other marketing communication, we may use your email address and relevant subscription information to provide those communications.

Where consent is the applicable legal basis, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Marketing emails will ordinarily contain an unsubscribe mechanism where required.

We may retain limited suppression information after you unsubscribe where reasonably necessary to ensure that your preference is respected and to demonstrate compliance with applicable requirements.

Transactional, administrative, security, account, editorial, or other service-related communications may not be treated as marketing communications and may still be sent where reasonably necessary.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Moujli may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:

Keeping the website and accounts functioning;
Maintaining sessions and authentication;
Remembering preferences such as interface or display settings;
Protecting the website against security threats, abuse, and fraud;
Understanding website usage and performance; and
Analytics, advertising, or other optional functionality where implemented and legally permitted.

Some cookies are necessary for the operation and security of the website. Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies or similar technologies will be used only after the appropriate choice or consent has been obtained.

You may also control certain cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may prevent some website or account functionality from working correctly.

Further information may be provided in our Cookie Policy or cookie preference interface where applicable.

8. Analytics

We may use analytics technologies to understand matters such as visitor numbers, popular content, referral sources, device types, and general usage patterns.

The analytics providers and technologies used by Moujli may change over time. Where an analytics service processes personal information on our behalf or receives information from your device, its use will be subject to applicable data protection and cookie requirements.

9. Hosting, Security and Infrastructure Providers

We use third-party technology and infrastructure providers to operate Moujli. These may include hosting providers, content delivery networks, security providers, email delivery services, backup services, analytics providers, and other technical service providers.

Such providers may process limited personal information, including IP addresses, request information, server logs, email delivery information, and other technical data, where necessary to provide their services.

Where a third party processes personal information on our behalf, we seek to use appropriate contractual and organisational arrangements as required by applicable law.

10. Cloudflare and Network Security

We may use Cloudflare or similar content delivery, network, performance, and security services. Requests to Moujli may therefore pass through such infrastructure before reaching our systems.

These services may process IP addresses, browser and device information, request details, security signals, and related technical information for purposes such as delivering content, mitigating malicious traffic, preventing attacks, improving performance, and maintaining website availability.

11. Spam, Abuse and Security Prevention

We may process account information, IP addresses, technical information, comments, submissions, contact requests, authentication events, and related data to identify and prevent spam, automated abuse, malicious activity, account compromise, security attacks, and violations of our Terms.

We may restrict access, block traffic, retain relevant security records, or investigate suspicious activity where reasonably necessary to protect Moujli, our users, or third parties.

12. When We May Share Information

We do not sell personal information to third parties.

We may disclose or provide access to personal information where reasonably necessary to:

Service providers that host, secure, maintain, analyse, support, or otherwise help operate Moujli;
Email and communication providers;
Professional advisers such as accountants, lawyers, auditors, insurers, or consultants where necessary;
Authorities, courts, regulators, law enforcement bodies, or other parties where disclosure is required or permitted by law;
Investigate or respond to suspected fraud, abuse, security incidents, infringement, unlawful conduct, or legal claims;
Protect the rights, property, security, or safety of Moujli, our users, or others;
Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; or
Facilitate a genuine business restructuring, merger, acquisition, financing, sale, or transfer involving the operation of Moujli, subject to appropriate legal safeguards.

Information you intentionally publish publicly, including author profiles, published articles, comments, names, biographies, and other public contributions, may naturally be viewed, copied, indexed, cached, quoted, archived, or otherwise processed by third parties outside our control.

13. Public Content and Search Engines

Information that you choose to make public on Moujli should be treated as publicly available information.

Published articles, author profiles, comments, and other public pages may be indexed by search engines, cached by third parties, shared through social media, stored by web archives, or copied by other Internet users.

Although we may remove information from Moujli where appropriate, we cannot guarantee that copies previously obtained, cached, indexed, archived, or republished by independent third parties will also disappear.

14. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content

Articles and pages may contain links to external websites or embedded material from third-party services.

When you interact with a third-party website or embedded service, that third party may collect information independently under its own privacy policy. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or processing activities of independent third parties.

You should review the privacy information provided by the relevant third party before providing personal information to it.

15. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, destruction, loss, or misuse.

These measures may include access controls, authentication controls, network security, software security measures, backups, monitoring, encryption where appropriate, and restrictions on administrative access.

However, no website, server, database, network, email system, or method of Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, while we take reasonable steps to protect information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are also responsible for protecting your account credentials and for using appropriate security measures on your own devices and accounts.

16. Data Breaches

If we become aware of a personal data breach, we will assess it and take steps that we consider appropriate in the circumstances. Where applicable law requires notification to a supervisory authority or affected individuals, we will make such notifications in accordance with those requirements.

17. How Long We Keep Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to operate and secure Moujli, to maintain appropriate records, or to meet legal, accounting, regulatory, dispute-resolution, and enforcement requirements.

Retention periods may differ depending on the type of information and the reason it is held.

For example:

Account information may be retained while an account remains active and for an appropriate period afterwards;
Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed, with limited suppression records potentially retained after unsubscribing;
Comments and published contributions may remain associated with published content;
Published articles and associated author attribution may be retained as part of the historical and editorial record;
Drafts, revisions, and temporary editorial records may be deleted according to our operational retention practices;
Security logs may be retained for an appropriate period for security, investigation, fraud prevention, and legal purposes;
Correspondence may be retained where reasonably necessary to maintain records of an enquiry, complaint, dispute, or legal matter; and
Information required for accounting, tax, contractual, or legal purposes may be retained for the period required or permitted by law.

18. Backups and Deleted Information

Deleting information from an active account or our primary systems may not result in its immediate removal from every backup, log, cache, or disaster-recovery system.

Residual copies may remain for a limited period as part of normal backup, security, and recovery processes and will ordinarily cease to be available through normal operational systems.

We may also retain information where required or permitted by law, including for fraud prevention, security, dispute resolution, compliance, and the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.

19. Account Deletion

Where account deletion is available, deleting an account does not necessarily require removal of every piece of content previously associated with it.

Published articles, comments, editorial records, legal records, security records, and other information may be retained where we have a lawful reason to do so.

Where appropriate, account information may instead be deleted, anonymised, de-identified, or disconnected from retained content.

20. International Data Transfers

Some of our service providers or their infrastructure may operate outside the United Kingdom. As a result, personal information may sometimes be processed in other countries.

Where UK data protection law requires safeguards for an international transfer of personal information, we will seek to rely on an applicable lawful transfer mechanism, such as an adequacy regulation, recognised contractual safeguards, or another permitted mechanism.

21. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have rights including the right to:

Request access to personal information we hold about you;
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information;
Request deletion of personal information in certain circumstances;
Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances;
Object to certain processing based on legitimate interests;
Object to direct marketing;
Request portability of certain personal information where applicable;
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and
Complain to an appropriate data protection supervisory authority.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to exemptions, competing legal obligations, freedom of expression and journalism considerations, legal claims, or other limitations provided by applicable law.

We may request reasonable information to verify your identity before acting on a data protection request.

To exercise a privacy right, please contact us.

22. Journalism, Freedom of Expression and Published Material

As an online publication, Moujli processes and publishes information for journalistic, editorial, literary, informational, and freedom-of-expression purposes.

Data protection rights relating to published editorial material may be subject to exemptions or limitations provided by applicable law, including where necessary to balance privacy rights with freedom of expression and information.

A request concerning information appearing in an article or other editorial material will therefore be considered in light of the circumstances and applicable law rather than necessarily resulting in automatic removal.

23. Automated Security and Spam Controls

We may use automated tools to identify spam, suspicious traffic, malicious requests, attempted account compromise, or other activity that may threaten the website or its users.

These systems may use information such as IP addresses, request patterns, account activity, browser information, and security signals to identify and restrict potentially harmful activity.

24. Children's Privacy

Moujli is a general-audience publication and is not directed at children.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account, apply to become an author, or submit content through features requiring registration unless we expressly permit otherwise and any necessary consent or other lawful basis is in place.

If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child in circumstances where it should not have been collected, we may take appropriate steps to delete or otherwise address that information.

25. Information About Other People

If you provide us with personal information about another person, you are responsible for ensuring that you have an appropriate reason or authority to provide that information and that doing so does not violate applicable law or that person's rights.

Authors and contributors should take particular care when including identifiable individuals, private correspondence, photographs, allegations, sensitive information, or other personal information in material submitted for publication.

26. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to Moujli, our technology, service providers, data practices, or applicable legal requirements.

The current version will be published on this page with its “Last Updated” date. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.

27. Complaints

If you have a concern about how we have handled your personal information, please contact us first so that we have an opportunity to investigate and respond.

You may also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection supervisory authority.

28. Contact Us

For privacy questions, data protection requests, complaints, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us.