Privacy Policy

Ocean collects and uses some reader data to enhance the user experience on its platforms and to develop new products tailored to the audience’s needs.

For this purpose, Ocean acts by the LGPD (General Data Protection Law), No. 13.709/2018, maintaining transparency in its actions.

How does Ocean collect data?

About WhatsApp

Ocean may collect data based on the voluntary subscription of readers to WhatsApp groups managed by this independent news organization.

By joining Ocean’s informational groups (and its projects and products) on WhatsApp, the reader is aware that their name, profile photo, phone number, and other information contained there become known to this news organization and other group members.

To ensure greater control and security for the WhatsApp Community and to avoid spam, Ocean asks users interested in joining WhatsApp groups to register by email on this website.

Ocean does not always use this information but reserves the right to do so if it deems it important for developing or improving its services for readers.

Furthermore, Ocean notes that if there are contacts, interactions, or other occurrences resulting from the exposure of readers’ phone numbers in WhatsApp groups, the responsibility lies with the users/readers themselves.

Naturally, Ocean will make every effort to prevent unwanted contact with participants, but WhatsApp itself keeps numbers visible within groups, and there is no way for this organization to hide them.

To be clear, Ocean is not responsible for inappropriate interactions between group users nor for phone number leaks that may eventually occur as a result.

Ocean’s groups are purely informational. Messages are generally sent daily. There is no interaction.

However, groups linked to Ocean projects, such as Pulpo Eleitoral, allow interaction among participants. In these cases, the Community Rules apply.

Ocean also does not disclose or sell data to other companies. Ocean rarely uses its readers' data but protects itself through this document from any liability for misfortunes that may occur beyond the organization’s control.

Example: If a participant in one of Ocean’s groups has their WhatsApp cloned/stolen and the scammer contacts other group members, Ocean is not responsible for this interaction or any consequences arising from it.

By joining the group voluntarily, it is understood that the participant is aware of these terms and accepts that eventualities like this may occur, as well as the exposure of their number to other participants. This is related to WhatsApp, not to us.

Ocean also notes that these Privacy terms are included in the description of WhatsApp groups managed by this news organization to publicize the principles that guide our work.

About email

The only way we have your email is if you, at some point, subscribe on our website or in forms (Google Forms) that we may send through WhatsApp groups to better understand our audience.

In all these cases, as the registration is voluntary, the user consents to provide the information to Ocean.

If you subscribe to our newsletters on this site, your email will be known exclusively to Ocean.

  • We do not sell your email address to anyone.
  • We do not share your email address with anyone.
  • We do not send spam by email.
  • We send informational content to which you have subscribed.
  • For strategic reasons, we may include your email in new newsletters we launch.
  • We may contact you to inform you about changes in our internal policies, whether privacy, AI (artificial intelligence), code of conduct, etc.
  • We may contact you to inform you about the launch of new products, updates to existing products, partnerships, etc.
  • We may contact you about general activities related to Ocean, such as achievements, successes, awards, etc., as our goal is to share with our Community what we are doing.

About technology

Ocean has different products and services. We started on WhatsApp but have expanded.

All our products are within the ocean.com.br domain. For example, Pulpo Eleitoral is at pulpo.ocean.com.br. If any company outside this logic contacts you, know that it is a scam.

  • We use Google Analytics to measure our audience and improve our products.
  • We use GitHub as a repository for our product code.
  • We use MailGun to send our newsletters from the website.
  • We use Ghost as the site’s CMS.
  • We use Stripe as a payment method, integrated with this site.
  • We use Amazon Web Services to host our sites, both Ocean and its subdomain products.

Note that many of these services collect user data, and this is beyond our control. These are requirements of the services themselves to operate.

  • You can use browsers and/or extensions that block these trackers.
  • You can view the privacy terms of the services we use:
    • Google Analytics
    • Amazon Web Services
    • WhatsApp
    • GitHub

🍪 Cookies

Information collected through cookies they are used to monitor site traffic.

  • Ocean does not share your data with advertisers.
  • Ocean does not share your information with third parties.
  • Ocean does not sell your data.
  • Ocean does not collect or use information that does not belong to its database. In other words, we do not take information from other sites.
  • Ocean only uses information at its disposal, with user consent, to improve internally and be increasingly useful to the audience.

Example: If we detect that a high percentage of numbers registered in our WhatsApp groups have the same area code, we may consider offering discount coupons from a local brand. Thus, we use available data to offer you a benefit.

Example 2: If we detect a browsing pattern among readers on our site, with a preference for a certain type of news, we can improve our journalistic production to better please the public.

‘I want to stop sharing data with Ocean’: what to do?

No one is required to share information with Ocean. If we have any of your data, it is because you agreed to provide it at some point. However, you can change your mind and stop sharing at any time.

For this site’s cookies, simply reject the permission request. If you have already accepted cookies and want to change this option, just change your browser settings.

For our social networks and messaging apps, simply unsubscribe. Stop following, and everything will be resolved.

Note that we may contact you shortly after your departure asking for feedback, as this is an important way to understand how we can improve.

To receive the newsletter on this site, simply delete your registration in your profile area.

Note that in the same profile area, you can select which newsletters you want to receive. Before canceling everything, check if it’s not just a matter of canceling a specific subscription.

Still, having trouble? Send a message to ocean.correiosabia@gmail.com with your request. We will respond as soon as possible. If necessary, we will manually delete your information.