02.03.22
Africa Verified takes your privacy seriously and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy gives you information about how Africa Verified collects and processes your personal data via this website.
We may make changes to this privacy policy from time to time by publishing it on our website. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for changes.
Personal data means any information about an identifiable individual. We may collect the following types of personal data about you when fill out a form on our website or contact us by phone, email or otherwise:
title and full name;
company/employer;
email address; and,
telephone number(s).
We may also collect the following types of personal data about you via automated technologies when you interact with our website, or from third party analytics providers, such as Google:
your internet protocol address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform, browser plug-in types and versions, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website; and
information about how you use our website and services, including browsing actions and patterns.
Some of this information is collected using cookies. Our website uses analytics cookies set by Google to distinguish you from other users of our website.
We also use functionality cookies to recognize you and your preferences when you return to our website.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.
We will process your personal data for the following purposes:
to manage our relationship with you;
to run and protect our business and this website; and
to use data analytics to improve our website, services, user relationships and experiences.
We may share your personal data with the third parties set out below for the purposes set out above:
service providers including analytics providers;
our professional advisers;
third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets, or third parties we may seek to acquire or merge with; and
regulators.
We will also share your personal data if we are under a legal duty to do so.
We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including to satisfy any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. In the event of a complaint or if there is a prospect of litigation regarding our relationship with you, we may retain your personal data for a longer period.
We protect your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed by putting in place appropriate security measures. We also ensure that only those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to, have access to your personal data, and that those individuals are subject to confidentiality obligations.