Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs Organization Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes your privacy rights regarding how and when we collect, use, store, share and protect your information across our website,
APIs, applications, email notifications and tools regardless of how you use or access them.
When this policy mentions “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to the controller of your information under this policy.
Despite this, you alone control and are responsible for any and every information provided to us through the use of our services as provided
in the Terms of Service.
Notwithstanding which country you live in, when using any of our services, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure, and use of your
information in Nigeria and any other country we operate as described in this privacy policy. This includes any information you choose to provide that is
deemed sensitive under applicable law.
We respect the privacy of our online visitors and registered users and we will take reasonable steps to protect your information.
It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of
personal information. We have outlined our privacy policy below.
What We Do to Information Collected
Personal Information
Upon registration, we collect personal information which you voluntarily provided by lawful means. We collect and use personal information solely for
fulfilling the purposes specified by us and for other ancillary purposes.
This refers to the personal information you submit when you register (e.g. email address, name, password, address, bank account number, next of kin details etc.) it may also include anonymous information that is linked to you, for example, your IP Address. It should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
The following lists what we use your personal information for. These may be updated from time to time.
i. To provide you with access to our service.
ii. To verify the information provided.
iii. To prevent, detect and manage any illegal and fraudulent activity.
iv. To improve our services to you.
v. To address any inappropriate use of our services.
vi. To update our website layout, database and content.
vii. To target advertisements, newsletter and service updates
viii. Resolve disputes that may occur.
Additional personal information may be gotten from third party applications and other identification/verification services. For example, from your financial institution.
Once you begin to use our services, we keep all records of your transactions and we will not share or disclose your personal information with a third party without your consent.
Web Visitors
We do not collect information to web visitors. We may however collect non-personally-identifiable-information to enable us target advertisements to
you, monitor and improve our website and services. This too, will not be shared or disclosed to third parties without your consent.
Protecting Your Information
We will protect your personal information by using global security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as against any unauthorized access, risk of loss,
disclosure, copying, misuse or modification.
Other security measures include but not limited to, firewall, data encryption and granting access only to employees in order to fulfil their job
responsibilities.
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information
is protected and maintained.
Cookies
Like many other websites, we use cookies to identify you as a user and to customize and improve our services. A cookie is a small data file that is
transferred to your computer or mobile device. It enables us to remember your account log-in information, IP addresses, web traffic, number of times you
visit, date and time of visits.
Some browsers may automatically accept cookies while some can be modified to decline cookies or alert you when a website wants to place a cookie on your
computer. If you do choose to disable cookies, it may limit your ability to use our website.
Data Storage
We will only retain personal information on our servers for as long as an account is active. Once an account has been deactivated, your information is
stored on our servers for as long as necessarily obligated by law.
This policy may change from time to time at our sole discretion.
Last updated: 30th September, 2020