About PrivacyLens Africa.
Africa is not a country,” and neither are our data protection laws. A lot has been said and written about data protection in Africa. PrivacyLens Africa will show how these laws are unique, how they differ, and how they overlap. To save you time, the series will present a trend analysis of these laws through short articles and use infographics for visualisation.
Introduction
This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) governs your use of our website privacylens.africa.
Your data that we process
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be directly or indirectly identified. We do not actively collect your personal data. However, we collect data passively from your device. We may collect and process the following information from your visit to our website:
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- Your Name (optional) and email address, and that is only when you send us an email.
- The IP address of your device for identification when you visit our website.
Why we need your information
We collect your information to enable us to identify your device when you visit our website, personalise your experience, and address your inquiries when you send us an email. If you send us an email, you are not under any obligation to provide us with your real name or any other identifying information.
Our lawful basis
We use your IP address to identify your device whenever you visit our website. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interest, provided that your interests and rights do not outweigh those interests.
Your rights as a data subject
The law vests you with certain rights as a data subject. They include the right to:
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- access personal data we hold about you by requesting a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
- rectify such information where you believe it to be inaccurate;
- restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances;
- object to the processing of your data where we intend to process such data for marketing purposes;
- where feasible, receive all personal data you have provided to us—in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format—and transmit the information to another data controller;
- request the erasure of your data (also known as the right to be forgotten);
- withdraw your consent to the processing of your data; and
- lodge a complaint with a relevant authority where you have reason to believe that we have violated the term(s) of this Privacy Notice. (You may complain or seek redress from us within 30 days from when you first detected the alleged violation).
You may seek to exercise any of the above rights at any time by sending us an email at hello@privacylens.africa.
Securing your data
We take reasonable physical, technical, and organisational measures to keep your data safe and protected. But because the internet is not a completely safe place, we cannot completely guarantee the safety of any information you send through our website. Nevertheless, we are committed to doing our best to protect you. Where there is an actual or suspected data breach capable of causing harm to your rights and freedoms, we will notify you without undue delay and use our best effort to remedy the breach promptly.
How long do we retain data?
We do not hold on to the server logs for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes contained in this Notice. Your data is periodically deleted after 3 months from your last visit.
Cookies and tracking technologies
Cookies are tools used to automatically collect information from you when you visit our website. Our website currently does not use cookies. Also, we do not honour third party requests to be unique hosts. Summary: – We do not follow you around.
What happens when your data moves outside Nigeria?
If your data will be processed outside of Nigeria, we will endeavour to take reasonable steps to ensure that the data is stored in countries considered to have a sufficient data protection framework.
Contact
Feel free to give us a shout out, comment, feedback, complaints by sending an email to hello@privacylens.africa
This notice becomes effective from 28th February 2023. Should we update our privacy notice, it will be available here with a new effective date.