DATA COOKIES AND PRIVACY NOTICE

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PRIVACY NOTICE

Last updated: 10th of August, 2023

This Website is operated by Gtext and Associates, a subsidiary of Gtext Holdings, a Company incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, with its headquarters domiciled in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.

The Operator and its affiliates recognize its responsibility to ensure and uphold the protection of data on its cloud data base and your privacy. Our Data Protection Policy is in compliance with all data protection requirements as provided by the Nigerian Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDPA). We shall do our best to prevent unauthorized exchange of personal data and completely prevent the manipulation of such data.

This notice applies to personal data we collect, including through this website, other registration, other website, mobile applications, online portals, electronic forms, surveys, interactive exhibits, and any other channel or mobile feature that we operate (collectively, “our sites”).

This notice may be updated to reflect changes in our practices and applicable law.

Links to third-party sites

This website may include links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. This notice does not apply to any third-party sites that may link to, or be accessible from, our sites. We are not responsible for any of the content, features, functionality, or privacy practices of other linked sites or services. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

I declare the above information is true, correct and that I am the person, or the parent or guardian of the person, whose name appears above. I have read and consented to the Privacy & Cookies Notice and agree to the collection, use, transfer and processing of my personal data for purposes specified above. In particular, I consent to the sharing and cross-border transfer of my personal data in accordance with the Privacy & Cookies Notice for purposes specified above. Click for more: __________________

GLOSSARY

This Privacy Policy provides information about how we process personal information through the website:

Upon reading this Privacy Policy, you will be informed regarding the following:

  1. The data we collect
  2. Use and Disclosure of Data
  3. Storage and Protection of Data
  4. Data Rights
  5. Subject Access Request Response Procedure

DATA COLLECTION

Minors

Our sites are not intended for minors (individuals under the age of 13, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. If you become aware of any personal data we have collected from a minor, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a minor, we will take steps to delete the data without notice as soon as possible.

USE AND DISCLOSURE OF DATA Purpose:

We may use your personal data to:

Change of Purpose

We will only use your Personal Data for the aforementioned purposes, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and request for your express consent. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

Additional purposes

Additional purposes for using your personal data may be described in a supplemental privacy notice.

Persons who have access to your Personal Data

  • Other visitors to our sites
  • If you submit feedback, comments, photos, videos, or other information to interactive portions of our sites, such submission may be made publicly available to anyone who visits those areas of our sites. Other visitors may access, re-post, or use such submission. Even if you remove or delete your submission, copies may remain in cached or archived areas of our sites or retained by other visitors. Please use your discretion when submitting personal data in these contexts.

    STORAGE AND PROTECTION OF DATA

    Information submitted by you is stored on secure servers we have which are encrypted and access is restricted to only authorised persons in charge of maintaining the servers. We have put in place physical, electronic and procedural processes that safeguard and protect your information against unauthorised access, modification or erasure.

  • • Storage and transfers
  • The personal data we collect may be transferred to and processed in another country other than your country of residence for the purposes stated above. The data protection laws in those countries may be different from, and less stringent than the laws applicable in your country of residence. Your personal data may be stored in your region or in any other country where we or our service providers have facilities. We may also allow employees and service providers located around the world to access personal data as provided in this notice. Our staff also have an obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any Personal Data held by us. If your personal data is subject to GDPR, UK GDPR, or POPIA, we will ensure your legal rights and protections travel with any such “transfer” of your personal data as required by applicable law. We will also comply with similar applicable laws regarding the storage and transfer of personal data in other jurisdictions where your personal data may be collected or provided. By accepting this Policy or by providing your Personal Data to us, you expressly consent to such transfer and Processing. However, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and transfer of your Personal Data will only be done in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws and to parties who have put in place adequate controls to secure and protect your Personal Data.

  • • Storage period
  • We will store your personal data until it is no longer needed to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected or as otherwise required or permitted by law. After such time, we will either delete or anonymize your personal data or, if this is not possible, we will securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible. We may dispose of any data in our discretion without notice, subject to applicable law. We may retain your Personal Data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements. Where your Personal Data is contained within a document, the retention period applicable to such type of document in our document retention policy shall apply. Please contact us if you would like more details regarding our retention periods for different categories of personal data.

  • • Protection
  • Transmission of data on the internet is never guaranteed regarding safety. It is impossible to completely guarantee your safety with electronic data and transmission. You are therefore at your own risk if you elect to transmit any data electronically. However, we maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures, including performing regular self-assessments and data privacy impact assessment, to prevent unauthorized disclosure of, or access to personal data. We limit access to personal data and require that employees authorized to access personal data maintain the confidentiality of that data. We hold our service providers to at least the same data privacy and security standards to which we hold ourselves. Our standard information security requirements for service providers are available here. In the unlikely event that we experience any breach to your personal data, such breach shall be handled in accordance with our Personal Data Breach Management Procedures. All such breaches shall be notified to the relevant Nigeria Data Protection Commission within 72 hours of occurrence and based on the severity and potential risks, shall notify you of such occurrence, steps taken and remedies employed to prevent a reoccurrence.

    DATA RIGHTS

    Data Protection Laws provides you with certain rights in relation to the information that we collect about you:

  • How you can access and control your data; your rights
  • To the extent provided by applicable laws, you may have the right to obtain confirmation that we hold personal data about you; to access, correct, or delete your personal data; to withdraw any consent you previously provided to us; to object to or restrict our processing of your personal data in any other context; to deactivate, block, anonymize, or delete personal data as appropriate; or to request and receive a copy of the personal data you have provided us and to transmit this data to a third party. To exercise any of these rights that you are not able to do directly, please contact us. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the applicable data protection authority. If you reside in South Africa, you have the right to submit a complaint to the Information Regulator here:

    CONTACT

    We welcome any queries, requests you may have regarding our Data Protection Privacy Policies, or our privacy practices. Contact us at privacy@stephenakintayofoundation.com or by completing the ________ Form. Newsletters, auto-generated emails, and updates from us often include links to access, correct, or delete your personal data and to manage any subscriptions directly. If you do not wish to receive promotional communications from us, you can opt-out by following the instructions contained in the messages you receive. Even if you opt-out of receiving these promotional communications, we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to our sites, including administrative messages. We do not offer you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving those communications. For more information about interest-based advertising, including how you can manage advertising, please see above “Interest-based advertising.”

    SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST RESPONSE PROCEDURE

    1. Where you wish to exercise any of your data privacy rights you shall make a formal request by completing the Subject Access Request Form (SAR Form) and sending the completed form via email to us at privacy@gtextandassociates.com.
    2. We shall contact you within 5 working days of the receipt of the SAR Form to confirm receipt of the subject access request and may request additional information to verify and confirm the identity of the individual making the request.
    3. On receiving any request from you, we shall record the request and carry out verification of the identity of the individual making the request using the details provided in the SAR Form and a valid means of identification such as international passport, driver’s license, national identification card or any other acceptable means of identification.
    4. Where the request is from a third party (such as relative or your representative), we will verify their authority to act for you and may contact you to confirm their identity and request your consent to disclose the information.
    5. When your identity is verified, we shall coordinate the gathering of all information collected with respect to you in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language with a view to responding to the specific request. The information may be provided in writing, or by other means, including, where appropriate, by electronic means or orally provided that your identity is proven by other means. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
    6. Where the information requested relates directly or indirectly to another person, we will seek the consent of that person before processing the request. However, where disclosure would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others and we are unable to disclose the information, we will inform you promptly, with reasons for that decision.

    Fees and Timeframe

    We shall ensure that we provide the information required by you within a period of one month from the receipt of the request. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. However, where we are unable to act on your request, we shall inform you promptly at least within one month of receipt of the request of the reasons for not taking action and give you the option of lodging a complaint with the NDPC.

    Where the request relates to any perceived violation of your rights, we shall take appropriate steps to remedy such violations, once confirmed. Remedies shall include but not limited to the investigation and reporting to appropriate authorities, recovering the personal data, correcting it and/ or enhancing controls around it. You shall be appropriately informed of the remedies employed.

    Any information provided to you by us shall be provided free of charge. However, where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive in particular because of their repetitive or cumbersome nature, we may:

    To the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may refuse to act on your request, if at least one of the following applies:

    Data Privacy Request Form

    Please fill this form to help us respond to your data privacy request. Include details in the Additional Information field to further explain your request.

    If you are submitting multiple types of requests, please complete a separate form for each request.

    Note: This form may be used only for inquiries relating to the Privacy & Cookies Notice and we are only able to review privacy inquiries received in English. See the Contact page for help with other types of inquiries.

    What is the nature of your request?*

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    Additional information about the nature of your request* ______________________________________________

    Relationship*

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    Additional information about your relationship to us*

    Enter details to further explain your relationship to us to help us locate your personal data. For example, if you selected "Employment/Job Applicant" above, are you a current or former employee, non-employee staff member, or job applicant?

    First name* ___________________________________

    Last name*____________________________________

    Email*_______________________________________

    Country*

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    I understand and agree that this request will be processed in accordance with applicable law(s), and therefore it is possible that my request may not be fulfilled, in whole or in part.