Affiliate Padi`s Privacy Policy

(Effective Date: 6^th June 2024)

(Last Updated: 6^th June 2024)

1. 1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy constitutes Affiliate Padi’s commitment to privacy of personal information on all our databases, website pages, mobile app, social media platforms, and locations of operation.

2. 2. Audience

This Policy applies to all visitors to our website, mobile app, social media platforms, clients, potential clients, other individuals who engage all our touchpoints and database applications, services, tools and physical contacts with us.

3. 3. Purpose of this Policy

It describes your (a natural person or business) privacy rights regarding the collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information. It applies to our website, mobile app, social media platforms, and all database applications, services, tools and physical contact with us regardless of how you access or use them.

4. Personal Information                                

4.1 The personal information collected by us may include the following:

Contact information such as your name, date of birth, identification supporting documents, gender, nationality and race, preferred language, current private and/or business address, telephone or mobile phone number, fax number, email address,

• • Your bank account details,

• • Additional information accessed through your interactions with us; and

• • When you use our websites, we collect information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other electronic access device. The automatically collected information includes but not limited to- data about the pages you access, computer IP address, device ID or unique identifier, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, mobile network information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, standard web log data, still and moving images.

• • Optional information that you voluntarily provide to us.

4.2 Excludes 

• • Information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person,

• • Permanently de-identified information that does not relate or cannot be traced back to you specifically; and

• • Non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us and information that you have provided voluntarily in an open, public environment or forum including (without limitation) any blog, social media account, chat room, community, classifieds or discussion board. Since the information has been disclosed in a public forum, it is no longer confidential and does not constitute personal information subject to protection under this Policy.

5. 5. How we use your personal information

All information provided to us are used to:

• • Analyse and comprehend your interaction with our website.

• • Verify your identity

• • Detect and prevent fraudulent activities.

• • Create an account for you on our platforms (website, mobile app, social media, etc)

• • Operate, manage, and sustain our website.

• • Innovate and develop new features, products or services.

• • Communicate with you directly or through our partners for purposes not limited to customer service, updates, and marketing purposes.

6. 6. Consent / Acceptance of Terms

You accept this policy when you give consent upon access to our platforms and touchpoints, fill any of our official documents, or use our services, content or functions offered on our websites, digital platforms or our physical offices.

You may not access our website or use our services if you are younger than 18 years old or do not have legal capacity to conclude legally binding contracts. By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all its terms.

7. 7. Collection from Browser

We automatically receive and record Internet usage information on our server logs from your browser, such as your Internet Protocol address (“IP address”), browsing habits, click patterns, version of software installed, system type, screen resolutions, colour capabilities, plug-ins, language settings, cookie preferences, search engine keywords, JavaScript enablement, the content and pages that you access on the website, and the dates and times that you visit the website, paths taken, and time spent on sites and pages within the website (“usage information”). Also note that other websites visited before entering our website might place personal information within your URL during a visit to it, and we have no control over such websites. 

1. 1. Cookies

When you access our website, we may send one or more cookies (small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer to collect certain usage information. We use session cookies (which disappear after you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain after you close your browser and which can be removed manually) and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our website. We use information gathered by cookies to improve your experience on our website.

2. 2. Purpose for Collection

We may use any service information and optional information provided by you for such purposes as indicated to you at the time you agree to provide such service information or optional information. We may use your usage information for the purposes described above and to:

• • Remember your information so that you will not have to re-send or re-enter them every time there is a need,

• • Provide any services, which may be useful or beneficial to you; and

• • Track your entries, submissions, and status of other activities in connection with your usage of the website.

8. 8. Disclosure
      1. 1. Sharing your Information

We may share your personal information with:

• • Our parent company (Total Data Limited) for audit purposes,

• • An affiliate, in which case we will seek to require the affiliates to honour this privacy and personal information policy,

• • Our service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations (including fraud prevention, bill collection, web development, marketing, other technology services). Our contracts dictate that these service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit,

• • State and Federal Tax Offices, as permitted by law; and

2. 2. Regulators and Law Enforcement
      1. 1. If you contact us regarding your experience with using any of our services, we may disclose your personal information as required by law or governmental audit.
      1. 1. We may disclose personal information if required:

• • By a subpoena or court order,

• • To comply with relevant law,

• • To protect the safety of any individual or the public; and

• • To prevent violation of our service terms (Terms and Conditions)

3. 3. Our Employees

We may need to disclose your personal information to our employees that require the personal information to do their jobs.

9. 9. Security of Personal Information

Generally, we use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption to protect personal information and we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files. 

We authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities. 

Our hosting company will host our website in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced security measures to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. 

10. 10. Data Accuracy

We will try to keep the personal information we collect as accurate, complete and up to date as is necessary for the purposes explicitly defined in this Policy. 

11. 11. Retention of Personal Information

We will only retain your personal information for as long as we determine is necessary to fulfil the purposes explicitly set out in this policy, unless:

• • Retention of the record is required or authorised by law; or

• • The period of retention shall be 5 years,

• • You have consented to the retention of the record,

• • During the period of retention, we will continue to abide by our obligations. 

12. 12. Updating or Removing

We make efforts to provide you with access to your personal information to correct the data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. 

13. 13. Limitation

We are not responsible for, give no warranties, nor make any representations in respect of the Privacy Policies or practices of linked or any third-party websites.

14. 14. Changes

We may change the terms of this policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website, at our premises or by email. If you do not agree with the change, you must stop using the service. If you continue to use the services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you, and you will be deemed to have accepted such terms.

15.    Data Subject Rights 

1. 1. The right to be informed: This means anyone processing your personal data must make clear what they are processing, why and who else the data may be passed to.

2. 2. The right of access: This is your right to see what data is held about you by Affiliate Padi.

3. 3. The right to rectification: This is your right to have your data corrected or amended if what is held is incorrect in some way.

4. 4. The right to erasure: Under certain circumstances you may ask for your personal data to be deleted. This is also called “the Right to be Forgotten”. This would apply if your personal data isn’t required anymore for the purposes it was collected for, or your consent for the processing of that data has been withdrawn, or your personal data has been unlawfully processed.

5. 5. The right to restrict processing: This gives you the right to ask for a temporary halt on the processing of your personal data, such as in the case where a dispute or legal case must be concluded, or the data has been corrected.

6. 6. The right to data portability: You have the right to ask for any data supplied directly to Affiliate Padi to be provided in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

7. 7. The right to object: You have the right to object to further processing of your data which is inconsistent with the primary purpose for which it was collected, including profiling, automation affiliate marketing, referral programme, and direct or digital marketing.

8. 8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

16. Enquiries 

If you have any questions or concerns arising from this Privacy & Personal Information Policy, the way in which we handle personal information or to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at: admin@affiliatepadi.com; +234 916 999 4515.