Privacy Policy
Cyber In
Africa (CiA) is committed to protecting your privacy and provide you a safe
online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the CiA website and
governs data collection and usage.
By using
the CiA website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
At CiA, the privacy and security of our customers, respondents, and visitors
are of paramount importance. CiA is committed to protecting the data you share
with us.
What
Personal Information Does CiA Gather?
CiA,
through various web forms that help our visitors register, access resources, work
with us, etc. collects personally identifiable information such as e-mail
addresses, names, telephone numbers, organization names, etc. CiA also collects
anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your gender,
preferences, interests, and favorites.
Information
You Give Us
You may
choose to apply for access to specific information or resources on topics such
as training, white papers, brochures, etc. which may require you to fill out
forms and share your personal information. CiA asks you to allow
representatives of CiA to contact you for the purpose asked.
E-mail
Communications
To help us
make emails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when
you open our CiA newsletter emails. If you do not want to receive e-mails or
other mail from us, please unsubscribe form the newsletter.
Information
from Other Sources
We might
receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account
information.
By using
or continuing to use the site you agree to our use of your information
(including sensitive personal information) in accordance with this Privacy
Notice, as may be amended from time to time by CiA at its discretion. You also
agree and consent to us collecting, storing, processing, transferring, and
sharing information (including sensitive personal information) related to you
with third parties or service providers for the purposes as set out in this
Privacy Notice.
CiA
encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link
to from CiA so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and
share your information. CiA is not responsible for the privacy statements or
content on websites outside of the CiA family of websites.
How CiA
Uses Such Information
CiA
collects and uses your personal information to operate the CiA website and
deliver the services you have requested. CiA also uses your personally
identifiable information to inform you of other resources or services available
from CiA and its affiliates.
CiA may
also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current
services or of potential new services that may be offered. Some of the ways we
may use personal information include:
- Personalizing websites, newsletters, and
other communications.
- Administering and processing any certificates
or articles of recognitions.
- Sending communications to you, including
for marketing or customer satisfaction purposes, either directly from CiA
or from our external partners.
Website
Visitors
CiA may
collect, record, and analyze information from visitors to our websites. Furthermore,
CiA may collect and process any personal data that you volunteer to us via our
website forms, such as when you register for events or sign up for information
and newsletters. This data is used to deliver customized content and marketing
within CiA to visitors and customers interested in a subject area. If you
provide CiA with your social media details, CiA may retrieve publicly available
information about you from social media.
Information
We Share
CiA does
not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties.
CiA shares
personal information in the following ways:-
CiA may contact
you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that
may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique, personally identifiable
information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the
third party. However, CiA may share data with trusted partners to help us
perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer
support, or arrange for deliveries. All such partners are prohibited from using
your personal information except to provide these services to CiA, and they are
required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
CiA
websites will disclose your personal information, without consent, only if
required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on CiA or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CiA;
and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of
users of CiA or the public.
Sensitive
Personal Information
CiA does
not collect, use, or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race,
religion, or political affiliations.
How CiA
Stores the Information It Collects
CiA stores
your personally identifiable information such as name, contact number, email
address, etc. with our cloud service provider, with encryption and is
accessible only to CiA, and not any other third parties.
How CiA
Secures Your Information
We take
appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure your information
and to protect it against unauthorized or unlawful use and accidental loss or
destruction, including:
- Only sharing and providing access to your
information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to confidentiality
restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymized basis wherever
possible;
- Using secured cloud servers to store your
information;
- Verifying the identity of any individual
who requests access to information prior to granting them access to
information; and
- Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software
or other similar encryption technologies to encrypt any payment
transactions you make on or via our website.
Retention
of Personal Information
We will
retain your personal information as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it
was collected. We will retain and use your personal information as necessary to
comply with our business requirements, legal obligations, resolve disputes,
protect our assets, and enforce our agreements.
Opt-Out
Policy
If you
would like to opt-out of the sharing of your personally identifiable
information submitted on our website with third parties, contact us and
indicate your unwillingness to share such information with third parties.
If you
would like to opt-out of receiving any direct marketing information from us,
contact us (link to the contact page/email id) and indicate that you do not
consent to the use by CiA of your personally identifiable information for
marketing purposes.
Updates to
this CiA Privacy Statement
CiA will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. CiA encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how CiA is protecting your information.