Privacy Policy

Please read carefully and understand this privacy policy. By visiting and using this website you agree and consent to the practises described in this privacy policy.

Africa Blockchain Institute is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, particularly in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology, decentralized applications (DApps), amongst others. Our approach ensures compliance with global standards, including GDPR and African Union Data Protection Guidelines.

This Privacy Policy also explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, utilize our blockchain-based services, interact with smart contracts, or participate in our decentralized ecosystem.

Africa Blockchain Institute (this website) is owned and operated by Africa Blockchain Institute (we, us, our) and is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy has been created in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. This statement alone tells you how Africa Blockchain Institute protects the personal data we process and control relating to you (“your personal data”; “your data”) and which rights you have in relation to the processing of your personal data.

This Privacy Policy also explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.africablockchain.institute and our online community, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

Your use of this website is governed by our terms of use. Accordingly, this privacy policy must be read in conjunction with our terms of use.

Information Collection And Storage of Personal Data

• Which categories of personal data do we collect and how do we process such personal data?
  We may collect personal information from you (including, without limitation, your name, email address, phone number, and postal address) when you use this website. You may decide not to provide your personal information to us. However, if you do not provide it, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain information or products. To stay in contact, we give you the choice to provide us your email address. By exercising that choice, you consent to our use of your email address to stay in touch with you, as provided in our Privacy Policy. You are always entitled to withdraw your consent by following our email directions to unsubscribe.
• Automated collection: When you visit this website, we may use automated tools and methods (such as cookies, sessions, and usage monitoring software) to collect certain information about your visit, including (without limitation). This information will be used in aggregate form to analyse how this website is being used (for example: to analyse usage patterns in order to improve this website). Except as set out in this privacy policy, we will not disclose any such information except in aggregate form.
• Tracking and Cookies: This website may use cookies and sessions to provide you with certain services or functionality. Cookies and sessions may be used to identify you as an individual user of this website. We use this technology, amongst other things. Accepting a cookie will not give us access to any data on your computer other than the data stored in the cookie. Although you may configure your web browser to not accept cookies, you may experience a loss of functionality as a result.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
• Additional collection: We may gather more extensive information if we are concerned, for example, about abnormal website usage patterns or website security breaches.

How we use your data

• Use: We may use your personal information to: provide you with services and information that you have requested; provide you with important notices and information about this website and our services; provide you with other information (including promotional material, news, and event information) where you agree to receive such information; verify your identity and to assist you if you forget your username or password; improve or update this website and our products; respond to your enquiries and communicate with you; and personalise this website in accordance with your preferences.
• Other use and disclosure: We will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties. We may disclose your personal information to our professional advisors, contractors, business associates, related companies, and others who have agreed to treat your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. We will not otherwise use or disclose your personal information except: for any purpose set out in clause 6; where you have otherwise authorised us to do so; where we have given you notification of the intended use or disclosure and you have not objected to that use or disclosure; where we believe that such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for national security in the performance of their functions; where we believe that such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce any legal rights we may have, or is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of us, our users, or others; or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

Third party websites

• This website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the content of such websites, or the manner in which those websites collect, store, use, and distribute any personal information you provide. When you visit third party websites from hyperlinks displayed on this website, we encourage you to review the privacy statements of those websites so that you can understand how the personal information you provide may be collected, stored, used and distributed.

TRANSFER OF DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. We only pass on your data to third parties if: This is necessary for the settlement of contractual relationships with you, There is a legal obligation to pass it on, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

DISCLOSURE OF DATA

Africa Blockchain Institute may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary: to comply with a legal obligation, to protect and defend the rights or property of the Africa Blockchain Institute, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, and to protect against legal liability.

SECURITY OF DATA

Because the security of your data is important to us, we use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security of your personal information.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

ANALYTICS

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. Such as [Clicktale, Clicky, Cloudfare, Google Analytics and others], to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Site through the use of first-party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

CHANGES TO OUR POLICY

We reserve the right to update or review this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on our website.