Privacy Policy
Naijasporan respects the privacy of its users. This notice describes our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) and
discloses our online and offline information practices, the kinds of
information we may collect, how we intend to use and share that
information, and how you can opt-out of a use or correct or change such
information.
We provide users (“you”, “your”) with services, delivered via the Naijasporan website (currently located at https://naijasporan.com),
(the “Site”), the Naijasporan mobile applications, browser extensions,
and/or any other platform or media through which we may make such
services available (all of which are referred to collectively herein as
the "Naijasporan Technologies"), that allow you to explore the Internet,
find new websites that may be of interest to you, receive
recommendations of websites from Naijasporan, and join a community of
individuals with similar tastes and interests (collectively, the
“Services”).
- ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This
Privacy Policy informs you of our policies and practices regarding the
collection and use of information you submit to us or which we collect
about you through our Services and informs you of options that you have
to control or restrict the availability and use of your information.
Wherever you reside or from whichever country you submit your
information, you consent to our use of your information, consistent with
this Privacy Policy, in the United States and in other territories
where Naijasporan provides its Services. The above said does not apply to
you if you are in the European Union (EU). Users in the EU should see
the last section (“Additional Information for EU Residents”), which will
inform you in detail about the personal data we process, how we process
it, for which purposes we process it, with whom we share it, on what
legal basis we process and transfer your personal data and which rights
you have regarding the processing of your personal data.
- RIGHT TO CHANGE THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This
Privacy Policy may change from time to time. You understand and agree
that you will be deemed to have accepted the updated Privacy Policy if
you use the Naijasporan Technologies after the updated Privacy Policy is
posted via any one of our Services. If at any point you do not agree to
any portion of the Privacy Policy then in effect, you must immediately
stop using the Services. Furthermore, we may revise this Privacy Policy
in our sole discretion, so we suggest you review it periodically. If you
continue to utilize the Naijasporan Technologies and use the Services
made available to you after such changes have been made, you hereby
provide your consent to the changes and such use indicates such consent.
- POSTING OF REVISED PRIVACY POLICY
If
there are any material changes to this Privacy Policy, Naijasporan will
notify you by email or as otherwise required by applicable law. We will
post any adjustments to the Privacy Policy on this web page, and the
revised version will be effective immediately when it is posted (or upon
notice as applicable). If you are concerned about how your information
is used, bookmark this page and read this Privacy Policy periodically.
- NEW USES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Additionally,
before we use Personal Information for any new purpose not originally
authorized by you, we will endeavor to provide information regarding the
new purpose and give you the opportunity to opt-out. Where consent of
the Individual for the Processing of Personal Information is otherwise
required by law or contract, Naijasporan will endeavor to comply with the
law or contract.
We understand your concerns about
privacy. We want you to understand what types of information we collect
and what may happen to that information if you install the Naijasporan
application, visit the Naijasporan Website or use any of the Naijasporan
Technologies.
- USER ACCOUNTS AND COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
When
it comes to our Services, you are not required to create a user account
or provide any personal information in order to visit the Naijasporan
website. You are required to create a user account, however, to use our
application. During registration, you are required to provide a name,
password, valid email address, year of birth and specific or general
location. You may also, at your discretion, be asked to provide
information with regards to individuals, teams or organizations that you
are affiliated with in order provide the Services necessary to allow
for that kind of collective collaboration amongst users and parties.
If
you choose to share any articles, videos, or other content with another
person, we will ask you to provide a valid email address for that
person. We may also ask you to provide your username and password for
third party websites in order to access the articles and information
published on such sites. We also collect information if you contact us
for support or help, submit an application or otherwise communicate with
us. The information which you supply to us enables us to customize and
enhance the services we provide to you. In addition, it helps us
communicate with you about our news, events, promotions and new
products.
If you choose to subscribe to any paid premium
subscriptions that we offer as part of our Services, our third party
payment processors will collect and handle your credit card and related
payment information. Such third party processors’ use of your personal
information is governed by their respective privacy policies.
- COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Naijasporan
wants to give our Users the best possible experience, personalized for
each user. As such, we collect information to improve our Services,
features and content, to administer your use of our Services, and to
deliver content that we determine may be of interest to you. In addition
to the information that you provide to us when you register for a user
account, we collect information about the URLs, titles and content of
the web pages and other information you save to Naijasporan. The types of
information we collect includes your browser type, device type, time
zone, language, and other information related to the manner in which you
access the Naijasporan Technologies. If you are on a mobile device, we
collect the advertising identifiers provided by Apple on iOS and by
Google on Android. You can change this identifier in your device
settings. We also collect information about your use of the Naijasporan
Technologies so that we can provide our services.
- USE OF COOKIES AND ANALYTICS
In
addition to the methods described above, we may also collect
information using cookies or other technologies when you access our
website or use Naijasporan Technologies. You may decline our cookies if
your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use
certain features, you may be required to enter your password more
frequently during a session, and you may be unable to install or use
certain Naijasporan Technologies. Cookies and other technologies make our
Naijasporan Technologies easier to use and help us customize and
personalize the services we provide based on your interests and
activities.
- USE OF INFORMATION
We use your
personal information to respond to your requests and perform our
contract with you. We may do this, for example, by using your contact
information to respond to your inquiries, to provide customer support
and to supply any products or services you have requested. In addition,
if you choose to use the Naijasporan Technologies to share content with
another person, we will use the recipient's email address or user
account information to provide that service, but we will not use that
email address for any other purpose.
We also have a legitimate
business interest to operate and improve our services such as saving
media or content and files or attachments to Naijasporan and making such
materials and recommendations available to you at a later time on any
device that you use to access the Naijasporan Technologies. We also use
non-identifying, aggregated information to analyze the manner in which
the Naijasporan Technologies are used, which also allows us to improve our
services. The aggregated information we use includes the manner in
which materials have been accessed, organized and shared. We may use
aggregated information to offer a list of top sites or content, to make
recommendations to our users, to report on usage and trends, to improve
the products and services that we offer, or to develop new products and
services.
- SHARING OF INFORMATION
Except as set forth below, we do not share any personally identifiable information unless you expressly agree that we may do so.
- PUBLIC CONTENT
If
you choose to make the content you save publicly available, we may
share that information with others in accordance with the options you
select. In addition, if you choose to use the Naijasporan Technologies to
share articles, videos, or other content with another person, we will
send an email on your behalf to that person with a link to the content
that you have chosen to share.
- AGGREGATE DATA
We
also share aggregated, non-personal data and related usage information,
which does not contain any personal information which can identify you
or any other individual user, with third parties, including content
providers, website operators, advertisers and publishers. For example,
we may share with a content provider a list of the most saved articles
to Naijasporan based on an analysis of aggregated, anonymous user data,
but we would not share with such content provider any personal
information regarding such users.
- LINKS TO OTHER SITES AND APPS
If
you choose to, you may connect your Naijasporan account to third-party
applications to enable additional features like saving from your
favorite apps or other unique features third-party developers have
created. We have set up controls in the Naijasporan application so that
you can control the information that is shared with third-party
providers of products and services.
- WORKING WITH THIRD PARTIES
We
may work with trusted third parties to facilitate one or more aspects
of the products and services that we provide to you, and we may provide
some of your personal information directly to these third parties. For
example, as mentioned above, we may use a third party payment processor
to process payments for our paid subscription service. These parties are
subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal
restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we provide to
them for any other purpose other than those discussed above, unless you
have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for
additional uses.
- SHARING AS REQUIRED BY LAW OF ASSET SALE
In
the event that we or certain of our assets are acquired, user
information may be included among the transferred assets. Although we
strive to protect the personal information of our users, we will release
personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief
that such action is necessary. We follow the law whenever we receive
requests about you from a government or related to a lawsuit. We will
notify you when we are asked to hand over your personally identifiable
information in this way unless we are legally prohibited from doing so.
When we receive requests like this, we will only release your personally
identifiable information if we have a good faith belief that disclosure
is necessary or appropriate under applicable law. Nothing in this
policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you
may have to a third party's request to disclose your information.
- KEEPING INFORMATION
We
will keep your information only for as long as we need it to provide
you services, manage our business or as required by law or contract.
- TRANSFER OF INFORMATION
We
are a global company with computer servers all around the world. We
also use service providers whose computer servers may also be in various
countries. This means that your information might end up on one of
those computers in another country, and that country may have a
different level of data protection regulation than yours. By giving us
information, you consent to this kind of transfer of your information.
No matter what country your information is in, we comply with applicable
law and will also abide by the commitments we make in this privacy
policy.
- SECURITY
We have agreements with third
parties and have adopted other security measures in place to protect
against the loss, misuse and/or unauthorized alteration of the
information under our control or under the control of our service
providers. Your personally identifiable information is protected by
utilizing both online and offline security methods, including firewalls,
passwords and restricted physical access to the places where your
information is stored. Although we use industry standard practices to
protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that
your personal information or private communications will always remain
free from security issues. In the event of a security breach involving
your personal information, we will make any legally required disclosures
to you in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable
delay, consistent with the legitimate interests of law enforcement, or
any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore
the reasonable integrity of the data system.
- PHISHING
Identity
theft and the practice currently known as "phishing" are of great
concern to Naijasporan. Safeguarding information to help protect you from
identity theft is a top priority. We do not and will not, at any time,
request your username, password, credit card information or national
identification number in an unsolicited e-mail or telephone
communication. For more information about phishing, visit the Federal
Trade Commission’s website.
- MANAGING MY PRIVACY AND EMAIL SETTINGS
You
can edit or delete your personal information from your Naijasporan
Profile. You can also view and control which third party services, if
any, you want to connect to your Naijasporan account. These settings are
at: naijasporan.com/settings
As
part of our default settings to share saved and recommended content, we
may emails to our users. You may opt-out of receiving these, and
updates on our service and your use, by using the unsubscribe feature on
any of our email correspondence or from your account settings. We will
try to communicate with you only according to your instructions,
although it may take some time to process your request.
- AMENDMENTS TO POLICY
Please
note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We may amend
this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on our
Website that you can access at naijasporan.com
or through the options or help menu of the Naijasporan application. All
amended terms shall automatically be effective thirty (30) days after
they are initially posted on the Website. If we make any material
changes to our Privacy Policy that affect user information already
stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Website
notifying users that our Privacy Policy has changed. Our use of your
information shall be governed by the terms and conditions of our Privacy
Policy in effect when you first use our application or thirty (30)
after the terms are changed, as explained above.
Europeans
who believe a privacy complaint is unresolved have the right to lodge a
complaint with the supervisory authority of their Member State.