AFRICARARE PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy will inform you how we collect, store and use your personal data when you use our services. It tells you about your privacy rights regarding the personal data we hold about you.
WHO ARE WE?
We are Africarare Ltd., a provider of, a social web3 platform utilising blockchain technology and other services, through this website (“services”). All references in this Privacy Policy to"Africarare", "our", "us" or "we" refer to Africarare Ltd., a company incorporated in Cyprus, including its subsidiaries and affiliates, as appropriate.
WHAT THIS POLICY CONTAINS
In this Privacy Policy, "personal data" means any personal information about you which could identify you (by itself or in combination with other data) such as your name, address, email address, wallet address or an online identifier, such as a unique ID, or your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. This Privacy Policy provides you with details about:
- What personal data do we collect from you?
- What we do with this personal data and what is our legal basis for processing it?
- What personal data is shared with or accessed by third parties?
- Your rights
- Where we may transfer your personal data
- How long we store your personal data
- Marketing
- Children's privacy
- Risks and how we keep your personal data secure
- Links to other websites
- Changes to our privacy policy
- Contact information
WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT AND THE LEGAL BASIS FOR USING IT?
| What personal data may Africarare collect and process? | Why does Africarare process my personal data? | Legal Basis for our use of personal data |
|---|---|---|
- transactional information. | ransaction services. If required, we may use your personal data if required to process your transactions, and to communicate with your transactions and our services. -Communicate with you. We use your personal data to communicate with you in relation to Africarare services, and to provide a newsletter and discord for community chat; - We collect and process identity information to comply with our Know Your Customer (“KYC”) obligations under applicable laws and regulations, and Anti-Money Laundering laws and regulations. | Performance of a contract when we provide you with products or services or communicate with you about them. This includes when we use your personal data to take and handle orders and process payments. |
| The Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login, e-mail address, password and location of your device or computer; Africarare.io services metrics (e.g., the occurrences of technical errors, your interactions with service features and content, and your settings preferences); - version and time zone settings. | Provide, troubleshoot, and improve Africarare.io Services. We use your personal data to provide functionality, analyse performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of Africarare.io Services. | Our legitimate interests and the interests of our users when, for example, we detect and prevent fraud and abuse to protect the security of our users, ourselves, or others. |
| -Transaction history. - Personal data from other sources: we may receive information about you from other sources such as credit history information from credit bureaus; | Fraud prevention and credit risks. We process personal data to prevent and detect fraud and abuse to protect the security of our users, Africarare.io Services and others. We may also use scoring methods to assess and manage credit risks. | |
| Information about your behavior: we may process information about you on your behavior and your activity for marketing and advertising purposes. | Improve our services. We process personal data to improve our services and for you to have a better user experience. Recommendations and personalisation. We use your personal data to recommend features and services that might be of interest to you, identify your preferences, and personalise your experience with Africarare.io Services. | Our legitimate interest to improve our services; Your consent when we ask for your consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. When you consent to processing your personal data for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time, and we will stop processing your data for that purpose. |
WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS REGARDING MY PERSONAL DATA?
Subject to applicable law, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, having provided adequate proof of identity. Such rights are:
Right to access: you have the right to obtain confirmation that your personal data are processed and to obtain a copy of it as well as certain data related to its processing;
Right to rectify: you can request the rectification of your personal data which are inaccurate and add to it. You can also change your personal data in your account at any time;
Right to delete: you can, in some cases, have your personal data deleted;
Right to limit the processing: in certain circumstances, you have the right to limit the processing of your personal data;
Right to portability: in some cases, you can ask to receive your personal data which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
Right to withdraw your consent: for processing requiring your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Exercising this right does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent given before the withdrawal of the latter;
If you have any questions or objection as to how we collect and process your personal data, our data protection officer can be contacted at dpo@africarare.io. You also have the right to contact your local Data Protection Authority.
CAN CHILDREN USE OUR SERVICES?
Africarare does not allow anyone under the age of 18 to use Africarare Services.
LAND PURCHASES IN UBUNTULAND
You may purchase virtual land within Ubuntuland. You may edit your metadata, but you must comply with these terms and specifically, you cannot link to or contain any material or content that is illegal. We reserve the right to moderate and/or delete any metadata that does not comply with these terms.
DO YOU SHARE MY PERSONAL DATA?
Information about our users is an important part of our business and we are not in the business of selling our users' personal data to others. Africarare shares users' personal data only as described below and with affiliates of Africarare that are either subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
To enable us to provide you the best user experience, we may share your personal data with our marketing partners for the purposes of targeting, modeling, and/or analytics as well as marketing and advertising. You may opt-out of sharing personal data with our marketing partners, unless we have a legitimate interest to do so.
Business transfers: If we enter into negotiations to sell or buy any company, business or assets, we may disclose personal data obtained from you to the prospective seller or buyer. If Africarare or substantially all its assets are acquired by a third party, the personal data we hold about our users and customers will generally be one of the transferred assets. In such a case, the terms made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy remain.
Protection of Africarare and others: We release account and other personal data when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law or with our regulatory obligations; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of Africarare, our users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share personal data obtained from you to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and conditions and other agreements.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes, and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our platform 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 personal data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our platform, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
WILL MY PERSONAL DATA BE TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?
Africarare may transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Africarare puts in place suitable technical, organizational and contractual safeguards, to ensure that such transfer is carried out in compliance with applicable data protection rules, except where the country to which the personal data is transferred has already been determined by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of protection.
HOW SECURE IS MY PERSONAL DATA?
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
HOW DO WE STORE AND FOR HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We store your personal data on the servers of the cloud-based database management services Africarare engages. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements
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 unauthorized 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 requirements.
HOW YOU MAY CONTACT US
We have appointed a data protection officer who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our data protection officer using the details set out below.
MODIFYING AND TERMINATING THE SERVICE
At any time and without notice, we reserve the right to modify or stop offering all or part of the service. Africarare may, in its sole discretion and at any time, refuse anyone who requests access to the service, terminate your rights to use the service or to create and/or upload assets; provided, however, that you will remain the owner of your assets in accordance with these terms.
Contact details:
Full name of legal entity: Africarare Ltd
Name of Data Protection/ Information Officer: Dean Cohen
Email: dean@africarare.io
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
As our business changes, our privacy policy may change. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes. If you do not agree with the revised content, you should stop accessing Africarare.io immediately.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the privacy policy modification date below.
This version of the privacy policy was last updated on 28 April 2022.