Cookie Policy

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

• We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.
• Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser. We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance CookiesType: Persistent CookiesAdministered by: UsPurpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
• Functionality CookiesType: Persistent CookiesAdministered by: UsPurpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience which targets your interest and optimal user experience. It enhances the technical and core web functionality of our website.

Our cookies provide a secured connection to restrict snooping, thus your cookies cannot be read nor can they be manipulated by hackers.

YOUR CHOICE REGARDING COOKIES

You accept Cookies when you give consent upon access to our platforms, or use our services, content, features, technologies or functions offered on our website, digital platforms or visit any of our offices for official or non-official purposes. if you would like to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the settings on your browser to disable the cookies functionality.

Please note, when you disable cookies functionality or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use some or all of the features we offer.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We may retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information 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 than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy 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.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us at support@awaneeds9ja.com.ng. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from Our servers. If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" 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 this page. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by visiting this page on our website: https://www.awaneed9ja.com.ng

PERSONAL DATA RIGHTS

• You hereby give YOUR consent for the personal data processing by US. In particular, you gives consent for the processing of his/her personal data, among other things, for any actions or series of actions on receiving, storing, use, inclusion to the database, distribution, supplementing or otherwise modifying, depersonalization, deleting and other actions, which the Company may perform with my personal data in a written (paper), electronic or other form, including, the following data: name, surname, patronymic, date of birth, passport details, identification number, private entrepreneur's registration data, address, other contact information, as well as other personal data provided for the purpose of entering into the Agreement, performing the Agreement, settlements, bookkeeping and accounting, communications with governmental bodies in the course of Company's business activities, for fulfilment of internal regulations, procedures and policies applied by the Company, as well as for other purposes, which do not contradict the effective laws and regulations.
• YOU are hereby notified on inclusion of his/her personal data to the database containing personal data, which is owned by the Company, as well as on the composition and content of his/her personal data collected by the Company, purposes of processing of personal data, information on persons to which/whom personal data will be transferred I. line with this Policy.
• You are also notified of your rights in respect of personal data, in particular:
• the right to know location of the personal database containing his/her personal data, its purpose and name, location of the owner and processors of personal data or to empower the authorized person to obtain such information, except of the cases established by law;
• the right to receive information on terms of granting access to his/her personal data, in particular information on the third persons to whom personal data are being transferred;
• the right to access to the own personal data;
• the right to receive a response not later than within thirty calendar days from the date of request as to the fact of storing your personal data in the personal data database, as well as to receive the content of personal data being stored, unless otherwise is envisaged by the law;
• the right to reasonably request prohibition of processing of personal data;
• the right to reasonably claim for alteration or destruction of personal data by the owner and/or processor of personal data in case if the data are processed illegally or are inaccurate;
• the right to protect his/her personal data from illegal processing and accidental loss, destruction or damage caused by intentional concealment, failure to provide them or their untimely provision, as well as not to submit the data which are unreliable or discrediting your honour, dignity and business reputation;
• the right to address the claims on personal data processing to governmental authorities and state officials responsible for personal data protection as well as to the court;
• the right to use legal remedies in case of violation of legislation on personal data protection;
• to introduce a reservation as regards limitation of right to process personal data at the time of giving consent;
• the right to recall the consent on your personal data processing;
• the right to know the mechanism of automatic processing of personal data;

• We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.
• Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser. We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

This Privacy Policy is an understanding between Awaneeds 9ja Limited, a company incorporated under the Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, all its affiliate/subsidiary entities except where such entities have their specific policies AND users of our electronic platforms including but not limited to websites, mobile application, chat box, correspondence, social medial platforms, telephone conversations and exchanges.

At Awaneeds 9ja, your personal data is important to us and we hold in high esteem our commitment to ensure that data obtained across all our platforms by any means is used, analyzed, stored and retrievable in accordance to the Data Protection Act, Nigerian Data Protection Regulation and international best practices.

This Privacy Policy describes why, what and how we collect, use and disclose your information when you use the Service and also tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You and to such extent that we may disclose your information to a third party. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to this Privacy Policy do not use any of our services or continue to access our platform.

This Privacy policy sets out our data policy and procedure. It supersedes any prior oral, promotional or indirect communication between you and us. If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@awaneeds9ja.com.ng We may amend this privacy policy at any time by posting a revised version on our website. We will endeavor to notify our register users of such amendment.

CONSENT

To download our apps and access certain services on our platforms, we require that you click the accept icon which signifies that you have read, understood and agree to this Privacy Policy. By continuing to use our electronic platforms, you expressly consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

Definitions For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• ACCOUNT means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• AFFILIATE means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
• COOKIES are small files that are placed on Your computer. mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• COUNTRY refers to: Nigeria
• PERSONAL DATA is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• PRIVACY LAWS mean the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation that may be in force on the date of accessing the service and other ethical best practices whether international or local.
• SERVICE PROVIDER means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• SERVICE refers to the Website.
• THIRD-PARTY SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICE refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• USAGE DATA refers to data collected automatically. either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example. the duration of a page visit).
• USER or YOU mean the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or the legal entity on behalf of which such individuals is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
• WE, US, AWANEED 9JA - (referred to as either "the Company", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to AWANEEDS 9JA LTD.
• WEBSITE refers to AWANEEDS9JA LTD accessible from https://www.awaneed9ja.com.ng

COLLECTING AND USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Email address First name and last name, BVN, Identification particulars, Image and Next of Kin Information. We may further verify your personal information through a one-time password sent to your device, email or such means as may be chosen by us. All such information are collected by us to verify your information. For certain services such as funds transfer and payments, we may require bank details or card information which may direct you to a payment processing platform or any other third-party platform. You shall be notified of such third party direction and we shall not be responsible for any information you disclose on such platforms.

Device Information

In certain situations, we collect information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other electronic access device. The automatically collected information includes but is 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.

We may also collect information you provide us including but not limited to information on web form, survey responses account update information, email address, phone number, organization you represent, official position, correspondence. We may also collect information about your transactions, enquiries and your activities on our platform or premises. We may also use information provided by third parties like social media sites.

Information about you provided by other sites is not controlled by the Awaneeds 9ja and we are, therefore, not liable for how such third parties use your information.

Login files:

Awaneeds 9ja follows a standard procedure of using log files. If you have created a username identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our access security measures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party.

Our staff or designate will NEVER request for your PIN, Passwords or One Time Password. It is your responsibility to keep your login details and affiliated devices secured and confidential as we will not be responsible for any losses in any form that may accrue due to such disclosure or loss of device.

We reserve the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this privacy policy or our terms of use.

Purpose of Your Personal Data:

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• We may share your personal information in the following situations:
• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service, to contact You, to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service or for payment processing.
• For Business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With Business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile. We advise that you do not provide us your personal information on our social media pages as we are not liable for any misuse therefrom rather use other personalized secure channels as may be provided.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device. In publishing usage data on our platforms, personal information is anonymized unless where you have specifically provided us a public review or your consent to publish your usage has been specifically provided.