1. Introduction
Welcome to Naijadirectories. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:
2.1 Identity Data
- First name, last name, username or similar identifier
- Date of birth and gender
- Profile photos you choose to upload
2.2 Contact Data
- Email address
- Telephone numbers
- Billing address, delivery address, or other addresses
2.3 Technical Data
- Internet protocol (IP) address
- Browser type and version
- Time zone setting and location
- Operating system and platform
- Other technology on the devices you use to access this website
2.4 Usage Data
- Information about how you use our website, products and services
- Your search queries and interactions with businesses
- Reviews and ratings you submit
3. How We Use Your Information
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data:
- To register you as a new user and manage your account
- To provide and improve our services
- To process and deliver service features including business listings and reviews
- To manage our relationship with you
- To enable you to participate in interactive features
- To deliver relevant content and advertisements
- To use data analytics to improve our website and services
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
4. Data Security
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. We use industry-standard encryption to protect your data in transit and at rest.
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.
5. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, 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 unauthorised 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.
6. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Object to processing of your personal data
- Request restriction of processing your personal data
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data
7. Third-Party Services
Our website 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 data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
8. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
9. International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data outside Nigeria. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of Nigeria, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring appropriate safeguards are implemented.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:
- By email: privacy@naijadirectories.com
- By phone: +234 123 456 7890
- By mail: Naijadirectories, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
- Through our contact form