Privacy NOTICE

BGR Consult LTD (BGR) is an innovative think-tank solving people & process-related gaps for government entities, companies and businesses across Africa by providing training and advisory services to institutions. BGR respects your privacy concerns and this Privacy Notice explains how we handle your personal data and our attitude towards data privacy and protection. For the purposes of this Privacy Notice, “personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.

Summary

• Like we stated in the preliminary above, we respect your privacy concerns and we will always honour your data privacy rights;
• We will be lying to you if we say we do not use your data. We do! But it is to provide services to you, to fulfil our legal obligation, respond to your enquiries, and manage our relationship with you;
• We only keep data that is required and delete it when no longer necessary;
• We do not honour third party requests on our website.

Information We Collect

BGR collects and processes personal data relating to Users in relation to the services we provide. The data we process differs depending on your interactions with us, as detailed fully below.

The expression “User” (and “you”/”your”) in this Privacy Notice shall mean any person accessing the BGR website, using BGR products and services, or about whom we collect and use any information in the course of providing our products and services.

If you are a Client

• Your name and contact information;
• Information about your business activities with us;
• Information about your enquiries and our service offerings;
• Data from contract which may include: details of the contract, third party providers, counter-party names and email addresses, comments, activity on contracts, signatures

Your name and contact information;

• Your name and contact information;
• Information about your business activities with us;
• Information about your enquiries and our products

If you are a business partner

• Your name and contact information;
• Partnership onboarding information provided to us.

If you are an prospective employee

• Information provided during recruitment process

If you a visitor

• We keep log files generated from our servers, this includes the IP addresses assigned to you.

What we do with the data collected

BGR uses the data collected from Users to perform services requested by you, respond to your enquiries, customer support, improve our services ,improve our products, contact you about changes to our website or products and manage our relationship with you.

If you register for our newsletters, we will only contact you to send the updates to you.

Legal basis for using your information

We rely on an appropriate legal basis in accordance with the extant data protection laws. In appropriate circumstances we rely on performance of contract and legal obligation, our legitimate interests, consent, compliance with a mandatory legal obligation, your vital interest and public interest. When it is appropriate.

Consent

You accept this Privacy Notice when you give consent upon access to our platforms, or use our services, features, technologies or functions offered on our website, digital platforms or visit any of our offices for official or non-official purposes. This Privacy Notice governs the use of BGR' services and intervention projects by our users and stakeholders, unless otherwise agreed through a written contract.

You have the right to refuse to consent or withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at hello@bgrafrica.com. 

However, we should mention that consent withdrawal will not affect the legality of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

Contract

Processing your data is necessary for a contract you have with us, or because we have asked you to take specific steps before entering into that contract.

Legitimate Interests

Processing your data is sometimes necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided those interests are not outweighed by your rights and interests. These legitimate interests are:

• Delivering, developing and improving our website
• Enabling us to enhance, customize or modify our services and communication
• Determining whether marketing campaigns are effective
• Enhancing data security

In each case, these legitimate interests are only valid if they are not outweighed by your rights and interests.

Transfer of data

Data collected by BGR may be transferred outside Nigeria. We rely on the appropriate data transfer mechanism or any of its relevant exceptions to transfer data outside Nigeria. We would ensure appropriate safeguard before transferring data outside Nigeria. We also ensure that data is not transferred outside the whitelisted countries as stipulated by NITDA.

Your rights

Every data subject, as You, have data protection rights. The following are your rights:

• The right to request for access to your Personal Data; The right to request that we erase your Personal Data if it is no longer valid or necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or if it is incomplete;
• The right to rectify or amend inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data;
• The right to object to processing of your Personal Data if there are compelling legitimate grounds to do so and to the extent permitted by law or regulation;
• The right to portability of data. You can request we move your personal data in a used and machine-readable format to another Data Controller. We would where it is technically possible;
• The right to lodge a complaint with the Court, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) or any other relevant supervisory authority.

Third parties

Generally, we have a no transfer policy and we do not transfer your data to any third party or entertain any third party request through our website. However, we may share your data with third parties if:

• If we have to complete a contract on your behalf;
• If you give your explicit instructions and consent;
• If there is a legal obligation on us to share such data under existing laws and regulations;
• There is court judgment, injunction or any other binding legal directive.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website – when visited by a User – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference etc. We use cookies to track and better understand your preferences for a more accurate User experience on our website. The cookies we use are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

How long do we store your data?

We retain your data for the duration of our relationship. Also, we retain data, subject to relevant provisions of applicable laws. Upon the expiration of our relationship, we would archive and stop actively using any personal data about you within 6 months from the termination of our relationship.

Where do we store the data?

The personal data we collect is processed at our offices in Nigeria and in any data processing facilities operated by the third parties where we store data. 

If we transfer or store your information outside Nigeria in this way, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Privacy Notice.

Security of data

We are very particular about preserving your privacy and protecting your data. Therefore, to avoid the loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of your information, we have put in place a range of administrative, technical, organizational and physical safeguards while in BGR' possession or control. The security measures that we have implemented include, but are not limited to:

• Encryption of Personal Data during transmission;
• Prevention of accidental or unauthorized access, reading, copying, modification, removal or destruction of the Personal Data;
• Access is restricted to BGR's employees who have a “need to know” in order to carry out the purpose of providing you with the requested service and all of those employees are under an obligation of confidentiality with BGR;  
• Training of BGR's employees regarding the proper handling of Personal Data;
• Use of technological means (e.g. firewalls) to prevent unauthorized access to the Personal Data while it is in BGR's possession or control;
• Logging of all processing activity of the Personal Data which records when the Personal Data was processed, what processes the Personal Data underwent, anyone that accessed the Personal Data, where and when the Personal Data was transmitted and when the Personal Data was erased from BGR; and
• Annual review and evaluation of the adequacy of BGR's security measures.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend or update this Privacy Notice at any time. We may or may not notify you of such changes, however, you can always view the most current version of this Privacy Notice at any time at: www.bgrafrica.com. The date of the last revision appears at the end of this policy. Once the revision is effective, your use of our services and your data will be governed by the most recently revised Privacy Notice. If you do not want to be bound by the changes to the Privacy Notice, you may revoke your consent by contacting us as described above and ask that we delete your data from our database.

Contact us

hello@bgrafrica.com.