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Hello there,
Welcome to Tech Hive Advisory (“Tech Hive” “We” “Us” “Our”).
Tech Hive is a technology policy advisory and research firm working at the key intersection of technology, business, and law, with a focus on privacy and data protection, regulatory intelligence, cybersecurity, policy and research, start-up advisory, and intellectual property. While on our website, we process data about you and your device. This notice explains how we handle your data and our attitude towards data protection.
We only keep what is necessary and delete it when it is no longer necessary. 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, to respond to your inquiries, and to manage our relationship with you.The law affords you lots of data protection rights, and you may choose to contact us at any time to exercise them.
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We use your data to provide services to you, fulfil our legal obligations, respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, improve our services, and manage our relationship with you.
If you are a client, we collect:
If you are a prospective client, we collect:
If you visit our website, it is a pleasure to have you here. We process log files generated by servers, which include the IP address assigned to you. If you do not want us to process your log file, our website is accessible via Tor.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, join our tech policy community, or register for any of our webinars, we collect:
Our communications with you are purposeful and based on your relationship with us. If you are a client, our communication aims to fulfil contractual obligations and ensure satisfaction. As a prospective client, we reach out to respond to your queries and showcase our offerings. Newsletter subscribers and tech community members receive bimonthly updates with the option to unsubscribe anytime. Registrants for webinars receive only the essential event details.
If you are a client, we contact you only to fulfil our contractual obligations to you and ensure your satisfaction.
If you are a prospective client, we will contact you to respond to your enquiries and share information on the services we can provide you with.
If you subscribe to our TechPolicy Alert, Privacy in Africa newsletter, or join our tech community, we will only contact you to share an update. We promise not to send you updates more than twice in a month. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time through the unsubscribe button at the end of the email or on Linkedin for Privacy in Africa Newsletter.
If you register for any of our webinars, we will only contact you to send you details about the event.
We rely on an appropriate lawful basis determined by our privacy team and documented in accordance with the extant data protection laws. In appropriate circumstances, we rely on the performance of contracts, legal obligations, our legitimate interests, and consent when it is appropriate.
If we have to use consent as a lawful basis, we will provide you with a consent request. You have the right to refuse consent or withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at privacy@techhiveadvisory.africa or unsubscribing from our services. However, we should mention that consent withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
The table below shows why we process your personal data and on what basis:
You request a demo of Bearer
We call you
You use Bearer
You receive emails from us
You chat with us for customer support
You opt-in to marketing messages
Legitimate Interest
Contract
Consent
Legal obligation
We rely on the appropriate data transfer mechanism or any of its relevant exceptions to transfer data outside Nigeria. We would ensure appropriate safeguards before transferring data outside Nigeria, which include countries whitelisted by the Nigerian regulator, and performance of contract. You can reach out to us to verify the safeguards we have in place.
You possess rights regarding your data, including access to your personal information and the ability to request its erasure or correction if inaccurate or incomplete. You can object to our processing of your data for marketing communications like newsletters or event notifications. If unsatisfied, you also have the right to lodge complaints with the relevant supervisory authority or seek legal remedies.
You have loads of data protection rights, and we respect them. They include:
Generally, we guard data jealously because we do not like to share. Our website has third-party requests from two hosts. We use privacy-preserving and self-hosted Umami for analytics and Webflow to support our website. They do not process your data. However, where relevant, we share your data with third parties if:
In addition, the following services keep us running by storing or processing your data on our behalf:
Here are the details of our main third-party service providers, and what data they collect or we share with them, where they store the data and why they need it:
This is a web hosting provider: we use it to store data you generate by using the service securely in the cloud.
EU (Ireland)
Google Workspace
Privacy NoticeThis enables users to authenticate via Single Sign-On.
US
We use this service for customer communications, user interaction and helpdesk assistance.
US
We use this service for customer communications.
US
We use this service for customer communications, user interaction and helpdesk assistance.
US
We use this service for sending, storing and tracking emails.
US
Flutterwave
Privacy NoticePaystack
Privacy NoticeThis service processes payments for us.
EU and US
This service processes payments for us.
EU & US
We do not use cookies on our website. The only cookies we have to offer you are chocolate double-chip.
We retain your data for the duration of our relationship. However, we will also retain data, subject to the relevant provisions of applicable laws.
We are very particular about preserving and protecting your data. Therefore, to avoid the loss, theft, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of your information, we have put in place a range of administrative, technical, organisational, and physical safeguards. Despite this, we cannot completely guarantee the security of any information transmitted, nonetheless, we do our best to ensure security of data.
We will continually assess our data protection practices to ensure that your rights are guaranteed. To this end, we may amend this privacy notice at any time. In the event that changes are made, we will either indicate at the top of this privacy notice when it was most recently updated or send you a notification that the notice has been updated. Please be assured that we will not use any previously collected personal data, to the extent that it is not collected under the new privacy policy, in a manner materially different from that represented at the time it was collected.
Get in touch: privacy@techhiveadvisory.africa
