Our commitment to Privacy

This privacy policy is for the Investing in Innovation Africa program (“i3,” “we,” “us,” “our”), our website: innovationsinafrica.com, and our related subsites (“our sites”). When you use innovationsinafrica.com, you trust us with your information, and we are committed to keeping that trust via the lawful, and transparent collection, storage and use of your personal data. Our privacy policy describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:

• Visit our website innovationsinafrica.com, or any of our related subsites.
• Engage with us in other related ways, including via applications, subscriptions, or registration for any of our events.

Please note that we may update this policy and any supplemental privacy notices to reflect changes in our practices and applicable law. We will post a notice of any material updates on our sites.

How we use information

We use personal data collected through our sites for several purposes including:

1. To provide the services you sign up for, such as subscriptions to newsletters, when we have your permission, and notifications about changes to our services.
2. To improve our communications, we may use technology similar to cookies to confirm whether you have opened a newsletter email or clicked on a link in the email.
3. For statistical purposes such as analyzing the performance of our sites, and to understand how visitors use them.
4. To respond to your queries, offer support, and resolve complaints.
5. To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Who we share your personal data with

We do not share your personal data with individuals or organizations that are not directly linked to us, except under the following circumstances:

1. If you are attending one of our events hosted by an event partner, we may share your personal data with that partner for event administration purposes.
2. We may reveal your personal data to any law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other organization if we are required to do so to meet a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of anyone else.
3. If you submit feedback, comments, photos, videos, or other information to interactive portions of our sites. Such information may be made publicly available to anyone who visits those areas of our sites. Other visitors may access, re-post or use such submissions. Please use your discretion when submitting personal data in these contexts.

We will not share your personal data with anyone else for their own marketing purposes.

If you believe personal data you provided us is being misused by a third party, please contact us right away.

Cookies and Similar technologies

When you visit our sites, we may collect personal data from you automatically using cookies or similar technology. A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us to recognize and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive, tablet, or mobile device. We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our sites, including:

1. Understanding how you use our site.
2. Showing you content, products and services that are relevant to you.

Cookies that are used by innovationsinafrica.com are referred to as “first-party cookies” and those that are used by other organizations are “third-party cookies”. Because of how cookies work, our sites cannot access third-party cookies; nor can other organizations access the data in the cookies we use on our sites. We do not use cookies for advertising purposes, or to provide data about you to any external partners or other third parties.

Data logging

We follow a standard technical procedure of using log files on the servers responsible for hosting our sites. These files record data such as requests made by visitors when they access our sites, performance metrics, errors and so on. The information collected by web server log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, a date and time stamp, referring and/or exit pages and resources requested by a visitor’s device. These logs are not linked to information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information contained in these logs is for administering our sites, and for providing quality and continuation of service for innovationsinafrica.com and its related sites.

Data Storage Period

Data stored in logs is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for achieving the purpose for which it was recorded. With respect to data being recorded to provide services to our visitors, the data is no longer required as soon as each respective visitor session ends.

Your Data Privacy Rights

We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations and resolve disputes. No purpose in this policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than three years.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

1. The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
2. The right to be forgotten.
3. The right of restriction.
4. The right to data portability.
5. The right to withdraw consent.

We rely on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the “How to Contact Us” section.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Commitment to Children’s privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we are aware are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13. If you become aware that we have collected personal data from a minor, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a minor, we will take steps to delete the data without notice as soon as possible.