Address
- Suite 204/209, Better Living Plaza
- Wuse, Zone 5, FCT, Abuja.
Contact
- hello@afel.africa
- +234 (0) 706 494 9664
Work
- Mon - Fri
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
At AFEL (Africa’s Economic Future Leaders), we are committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and share your personal data in connection with our services, website, platforms, tools, data, content, programs, and events (referred to as “Services”). We also provide information on your privacy rights, data transfer, retention, security measures, and other important aspects of our privacy program.
This Privacy Policy applies to participants, applicants, winners, mentors, staff, selectors, and partners of AFEL who interact with us and our website.
Full name, email address, telephone number, WhatsApp, login ID and encrypted password
Current country of residence, city, state, postal code.
Date of birth, gender identity, primary language, nationality (country of citizenship)
Interests, education details, school information, academic performance, awards, achievements, and test information.
Person or organization that told you about Rise, relationships with other relevant organizations and initiatives.
Applicants have the option of joining our Telegram or WhatsApp group, we will see your number and posts, as well as any engagement and interaction data that WhatsApp makes available to us.
Written and video responses to application prompts, project plans and summaries, personal statements, essays that may be collected in the course of participation.
Responses to surveys, feedback forms, and interviews
Information or communications you send us (e.g. via our “Contact Us” channels) or share on our social media channels, information about your whereabouts, verification of or corrections to information.
School name, address, email, phone number, contact person, tuition fees, scholarships received, universities and fields of study of interest.
Languages spoken, English language proficiency.
Videos and photos you submit or that are captured at AFEL events.
We may transfer your personal information to recipients in other countries that have different data protection laws. When we do so, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Notice and will comply with applicable legal requirements, providing adequate protection for the transfer.
If we transfer personal information from your country to a country that has not been recognized by your country as providing an adequate level of data protection, we will use appropriate contractual terms with the recipients to safeguard the information. Further information about our data transfer safeguards may be obtained by contacting us as indicated in the “How To Contact Us” section below.
Unless otherwise noted, we will retain your personal information for the duration of our relationship, plus a reasonable period to comply with the applicable statute of limitation periods, records retention requirements, and as needed during the pendency of any legal claims or lawful requests or investigations. Please note that in the case of safeguarding information, this may require long periods of retention for claims and compliance. We also retain some information for longer periods of time to support and inform our research activities.
If we obtain sensitive information subject to storage limitations (such as national identification numbers), we will delete the information when it is no longer needed and the retention period required by law or regulation expires.
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. Further information about our data security safeguards may be obtained by contacting us as indicated in the “How To Contact Us” section below.
For your convenience and information, we may provide links to other online services, and may include third-party features such as apps, tools, communication platforms or communities, widgets and plugins. The privacy practices of the relevant third parties, including details on the information they may collect about you, is subject to the privacy statements of these parties, which we strongly suggest you review. These third-party services or features are not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for their information practices.
This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically for clarity or to reflect changes in law or our practices. We indicate at the top of this Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated. We encourage you to check this page frequently to review any changes. If we make changes, we will notify you via the change log below. In some cases, we may provide additional notice such as a statement on our homepage or an email. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Notice will be subject to the updated notice.
AFEL Economic Development Institute is responsible for processing personal information as described in this Privacy Notice. For more information, please contact us as indicated below.
If you have any questions, requests or comments about this Privacy Notice or to exercise your rights, please email us at hello@afel.africa.
You may write to us at Suite 204/209, Better Living Plaza, Wuse, Zone 5, FCT, Abuja.
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