Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

 

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their 'Personally Identifiable Information' (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website. 

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit website? 

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information, Information required for "know your customer" and "anti-money laundering" checks where applicable or other details to help you with your experience. 

When do we collect information? 

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form or enter information on our site. 

How do we use your information? 

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways: 

• To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested. 

•To improve our website in order to better serve you. 

• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests. 

• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature. 

• To quickly process your transactions. 

• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services. 

• To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries) 

How do we protect your information? 

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. 


We use regular Malware Scanning. 

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. 

We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. 

All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers. 


Do we use 'cookies'? 

Yes. 


What is Cookies?

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Cookies can store information about your preferences and other information that can be read by the website on any subsequent visit by you. The information stored in a cookie relates to how you browse the website and allows the website to remember you and your preferences when you return to it.

Cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have provided such information to the website.



Types of Cookies

We use the following types of cookies:


Essential cookies

Some cookies are essential for the operation of the Site. These cookies allow us to keep you signed in so you can move through the various parts of the Site without having to continually enter your details. Without them, users would not be able to sign in. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.


Performance Cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how you use the Site e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how the Site works, understand what interests our users and measure how effective our advertising is. Some of the performance cookies we use are issued as part of services provided by selected third parties, like Google Analytics.


Functionality Cookies

We use functionality cookies to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit to the Site.


Targeting Cookies

Targeting cookies are linked to services provided by third parties, such as ‘Like’ buttons and ‘Share’ buttons for social network services. They are used to link to social network services which may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites. Targeting cookies also provide advertising agencies with information on your visit to our Site so that they can present you with advertisements that you may be interested in.

You can control whether or not these cookies are used, but preventing them may stop us from offering you some services.


How do we specifically use Cookies?

For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. 


We use cookies to: 

• Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart. 

• Understand and save user's preferences for future visits. 

• Keep track of advertisements. 

• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.  

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.  

What happens when users disable cookies in their browser:  

If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your site experience more efficiency may not function properly. 


How to disable Cookies?

Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Site.

When a visitor requests any web page from the Site, our web servers automatically obtain that visitor’s domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed the Site. We use this information to examine our traffic in aggregate, to investigate abuse of the Site and its users, and/or to cooperate with law enforcement. We do not disseminate this information to third parties except in aggregate.


Third-party disclosure 

 We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety. 

 

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. 

 

Third-party links  

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites. 

Google 

Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. 

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website. 

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt- out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy. 

We have implemented the following: 

• Remarketing with Google AdSense 

• Demographics and Interests Reporting 

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website. 

 

Opting out: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on. 



California Online Privacy Protection Act  

CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law's reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. 


According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following: 

Users can visit our site anonymously. Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website. Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy' and can easily be found on the page specified above. 

 

You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes: 

• On our Privacy Policy Page you can change your personal information: 

• By logging in to your account 

• By chatting with us or by sending us a support ticket 

 

How does our site handle Do Not Track signals? 

We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place. 

 

Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking? 

It's also important to note that we do not allow third-party behavioral tracking 




 

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)  

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States' consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online. 

We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old. 


Fair Information Practices 

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information. 

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: 


We will notify you via email 

• Within 7 business days 

We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors. 

CAN SPAM Act 

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations. 

We collect your email address in order to: 

• Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions 

• Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders. • Send you additional information related to your product and/or service • Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred. 

To be in compliance with CAN-SPAM, we agree to the following: 

• Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses. 

• Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way. 

• Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters. 

• Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used. 

• Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly. 

• Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email. 

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at [email protected] or  [email protected] and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence. 


Disclaimer 

AFRICUNIA BANK , its directors, employees, servants and agents, affiliates or other representatives and their respective parent and subsidiary companies, shall not be liable in respect of any claims, emergencies, demands, causes of action, damages, losses, expenses, including without limitation, reasonable legal fees and costs of proceedings arising out of or in connection with the use and/or dissemination of personal information relating to you in accordance with this privacy statement and your consents.


Please note that the contents of this website, including this privacy statement, are subject to change by the AFRICUNIA BANK with or without notification. The information in this website may be updated from time to time and may at times be out of date. AFRICUNIA BANK accepts no responsibility for keeping the information in this website up-to-date or liability for any failure to do so.


You should be aware that where you link to another website from the AFRICUNIABANK.com website, that AFRICUNIA BANK has no control over that other website. 


Our Contact 

Should you have any question regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the following information: 

 

AFRICUNIA BANK

Lagos Office: I8 Ibikunle Street, Off Unilag Road, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

[email protected]

+234 902 549 88 90

+234 908 300 28 94