Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2024

WikiHausa Foundation (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website foundation.whi.com.ng, use our services, or interact with us in other ways. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Information We Collect

  1. Personal Information
    • When you sign up for newsletters, make donations, volunteer, or use our services, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and payment information.
  2. Non-Personal Information
    • We may collect non-personal information such as browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and other technical data that does not identify you personally.
  3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
    • We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

How We Use Your Information

  1. To Provide and Manage Services
    • We use your personal information to provide the services you request, manage your account, process payments, and communicate with you.
  2. To Improve Our Services
    • We use information to understand and analyze how you use our services and website, so we can improve them and develop new products, services, and features.
  3. To Communicate with You
    • We may use your personal information to send you newsletters, updates, promotional materials, and other information related to our foundation.
  4. To Comply with Legal Obligations
    • We may disclose your information where required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

How We Share Your Information

  1. Third-Party Service Providers
    • We may share your information with third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
  2. Business Transfers
    • If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
  3. Legal Requirements
    • We may disclose your personal information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend our rights or property, prevent fraud, act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users, or protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our provided contact information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: Foundation@whi.com.ng
  • By phone: +2348143142403