Accelor Consulting Privacy Statement and Policy

Summary

This is the Privacy Statement and Policy (“Privacy Statement”) for Accelor Consulting Ltd. This Privacy Statement was last updated in March 2024.

Accelor Consulting understands that your privacy is important. Accelor Consulting is committed to protecting your privacy and the personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on ACCELOR-EA.com. In addition, information that you submit to Accelor Consulting in response to an email request for information or other outreach from Accelor Consulting will be treated per this Privacy Statement.

Accelor Consulting may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you can remain informed about the information we collect and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected here. This Site may contain links to external sites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. Accelor Consulting does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third-party sites to which we link. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. By browsing the Site or expressly consenting, where required under applicable privacy laws, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement.

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT, AND HOW WE USE IT

What information do we collect?

Personal information that we collect includes names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, subject areas of interest, and/or demographic information.

If you do not provide such information, you may not be able to create an account for the Site, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, or seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities.

Surveys and events

Personal information that we collect includes names, e-mail addresses, subject areas of interest, and/or demographic information. In addition, we sometimes aggregate demographic information.

How do we use personal information?

The purposes and uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Site and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:

• For the purposes of safeguarding the legitimate business interests pursued by Accelor Consulting. This includes:
  • Communicate with you and manage your requests about your account, subscriptions to Accelor Consulting newsletters, publications, events, and survey participation
  • Tailoring your experience at the Site with relevant Accelor Consulting materials
  • Understanding the Site’s user population, identifying subject areas of interest, and determining whether the Site is designed to work with the computer settings of a majority of our visitors
  • Measuring and improving the effectiveness of Accelor Consulting’s marketing programs across different channels
  • Improving our web content and navigation
  • Informing you about updates to the service and notifying you about other products and services offered by Accelor Consulting that may be of interest to you, including information regarding publications and events and tracking email engagement activity for internal use only.
• For compliance with a legal obligation. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and social security requirements.

HOW WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

The third parties with whom we may need to share personal information to help us provide services and products to you and run our Site include:

• Our advisors
• Our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services, Site security, and marketing and events services
• Our business partners for publications and events co-organized by Accelor Consulting and them
• Law enforcement bodies to comply with any legal obligation or court order
• Accelor Consulting may disclose your contact information in response to inquiries by bona fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to Accelor Consulting

The personal information is only accessible by authorized persons or vendors who are bound by privacy requirements, and we only make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect information held in that country. In addition, the Site may be viewed and accessed anywhere in the world including countries that may not have laws regulating the use and transfer of personally identifiable information.

MARKETING

In our marketing communications with you, we monitor and comply with applicable data privacy laws and if, at any time, you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every e-mail that is sent to you by us. When subscribing to Accelor Consulting e-mail newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign-up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Accelor Consulting may use cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place a small amount of data on your devices to monitor your website activity to allow us to collect information about how you use our Site and our services. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer’s hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions or you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ which will give you more information. Once you have given your consent to use cookies, we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time you will need to delete our cookies using your web browser’s settings. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies. We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals.

COMPLIANCE WITH LAW

Accelor Consulting complies with all applicable data privacy laws. Accelor Consulting may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of any restrictions on the use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.

YOUR RIGHTS

In accordance with applicable data privacy laws, including but not limited to the Data Protection Act 2019 (Laws of Kenya) and Data Protection Act GDPR, you have a right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information. If any of the information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it, please follow the process outlined below and we will amend our records where appropriate. You also have the right to request that we erase your personal information, stop processing your personal information, restrict the processing of your personal information, and provide your personal information in a portable format. Where the processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent to the processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. If you think we may have incorrect personal information, or would like a copy of the personal information we hold on you, or to exercise any other data protection right, please contact us. Please note that we need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information.

You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.

USE OF ACCELOR CONSULTING SITE

Your access to and use of the Site are subject to this Privacy Statement and certain other terms and conditions, contained in our Terms and Conditions of Use.

CONTACT US

For further questions, you may contact the appropriate data protection point of contact:

Accelor Consulting Limited

East Africa Office, Nairobi

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