1. PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY
This policy describes how we collect and use personal data about you. Please read the
following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
2. ABOUT US
Africa GreenCo Group and GreenCo Power Services Limited (“we”, “us”, “our” and
“ours”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, which includes any
items of personal data which altogether could constitute the personal information that
you may choose to provide us (“Personal Information”).
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that
you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to
understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat
it. We will process all your Personal Information in accordance with applicable data
protection law.
To demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, we have prepared this statement
disclosing our privacy practices. This statement describes what personal identifying
information is collected, how and when we might use your information, how we protect
your information, who has access to your information, and how you can correct any
inaccuracies in the information.
3. HOW WE MAY COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We obtain personal data about you, for example, when:
- you contact us by email;
- you give us your business card, or
- from publicly available resources, such as your company’s website.
When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. With each visit we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to
connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and
version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system
and platform; - information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators
(URL) clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time);
products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors,
length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling,
clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and
any phone number used to call our customer service number.
4. THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU
The information we hold about you may include the following:
- your personal details (such as your name, email address, phone number and
business address); and - our correspondence and communications with you.
5. HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA WE HOLD ABOUT YOU
We may process your personal data for the purposes of our own legitimate interests
provided that those interests do not override any of your own interests, rights
and freedoms which require the protection of personal data. This includes processing
for the purpose of sending you our newsletters.
We may process your personal data for certain additional purposes with your consent,
and in these limited circumstances where your consent is required for the processing of
your personal data then you have the right to withdraw your consent to processing for
such specific purposes. Please note that we may process your personal data for more
than one lawful basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your
data.
We may use your personal data in order to:
- send you newsletters to provide you with information related to
our activities which we feel may interest you, provided you have not
unsubscribed from our newsletters; - contact you directly in connection with our activities.
In some circumstances we may anonymise or pseudonymise the personal data so that
it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use it without further
notice to you.
We may also process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in
accordance with this policy, where we are legally required or permitted to do so.
Data retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes
for which it is collected. When assessing what retention period is appropriate for your
personal data, we take into consideration:
- the requirements of our business and the services provided;
- any statutory or legal obligations;
- the purposes for which we originally collected the personal data;
- the lawful grounds on which we based our processing;
- the types of personal data we have collected;
- the amount and categories of your personal data; and
- whether the purpose of the processing could reasonably be fulfilled by other means.
Change of purpose
Where we need to use your personal data for another reason, other than for the
purpose for which we collected it, we will only use your personal data where that reason is compatible with the original purpose. Should it be necessary to use your personal data for a new purpose, we will notify you and communicate the legal basis
which allows us to do so before starting any new processing.
6. DATA SHARING
Why might you share my personal data with third parties?
We will share your personal data with third parties where we are required by law, where it is necessary to administer the relationship between us or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.
Which third-party service providers process my personal data?
“Third parties” includes third-party service providers. The following activities are carried out by third-party service providers: IT and cloud services, professional advisory services and administration services. All of our third-party service providers are required to take commercially reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect your personal data. We only permit our third-party service providers to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Third Party Technologies
We might use Google services (Analytics, Remarketing, Display). You can read about
how Google uses data when you use our sites or apps here.
We use Mailchimp (Email Alerts, Contact Management & Marketing) to stay in contact
with others, including creating, sending, and managing emails and other information
related to Subscribers. You can read about how Mailchimp uses data when you use our
sites or apps here.
We might use Facebook Pixel to monitor performance of ads run from facebook to the
website. We also use it to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on a person’s past
visits to our website.
We might use LinkedIn Marketing solutions for conversion tracking, retargeting, and
web analytics for LinkedIn ad campaigns. We might use Twitter Marketing solutions to
measure what happens after you ssee our ads on Twitter. If you click on the link,
Retweet, like or simply see the Tweet and then come to our website we ‘ll know where
you came from.
7. STORAGE
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination
outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By submitting your personal data, you
agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary
to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.
8. MARKETING MESSAGES
If you don’t want to receive marketing materials from us, you can opt out at any time by sending an email to info@africagreenco.com
9. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. It is
your responsibility to check this page from time to time to check for any change.
10. CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and
should be addressed to info@africagreenco.com
This privacy policy has last been updated on 20 October 2020