Privacy Policy

Introduction

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is between you, the user of this website and Brickstone Partners Limited and Brickstone Investment Managers Limited ( together referred to as “Brickstone Africa”), the owner and provider of this website. This Policy constitutes the Brickstone Africa’s commitment to your privacy on our website. This Policy also forms a part of the holistic Terms of Use which you can access here.

Your Privacy Rights

This Policy describes your privacy rights regarding the Brickstone Africa’s (“we”, “us” or “our”) collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information. It applies to the Brickstone Africa website (https://brickstone.africa/ ) and/or (https://brickstone.africa/infrlab/ ) and all services and tools regardless of how you access or use them.

Consent

You accept this Policy when you access the website or use our services, content, features, technologies or other functions offered on our website and all related sites, applications, and services (collectively “The Brickstone Africa Services”).

Updates, Modifications & Amendments

We may need to update, modify or amend this Policy. We reserve the right to make changes to this Policy at any time by giving notice to you on this page. We advise that you check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification on the page. If you object to any of the changes to this Policy, you must cease using this website.

Your Personal Information/Data

When you use the Brickstone Africa Services, we collect information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other electronic access device. The automatically collected information includes but is not limited to data about the pages you access, computer IP address, device ID or unique identifier, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, mobile network information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, and standard web log data.

We may also collect information you provide us including but not limited to contact information such as name, address, phone, email; personal information such as date of birth, gender, job title, profession; demographic information such as post code, preferences and interests; financial information such as credit / debit card numbers etc. Information gotten through survey responses, telephone conversation, enquiries and other means may also be used by us. Note however that whenever you are required to submit personal information, you will be given options to restrict our use of that data. This may include the following use of data for direct marketing purposes or sharing data with third parties.

We may also use information provided by third parties like social media sites. Information about you provided by other sites are not controlled by the Brickstone Africa and we are therefore not liable for how they use it.

How We Deal with Your Personal Information/Data

The purpose of our collecting your personal information/data is to give you an efficient, enjoyable, secure and best possible experience. Hence, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to do so, and subject to any third-party disclosures or consents specifically set out in this Policy, your data will not be disclosed to third parties.

1. Your data may be used by us for the following reasons all in a bid to customize and/or update the website:
2. internal record keeping;
3. improvement of our products / services;

contact for market research purposes which may be done using email, telephone, fax or mail.
Your data may be used to provide, maintain, protect and improve the Brickstone Africa Services, to develop new ones, and to protect the Brickstone Africa and all its users.
Your personal information shall be used to process and administer details of your membership, communicate with you, provide you with opportunities, and keep you informed of any new developments at the Brickstone Africa.
Unless you opt-out, we may share information about you among companies affiliated with us to inform you about additional products, services or promotions that may be of interest to you.
If you contact us for troubleshooting, we may also keep a record of that fact to better serve you and other the Brickstone Africa customers in the future.
Most importantly, we shall have all your personal information/data stored securely.

Cookies

We use cookies to identify you as a user and make your user experience easier, customize our services, content and advertising and to promote trust and safety on our website. Cookies allow our servers to remember when you visit our website, IP addresses, date and time of visits, monitor web traffic, amongst others.

Before the website places cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies, you are enabling the Brickstone Africa to provide a better experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies; however certain features of the Website may not function fully or as intended. You may, after accepting cookies, also choose to delete them at any time, however you may lose any information that enables you to access the website more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, personalization settings.

Storage, Protection and Security of your Personal Information/Data

We store and process your personal information on our computers in Nigeria, Africa and elsewhere in the world where our facilities are located.

We protect your information using physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centers, and information access authorization controls.

We will always hold your information securely. To prevent unauthorized access to your information, we have implemented strong controls and security safeguards at the technical and operational levels. This site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure secure transmission of your personal information/data. You should see the padlock symbol in your URL address bar once you are successfully logged into the platform. The URL address will also start with https:// depicting a secure webpage.

If password access is required for certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We endeavor to do our best to protect your personal information/data. However, transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure and is done at your own risk. We cannot therefore ensure the security of your data transmitted to the website.

Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your personal information, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your personal information. We cannot ensure that information you share on our website will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on our website. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password and using up to date antivirus software

Data Confidentiality Rights

We shall keep the personal information shared with us confidential and will not be divulged to any third party except under legal and/or regulatory conditions. You have the right to request to sight and obtain copies of any and all information we keep on you, on the proviso that we are given reasonable notice of such a request.

Information Retention

We shall retain your personal Information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires. If you cease to be a member of the Brickstone Africa, we may retain your personal information for our business purposes provided that we will protect all such information about you in accordance with this Policy.

Links to Other Websites

We shall have on our website links to other websites which you can have access to. Please note that the Brickstone Africa is not responsible and has no control over websites outside its domain. We do not monitor or review the content of other party’s websites which are linked from this website. Opinions expressed or materials appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by us, and we should not be regarded as the publisher of such opinions or materials. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices, or content of these sites. We encourage you to be aware of when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of these sites. You should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to this site or accessed through this site yourself, before disclosing any personal information to them. We will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information.

Changes of Business Ownership and Control

The Brickstone Africa may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of the Brickstone Africa. Data provided by you will, where it is relevant to any part of our business so transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this privacy policy, be permitted to use the data for the purposes for which it was originally supplied to us.

We may also disclose Data to a prospective purchaser of our business or any part of it. In the above instances, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring your privacy is protected.

General

You may not transfer any of your rights under this Policy to any other person. We may transfer our rights under this Policy where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.
If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of this Policy (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of this privacy policy will not be affected.
Unless otherwise agreed, no delay, act or omission by a party in exercising any right or remedy will be deemed a waiver of that, or any other, right or remedy.
This Policy shall be interpreted and governed by the laws currently in force in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Contact Us

All comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your personal information are welcomed and should be addressed to comms@brickstone.africa