PRIVACY POLICY
THE PRIVACY POLICY COVERS YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE (“SITE”) WHICH IS PROVIDED BY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (“IPLAN”). IPLAN KNOWS THAT YOU CARE HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU IS USED AND SHARED. PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY AS IT MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES UNDER THE APPLICABLE LAWS. BY ACCESSING THIS SITE, YOU ARE INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY, OUR TERMS OF USE AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE DOCUMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO TERMS OF THE PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS AND OR USE THE SITE.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
- We may collect information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, gender, and other information that is not otherwise publicly available. Such information may be collected when you send us a message or contact us via or contact information contained on the site.
- Information about your computer hardware and software i.e. your internet protocol address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time and date and other technical information about your means of connection to our site may also be collected.
USE OF INFORMATION
- The information collected from you is used in a number of ways. We use the information to process your request for our services, maintain the quality of our service, generate statistics about our site visitors, customize and improve the content of our Site, fulfil any request you have made, conduct research and generally enhance our service delivery to you. The information collected is also used to prepare reports for our internal use and for our current or potential partners e.g. agents, sponsors and advertisers.
- We may from time to time wish to provide you with information about special features of our services or any other service we think may be of interest to you. Occasionally, we might want to provide you with related information from third parties we think may be of interest to you. Your information could also be provided to selected third parties, our affiliates or subsidiaries whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you.
- We sometimes hire other companies to provide services on our behalf e.g. performing statistical analysis of our service. These companies may use your personal information to communicate with you. We will only provide those companies with the information necessary to provide us with such services and we shall prohibit them from using that information for any other purpose.
- We reserve the right to disclose information about you or your use of our Site in compliance with any legal process (i.e. any statutory demand, subpoena, warrant or court order) to protect against fraudulent, abusive, unlawful use of our site, to protect our rights or property, to defend the personal safety of users or when we believe in good faith that a situation involving danger or injury to any person requires disclosure.
- We shall not sell, share or offer information about you with third parties except in the manner described in this policy.
INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
- We sometimes supplement the information that we received on this Site with information from other sources. Such outside sources include information from third parties which enable us to reconcile our accounts, search results, links and paid listings which we use to help prevent and detect fraud.
CHILDREN
- Children under the age of 18 are not permitted to register or use this Site or any functionality contained on it.
COOKIES
- Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer for record keeping purposes. We may use cookies on our site to assist you with making your online experience more individualized. We may also use cookies for convenience and to save you time when next you visit our Site. You have the ability to decline cookies by modifying your browser settings.
COMMUNITIES AND FORUMS
- Any personally identifiable information that you disclose through the communities, forums, message boards, chats windows hosted on this Site may be collected and used by others.
SECURITY COMMITMENT
- We employ appropriate technical and organizational security measures to prevent unauthorized access to information that we collect online.
LINKS
- This site may contain links to other sites. This policy applies only to our site and not to any third-parties that may be accessed through hyper-links on this Site. We encourage you to review the privacy statement of sites you choose to visit via hyperlinks posted on our Site.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
- We keep our privacy policy under regular review. If we change our privacy policy, we will post the changes on this page. You agree that we do not have any further obligation to inform you of such changes. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information that we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this policy periodically and become aware of any modifications.
CONDITIONS OF USE
- By visiting our Site, you signify your acceptance of this Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use this Site. By submitting your personal information, you consent to the use of that information as set out in this Policy. You confirm that you have the consent to provide any information you have furnished on this Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
CONTACT US
- We welcome your views about our Site and our this Policy. If you would like to contact us with any enquiries or comments, please send an email to …………………
