This is the Privacy Policy of Genesis Intercellular Limited. In this document, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to Genesis Intercellular Limited. We are a company registered in Nigeria with RC Number 1995153 with our principal address at No. 12 Cape Town Street, Wuse Zone 4, Abuja Nigeria.
This Privacy Policy aims to inform you about how we collect and process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (“Personal Data”) and information that could not. In the context of the law and this policy, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information. It tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your Personal Data. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us and hope that you reciprocate. Our policy complies with the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation, (NDPR) as well as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.
You accept this Privacy Policy and hereby give us consent to save, process and use your Personal Data to the extent as allowed by law when you provide us with details of your Personal Data or by clicking on the “accept” button.
Personal Data is information that can be directly associated with an identifiable natural person such as a name, address, telephone number, or email address, photo, etc. You may be asked to provide your Personal Data anytime you contact us, and we shall use the Personal Data in consistence with this Privacy Policy. We may combine the Personal Data with other information in order to improve our solutions, services, content, and advertising. You may choose not to provide the Personal Data that we have requested but if you do so, we may not be able to provide you with our solutions or services or respond to any queries you may have.
We may collect Personal Data when you:
We may use your Personal Data, including non-personal Data as follows:
Genesis Intercellular Limited is based in Nigeria and the information we collect is governed by the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR). By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing Personal Data to us, you consent to the processing and transfer of information in and to Nigeria [and other countries].
In the event you contact us for information (e.g. request for information on products), we may use your Personal Data for market research and to communicate and advertise to you about our solutions, services, offers, promotions, and rewards.
Cookies allow a web server to transfer data to a computer or device for recordkeeping and other purposes. We use cookies and other technologies to, among other things, better serve you with more tailored information and facilitate your ongoing access to and use of our website. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We may use various cookies on our website, such as:
We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal data. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered Personal Data by local law, we also treat these identifiers as Personal Data. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal data is combined with Personal Data, we treat the combined information as Personal Data for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
We may use your Personal Data in the performance of a contractual agreement, for compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject, for your vital interest, when we have assessed it is necessary for our or a third-party legitimate interest, or when we obtain consent from you.
Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:
Although we do not disclose your Personal Data to any third party (except as set out in this Policy), we sometimes receive data that is indirectly made up of your Personal Data from third parties whose services we use.
We may use service providers who process your data on our behalf. We may share your information with other companies we work in partnership with.
Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
We may also use outsourced services in countries outside Nigeria or the European Union from time to time in other aspects of our business. Accordingly, data obtained within Nigeria, the UK or any other country could be processed outside the European Union. We would ensure that these countries are NITDA’s White List of Countries and with adequate data protection laws.
We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us. Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.
NITDA’s website (https://nitda.gov.ng/nit/) has a wealth of useful information in respect of your rights over your personal data.
Where we do not act on your request to exercise any of your rights, we shall inform you within one month of the receipt of your request, of the reasons for not taking action.
In the event of a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to Personal Data, we shall within 72 (Seventy-Two) hours of having knowledge of such breach report the details of the breach to NITDA.
Furthermore, where we ascertain that such breach is detrimental to your rights and freedoms in relation to your Personal Data, we shall within 7 (Seven) days of having knowledge of the occurrence of such breach take steps to inform you of the breach incident, the risk to your rights and freedoms resulting from such breach and any course of action to remedy said breach.
Any changes we make to this Policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Policy.
Please note that our products may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
If you are not happy with our Privacy Policy or if you have any complaints, then you should tell us (genesis@genesis.ng). If a dispute is not settled, we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in the process of mediation or arbitration.
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for ensuring that our policy is followed. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our DPO, Oroma Wotogbe (owotogbe@genesis.ng).