Privacy Policy
Effective Date: November 2022
Africa Academy for Careers. (“AAC”, “we,” “us,” “our”) values the trust you place in us when you use www.africacareer.rw and our affiliated websites, applications, and online services (collectively, our “Websites”) to access our mentorship, internship, international exchange program, professional certifications, leadership programs and related services (the “Services”). This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to our Websites that link to it, regardless of how you access or use them, including through mobile devices.
BY USING OUR WEBSITES AND MAKING THE CHOICES YOU MADE WHEN YOU REGISTERED, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE AND YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, RETENTION, AND PROTECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Websites. We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any material changes to our Websites. Your continued use of our Websites following the posting of any changes will mean you accept those changes. You may change your preferences regarding use of your personal information, including to withdraw consent to the use of your personal information, by changing your account profile through our Website.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites and mobile applications that may link to the Websites or be linked to on the Websites. We are not responsible for the actions or privacy practices of third-party websites and applications; please consult those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.
Information We Collect From Or About You
We collect, process, and retain information from or about you and any devices you may use when you use or interact with our Websites, and in other ways. While doing this we ensure compliance with the Law No. 058/2021 of 13 October 2021 Relating to the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy.
How We Use Your Information
We use your information to help us provide the Services personalize and continually improve your experience on the Websites, fulfill requests for information, analyze and compile trends and statistics, and communicate with you. For information about how to manage your information and the choices you have, see How to Limit the Use of Your Information.
In accordance with your choices when you registered with us, we may use your information for:
- Fulfilling your requests for information
- Providing Services
- Contacting or notifying you
- Payment purposes
- Marketing and communications with you in relation to the Services
- Performing market research via surveys to better serve your needs, improve the effectiveness of our Services, your experience, our various types of communications and/or promotional activities
- Matching program participants to employers
- Verifying program participant qualifications and requirements for work, study and volunteer programs
- Verifying employer quality and hosting capabilities
- Verifying family quality and hosting capabilities
- Verifying program participant quality and suitability
- Referral purposes
- Auditing purposes
- Providing empirical information for Government reports
- Legal compliance
- Ensuring the technical functioning and optimization of our network
- Developing new services and products
- Resolving disputes, troubleshooting problems and enforce our terms of use
- Posting user generated content
- Detecting, investigating, and preventing fraud
Some of these uses of your information may be in connection with our legitimate interests in providing the Services. We may use the information from one portion of the Websites on other portions of the Websites, and we may combine information gathered from multiple portions of the Websites into a single record. We may also use or combine information that we collect offline or we collect or receive from third-party sources for many reasons, including to enhance, expand, and check the accuracy of our records. We may retain your information as long as is necessary for the purposes for which we collected it or you agreed to upon registration, and for purposes of fraud prevention or as otherwise required by applicable law.
How We Share Your Information With Others
We share your personal data with third parties as described below. For information about how to manage your information and the choices you have, see How to Limit the Use of Your Information.
Third-Party Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers who work on our behalf to help us provide and support the Websites and our Services. Based on the choices you made when you registered with us, these third parties may have access to your personal data when needed to perform their functions. If we share your personal data with these parties we will require the third parties to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information, and they will be restricted from using, selling, or distributing your personal data in any way other than to provide the requested services to us or as otherwise required or expressly permitted by law.
Business Partners: Based on the choices you made when registering, we may engage in activities that include sharing your personal data with unaffiliated third parties, such as business partners who provide products and services that we think you may be interested in. We may share information that personally identifies you with business partners who provide products and services that we think you may be interested in.
Sale, Assignment or Change of Control: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Websites. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. Under such circumstances, we will request the acquiring party to follow the practices described in this Privacy Policy with respect to previously collected information. Nevertheless, we cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Privacy Policy.
Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations: We may also use or disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or on the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or our Websites; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Websites or our users, or (c) act to protect the personal safety of us, users of the Websites or the public.
How To Limit The Use Of Your Information
In many instances, you have choices about the information you provide and how we use your information. These choices, and any related consequences, are described in detail below.
Marketing Emails: When you create an account through our Website or sign up for certain communications, you are required to provide us with an accurate email address through which we may contact you. Based on the choices you made when you registered we may use your email address to communicate with you about offerings from us, our selected vendors, and partners. While you cannot opt-out of receiving notifications and other communications regarding your account or your transactions, you can always opt- out of receiving promotional and other marketing emails from us by: (1) using the “unsubscribe” feature in our marketing emails; (2) clicking unsubscribe here; or (3) contacting us at [email protected] or [email protected]
Third-Party Service Providers/Business Partners/Affiliates/Subsidiaries: You can always rescind your consent to share your information with Third-Party Service Providers, Business Partners, Affiliates or Subsidiaries by contacting us at [email protected] or [email protected]
Location Tracking: Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable the use of precise location services by any application on your mobile device through the device’s settings’ menu.
Cookies, Tracking Technology, And Interest-Based Advertising
Like many websites, we use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to record your preferences, and track the use of our Websites and exposure to our online advertisements.
We may also use these technologies to monitor traffic, improve the Websites, and make it easier to use and more relevant. You can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Websites may not work or may not work as designed.
We partner with third-party advertising companies who also use these tracking tools to provide advertisements on our Websites or other websites. These third parties may use these technologies to collect information about you when you use the Websites. They may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may also use persistent identifiers to track your Internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond the Websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content. While we do not knowingly provide these entities with information that personally identifies you such third parties may, with sufficient data from other sources, be able to personally identify you, unknown to us.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Websites may be served by unaffiliated third parties. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement, you should contact the responsible advertiser directly. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any website not operated by us to which our Websites link or that link to our Websites.
Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection and disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide to visitors, will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.
Online Tracking and Interest-Based Advertising Choices: You also have choices to limit some tracking mechanisms that collect information when you use the Websites. Many web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser’s setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, certain features of our Websites, including the Websites themselves, may not function properly or remain accessible to you. In addition, you may also render some web beacons unusable by rejecting or removing their associated cookies. Note that if you choose to remove cookies, you may remove opt-out cookies that affect your advertising preferences.
How We Secure Your Information
We take reasonable security measures to help protect the personal data collected through our Websites. Please understand, however, that while we try our best to safeguard your personal data once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
You can help protect the privacy of your own information by using encryption and other techniques to prevent unauthorized interception of your personal information. You are responsible for the security of your information that you transmit to us or view, download, or otherwise access when using unencrypted, public or otherwise unsecured networks.