Hello there,
Welcome to Tech Hive Advisory (“Tech Hive” “We” “Us” “Our”).
Tech Hive is a technology policy advisory and research firm working at the key intersection of technology, business, and law, with a focus on privacy and data protection, regulatory intelligence, cybersecurity, policy and research, start-up advisory, and intellectual property. While on our website, we process data about you and your device. This notice explains how we handle your data and our attitude towards data protection.
Summary
We only keep what is necessary and delete it when it is no longer necessary. We will be lying to you if we say we do not use your data. We do! But it is to provide services to you, to fulfil our legal obligation, to respond to your inquiries, and to manage our relationship with you.
The law affords you lots of data protection rights, and you may choose to contact us at any time to exercise them.
The data we hold about you
We use your data to provide services to you, fulfil our legal obligations, respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, improve our services, and manage our relationship with you.
If you are a client, we collect:
Your name and contact information
Information about your business activities with us
Information about your enquiries and our dealings
Data from contracts (Providers, email addresses, signatures)
We process log files generated by servers, which include the IP address assigned to you. If you do not want us to process your log file, our website is accessible via Tor.
What we do with the data
Our communications with you are purposeful and based on your relationship with us.
Contractual Satisfaction
If you are a client, we contact you only to fulfil our contractual obligations to you and ensure your satisfaction.
Inquiry Response
As a prospective client, we reach out to respond to your queries and showcase our service offerings.
Community Updates
Subscribers receive bimonthly updates with an instant opt-out. Registrants for webinars receive only essential event details.
Purpose & Lawful Basis
We rely on an appropriate lawful basis determined by our privacy team and documented in accordance with the extant data protection laws. We rely on the performance of contracts, legal obligations, our legitimate interests, and consent.
Delivering, developing and improving our website; Enabling us to enhance or modify services; Prevention of fraud.
Providing services; Responding to enquiries; Informing you of changes to services.
Newsletter updates; Event details; Policy alerts and community sharing.
Fulfilling requests required by law.
Consent Withdrawal
"You have the right to refuse or withdraw consent at any time via privacy@techhiveadvisory.africa or the unsubscribe link."
Transfer of Data outside Nigeria
We rely on the appropriate data transfer mechanism or any of its relevant exceptions to transfer data outside Nigeria. We would ensure appropriate safeguards before transferring data outside Nigeria. You can reach out to us to verify the safeguards we have in place.
Your rights
You possessrights regarding your data, and we respect them. These include the following available nodes of control:
Access
The right to tell us to allow you access your personal data node.
Correction
The right to request that we correct data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Third parties & Integration Matrix
Generally, we guard data jealously because we do not like to share. We use privacy-preserving and self-hosted Umami for analytics and Webflow to support our website.
Integration
Google Workspace
Communications
Zoom, Google Meet, Basecamp
Newsletters
Mailchimp, Zohomail, LinkedIn
Payments
Flutterwave, Paystack
Cookies
We do not use cookies on our website.
The only cookies we have to offer you are chocolate double-chip.
Security & Preservation
Technical Safeguards
To avoid the loss, theft, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of your information, we have put in place a range of administrative, technical, organisational, and physical safeguards. We retain your data for the duration of our relationship or as mandated by regional law.
Changes to this Notice
We continually assess our data protection practices to ensure your rights are guaranteed. Any amendments will be reflected in the "Last Updated" metadata at the top of this protocol.
Compliance Sync Node
Get in touch.
If you wish to exercise your rights, report a security incident, or require a technical briefing on our data handling protocols, connect with our privacy desk.
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