Persist tech ltd privacy policy

Last updated: August 28, 2023

Persist Tech Ltd understands the importance of your privacy and confidentiality of your data. We assure all customers, subscribers and website visitors that our core values are particular to protecting your data and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and rights under the law.

  • INFORMATION ABOUT US:

    We are Persist Tech Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”). We are registered in Nigeria under company number 6883368 and our registered address is 3543 Bola Lateef Crescent, Lakeview Phase 1, we are registered in Nigeria and operate internationally.

    We use personal data for our own purposes such as learning about visitors to our own website.

    Whilst we provide a number of services, one of our key offerings to customers is the placement of skilled workers (employees, contractors) for a range of services required by both organizations and individuals.

  • What does this policy cover?

    This Privacy Policy explains how we use personal data about our customers and visitors to our website

    We aim to be transparent about our data practices regarding the personal data that we may collect, use, maintain and otherwise process. Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

    By visiting our website or contacting us to perform certain services, we become the data controller for your personal data.

    Where we are involved in the service of generating leads to you on behalf of a customer, our customer is the data controller and we act as our customer’s data processor.

  • What is personal data?

    As defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) “Personal Data is any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data and other online identifiers (such as your IP address). The personal data that we use for our own purposes as a data controller is set out below.

  • What are my rights?

    Under the GDPR, you have the following rights about the personal data that we process about you as a data controller, which we will always work to uphold:

    • The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This privacy policy should tell you everything you need to know.
    • The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
    • The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete.
    • The right to be forgotten, i.e, right to ask us to delete your personal data in our possession.
    • Right to restrict the processing of your personal data.
    • The right to object to us using your personal data for particular purpose(s).
    • The right of data portability, i.e, transfer of automated data upon request to another Organization or individual.
  • What personal data do you collect?

    We may collect some or all of the following personal data (depending on the relationship between us):

    • Name;
    • Email Address;
    • Age;
    • Telephone Number;
    • Company/Business Name;
    • Job Title;
    • Technical Information, including IP address, login information, browser type and version, time zone-setting, browser plug-in types and versions, device types, operating system Information about your visit to our website including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, products you viewed, searched for or purchased, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages;
    • Time Zone Settings;
    • Social media information such as handles or username;
    • Any other information that you choose to give us via our website.
  • How do you collect my personal data?

    We may collect your personal data when you:

    • Contact us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
    • Access and interact with our website.
    • Ask us to provide you with services and use our services.
    • Sign up to receive our newsletter.
    • Engage with us on social media.
    • Interact with functionality where you provide us with data on our website.
    • We may also obtain information about you from publicly available sources such as your Organization’s website or from Social Media.
  • How do you use my personal data and what are your justifications for doing so?

    To provide you with the information and services that you request or purchase from us;

    We rely on our contractual arrangements with you as the lawful basis on which we collect and process your personal information in relation to an order for products and services. Alternatively, in some scenarios, we rely on our legitimate interests as a business (E.g, it is in our interests to troubleshoot customer issues)

    To measure how satisfied our customers are and provide customer service;

    Alternatively, in some scenarios, we rely on our legitimate interests as a business (E.g, it is in our interests to troubleshoot customer issues on social media). Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights.

    We may also use your personal data to tell you about relevant products/services and offers (‘marketing’);

    If you have opted in to receive cookies from our website then, depending on your interaction with our website, we may target you with text ads on Google or Bing search results pages. We can usually only use your personal data to send you marketing messages if we have consent from you to do so or, in some cases, we can rely on a legitimate interest. You can also ask us to stop sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time.

    To ensure that personal and financial information you provide to us is accurate;

    In some cases we use your personal data. In some cases we use your personal data because it's necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation (such as if we receive a request from a law agency).

    To detect, investigate, report and prevent financial crime or other illegal activity to manage risk for us and our clients and to fulfill our legal and compliance related obligations;

    In other cases (such as detection of fraud) we will rely on our legitimate interests as a business to use your personal.

    For administrative or business purposes, where you contact us for a particular reason other than those set out above, such as to report problems with our website;

    We have legitimate interest to respond to your contact for the purposes of administering our business. Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights.

    Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this required or permitted by law.

  • How long will you keep my personal data?

    We do not keep personal data longer than the required time for the purpose the data was collected. Including the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax or accounting or reporting requirements. The applicable retention period of approx. 180 days is linked to our purposes of processing your personal information.

  • How and where do you store or transfer my personal data?

    We may transfer your personal data anywhere within the World. However, whenever we send (or permit a third party) to send your personal data to whatever jurisdiction, we ensure necessary steps are taken to protect the information by applicable laws.

  • How do you keep my personal information secure?

    We take security of your data seriously and have put physical, technical, operational and administrative strategies, controls and measures in place to protect your data from unauthorized access.

  • Do you share my personal data?

    We may share your personal data with other companies in our group for marketing purposes where we are legally permitted to do so. This includes subsidiaries.

    In order for us to provide our services to you, we share your personal data with our trusted third-party service providers. Whenever we share your data, we put safeguards in place which require these organizations to keep your data safe and ensure they do not use your data for their own marketing purposes. We will never sell your personal data to a third party.

    In some limited circumstances, we may be legally compelled to share your personal data if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority or in order to prevent or detect crime. We will only ever disclose your personal data to third parties to the extent we are required by law.

    Where our group structure changes, we may also share your personal information if we choose to sell , transfer or merge parts of our business and/or group, or our assets in the future. Or we may seek to acquire or merge with other businesses. During such periods, we may share your personal data with third parties if they agree to safeguard and protect such information. If a change to our group happens, then other parties may use your data in the same way as set out in this notice.

  • How can I access my personal data?

    You can ask us for details of your personal information in our possession. This is known as a “subject access request”. Such requests must be in writing and sent via email or postal addresses.

    There is normally no charge for subject access requests. However, an administrative fee may be charged for repetitive requests.

    We will respond to your subject access request within one calendar month of receiving it. We aim to provide a complete response inclusive of a copy of your personal data with the timeframe. However, if your request is complex more time may be required not exceeding 3 months from the date we receive the request. You will be kept informed of our progress.

    Identity Verification: To protect your privacy and ensure data security, we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. This helps us prevent unauthorized access to your personal information.

  • Special category data

    We do not knowingly process any special category data (unless you give it to us), such as:

    • Race
    • Ethnic group
    • Politics
    • Religion
    • Trade union membership
    • Genetics
    • Biometrics
    • Health
    • Sex life
    • Sexual orientation
  • Criminal Offense Data

    We do not knowingly process any data about criminal convictions or offenses (unless you give it to us).

  • Children’s data

    We do not actively seek to collect information about Children aged 16 or under. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected information about children under the age of 16, we will delete it immediately. If you have any concerns about your Child’s privacy relating to our services please contact us with the details provided below.

  • How do I contact you?

    To contact us about anything concerning your personal data and data protection including making a subject request, please use the following details:

    Email address: [email protected]

    Telephone Number:

    Postal Address: 3543 Bola Lateef Crescent, Lakeview Phase 1

  • Changes to this privacy notice

    We may change this privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

    This policy was last updated August, 21st, 2023.

COOKIE POLICY

Last Updated 22nd of August, 2023

This Cookie Policy explains how __________ ("Company," "we," "us," and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://www.persisttech.io ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

  • What are cookies?

    Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide

    Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, __________) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

  • Why do we use cookies?

    We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

  • How can I control cookies?

    You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

    The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.

    The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):

  • Analytics and customization cookies:

    These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.

    • Name: NID
    • Purpose: Set by Google to set a unique user ID to remember user preferences. Persistent cookie that stays for 182 days
    • Provider: google.com
    • Service: Google
    • Country: United States
    • Type: server_cookie
    • Expires in: 6 months
  • Unclassified cookies:

    These are cookies that have not yet been categorized. We are in the process of classifying these cookies with the help of their providers

    • Name: __gsas
    • Purpose: __________
    • Provider: .persisttech.io
    • Service: __________
    • Country: United States
    • Type: http_cookie
    • Expires in: 1 year 24 days
  • How can I control cookies on my browser?

    As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser`&aposs help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:

    • Chrome
    • Internet Explorer
    • Firefox
    • Safari
    • Edge
    • Opera
    • In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:

    • Digital Advertising Alliance
    • Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
    • European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
  • What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

    Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

  • Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?

    ebsites may also use so-called "Flash Cookies" (also known as Local Shared Objects or "LSOs") to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention, and for other site operations

    If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to "information" on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).

    Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content

  • Do you serve targeted advertising?

    Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

  • How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

    We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

    The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

  • Where can I get further information?

    If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at __________ or by post to:

    __________

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