PRIVACY POLICY

For the purposes of the UK GDPR, the Data Controller responsible for your personal data is:

AfriGlobal Business Network

1 Winnock road, West Drayton, UB7 7RH, United Kingdom

Email: contact@afriglobalbusiness.net

We collect different types of personal data depending on how you interact with us:

• Identity Data: First name, last name, username, title, photograph and video (if uploaded to our community or virtual platform).

• Contact Data: Billing address, email address, and telephone numbers.

• Professional Data: Job title, company name, industry sector, business interests, and "Ask/Offer" details (used for matchmaking).

• Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of products/events you have purchased from us.

• Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, and location data when you connect to our virtual events (e.g., via Zoom).

• Profile & AI Data: Information on your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses. This includes data processed by our AI Concierge tools to suggest relevant business connections.

• Direct Interactions: You give us your data by filling in forms (e.g., event registration via Eventbrite/Zoom), subscribing to our newsletter, or corresponding with us.

• Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website or virtual event platforms, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment and browsing actions.

• Third Parties & Public Sources: We may receive personal data about you from:

• Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics).

• Contact enrichment tools (such as Clay or Folk CRM) to verify business profiles.

• Publicly available professional sources (such as LinkedIn).

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below:

• Service Providers: Companies that provide IT and system administration services (e.g., Zoom for webinars, Eventbrite for ticketing, CRM systems).

• Event Partners: With your explicit consent, we may share your details with specific speakers or sponsors of an event you attend.

• Professional Advisers: Lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers based in the UK.

• Regulators: HM Revenue & Customs and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in the UK.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

As a global network connecting the UK and Africa, we may transfer your personal data to countries outside the UK, including African nations that may not have an "adequacy decision" from the UK Government.

To ensure your data remains protected to UK standards, we use the following safeguards for these transfers:

• International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA): We utilize the UK's approved IDTA or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for contracts with partners or service providers in Africa.

• Explicit Consent: In specific networking scenarios, we may ask for your explicit consent to share your details with a potential business partner located overseas.

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. Access to your personal data is limited to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Under the UK GDPR, you have rights including:

• Right of Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

• Right to Rectification: Request correction of incomplete or inaccurate data.

• Right to Erasure: Ask us to delete your personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.

• Right to Object: Object to processing where we rely on a legitimate interest (e.g., AI matchmaking) or for direct marketing.

• Right to Restriction: Ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data.

• Right to Transfer: Request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third party.
  
  

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@afriglobalbusiness.net.

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications (e.g., LinkedIn, WhatsApp). Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us.

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to first deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO.