Privacy Policy

Privacy & Policy

 Welcome to Abokitrade, Nigeria's most profitable customer-friendly gift card trading platform. We know you have many questions—and we're excited to help answer them!

 

We believe that in a world where everyone is over-exposed, the smartest thing one can do is maintain one's privacy. That's why we've created a policy that respects your right to choose what information you want to share and when you want to share it. And it's why we've made it as easy as possible for you to opt in or out of any part of our service at any time.

 

We take your privacy so seriously that we think it would be inappropriate for us to ask you to sit back and read this policy because this is your privacy, and we take it as seriously as you do. So instead, please sit up straight and carefully read the procedure below.

 

This privacy policy portrays your security rights concerning our collection, use, stockpiling, sharing, and protection of your data. It applies to our website, services, and tools, notwithstanding how you use them.

 

As it is known to all and sundry, the internet is a community of shared interests, a global platform, and an archive of information. Unfortunately, many users face hacking, identity theft, cybercrime, and privacy invasion. In return for trusting us with your data despite all these challenges, we shall protect your privacy and only use them with your consent.

Abokitrade will manage your information in the following ways:

 

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE AND HOW WE USE THEM

 

When you pursue any Abokitrade services requiring registration, we ask you for primary data such as your name, email address, and account password. In addition, regarding services such as payment transactions, we need your debit or credit card information.

We usually do not store these data to protect you, but when we do, we keep them in a trusted encoded form on secure servers. To improve the quality of our services to you, we may use the information you provide and others from third parties.

But rest assured, these will always come with an offer to accept or discontinue such action. When you perform actions on ABOKITRADE, our servers automatically receive information your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These automatically gathered data include but are not restricted to your browsing histories, IP address, gadget details, geo-area data, online traffic, reference URL, advertisement

information, standard web log information, and still and moving images.

Note that the personal data we gather on you either manually, automatically, or from third parties when you register will be held for the obligatory maintenance time frame set forth by applicable law and as required for us to keep thorough documentation of our operations. This information, as required from us as financial experts, will be stored regardless of whether your account has been activated successfully.

This personal information we have collected will be used to:

i. Create your Abokitrade account portfolio, which is generally for accounting, billing, management of legal documentation, and claim and dispute management.

ii. Verify your identity in compliance with applicable know-your-customer, money laundering, and other financial legislations and regulations, including Abokitrade anti-money laundering policy and other law enforcement agencies' policies.

iii. Analyze your Abokitrade website usage and personalize your service experience to help us optimize your customer service requests and support.

iv. Communicate information, news, promotions, and necessary updates via your email.

v. Use in creating marketing and promotional projects which may involve sharing your data with third parties.

vi. We may disclose or transfer your data to third parties, legal and regulatory authorities, contractors, or service providers. All these will be duly explained when the occasion demands.

 

All the above actions can only be done when you have given us consent or otherwise when we are permitted to do so under applicable laws. Your data will not be sold, exchanged, or shared with any third parties without your knowledge. You can easily opt-out if and when you wish to discontinue receiving promotional information and updates.

 

USE OF COOKIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

 

Cookies are minute text files placed on your gadgets by websites you browse. They are widely used for the smooth run of websites and to gather information for the site's owner.

 

Abokitrade typically uses cookies to assess the viability of our site, investigate trends and traffic, and oversee the platform. The data gathered by cookies allow us to know what parts of our site are most visited and the challenges of your experience on the forum. With this information, we can improve the nature of your experience on the platform by perceiving and conveying a more significant amount of the most wanted features and services and resolving access challenges.

 

We also use cookies or potentially an innovation known as web bugs or clear gifs, commonly embedded in emails, to assist us with affirming your receipt of and reaction to our message and to give you a more customized experience when using our site.

 

We utilize help from third parties to help us understand the use of our site. These third parties will put cookies on the hard drive of your gadget and will gather the information we need to know, such as how visitors like you explore the site, what services are browsed, and general transaction information. We will efficiently utilize the data and observation submitted by these third parties to understand better our users' interests in our site and how to augment those interests. These third parties are bound legally only to use the information recorded from our site for our site only.

AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING

 

Automated decisions are made on some issues to ascertain whether we can render our services to you based on a credit check, security check, or risk profiling. After the investigation, a decision will be made automatically as to whether or not we will make our services available to you based on your creditworthiness.

YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS

 

Nigeria's law on cybercrimes criminalizes data privacy breaches. This act prescribes that any individual or service provider possessing any person's data shall take appropriate measures to safeguard such data from all foreseeable hazards and violations like theft, cyberattacks, and impersonation.

By this,

i. You are entitled to ask if we have processed your information.

ii. You can request undeniable access to your personal information.

iii. You are entitled to ask that any incomplete or falsified personal data we have gathered about you be corrected.

iv. In certain circumstances, you are entitled to ask us to delete or erase personal information from our database when there are no legal exceptions.

v. You may restrict or object to using your personal information occasionally.

vi. You may object to any automated decision made about you wherever it has a legal effect and requests it be reconsidered.

SECURITY OF YOUR DATA

 

We use an array of trusted security measures to uphold the confidentiality of your data and safeguard your personal information from hazards and breaches, unauthorized access, alteration, misuse, mismanagement, or destruction. These security measures include but are not limited to password-protected directories and databases, Secure Sockets Layered (SSL) technology to ensure that your information is fully encoded and transferred across the internet securely, and active PCI scanning to protect our servers from hackers and other vulnerabilities.

INFORMATION WE WON'T REQUEST FROM YOU

 

Abokitrade will not request payment information such as ATM card number, account, or PIN in an email, text, or any other means of communication with you. As our customer, you are responsible for keeping your passcode and membership credentials safe. Do not under any circumstances share those details with anyone. If you receive a suspicious request or there is unauthorized use of your

personal information, notify us immediately.

 

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

 

This privacy policy was last revised in July 2022. We urge you to review this policy frequently as it changes from time to time. Changes to this privacy policy will be made to users via the website or any other means of communication.

CONTACT US

 

If there are questions, comments, observations, or concerns regarding our services, terms, conditions, and privacy policy, don't hesitate to contact us at policy@abokitrade.com.