This privacy policy was last modified on 1^st April 2022.

Dealsourceafrica is committed to respecting the privacy of every person who visits, registers with, or subscribes to our website, publications, or services.  We will only collect and use information in ways that are useful to you and in a manner consistent with your rights and our obligations under the law.

This Privacy Policy applies to all data collected by us concerning your use of our Site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our Website. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using our website immediately.

Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. To help you understand what we do and how we process your data, we have created this statement. If you have any questions or concerns after reading this statement, please do not hesitate to contact us at contact@dealsourceafrica.co

WHAT WE DO

Dealsourceafrica is a digital platform that enables impact funds and angel investors to connect with viable businesses in need of funding. Our goal is to make sourcing of deals and funding easily accessible to investors and businesses.

OUR APPROACH TO YOUR PRIVACY

This Privacy Policy outlines the information we may collect about you concerning your use of our services (“personal data”). It also explains the legal rights that you have concerning your data and how you may exercise these rights.

We will process your data for the following lawful purposes: with your consent; to fulfill our obligations to you; and where there is a legitimate interest to do so.

Whenever possible, we rely on your consent to use your data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We also process personal data to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, for example, when you register for any of our services, we will need to process some of your data. This will also include details of the person/people responsible for payment (if different).

We may determine that processing your data serves both of our legitimate interests. This is the case concerning many of our research, customer survey, sales, marketing, and advertising activities described in this Privacy Policy. These activities allow us to better understand your requirements, which in turn enables us to provide you with a better service.

Our primary goal in collecting personal data from you is to give you a relevant customized experience of our products and services.

DATA WE COLLECT

We collect the following personal data directly from you as a registered user. Some data will be collected automatically by our Site, other data will only be collected if you voluntarily submit it and consent to us using it to contact you or receive news/updates from us. Depending upon your use of our Site, we may collect some or all of the following data:

USERS

We have two categories of users, the entrepreneur, and the investor. As a registered user, you will enter the following information about yourselves while registering. We need this information to create a secure account for you. The personal data we collect during this process are:

ENTREPRENEUR

• Name
• Email address
• Company name
• Year of incorporation
• Number of employees
• Business stage
• Investment type required
• Annual turnover
• Amount required
• Sectors of operation
• Telephone
• Logo
• Certificate of incorporation

INVESTOR

• Name
• Email address
• Type of investor
• Company name
• Sectors of interest
• Business stages of interest
• Minimum ticket size
• Maximum ticket size

As a paid user we will also ask for payment details. Credit/debit card payments are processed using a third-party supplier and we do not retain the credit card data. Address details may be shared with third-party service providers engaged by us for order fulfillment, delivery, and payment collection. This personal data is used by us to complete subscription requests.

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and the time spent on those pages and other statistics. This data is collected automatically.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR DATA?

All personal data is stored securely following the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that we fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and other applicable relevant laws.

Under GDPR we will ensure that your data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently, without adversely affecting your rights. We will only process your data if at least one of the following bases applies:

• You have given consent to the processing of your data for one or more specific purposes.
• Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

We use your data to provide the best possible services to you. This includes:

• Provide you with services and products that you request from us,
• Inform you about platform and service updates, content, offers, and advertisements that may be of interest to you,
• Contact you as required to perform our services,
• Send you an invoice for our products or services,
• Provide customer service and follow-up to sales or support requests,
• Improve your customer experience on our platform,
• Develop customized and personalized content, offers, products, and services,
• Store your preferences for future interactions with us or our platform,
• Create external research and marketing reports,
• Prevent illegal activities, suspected fraud, and potential threats to our platform,
• Analyze the characteristics of our customers and their use of our platform to understand customer and market needs and improve our product as well as business development

How long do we store the data we collect directly from you?

• The personal data we collect is the information you provide when creating an account on the Dealsourceafrica.co platform. We store the information mentioned here until you remove it from your account or until you delete your account. 
• All (personal) data on invoices remain part of our accounting system. We are required by law to keep our accounting files available for seven years. Afterward, all invoices are deleted.

How long do we store data we collect from other sources?

• We use several technics to collect data from the internet. We store the information mentioned here until new, accurate information is available to replace it. We then remove the old data from our files, unless such data would have historical value and if and for as far you have given your consent for the continued usage of this historical data. In the meantime, as mentioned above under “Your rights”, you may request us to delete any personal information concerning yourself at all times. 

Do we share your data with others?

We may disclose certain personal data to third parties if needed to provide the services and products on our platform. This sharing of data is subject to your consent. Every consent shall show you upfront what data is concerned. We use third-party services for

• Analytics tracking (with your consent)
• User authentication (with your consent)
• Advertising and promotion (with your consent)
• Content marketing (with your consent)
• Search behavior (with your consent) 

If your data is shared with a third party, data processing agreements are in place to safeguard your privacy. These third-party services may access our data solely to perform specific tasks on our behalf. We do not give them permission to disclose or use any of our data for any other purpose. We may, from time to time, allow limited access to our data by external consultants and agencies. This access is only permitted for as long as necessary to perform a specific task we asked them to perform. During such tasks non-disclosure conditions (as part of the data processing agreement or otherwise) will be agreed upon before receiving access.  

We may also disclose your data:

• To our affiliates or subsidiaries
• If we are legally entitled or required to do so
• When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety, or the safety of others
• If we sell a business or part of a business to another company then the transfer of ownership could include the transfer of your data directly related to that business to the purchasing company. We shall require the buyer to treat your personal information following this privacy statement.

How do we protect your data?

The collection, use, and disclosure of personal data collected through our platform are safeguarded by appropriate technological and organizational security measures to protect the data against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures are continually improved in line with tech developments. We will not retain your data longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected unless we have to store it for legitimate business, tax, or legal purposes.

More specifically

• Our website uses SSL (HTTPS) 
• Our computers are safeguarded by long and complex passwords that are frequently altered. 
• Our servers are physically situated in Ghana and serviced by a Ghanaian company. 
• Our physical office can only be entered by authorized personnel. Visitors can only enter the building that our office is situated in, after being given access by authorized personnel. 
• We have created access profiles for our employees giving them limited access to our systems and (personal) data needed to perform their work.
• Your privacy is of continuing importance to us, meaning we will evaluate our privacy policy frequently and are open to improvement and discussions

Your rights

You have certain rights concerning your data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email contact@dealsourceafrica.co. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional information, which may include personal data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.

• Access: You can request more information about the personal data we hold about you and request a copy of such personal data by emailing contact@dealsourceafrica.co.
• Rectification: If you believe that any personal data, we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data. You can also correct some of this information directly by emailing contact@dealsourceafrica.co.
• Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your data from our systems.
• Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your data, if such use or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our services.
• Portability: You can ask for a copy of your data in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible.
• Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your data for all data processed on the legal ground of Legitimate Interest, such as for direct marketing purposes.
• Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your data.
• Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint about Dealsourceafrica’s practices concerning your data with the supervisory authority of your country or AU Member State.

Other privacy topics

Children’s privacy

Dealsourceafrica.co does not knowingly target children, or collect personal information from children. As a parent/guardian, please contact us if you believe your child under the age of 18 is participating in an activity involving personal information on our website, and you have not received a notification or request for consent. If you are under 18 years old yourself and you wish to use our platform in any way which requires you to submit your data, please get your parent or legal guardian to do so on your behalf.

Linked Websites

This Site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave this Site and to read the privacy statements of each website, they visit that collects personal information. While we carefully choose the websites to link to, this Privacy Notice applies solely to information collected on our Site.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 1^st April 2022 and will remain in effect except concerning any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time as we deem necessary or as may be required by law. Your continued use of our Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about our Site or this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at contact@dealsourceafrica.co. Please ensure that your query is clear, particularly if it is a request for information about the data, we hold about you.