AlsafHub - Privacy Policy

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It's really hard to make everyone happy with a privacy policy. Most people who use ALSAF want something short and easy to understand. While we wish we could fit everything you need to know into a sentence, our regulator ask's we meet our legal obligations by describing them in a lot of details.
In a bid to make this as simple as possible we've written our privacy policy in a well informed manner to aid you understand the informtion we have access and control over, when it's shared and how it's used.

1. information we collect

The information we collect when you use ALSAF WEB falls into three (3) categories.

1.1 information you provide us

To use some of our products and services you need to have an account, and to create an account, you need to provide us certain information. Likewise, if you use our paid products and services, we cannot provide them to you without getting payment information. Basically, certain information is necessary if you want to use many of our products and services.

· Personal Accounts. If you create an account, you must provide us with some information so that we can provide our services to you. This includes a username (for example, @alsafHUB); a password; an email address or phone number; a date of birth; your display language; and third-party single sign-in information (if you choose this sign-in method). You can also choose to share your location in your profile and Tweets, and upload your address book to our web to help find people you may know. Your profile information, which includes your display name and username, is always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. And remember, you can create multiple accounts, for example, to express different parts of your identity, professional or otherwise.
· Payment Information. When you sign up on Alsaf you will make your payment via multiple means of payment like Paystack, flutterwave and others of whom may require your billing address, card details, and cvv. Payment with LENCO account is easier and as a user you will have to create an account for ease of accessing your funds. LENCO is a PROVIDUS BANK extension services outlet, opening an account with Lenco is directly by Providus Bank. So, your information with Lenco are safe as well, only the Bank has access to them.
· Preferences. When you set your preferences using your settings, we collect that information so that we can respect your preferences.

1.2 information we collect when you use ALSAF

When you use our services, we collect information about how you use our products and services. We use that information to provide you with products and services, to help keep ALSAF HUB more secure and respectful for everyone, and more relevant to you.

Usage Information. We collect information about your activity on ALSAF HUB, including:

· If you communicate with us, such as through email, we will collect information about the communication and its content.
· We collect information on links you interact with across our services (including in our emails sent to you).

Purchase and payments. To allow you to make a payment or send money using ALSAF features or services, including through an intermediary, we may receive information about your transaction such as when it was made, when a subscription is set to expire or auto-renew, and amounts paid or received to access ALSAF, including:

· Information about your connection, such as your IP address and browser type.
· Information about your device and its settings, such as device and advertising ID, operating system, carrier, language, memory, apps installed, and battery level.
· Your device address book, if you’ve chosen to share it with us.

Location Information. When you use ALSAF HUB, we collect some information about your approximate location to provide the service you expect. You can also choose to share your current precise location or places where you’ve previously used ALSAF HUB by enabling these settings in your account.
Inferred Identity.> We may collect or receive information that we use to infer your identity as detailed below:

· When you sign in to ALSAF on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to sign in to ALSAF (or associate your signed-out device or browser with other browsers or devices or ALSAF-generated identifiers).
· When you provide other information to ALSAF, including an email address or phone number, we associate that information with your ALSAF account. Subject to your settings, we may also use this information in order to infer other information about your identity, for example by associating your account with hashes of email addresses that share common components with the email address you have provided to ALSAF.
· When you access ALSAF and are not signed in, we may infer your identity based on the information we collect.

Log Information. We may receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our products and services, even if you have not created an account or are signed out, such as:

· IP address; browser type and language; operating system; the referring webpage; access times; pages visited; location; your mobile carrier; device information (including device and application IDs); search terms and IDs (including those not submitted as queries); ads shown to you on ALSAF; ALSAF-generated identifiers; and identifiers associated with cookies. We also receive log information when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services, including when you install another application through ALSAF.

Cookies and similar technologies. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our products and services such as searching and looking at public profiles. You can learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies here.
Interactions with our content on third-party sites. When you view our content on third-party websites that integrate ALSAF content such as embedded reaction buttons, we may receive Log information that includes the web page you visited.

1.3 Information we receive from third parties

When you use other online products and services, they may share information about that usage with us.
Ad Partners, Developers, Publishers. Our ad and business partners share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, ALSAF-generated identifiers, mobile device IDs, hashed user information like email addresses, demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app. Some of our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, also enable us to collect similar information directly from their websites or app by integrating our advertising technology. Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by ALSAF HUB from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with ALSAF and that ALSAF HUB receives, generates, or infers about you described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
Other Third Parties, Account Connections, and Integrations. We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our ad partners, such as other ALSAF users, developers, and partners who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform, our corporate affiliates, and other services you link to your ALSAF account. You may choose to connect your ALSAF account to your account on another service, and that other service may send us information about your account on that service.

2. How we use information

Breaking down how we use the information we collect is not simple because of the way the systems that bring our services to you work. For example, the same piece of information may be used differently for different purposes to ultimately deliver a single service. We think it’s most useful to describe the five main ways we use the information and if you have questions that are not answered, you can always contact us.

2.1 Operate, improve and personalize our service

We use the information we collect to provide and operate ALSAF HUB products and services. We also use the information we collect to improve and personalize our products and services so that you have a better experience of ALSAF

2.2 Foster Safety and security

We use information we collect to provide for the safety and security of our users, our products, services, and your account. This includes verifying your identity, authenticating your account, and defending against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activity.

2.3 Measure, analyze and make our service better

We use the information we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services and to better understand how you use them in order to make them better.

2.4 Communicate with you about our services.

We use the information we collect to communicate with you about our products and services, including product updates and changes to our policies and terms. If you’re open to hearing from us, we may also send you marketing messages from time to time.

2.5 Research

We use information you share with us, or that we collect to conduct research, surveys, product testing, and troubleshooting to help us operate and improve our products and services.

2.6 when required by law, to prevent harm, or in public interest

We may preserve, use, share, or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to:

In complying with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request.
Protect the safety of any person, protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actions on our services.
Explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services (e.g., for a violation of ALSAF USER Rules).
Protect our rights or property, or the rights or property of those who use our services.
Address fraud, security, or technical issues.

2.7 As a result of a change in ownership

We may share, sell, or transfer information about you in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal information that is shared with (before and after the close of any transaction) or transferred to the new entity.

How long we keep information

We keep different types of information for different periods of time:

· We keep your profile information and transaction history for the duration of your account.
· We generally keep other personally identifiable data we collect when you use our products and services for a maximum of 18 months.
· We may keep certain information longer than our policies specify in order to comply with legal requirements and for safety and security reasons.

Changes to this privacy policy

The most current version of this Privacy Policy governs our processing of your personal data and we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed. If we do revise this Privacy Policy and make changes that are determined by us to be material, we will provide you notice and an opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy before you continue to use ALSAF.
If you wish to raise a concern about our data processing practices you can confidentially contact ALSAF’s Data Protection Officer through our Support inquiry form or on Social Media through the handles below.

Last Updated: Nov 2022

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