This Data Privacy (“Privacy”) explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information obtained from users (“you” or “users”) of our website. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and complying with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and Data Protection laws of Ghana.
Data Controller
KIC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) acts as the data controller for the personal information we collect and process through this website.
Personal Information Collected
We may collect the following types of personal information from you:
- Contact information (such as name, email address, phone number).
- Demographic information (such as age, gender, location).
- Log and device information (such as IP address, browser type, referring website, pages visited, access times).
Purpose and Legal Basis for Processing
We collect and process personal information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with information, or services you request.
- To personalize your experience on our website.
- To communicate with you and respond to your inquiries.
- To improve our website.
- To comply with legal obligations.
We rely on one or more of the following legal bases for processing personal information:
- Your consent, where applicable.
- The necessity of processing for the performance of a contract.
- Compliance with legal obligations.
- Legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party.
Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
- With service providers and business partners who assist us in running this website
- With legal or regulatory authorities as required by law or to protect our rights and interests.
- In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your jurisdiction. We will take appropriate measures to ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and provide adequate protection for your personal information.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information (even if you no longer use the website ) for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- The right to access and rectify your personal information.
- The right to request erasure of your personal information.
- The right to restrict or object to the processing of your personal information.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to withdraw consent, where applicable.
To exercise these rights or if you have any questions or concerns about the processing of your personal information, please contact us using the information provided below.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. In this regard, we endeavor to keep your data in strict confidence, using such degree of care as is appropriate to avoid unauthorized access, use or disclosure;
We are, however, not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third parties that we may link to or who advertise on our website but are not affiliated with us.
Updates to this Notice
We may update this Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices. We will notify you of any significant changes through our website or other appropriate means.
Cookies
We use essential cookies to make the site work. With your consent, we may also use non-essential cookies to improve your user experience and analyze website traffic. Cookies help to recognize you when you interact on our site and make our services faster and more secure, For example, they help us to remember your preferences and prevent you from needing to re-enter information you previously provided (for example, during sign up). We also use these cookies to collect information (such as popular pages, viewing patterns, click-through and other information) about our visitors’ use of the website so that we can enhance and personalize our website and service and conduct market research. Deletion of these types of cookies may result in limited functionality of our service.
Tracking technologies
The site enables script that is able to read, store and write information on your browser in your device. The information processed may include your personal identifiers and browsing activity which may be used to deliver content, maintain security and improve our site. You may adjust or reject this by choosing to accept only necessary cookies.
12. Third-party analytics services
We may share information about your use of our site with our partners for the purposes of data analysis. This enables us to provide you with improved personalized experience whenever you use our site.
We may share your personal data with the following categories of third parties:
- Where you have providedconsent, we may share your personal data with the third parties to whom you have consented, such as when you authorise a third party to analyse your datae or contact you in relation to a service.
- To ourservice providers, business partners and contractors who provide services on our behalf or who we use to support our business.
- We may also share your personal data with other third parties in the context of thepossible sale or restructuring of the business, and will instruct those recipients that they must use the personal data only for the purposes described in this notice.
- We may need to share your personal data with aregulator, competent law enforcement body, government agency, court or other third party to (i) comply with the law; (ii) enforce the terms of a contract; and (iii) protect the rights, property, or safety of BMI Group or others.
- We may also share your personal data withother entities affiliated to us, who will use the personal data for the purposes described in this privacy notice.
13. Data security measures
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting personal information and will implement and maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to protect any personal information provided to us from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal information transmitted, stored or otherwise processed. we protect our own confidential information. We are not responsible for any third party’s actions or their security controls with respect to information that third parties may collect or process via their websites, services or otherwise. We regularly review security technologies and will strive to protect your personal information as fully as we protect our own confidential information. We are not responsible for any third party’s actions or their security controls with respect to information that third parties may collect or process via their websites, services or otherwise. Your data is transferred over a secure connection, however, you can request that your data be deleted.
14. Additional disclosures required by applicable laws or regulations.
We endeavor to:
(i) keep and maintain all your data in strict confidence, using such degree of care as is appropriate to avoid unauthorized access, use or disclosure;
(ii) not, directly or indirectly, disclose your data to any person other (an “Unauthorized Third Party”), without express written consent from you unless and to the extent required by Government Authorities or as otherwise, to the extent expressly required, by applicable law,.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this Notice or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Kosmos Innovation Center
# 77 Nii Nortei Nyanchi St, Street – Dzorwulu, Accra
Email: info@kicghana.org
Telephone number: +233 342295432