Privacy Policy

At Green Growth Africa Platform (hereafter called ‘Green Growth Africa’), accessible from www.thegreengrowth.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors and users of the platform. This Privacy Policy contains types of information that is collected and recorded on the platform and how it may be used.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us via email: africa@thegreengrowth.com

This Privacy Policy applies to only our online activities and is valid for visitors and users with regards to the information that they share and/or collect on the platform. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this platform.

Consent

By using the platform, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. You may also wish to review the Terms and Conditions.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point you are to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

Also note that all projects and personal information is made visible to the public without having to register on the platform and can be viewed on search engines.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain the platform
Improve, personalize, and expand the platform
Understand and analyze how you use the platform
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Send you emails
Find and prevent fraud
Given the objective of the platform, information you provide could be used to provide visibility for you and/or your initiatives including impact policies for green growth

Log Files

Green Growth Africa follows a standard procedure of using log files. The files log visitors and users when they visit platform. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the platform, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other platforms, Green Growth Africa uses 'cookies'. The cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the platform that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimise the users' experience by customising our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on the platform, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Kindly note that Green Growth Africa has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Green Growth Africa's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or platform. Thus, we advise that you kindly consult the respective Privacy Policies of the third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the Data Protection Legislation:

Where you have provided your consent to the processing of your personal data for any purpose, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time by contacting us at email address [or by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email that we send to you];
You can ask us to rectify any inaccuracies in the personal information that we hold about you.

You may have the right to request the erasure of personal information that we hold about you.

You may have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for certain purposes, including for direct marketing purposes, for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
You may have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
You may have the right to request a copy of your personal data from us in a commonly used and machine-readable format or that we transmit your personal data to another data controller,

You may have the right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling, which has legal or other significant effects on you.

You can exercise any of the above rights at any time by contacting us at physical address and email

Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to carry out the purpose for which it was collected.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed physical address or by email to email address of the platform. If you have any complaints relating to our privacy policy or our use of your personal data, please contact us at physical address or by email to email address of the platform