Privacy Policy

General Purpose.

Gobeth Reliance Investment Company Limited hereinafter referred to as “GOBETH”, is focused on securing the protection and privacy of personal Data of all parties including staff, clients, partners, previous employees, applicants and other representatives. At GOBETH, we treat your privacy with the highest importance. Our Privacy Policy details the measures we take to preserving and safely guarding your privacy when you visit our website or generally communicate with our personnel. 

TERMS OF THE POLICY

  1. Data Collection

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Dataincludes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
  • Contact Dataincludes residential address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Human Resource Dataincludes information on your employment history, professional and educational information submitted upon applying for employment with us.
  • Technical Dataincludes internet protocol (IP) address, domain name, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Profile Dataincludes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
  • Usage Dataincludes information about how you use our website and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Dataincludes your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and our Affiliated Third Parties and your communication preferences.

You provide this information through direct interaction when you visit our website, sign up to our newsletters or publications, request marketing materials to be sent to you, respond to surveys, complete our feedback or comment form, provide your business card to any of our staff, sign our visitor management form, complete other forms, apply for employment through our careers page, or contact us to request for any information or other correspondence by post, email, our website or otherwise.

As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this data by using cookies, and other similar technologies. Please see our cookies policy for further details.

We do not intentionally or knowingly collect any Sensitive Personal Data. We ask that you do not send to us nor disclose such Sensitive Personal Data save where required for a specific purpose.

  1. Your Personal Data and How it is Used.

Primarily, we collect, process, and store your Personal Data to help us better connect with you. The following are the purposes for which we collect your Personal Data:

  • To monitor, review, evaluate and improve your experience when you visit our website
  • To analyse the traffic on our website, including determining the number of visitors to the website and analyse how they navigate the website.
  • To invite you to complete a survey or provide feedback to us on specific matters.
  • At any time, you request information from us via a form or other electronic transmission we may use your Personal Data to fulfil that request and keep a record of such request and how it was handled, for quality assurance and service improvement purposes.
  • To keep you updated on our activities, programmes, and events where your explicit consent has been given.
  • To notify you of changes to our websites or relevant processes.
  • We may also use your information or allow Affiliated Third Parties such as our affiliate companies or partners use of this Personal Data, to offer you information about unrelated products or services you may be interested in. We or such Affiliated Third Parties can only communicate with you if you have expressly consented to such communication and data use.
  • We may share your personal data with Affiliated Third Parties such as service providers who we have engaged to assist with providing certain services on our behalf, for which they require your personal data.
  • Where we have any contracts with you which create a commitment, we may require contact or use of your information to perform the contract.
  • To process or manage your appointments with any of our staff.
  • To fulfil legal/ regulatory obligations or to report any criminal or unethical activity.
  • To store either on our central storage system or a third-party Computer’s central storage system for archiving and back up purposes.

Be aware that we do not reveal identifiable information about you to our advertisers, though we may at times share statistical visitor information with our advertisers.

Utilization of Personal Data.

GOBETH may occasionally handle certain personal Data from or about staff or other members of the public like clients, partners, providers, vendors, former employees, and prospective employees, including data recorded on different media including electronic information.

GOBETH will utilize these personal Data to give clients, partners, providers and vendors with data and tools in order to help GOBETH staff better comprehend the requirements and interests of these clients, colleagues, merchants, partners, and providers. In particular, GOBETH utilizes data to assist with finishing a transaction or request, to help with communication, to advertise, promote and sell goods and services, to convey goods, to charge for goods and services that were bought, and to offer continuous assistance and backing.

GOBETH may likewise share personal Data with its partners, vendors, related organizations, and providers to the degree expected to help the clients’ business needs. Providers are mandated to keep private personal Data gotten from GOBETH and should not utilize it for any reason other than that which was initially proposed, approved, or allowed.

GOBETH additionally gathers Human Resource Information regarding the organization of its HR projects and duties and to effectively communicate with its staff. These projects and duties might incorporate remuneration and advantage programs, staff development planning, performance appraisal, business travel cost and educational cost repayment, identification cards, admittance to GOBETH’s offices and computer networks, employee profiles and directories, Human resource record keeping, and other work-related purposes.

GOBETH likewise gathers and uses personal Data to consider prospective candidates for job openings within the company. HR Information might be shared with third party vendors and service providers to empower the service providers or vendors to offer support as well as help to GOBETH regarding these HR projects and duties. GOBETH won’t share HR Information with outsiders for non-business-related purposes. GOBETH requires outsiders and third parties getting personal Data to apply a similar degree of data protection, privacy and assurance as contained in this policy and as required by applicable laws.

  1. Your Personal Data Rights

Data Protection Laws provides you with certain rights in relation to the information that we collect about you.

  • The right to withdraw consent previously given to us or our Affiliated Third Parties. In order to make use of your personal data, we would have obtained your consent. For consent to be valid, it must be given voluntarily. In line with regulatory requirements, consent cannot be implied, and we ensure that you have the opportunity to read our data protection privacy policy before you provide your consent. Consent in respect of Sensitive Personal Data must be explicit and will be given by you in writing to us. The consent of minors (under the age of 18) will always be protected and obtained from the minor’s representatives in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.

You can ask us or Affiliated Third Parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging onto the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you.

  • The right to request that we delete your Personal Data that is in our possession, subject however to retention required for legal purposes and the time required technically to delete such information.
  • The right to request for access to your Personal Data or object to us processing the same. Where personal data is held electronically in a structured form, such you have a right to receive that data in a common electronic format.
  • The right to update your Personal Data that is kept with us. You may do this any time your personal data changes and you wish to update us.
  • The right to receive your Personal Data and have it transferred to another Data Controller, as applicable.
  • The right to lodge a complaint.
  1. Persons who have access to your Personal Data

In addition to our staff who have a business need to know, the following trusted third parties have access to your information:

  • We use a customer relationship management tool to help manage our contact database and send out email communications to you.
  • Our Affiliate Third Parties who require your information for the same purposes described in this Policy and who have adopted similar privacy policy standards further to contractual obligations to us under a third-party data processing agreement we have entered with them.
  • Professional service providers such as IT service providers and website hosts.

We will transfer your Personal Data to only those Affiliated Third Parties who we are sure can offer the required level of protection to your privacy and information and who are also contractually obligated to us to do so. We do not and will not at any point in time sell your Personal Data. We require all Affiliated Third Parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our professional service providers to use your Personal Data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your Personal Data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

  1. Strategy

GOBETH is guided by the accompanying standards in protecting Personal Data and information:

A. Notices

 

B. Preference

 

C. Liability for further transfer

 

D. Security

 

E. Integrity of data and limitation of Purpose.

 

F. Access

 

G. Plan of action, Enforcement and Risk

Notices.

When gathering personal Data directly from people, GOBETH endeavours to give clear and suitable notification about the:

  • Purposes for which it gathers and uses their Own Data and information.
  • Kinds of Third parties who are not agents to whom GOBETH might unveil that data, and
  • Preferences and means, assuming any, GOBETH offers people for restricting the utilization and exposure of their Own Data.

Preference.

For the most part, GOBETH offers people a decision with regards to how personal information or Data is handled, including the chance to decide to quit further processing or, in specific conditions, to participate in. Nonetheless, express consent from people isn’t needed when Handling Individual Data for:

  • Purposes that are consistent with the reason for which it was initially gotten or hence approved by the person,
  • Purposes important to complete a transaction,
  • Purposes required to comply with the provisions of the Law.
  • Divulgence to a Representative

Liability for further transfer of data.

Concerning the transfer of personal Data to either a Representative or Regulator, GOBETH endeavours to make adequate and proper moves to:

  • Handover such personal data just for determined purposes and limit the Representative’s or Regulator’s utilization of that data for only those predefined purposes,
  • Compel the Representative or Regulator to give essentially a similar degree of protection and assurance as is needed by this Policy.
  • Assist with guaranteeing that the Representative or Regulator successfully handles the personal Data in a way that is in line with its commitments under this Policy.
  • Require the Representative or Regulator to inform GOBETH if the Representative or Regulator discovers that it cannot meet its commitment to give a similar degree of protection as is needed by this policy, and
  • Upon notice from the representative or Regulator, find further ways to help put an end to, and rectify any unapproved processing.

 

Security.

GOBETH takes adequate and suitable measures to shield personal Data from loss, abuse and unapproved access, divulgence, changes, and destruction considering the dangers involved in Handling personal data and the nature of the Personal Data.

Information submitted by you is stored on secure servers we have which are encrypted and access is restricted to only authorised persons in charge of maintaining the servers. We have put in place physical, electronic, and procedural processes that safeguard and protect your information against unauthorised access, modification, or erasure. However, we cannot guarantee 100% security as no security programme is completely fool proof. In the unlikely event that we experience any breach to your personal data, such breach shall be handled in accordance with our Personal Data Breach Management Procedures.  In addition, we shall notify you of such occurrence, steps taken, and remedies employed to prevent a reoccurrence.

Our staff also have an obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any Personal Data held by us.

As you know, transmission of data on the internet is never guaranteed regarding safety. It is impossible to completely guarantee your safety with electronic data and transmission. You are therefore at your own risk if you elect to transmit any data electronically.

Integrity of Data and Limitation of purpose.

GOBETH will just Handle personal Data in a manner that is consistent with the reason for which it has been gathered or accordingly approved by the person involved. GOBETH will find ways to assist with guaranteeing that personal Data is correct, valid, current, and pertinent to its expected use.

Access

GOBETH furnishes people with appropriate access to their own Data in order to adjust, revise, or erase that data where it is incorrect or has been handled with disregard to GOBETH’s data protection standards.

Response, Implementation and Obligation.

Infringement of this Policy by an employee or agent of GOBETH will bring about fitting discipline including termination of employment or contract. Infringement by a representative, Regulator or other party to this policy will cause Gobeth to seek legal recourse in any competent court of jurisdiction for remedies including termination for material breach of contract.

  1. Lawful Basis for Processing Data

Without prejudice to the principles set out in Section 5 and conditions set out in Sections 7 and 8 of the NDPR, GOBETH reserves the lawful right to process personal data either received or submitted as a result of use of any of GOBETH’s services. Usage of any of GOBETH’s services entails that at least one of the following below is applicable and acts as a lawful basis to process personal data.

Given consent by the data subject to the processing of personal data for one or more specific purposes.

Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the Data Subject is party or to take steps at the request of the Data Subject prior to entering a contract.

Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which GOBETH is subject.

Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person.

Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official public mandate vested in the controller.

  1. International Data Transfer

Data that GOBETH collects may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which GOBETH operates, to enable GOBETH to use the information in accordance with this policy. It is important to note that other countries of operation are not subject to the guidelines of the NDPR. GOBETH is subject to the policies set out within such countries with regards data privacy.

Data that GOBETH collects may be transferred to any of the countries where GOBETH has any of its operational activities domiciled.

 

  1. Retaining Personal Data

This Section sets out GOBETH’s data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that GOBETH complies with the legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.

We retain your Personal Data for no longer than reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy and in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

We may retain your Personal Data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

Where your Personal Data is contained within a document, the retention period applicable to such type of document in our document retention policy shall apply.

Personal data that are processed by GOBETH for the purpose of recruitment, or required as part of the process for employment, shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose.

Employee personal data will be deleted after 2 years of leaving GOBETH.

GOBETH will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • To the extent that is required by law.
  • If GOBETH believes that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings, recruitment process or employment gained; and to establish, exercise, or defend the legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention) of GOBETH.

10.Third Party Links

This website or our email communication may include links to third party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

 

  1. Cookies policy

GOBETH’s website uses session cookies. These cookies expire at the end of the user session when the browser is closed. They do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that is stored about a user may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. When a user first visits GOBETH’s website and consents to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy, the user permits GOBETH to use cookies upon every visit to GOBETH’s website.

Data gathered will not identify you personally. It is strictly aggregate statistical data about our visitors and how they used our resources on the site. No identifying Personal Data will be shared at any time via cookies. Close to the above, data gathering can be about general online use through a cookie file. When used, cookies are automatically placed in your hard drive where information transferred to your device can be found. These cookies are designed to help us correct and improve our site’s services for you.

You may elect to decline all cookies via your device or set up alerts to prompt you when websites set or access cookies. Every device has the ability to decline file downloads like cookies. Your browser has an option to enable the declining of cookies. If you do decline cookie downloads you may be limited to certain areas of our site, as there are parts of our site that require cookies.

 

 

  1. Administration

This Policy is meant to be implemented in conjunction with supplementary data privacy policies specific to a country, or department, if required. These supplementary data privacy policies will account for differences in data protection requirements by jurisdiction or function and will specify individual roles and responsibilities. GOBETH’s business units will implement supplementary data privacy policies as required to follow applicable laws.

In the event of any conflict between this Policy and any supplemental data privacy policy, this Policy will supersede the supplemental data privacy policy to the extent that the supplemental data privacy policy is less restrictive. Local data privacy policies may provide for stricter data privacy and protection standards than are set forth in this Policy. In the event that local data privacy law provides for stricter data privacy and protection than this Policy, the local data privacy law will supersede this Policy in that jurisdiction to the extent necessary to comply with stricter local law.

To exercise your right to query, access and amend your personal data, you can contact us by email on info@gobeth.net.

Interpretation of terms.

Affiliated Third Parties includes companies with which we have common ownership or management or other contractual strategic support or partnership relationships with, our advisers, consultants, bankers, vendors, or sub-contractors.

  • Datais information, which is stored electronically, on a computer, or in certain paper-based filing systems.
  • Data Controlleris a person responsible for determining the manner in which Personal Data would be processed.
  • NDPRmeans the Nigerian Data Protection Regulations.
  •  Personal Datais the information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. These include a name, gender, a photo, an email address, bank details, medical information, computer internet protocol address and any other information specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
  • Processing/handling is any activity that involves use of Personal Data. It includes obtaining, recording, or holding the data, or carrying out any operation or set of operations on the data including organising, amending, recording, retrieving, using, disclosing, erasing, or destroying it. Processing also includes transferring personal data to third parties.
  • Sensitive Personal Data includes information about a person’s racial origin, political opinions, religious or similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health or condition or sexual life.