Privacy Policy

Expression Africa Privacy Policy

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
  3. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
  4. SHARING & DISCLOSURE
  5. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
  6. YOUR RIGHTS
  7. SECURITY
  8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
  9. CONTACT US

1. INTRODUCTION

Thank you for visiting/using Expression Africa! Your trust is important to us and we’re committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. The information that’s shared with us helps us to provide a great experience with Expression Africa. Our team is committed to protecting all the personal information we collect and help ensure that personal information is handled properly worldwide.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose your personal information, in conjunction with your access to and use of the Expression Africa Platform and the Payment Services. This privacy policy describes our privacy practices for all websites, platforms and services that link to it. Please read the privacy policy on the applicable site.

1.1 Definitions

If you see an undefined term in this Privacy Policy such as “Expression Africa Platform”, it has the same definition as in our Terms and Conditions.

AGGREGATE INFORMATION

Aggregate means information about groups or categories of guests, which does not identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual guest.

ANONYMOUS INFORMATION

Anonymous information means information that does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, an individual guest.

APPLICATION

Application means a program or service operated by us or on our behalf that may be displayed on various online, mobile, or other platforms which permits us to interact directly with our guests.

CHILDREN

Children means individuals who are not of legal age to consent to the collection and processing of their personal information. It refers to individuals under 18 years of age.

MEMBER

Member means a subsidiary or affiliated entity that is part of The Walt Disney Family of Companies.

PARENTS

Parents means a parent or legal guardian.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information means information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual, such as the individual’s name, postal address, email address, and telephone number. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, the resulting information also is treated as personal information.

PUBLIC FORUMS

Our sites and applications may offer message boards, conversation pages, blogs, chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other forums that do not have a restricted audience. If you provide personal information when you use any of these features, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party.

 

1.2 Data Controller

When this policy mentions “Expression Africa,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to the Expression Africa patnership and its partners that is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.

This platform is made to apply to persons within the confines of the Republic of Kenya and is meant to operate locally until and when a decision is made to go international and is hence subject to the Laws of Kenya exclusively.

1.3 Applicability to Payments

This Privacy Policy also applies to the Payment Services provided to you by Expression Africa Payments pursuant to the Payments Terms. When using the Payment Services, you will be also providing your information, including personal information, to one or more Expression Africa Payments entities, which will also be the Data Controller of your information related to the Payment Services.

. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

There are three general categories of information we collect.

2.1 Information You Give to Us.

2.1.1 Information that is necessary for the use of the Expression Africa Platform.

We ask for and collect the following personal information about you when you use the Expression Africa Platform. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us and to allow us to comply with our legal obligations. Without it, we may not be able to provide you with all the requested services.

  • Account Information. When you sign up for a Expression Africa Account, we require certain information such as your first name, last name, email address, Identification Card Number and date of birth.
  • Profile and Listing Information. To use certain features of the Expression Africa Platform we may ask you to provide additional information, which may include your address, phone number, and a profile picture.
  • Identity Verification Information. To help create and maintain a trusted environment, we may collect identity verification information such as images of your government issued ID, passport, national ID card, or driving license or other authentication information.
  • Payment Information. To use certain features of the Expression Africa Platform such as booking or creating a Listing, we may require you to provide certain financial information like your bank account,mobile phone number or credit card information in order to facilitate the processing of payments via SpiortsAfrica Payment.
  • Communications with Expression Africa and other Members. When you communicate with Expression Africa or use the Expression Africa Platform to communicate with other Members, we collect information about your communication and any information you choose to provide.

2.1.2 Information you choose to give us.

You may choose to provide us with additional personal information in order to obtain a better user experience when using Expression Africa Platform. This additional information will be processed based on our legitimate interest or when applicable, your consent.

  • Additional Profile Information. You may choose to provide additional information as part of your Expression Africa profile such as gender, preferred language(s), city, and a personal description. Some of this information as indicated in your Account settings is part of your public profile page, and will be publicly visible to others.
  • Address Book Contact Information. You may choose to import your address book contacts or enter your contacts’ information manually to access certain features of the Expression Africa Platform, like inviting them to use Expression Africa.
  • Other Information. You may otherwise choose to provide us information when you fill in a form, update or add information to your Expression AfricaAccount, respond to surveys, post to community forums, participate in promotions, communicate with our customer care team, share your experience with us or use other features of the Expression Africa Platform.

2.1.3 Information that is necessary for the use of the Payment Services.

The Payments Data Controller needs to collect the following information necessary for the adequate performance of the contract with you and to comply with applicable law (such as anti-money laundering regulations). Without it, you will not be able to use Payment Services:

  • Payment Information. When you use the Payment Services, the Payments Data Controller requires certain financial information like your bank account, mobile phone number or credit card information in order to process payments and comply with applicable law.
  • Identity Verification and Other Information. If you are a member, the Payments Data Controller may require identity verification information such as images of your government issued ID, passport, national ID card, or driving license or other authentication information, your date of birth, your address, email address, phone number and other information in order to verify your identity, provide the Payment Services to you, and to comply with applicable law.

2.1.4 Information We Automatically Collect from Your Use of the Expression Africa Platform and Payment Services.

When you use the Expression Africa Platform and or the Payment Services, we automatically collect personal information about the services you use and how you use them. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us, to enable us to comply with legal obligations and given our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the functionalities of the Expression Africa Platform and Payment Services.

  • Geo-location Information. When you use certain features of the Expression Africa Platform, we may collect information about your precise or approximate location as determined through data such as your IP address or mobile device’s GPS to offer you an improved user experience. Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable the use of location services for applications in the device’s settings menu. Expression Africa may also collect this information even when you are not using the app if this connection is enabled through your settings or device permissions.
  • Usage Information. We collect information about your interactions with the Expression Africa Platform such as the pages or content you view within the platform
  • Log Data and Device Information. We automatically collect log data and device information when you access and use the Expression AfricaPlatform, even if you have not created an Expression Africa Account or logged in. That information includes, among other things: details about how you’ve used the Platform (including if you clicked on links to third party applications, IP address, access dates and times, hardware and software information, device information, device event information, unique identifiers, crash data, cookie data, and the pages you’ve viewed or engaged with before or after using the Expression Africa Platform.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies. We use cookies and other similar technologies when you use our platform, use our mobile app, or engage with our online ads or email communications. We may collect certain information by automated means using technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, browser analysis tools, server logs, and mobile identifiers. In many cases the information we collect using cookies and other tools is only used in a non-identifiable without reference to personal information. For example, we may use information we collect to better understand website traffic patterns and to optimize our website experience. In some cases, we associate the information we collect using cookies and other technology with your personal information.
  • Pixels and SDKs. Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. For apps, that third parties, including Facebook, may collect or receive information from your app and other apps and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. Users can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by updating their Facebook account ad settings.
  • Payment Transaction Information. Expression Africa Payments collects information related to your payment transactions through the Platform, including the payment instrument used, date and time, payment amount, payment instrument expiration date and billing postcode, PayPal email address, your address and other related transaction details. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and Expression Africa and to allow the provision of the Payment Services.

2.1.5 Information We Collect from Third Parties.

Expression Africa may collect information, including personal information, that others provide about you when they use the Expression Africa Platform and the Payment Services, or obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through the Expression Africa Platform and the Payment Services. We do not control, supervise or respond for how the third parties providing your information process your Personal Information, and any information request regarding the disclosure of your personal information to us should be directed to such third parties.

  • Third Party Services. If you link, connect, or login to your Expression Africa Account with a third party service e.g. Google, Facebook, the third party service may send us information such as your registration, friends list, and profile information from that service. This information varies and is controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.
  • Your References. If someone has written a reference for you, it will be published on your Expression Africa public profile page with your consent.
  • Referrals. If you are invited to Expression Africa, the person who invited you may submit personal information about you such as your email address or other contact information.
  • Other Sources. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may receive additional information about you, such as demographic data or information to help detect fraud and safety issues, from third party service providers and/or partners, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, we may receive background check results (with your consent where required) or fraud warnings from service providers like identity verification services for our fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts. We may receive information about you and your activities on and off the Expression Africa Platform through partnerships, or about your experiences and interactions from our partner ad networks.

2.2 Children’s Data.

Our websites and applications are not directed to children under 18 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information directly from children under 18. If you believe that we processing the personal information pertaining to a child inappropriately, we take this very seriously and urge you to contact us using the information provided under the “Contact Us” section on our page.

3. HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may use, store, and process personal information to :

(1) Provide, understand, improve, and develop the Expression Africa Platform.

(2) Create and maintain a trusted and safer environment (such as to comply with our legal obligations and ensure compliance with Expression Africa Policies) and ;

(3) Provide, personalize, measure, and improve our advertising and marketing.

3.1 Provide, Improve, and Develop the Expression Africa Platform. We may use the personal information to provide, improve, and develop the Expression Africa Platform such as to:

  • Enable you to access and use the Expression Africa Platform,
  • Enable you to communicate with other Members,
  • Operate, protect, improve, and optimize the Expression Africa Platform and experience, such as by performing analytics and conducting research,
  • Provide customer service,
  • Send you service or support messages, updates, security alerts, and account notifications.
  • If you provide us with your contacts’ information, we may process this information:
  • send your requests for references,
  • for fraud detection and prevention, and
  • for any purpose you authorize at the time of collection,
  • To operate, protect, improve, and optimize the Expression Africa Platform and experience, and personalize and customize your experience such as, ranking search results, and facilitate claims with our members/partners, Experience Protection Insurance or other similar protection programs, we conduct profiling based on your interactions with the Expression Africa Platform, your searches and  history, your profile information and preferences, and other content you submit to the Expression Africa Platform, and

We process this personal information for these purposes given our legitimate interest in improving the Expression Africa Platform and our Members’ experience with it, and where it is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract with you.

3.2 Create and Maintain a Trusted and Safer Environment. We may use the personal information to create and maintain a trusted and safer environment such as to:

  • Detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity,
  • Conduct security investigations and risk assessments,
  • Verify or authenticate information or identifications provided by you such as to verify your address or compare your identification photo to another photo you provide,
  • Comply with our legal obligations,
  • Resolve any disputes with any of our Members and enforce our agreements with third parties,
  • Enforce our terms and conditions and other policies, and
  • In connection with the activities above, we may conduct profiling based on your interactions with the Expression Africa Platform, your profile information and other content you submit to the Expression Africa Platform, and information obtained from third parties. In limited cases, automated processes may restrict or suspend access to the Expression Africa Platform if such processes detect activity that we think poses a safety or other risk to the Platform, our community, or third parties.

We process this personal information for these purposes given our legitimate interest in protecting the Expression Africa Platform, to measure the adequate performance of our contract with you, and to comply with applicable laws.

3.3 Provide, Personalize, Measure, and Improve our Advertising and Marketing. 

We may use the personal information to provide, personalize, measure, and improve our advertising and marketing such as to:

  • Send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information that may be of interest to you based on your preferences including information about Expression Africa or partner campaigns and services and social media advertising through social media platforms such as Facebook or Google,
  • Personalize, measure, and improve our advertising,
  • Administer referral programs, rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by Expression Africa or its third party partners,
  • Conduct profiling on your characteristics and preferences based on the information you provide to us, your interactions with the Expression Africa Platform, information obtained from third parties, and your search and booking history to send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising and other information that we think may be of interest to you,
  • Enrolling in an email subscription will not affect the frequency of administrative emails that we may send in connection with any Expression Africa Account. No fee is charged for sending promotional emails to you, but third-party data rates may apply. Note that you may not be able to take advantage of certain promotions if you do not have an Expression Africa Account, and
  • Invite you to events and relevant opportunities for example, when you share your experience, we may use the information provided to reach out to you to invite you to relevant events.

We will process your personal information for the purposes listed in this section given our legitimate interest in undertaking marketing activities to offer you products or services that may be of your interest.

3.4 How the Payments Data Controller uses the Personal Information Collected. We may use the personal information as a part of Payment services such as to:

  • Enable you to access and use the Payment Services.
  • Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity.
  • Conduct security investigations and risk assessments.
  • Conduct checks against databases and other information sources.
  • Comply with legal obligations (such as anti-money laundering regulations).
  • Enforce the Payment Terms and other payment policies.
  • With your consent, send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information that may be of interest to you based on your preferences.

The Payments Data Controller processes this personal information given its legitimate interest in improving the Payment Services and its users’ experience with it, and where it is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract with you and to comply with applicable laws.

3.6 Your Choices

You have choices on the promotional messages that you choose to receive.

  • You can limit the information you provide to Expression Africa,Participation in promotions and marketing programs is voluntary.
  • You can limit the communications that Expression Africa sends to you.
    • To opt-out of marketing emails, simply click on “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any marketing email we send you or access the notification settings in your Expression Africa Account.
    • To revoke permissions that you may have given to send promotional text messages, text STOP in response to any message.
    • You can always update your notification settings within your Expression Africa Account by visiting the Notifications section of your Expression Africa Account.
    • Please note that even if you opt-out of marketing communications, we may still need to contact you with important transactional information about your account. For example, even if you opt-out of emails, we may still send you activity confirmations or fraud alerts.

 

SHARING & DISCLOSURE

4.1 Advertising and Social Media; Sharing With Your Consent.

Where you have provided consent, we share your information, including personal information, as described at the time of consent, such as when you authorize a third party application or website to access your Expression Africa Account or when you participate in promotional activities conducted by Expression Africa partners or third parties.

Where permissible according to applicable law we may use certain limited personal information about you, such as your email address, to hash it and to share it with social media platforms, such as Facebook or Google, to generate leads, drive traffic to our websites or otherwise promote our products and services or the Expression Africa Platform. These processing activities are based on our legitimate interest in undertaking marketing activities to offer you products or services that may be if your interest.

The social media platforms with which we may share your personal information are not controlled or supervised by Expression Africa. Therefore, any questions regarding how your social media platform service provider processes your personal information should be directed to such provider.

Please note that you may, at any time ask Expression Africa to cease processing your data for these direct marketing purposes by sending an e-mail to us.

We don’t share your billing and payout information with other Members.

4.3 Profiles and other Public Information.

The Expression Africa Platform lets you publish information, including personal information, that is visible to the general public. For example:

  • Parts of your public profile page, such as your first name, your description, and city, are publicly visible to others.
  • After using/visiting our platform, members may write Reviews and rate the experience. Reviews and Ratings are a part of your public profile page and may also be surfaced elsewhere on the Expression Africa Platform.
  • If you submit content in a community or discussion forum, blog or social media post, or use a similar feature on the Expression Africa Platform, that content is publicly visible.

Based on our legitimate interest to promote the Expression Africa Platform we may display parts of the Platform e.g., your page on sites operated by Expression Africa’s business partners. If these are displayed on a partner’s site, information from your public profile page may also be displayed.

Information you share publicly on the Expression Africa Platform may be indexed through third party search engines. In some cases, you may opt-out of this feature in your Account settings. If you change your settings or your public facing content, these search engines may not update their databases. We do not control the practices of third party search engines, and they may use caches containing your outdated information.

 

4.4 Additional Services by Expression Africa.

Expression Africa may need to use third party services available through the Platform to assist with managing their user/member needs or providing additional and related services requested by you. Expression Africa may use features on the Platform to share information about the members with such third party service providers for the purposes of coordinating the use of the platform. Expression Africa shall be responsible for third party service providers they use and ensuring those service providers process member information securely and in compliance with applicable law including data privacy and data protection laws.

4.5 Compliance with Law, Responding to Legal Requests, Preventing Harm and Protection of our Rights.

Expression Africa may disclose your information, including personal information, to courts, law enforcement, governmental authorities, tax authorities, or authorized third parties, if and to the extent we are required or permitted to do so by law or if such disclosure is reasonably necessary:

  • To comply with our legal obligations,
  • To comply with a valid legal request or to respond to claims asserted against Expression Africa.
  • To respond to a valid legal request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability.
  • To enforce and administer our Terms of Service, the Payment Terms or agreements with other Members, or
  • To protect the rights, property or personal safety of Expression Africa, it’s employees, its Members, or members of the public.

These disclosures may be necessary to comply with our legal obligations, for the protection of your or another person’s vital interests or for the purposes of our or a third party’s legitimate interest in keeping the Expression Africa Platform secure, preventing harm or crime, enforcing or defending legal rights, facilitating the collection of taxes and prevention of tax fraud or preventing damage.

Where appropriate, we may notify Members about legal requests unless:

  • Providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or
  • We believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon Expression Africa’s property, its Members and the Platform. In instances where we comply with legal requests without notice for these reasons, we may attempt to notify that Member about the request after the fact where appropriate and where we determine in good faith that we are no longer prevented from doing so.

4.6 Collection and Remittance of Tax.

To facilitate collection a remittance of tax as described in the “Tax” section of the terms and conditions, ourselves and members. where legally permissible according to applicable law, expressly grant us permission, without further notice, to disclose data and other information relating to them or to their transactions to the relevant tax authority, including, but not limited to, the names, addresses, transaction dates and amounts, tax identification number(s), the amount of taxes received (or due) by both, and contact information.

4.7 Information Provided to Enterprise Customers.

If you have linked your Expression Africa Account to the Expression Africa Account of a company or other organization (an “Enterprise”), added your work email address, or have an interaction via another party such as the future employer or other entity or used a coupon in a similar capacity in connection with an Enterprise ,that Enterprise will have access to your name, contact details, permissions and roles, and other information as required to enable use by you and the Enterprise of such Enterprise products.

4.11Business Transfers.

If Expression Africa undertakes or is involved in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event, then we may sell, transfer or share some or all of our assets, including your information in connection with such transaction or in contemplation of such transaction (e.g., due diligence). In this event, we will notify you before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

4.12 Aggregated Data.

We may also share aggregated information /information about our users that we combine together so that it no longer identifies or references an individual user and other anonymized information for regulatory compliance, industry and market analysis, research, demographic profiling, marketing and advertising, and other business purposes.

 

5. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

5.1 Analyzing your Communications.

We may review, scan, or analyze your communications on the Expression Africa Platform for fraud prevention, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, investigation, product development, research, analytics, and customer support purposes. For example, as part of our fraud prevention efforts, we scan and analyze messages to mask contact information and references to other websites. In some cases, we may also scan, review, or analyze messages to debug, improve, and expand product offerings. We use automated methods where reasonably possible. However, occasionally we may need to manually review some communications, such as for fraud investigations and customer support, or to assess and improve the functionality of these automated tools. We will not review, scan, or analyze your messaging communications to send third party marketing messages to you, and we will not sell reviews or analyses of these communications.

These activities are carried out based on Expression Africa’s legitimate interest in ensuring compliance with applicable laws and our Terms, preventing fraud, promoting safety, and improving and ensuring the adequate performance of our services.

5.2 Linking Third Party Accounts.

You may link your Expression Africa Account with your account at a third party social networking service. Your contacts on these third party services are referred to as “Friends.” When you create this link:

  • Some of the information you provide to us from the linking of your accounts may be published on your Expression Africa Account profile;
  • Your activities on the Expression Africa Platform may be displayed to your Friends on the Expression Africa Platform and/or that third party site;
  • A link to your public profile on that third party social networking service may be included in your Expression Africa public profile;
  • Other Expression Africa users may be able to see any common Friends that you may have with them, or that you are a Friend of their Friend if applicable;
  • Other Expression Africa users may be able to see any schools, hometowns or other groups you have in common with them as listed on your linked social networking service;
  • The information you provide to us from the linking of your accounts may be stored, processed and transmitted for fraud prevention and risk assessment purposes; and
  • The publication and display of information that you provide to Expression Africa through this linkage is subject to your settings and authorizations on the Expression Africa Platform and the third party site.

We only collect your information from linked third party accounts to the extent necessary to ensure the adequate performance of our contract with you, or to ensure that we comply with applicable laws, or with your consent.

5.3 Third Party Partners & Integrations

The Expression Africa Platform may contain links to third party websites or services, such as third party integrations, co-branded services, or third party-branded services (“Third Party Partners”). Expression Africa doesn’t own or control these Third Party Partners and when you interact with them, you may be providing information directly to the Third Party Partner, Expression Africa , or both. These Third Party Partners will have their own rules about the collection, use, and disclosure of information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the other websites you visit.

YOUR RIGHTS

Consistent with applicable law, you may exercise any of the rights described in this section before your applicable Expression Africa Data Controller and Payments Data Controller. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity and request before taking further action on your request.

6.1 Managing Your Information.

You may access and update some of your information through your Account settings. If you have chosen to connect your Expression Africa Account to a third-party application, like Facebook or Google, you can change your settings and remove permission for the app by changing your Account settings. You are responsible for keeping your personal information up-to-date.

6.2 Rectification of Inaccurate or Incomplete Information.

You have the right to ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you and which you cannot update yourself within your Expression Africa Account.

6.3 Data Access and Portability.

You are entitled to request certain copies of your personal information held by us. You may also be entitled to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or request us to transmit this information to another service provider where technically feasible.

6.4 Data Retention and Erasure.

We generally retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us and to comply with our legal obligations. In certain jurisdictions, you can request to have all your personal information deleted entirely.” Please note that if you request the erasure of your personal information:

  • We may retain some of your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend an Expression Africa Account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain certain information from that Account to prevent that Member from opening a new Expression Africa Account in the future.
  • We may retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For example, Expression Africa Payments may keep some of your information for tax, legal reporting and auditing obligations.
  • Information you have shared with others e.g., Reviews, forum postings may continue to be publicly visible on the Expression Africa Platform, even after your Account is cancelled. However, attribution of such information to you will be removed. Additionally, some copies of your information (e.g., log records) may remain in our database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
  • Because we maintain the Expression Africa Platform to protect from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your personal information may not be removed from our backup systems for a limited period of time.

6.5 Withdrawing Consent and Restriction of Processing.

If we are processing your personal information based on your consent you may withdraw your consent at any time by changing your Account settings or by sending a communication to Expression Africa specifying which consent you are withdrawing. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing activities based on such consent before its withdrawal. Additionally, you retain the right to limit the ways in which we use your personal information, in particular where

(i) You contest the accuracy of your personal information;

(ii) The processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your personal information;

(iii) We no longer need your personal information for the purposes of the processing, but you

6.7 Lodging Complaints.

You have the right to lodge complaints about our data processing activities by filing a complaint with our Data Protection Officer who can be reached by the “Contact Us” section below or with a supervisory authority.

7. SECURITY

We are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. Some of the safeguards we use to protect your information are firewalls and data encryption, and information access controls. If you know or have reason to believe that your Expression Africa Account credentials have been lost, stolen, misappropriated, or otherwise compromised or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your Expression Africa Account, please contact us following the instructions in the Contact Us section below.

8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Expression Africa reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with this provision. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Expression Africa Platform and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We will also provide you with notice of the modification by email at least thirty (30) days before the date they become effective. If you disagree with the revised Privacy Policy, you may cancel your Account. If you do not cancel your Account before the date the revised Privacy Policy becomes effective, your continued access to or use of the Expression Africa Platform will be subject to the revised Privacy Policy.

9. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or Expression Africa’s information handling practices, you may email us at the email addresses provided in the “contact us “sections above or contact us via mail at: editor@expression.africa

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