Privacy Policy for malootech
Effective Date: June 23, 2025
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how malootech (referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information when you visit and use our blog, accessible at malootech.com
By using our blog, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
1. Introduction and Compliance with Nigerian Data Protection Laws
This Privacy Policy is designed to comply with the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA) 2023 and the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) 2019. We are committed to protecting your personal data and ensuring transparency in our data processing activities.
2. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information from and about users of our blog, including:
A. Personal Data You Voluntarily Provide: This includes information you actively submit to us, such as:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and any other contact details you provide when subscribing to newsletters, commenting on posts, or filling out contact forms.
- Demographic Information: Any details you share voluntarily, such as age range, gender, or location, if requested for specific surveys or content personalization.
- Correspondence: Records of your communication with us, including emails or messages sent through contact forms.
- User Content: Any comments, reviews, or other content you post on our blog.
B. Automatically Collected Data (Usage Data): When you access and use our blog, certain information is collected automatically, which may include:
- IP Address: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
- Browser and Device Information: Type of browser, operating system, device type, screen resolution.
- Usage Details: Pages visited, time spent on pages, referral source, search terms used to find our blog, and clickstream data.
- Location Data: General geographical location derived from your IP address.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies (explained further in Section 3).
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our blog and hold certain information. Cookies are small data files placed on your device. We use:
- Necessary/Essential Cookies: These are vital for the operation of our blog, enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our blog when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our blog works. We typically use third-party analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics) for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our blog, allowing us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (e.g., your choice of language or region).
- Advertising/Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our blog by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. (If applicable, state if you use advertising and if it’s personalized).
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our blog.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for various purposes, primarily to:
- Provide and Maintain Our Blog: Ensure the blog functions correctly and content is accessible.
- Improve and Personalize User Experience: Understand how users interact with our content to enhance usability and tailor content to your interests (e.g., suggesting relevant articles on scholarships or jobs).
- Send Newsletters and Updates: If you subscribe, to send you emails with scholarship alerts, job postings, health tips, insurance news, or other relevant blog updates.
- Respond to Inquiries: Address your questions, comments, or feedback submitted through contact forms or comments sections.
- Analyze Blog Performance: Track audience demographics and usage patterns to measure the effectiveness of our content and identify areas for improvement.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: Protect our blog and users from fraudulent activities, unauthorized access, and other security threats.
- Comply with Legal Obligations: Meet our legal and regulatory requirements, including those under the NDPA/NDPR.
5. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (NDPA/NDPR)
Under the NDPA/NDPR, we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: Where you have given your explicit consent for specific processing purposes (e.g., subscribing to a newsletter). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legitimate Interests: Where the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (e.g., improving our blog, preventing fraud).
- Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (e.g., responding to lawful requests from authorities).
- Public Interest: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.
6. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any purpose with your explicit consent.
- Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf (e.g., website hosting, analytics, email marketing platforms). These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and only use it for the services they provide to us.
- Analytics Partners: Information is shared with analytics providers (like Google Analytics) to understand blog usage, as explained in Section 3.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency request, in compliance with NDPA).
- Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
- To Protect Our Rights: To enforce our blog’s terms and conditions, protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, or that of our users or the public.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
7. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law (e.g., for tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we no longer need your personal data, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
8. Data Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
9. Your Data Protection Rights (Under NDPA/NDPR)
As a data subject under the NDPA, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:
- Right to be Informed: The right to know what personal data is being collected, why it’s collected, and how it’s processed (as outlined in this policy).
- Right to Access: The right to request copies of your personal data that we hold.
- Right to Rectification: The right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): The right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: The right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: The right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: If you believe your data protection rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC).
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in Section 11. We will respond to your request within the time frame required by law.
10. Children’s Privacy
Our blog is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your rights, or our data practices, please contact us:
- By Email:@malootech.com