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The Privacy Policy of Racheal Abiriba-Nwaka.
Racheal Abiriba-Nwaka operates the www.RachealAbiriba.com website, operates the newsletters/substacks (Reflections With Rae and The Creative Scoop) in different parts of this website. This privacy policy page is used to inform the website visitors about my policies with regard to the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decides to use our newsletters/substacks, including the www.RachealAbiriba.com’s blog.
If you choose to use any of my Services, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that is collected is used for providing and improving the Services that are provided. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which are accessible at www.RachealAbiriba.com, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.
Who I Am
My website address is:
https://rachealabiriba.com
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Introduction
RachealAbiriba.com is the eponymous privately owned and managed website of Racheal Abiriba-Nwaka. We publish educative and enlightening lifestyle weblog posts about the latest trends on topics ranging from Beauty, Fashion, Travel, Wellness and so much more, from an influential personal reporting angle.
Data privacy and protection are very important to us for everyone who uses our products and services, and who entrusts us with their information. We have written this privacy notice so that you can better understand how we collect data, what we do with it and how we look after it. We will tell you how long we keep data and what happens when we no longer need it. We will also outline what rights you have over your data and how we protect and facilitate those rights.
Opting in and out of communications has been made easy.
Sometimes people want to read privacy notices because a business is asking for their permission to contact them for marketing. They want to be sure that, if they agree, it will be easy for them to withdraw permission in the future. We want you to be able to opt-out as easily as you opted in. Any marketing email we send to you will always have an “unsubscribe” link that will take you off that relevant marketing list. Please, remember that you may have subscribed from another email address; you will only be able to use the link to “unsubscribe” from the address to which the marketing email has been sent. We make it easy for you to change your preferences for postal marketing as well, giving clear instructions for opting out of all direct mail.
If you want to change the preferences you have with us for email or postal marketing, you can send us an email at hello@rachealabiriba.com.
Content
What personal data do we collect from you?
How do we use your personal information?
Legal bases for data processing – what does it mean and how do we use them?
Do we share your information with anyone else?
Do we collect information on children?
How long will we keep your data?
Profiling – what do we mean?
Data security and cross-border transfers.
Link to other websites.
Your data rights.
How to contact us.
What personal information do we collect from you?
What personal data do we collect from you?
We collect information:
When you pay for any of our products or services,
When you register to receive one of our newsletters,
When you use our website,
When you attend any of our events,
If you participate in any research we undertake,
If you join one of our communities or forums,
When you enter a competition, and
If you contact us about a query or a complaint.
We collect the following types of information:
Contact information
When you use or subscribe to one of our services, such as purchasing a physical product or a digital subscription, signing up for an email newsletter, entering a competition, joining one of our online communities or participating in any of our research projects, we will ask you to provide information such as your name, email and/or postal address so that we can provide you with the services requested.
General personal information
When conducting surveys or running competitions, in addition to contact information, we may collect other personal information such as your gender, date of birth, marital status, etc.
Payment details
When you purchase a product or service from us, such as subscribing to one of our programmes or attending one of our events, we will also ask you for your payment details in addition to your contact information, to secure payment and to authorise access to our products and services.
Online identifiers
When you visit our website, we collect information about your web visits, such as how long you visited, what pages you looked at, your IP address and where you were when you visited, what sort of device you were using when you visited (such as a mobile phone or type of desktop PC, Mac etc).
Behavioural data
When you visit our website, we collect data on your online behaviour (eg time spent on the website, items clicked on, etc).
When you buy a product or service from us, such as a subscription, we will collect information about what products and services you have bought from us.
When you register for a newsletter or take part in research, we may collect data about your preferences, tastes and interests.
“Special” categories of data
Sometimes, we may collect data in online surveys on what is called “special categories of data”. These could be data sets such as biometric information (including voice samples, facial recognition, etc), political opinions, religion, philosophical beliefs, health, sexual orientation, etc. Whenever we research these topics, it is always optional, and we will make sure that we have your consent to process this data. We will remind you at the time why and how we are processing this data and what additional safeguards are in place for using, storing and ultimately either deleting or anonymising this data.
How do we use your personal information?
We collect different types of information about people for four main reasons:
To provide personalised services unique to individual users.
So we can monitor and improve the services we offer.
To sell advertising space on our websites. This helps us to keep our websites free for people who visit them.
To market products and services which we think would be relevant to you.
Newsletters
When you sign up for one of our newsletters, you are giving consent for us to use the email address provided to send you relevant content from us. You can withdraw this consent for any newsletter by unsubscribing at any time.
Advertising
We may advertise on our website and in our newsletters to help keep most of the content free. We use cookies and similar technologies and may work with trusted partners so that we can show you advertisements we believe might interest you, control the number of times you see an ad and measure the effectiveness of a campaign. We have a legitimate interest in using cookies but you can opt in or out of using them at any time. If you are interested and want to learn more about these, including how to opt out, please see our Cookie Policy. Please note, that opting out of cookies does not mean you will not see any advertisements.
Social Media Advertising
We work with social media networks such as Facebook Pixel to show you interest-based marketing content from our brand, brands we work with, and selected advertisers if you have viewed the rachealabiriba.com website. Data collected by the Facebook Pixel may also be anonymised and used in the aggregate to help improve the quality and effectiveness of our website and marketing efforts.
You can limit the kind of tracking and profiling that Facebook undertakes by going to your Facebook account settings. You can also find out more about the pixels and cookies we use on our website by reading our ‘Cookies Policy‘.
Research & Insight
We may run various user communities, forums and reader panels. We may send out research invitations to our research communities, to people who pay for our products and services and to people who have opted in to receive communications from us.
Delivery of goods and services/Customer account management
We will use the information you have provided for the provision of goods and/or services that you have requested and subsequently communicate with you about those products and services.
Please note too that when you buy something from us – such as a subscription or a ticket to an event – we may contact you about your registration details, to manage any account or subscription you have with us, or to provide customer service. This will be the case even if you have opted out of, or declined to consent to, receiving promotional emails.
Competitions
When you enter one of our online competitions, we will process your information to pick a winner. If you have opted-in to receiving information from us about our products and services (eg receiving subscription offers, event invitations, signing up for editorial newsletters, etc) then we will use the information you provide to make sure we offer you relevant products and services (based on where you live, your age, gender, tastes, preferences etc). If you have opted-in to receive news and offers from any competition sponsors, we will share your information with them.
Further details about this are outlined in the “Who do we share information with” section.
Partnerships programmes
We work with our partners from the world of luxury retail, fashion, travel and wellness so that we can present you with some outstanding offers and opportunities by either email or post. You will only ever receive partner messages from us if you have actively permitted the same. We won’t disclose your personal information to anyone, the messages will come from us and you can unsubscribe at any time from these messages.
Customer queries and complaints
We process any information you provide when dealing with any complaints or enquiries made by you or legally on your behalf.
Legal bases for data processing – what does it mean and how do we use them?
The existing laws on data protection set out several different reasons why a company may collect and process your data and it is one of our duties to make sure that you understand which of these lawful bases we are using to process your data.
Consent
In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent. For example, when you tick a box to receive email newsletters.
Contractual obligations
In certain circumstances, we need your data to comply with our contractual obligations. For example, when you purchase a physical product which we may sell, we will keep your name and address to fulfil your subscription.
Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data. For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting us to the relevant law enforcement agency.
Legitimate interest
In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests. For example, we personalise the marketing content we provide you. We may also use your address details to send you direct marketing information by post, telling you about products and services that we think might interest you if you subscribe to such services.
Do we share your information with anyone else?
We may share your personal information:
If all or any of our assets (eg a title owned by us) were to be sold to another business, the personal data relating to that title (eg the subscriber list/newsletter list etc) would be transferred to the new business owner.
Service providers
We work with service providers to perform some tasks on our behalf. This might include analysis, payments, marketing, etc and including tagging and blending non-personal website user data to provide aggregate demographics on our audiences. We may share your data with these providers to perform the necessary tasks. However, they are obliged not to disclose or use it for any other purposes. Any third-party processing of your data on our behalf will be subject to security and confidentiality obligations consistent with this privacy notice and applicable laws.
Customer research & insight
We may disclose de-personalised data (such as aggregated statistics) about the audience of our products and services and/or research participants to describe our sales, customers, traffic patterns and other information to prospective partners, advertisers, investors and other reputable third parties, and for other lawful purposes. These statistics will never include identifiable personal information.
Law enforcement organisations
Under certain circumstances, we may occasionally be required by law, court order or governmental authority to disclose certain types of personal information and we reserve the right to comply with any such legally binding request.
Marketing partners
With your explicit permission, we may share your information with other companies we are working with, such as competition sponsors. Whenever we share your information with another company, we will always ask for your permission, will name the company and will always be clear that your information will be shared with another organisation.
Collecting data on children.
We do not knowingly collect and process information from children (anyone under the age of 13). The products and services we offer are generally aimed at people aged 18 and over.
If you are under the age of 13, we ask that you do not give us any information about you or use our website.
If you are a parent or guardian of a child under 13 and you think that your child has used our website or subscribed to a newsletter or provided their information to us without your consent, please contact us at hello@rachealabiriba.com and we will delete and/or stop processing your child’s personal information within a reasonable time. If you are aged between 13 and 18, we request that you seek your parent or guardian’s permission before providing us with your information or using the website.
How long will we keep the data?
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the individual service(s) you have requested while taking into account any legal requirements and tax and accounting rules. We may not store customer data for longer than 6 years after the last purchase.
Where you sign up to receive email marketing communication from us, we will retain your e-mail address after you ‘opt out of receiving emails to ensure that we continue to honour and respect that request. To unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time, please click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of any marketing email and update your account preferences.
In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data: see ‘Your rights’ below for further information.
In some circumstances, we may anonymise your data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Profiling
We may sometimes use the data you share with us, and that we collect about you when browsing our website and products, to personalise our services and to tailor marketing content. For example, we may use the information which you have provided to send you information about products which we think you may be interested in. If you do not want to receive this material, you can unsubscribe at any point.
Cross-border transfers and security
We make sure that we have appropriate security measures to protect your information and make sure that, when we ask another organisation to provide a service for us, they have appropriate security measures and follow the same high standards of security and data protection as we do.
If we transfer any information out of Nigeria or the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region, it will only be done with the relevant protection (stated under Nigerian Law) being in place.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to the RachealAbiriba.com website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on any other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you have accessed them using links from our website.
Your rights
As a consumer, you have rights when it comes to your data:
The right to be informed. At every point where we are collecting your data, we will inform you of why it is being collected and how it is being processed.
The right of access. If you wish to see what information we hold on you, you may send us what is called a ‘Subject Access’ request. We will require photocopies of two pieces of identification. We will respond within 30 days of receipt of your request. There is no cost to you in requesting to see your data, but please note that we reserve the right to charge you if you make subsequent requests. You can use the contact details below for a Subject Access Request.
The right to rectification. We offer the opportunity to amend your personal information by contacting us using the details below.
The right to erasure. If you wish to cancel all communications with us, we can anonymise or de-identify your data. Please contact us using the details below. Please make sure you inform us of all email accounts, profiles, names etc that you may have used with us that you wish to erase.
The right to restrict processing. You can opt out or restrict the processing of your data by:
Amending your cookie settings in your browser.
Unsubscribing from postal and email communications, using the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in the email or other communications being sent to you.
Contacting hello@rachealabiriba.com.
If you are unhappy with the way we have collected and are using your data, please do not hesitate to contact us at hello@rachealabiriba.com.
You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority if any.
How to contact us
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us to understand more about our privacy policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your personal information, then please write to us at hello@rachealabiriba.com.