This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand what information we gather about you, what we use that information for, and with whom we share that information. It also sets out your rights in relation to your information and who you may contact for more information or queries. Please read the following carefully to understand our processes and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
This Privacy Policy applies to Gabsyn (“we” or “us” or “our”). Gabsyn recognizes the importance of protecting your personal and financial information and is committed to doing this.
This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, handle, store and protect information about you when:·
We provide products or services to you or our client;·
You visit or use our website; and/or·
Performing any other activities that form part of our business.
This Privacy Policy also contains information about when we share your personal information with third parties
(including, but not limited to, our service providers and credit reference agencies). In this Privacy Policy,
we may sometimes collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting and storing your personal information
as “processing” such personal information.
Please note that other websites that may be linked to this website/App are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policy on each of these other websites before disclosing any personal information.
You agree with the contents of this Privacy Policy when you give consent upon access to our website, digital and non-digital platforms, or use our services, content, features, technologies or functions offered on our website or digital platforms or visit any of our offices for official or non-official purposes. Note that you can withdraw your consent at any time, however such withdrawal of consent would not affect the lawfulness of processing information based on consent given before its withdrawal.
In the course of providing products or services to you or our client and performing due diligence checks in
connection with our products or services (or discussing the possible products or services we might provide), we
generally collect personal information about you. We also typically collect personal information about you when
you visit or use our website.
We typically collect or obtain your personal information because you give it to us (for example, in a form on our website) or because
other people give that information to us (for example, third party service providers that we use to help operate our website). We may also
collect or obtain personal information from you because we observe or infer that information about you from the way you interact with us.
In order to improve your experience when you use this website and to ensure that it is functioning effectively, we (or our service providers)
also use cookies (small text files stored in a user’s browser) and web beacons (small graphic images that are placed on a website and used
to monitor a user’s interaction with that website) which may collect personal information.
Additional information on how we use cookies and other tracking technologies and how you can control these can be found in our Cookies
Policy, which is included at the end of this document.
The personal information that we may collect depends on the specific services, activities or products we undertake but typically includes:
your name; age; date of birth; gender; home address; email address; BVN; telephone number; other contact details; country of residence;
passport number and other national ID numbers; employment details (for example, the organization you work for, your job title); family
circumstances (for example, your marital status where you enter it in a form on our website or it appears in any documentation you provide
to us); financial information (for example, your income, bank statements, where you enter such information in a form on our website or it
appears in any documentation that you provide to us or authorize us to access from your bank and financial institutions); details of how
you use any product or service provided by Gabsyn; postings on any blogs, forums, wikis, and any other social media applications and
services that we provide; IP address; browser and device type; user name that is used by you for one of our products or services; language;
access times and duration; details of how you like to use our website or the interactive products, tools, other technology or services we
provide to you or our clients; websites that you visited before and after visiting our website; details of how you like to interact with
us, and similar information.
The types of personal information and ‘sensitive’ or ‘special categories’ of personal information that we collect will generally vary
depending on the nature of the products and services that we provide to you and how you use our website. In some cases, the ‘sensitive’ or
‘special categories’ of personal information that we collect may include information collected as part of KYC and anti-money laundering
checks that we must conduct before accepting you as a customer.
In some rare circumstances, we will also gather other ‘special categories’ of personal information about you because you volunteer that
data to us (for example, it appears in a copy of your resume/CV that you upload to our website). In some other circumstances, the personal
information we collect from you is needed to meet our legal or regulatory obligations or to provide you with the products or services
requested by you.
In some cases, we may also collect personal information about you indirectly from third parties including but not limited to:
We will use your personal information to provide you with products or services. As part of this, we may use your personal information in the course of correspondence relating to those products or services. Such correspondence may be with you, our customers, our service providers or public or judicial authorities with the necessary authorization. In many cases, we also use your personal information to conduct due diligence checks in advance of providing products or services to you, and to process an application from you or a prospective client to receive products or services from us. If you are referred to us by an intermediary or similar third party, we also typically use your personal information to assess whether to accept or reject your referral to Gabsyn by that intermediary or similar third party.
We generally use your personal information collected via this website:
We generally also use your personal information collected via this website for the purposes of, or in connection with:
We are required by law to set out in this Privacy Policy the legal grounds on which we rely in order to process your personal information. We generally use your personal information for the purposes outlined above because: (a) it is necessary for our legitimate interests and does not unduly affect your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms; (b) it is necessary for legal and/or regulatory obligations or requests that we are subject to, such as keeping records in accordance with applicable regulations or providing information to a public body or law enforcement agency; (c) it is necessary to perform contractual obligations that we owe towards you, or to take pre-contractual steps at the request of you; (d) in some cases, we have obtained your prior consent. To the extent that we process any sensitive personal information relating to you for any of the purposes outlined above, we will do so because either: (1) you have given us your explicit consent to process that information; (2) the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest on the basis of applicable law (for example where we are required by law or regulatory requirements to process that information in order to ensure we meet our KYC and ‘anti money laundering’ obligations); or (3) the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. The legal grounds for processing sensitive personal information outlined above are contained in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019.If you do not want to continue receiving any marketing materials from us, you may communicate this to us via recommended options. To whom we disclose your information We generally disclose details about you to professional advisors and third parties that provide services to us (such as IT systems providers, platform providers, financial advisors, consultants including lawyers and accountants) and other goods and services providers (such as providers of marketing services where we are permitted to disclose your personal information to them); competent authorities (including any national and/or international regulatory or enforcement body or court or other form of tribunal, where we are required to do so by applicable law or regulation at their request); a potential buyer, transferee, merger partner or seller and their advisers in connection with an actual or potential transfer or merger of part or all of Gabsyn’s business or assets, or any associated rights or interests, or to acquire a business or enter into a merger with it; credit reference agencies or other organizations that help us detect criminal activity and incidence of fraud; and any federal, state or local government departments and other statutory or public bodies.
we will hold your personal information on Gabsyn’s systems for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with applicable legal, regulatory or internal policy requirements.
we use a range of physical, electronic and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your personal information secure, accurate and up to date. These measures include:· education and training of relevant staff to ensure they are aware of our privacy obligations when handling personal information as well as training around social engineering, phishing, spear phishing, and password risks· administrative and technical controls to restrict access to personal information on a ‘need to know’ basis· technological security measures, including fire walls, encryption and anti-virus software· physical security measures, such as staff security passes to access our premises.· external technical assessments, security audits and vendor due diligence· endpoint security: Anti-virus, portable storage device lockdown, restricted administrative privileges· Real-time monitoring of data leakage controls· Layered and comprehensive cybersecurity defenses· Security incident reporting and management Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of data over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure. We endeavor to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to us or by us.
The data that we collect from you will be transferred to and stored at a destination within Nigeria. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure cloud-based data storage as well as on premises, at an off-site based location and a network accessible storage which includes external drives only for authorized users. We erase/delete personal data in the event of any of the following:
Your rights and how to contact us You have various rights in relation to your personal information. In particular, you have a right to:
To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any other questions about our use of your personal information,
please e-mail dataprotection@gabsyn.ng or write to Gabsyn’s Data Protection Officer at 23 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi,
Lagos, Nigeria.
You may also use these contact details if you wish to make a complaint to us relating to your privacy.
If you are unhappy with the way we handled your personal information or any privacy query or request that you have raised with us, you also have a right to complain to a data protection regulator in the place where you live or work, or in the place where you think an issue in relation to your data has arisen.
Cookies are small text files. They are commonly downloaded to your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They enable the website to tag your device and recognize it as you move around the site (and potentially when you return at a later date) so that, for example, you do not have to re-enter your password each time you move between pages of the website
If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your web browser to disable cookies. As explained above, cookies help you to get the most out of our website. If you decide to disable cookies, you may find that certain aspects of our website do not work as expected. Where you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. The privacy policy was last updated on 20th December, 2020.
