Privacy Policy

 

Last updated: May 19, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the OGP Naija App and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the OGP, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy Generator.

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

Application refers to OGP Naija, the software program provided by the Company.

Country refers to: Nigeria

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Secretariat (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to OGP Nigeria Secretariat, Federal Ministry of Finance Budget and National Planning (National Planning Arm) C31010, Adekunle Fajuyi Street, Central Business District, Abuja, Nigeria.

Service refers to the Application.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Secretariat, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Secretariat in analyzing how the Service is used.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the Secretariat, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

AMP Technologies Nigeria is not an affiliate or a representative of the OGP Nigeria Secretariat or the Nigerian Government at any level; the firm offered to develop the OGP Naija App as a support to the partnership, and was granted authorization to develop and manage the Application on behalf of the Secretariat. 

The information contained in this App are provided by the OGP Nigeria Secretariat to make the application effective. OGP Action Plans featured in this app are on the OGP Nigeria website www.ogpnigeria.gov.ng, while the featured State Budgets are available on the various state ministries of budget and planning websites as stated in the App. 

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address

First name and last name

Address, State or City

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Secretariat may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To provide You with news, special events and OGP activities.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• With Stakeholders: We may share Your information with Stakeholders, in which case we will require those stakeholders to honor this Privacy Policy. Stakeholders include OGP Nigeria and any other party in the OGP community. We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Secretariat will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Secretariat will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Secretariat’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Secretariat will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Secretariat may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Secretariat may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Secretariat
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that 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.

Our Service does not address anyone 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.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Our Service contains links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

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.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" 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.

This Privacy Policy is backed by extant laws including the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), The Nigerian Constitution (Section 37) and the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA).

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

 

 

 

 

Privacy Policy for the OGP Nigeria Website

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any third party websites, applications or services that does not own or maintain (collectively, "Third Party Services") or to any third parties that use the Application Programming Interface

By using the Services or otherwise providing us with your Personal Information (as defined below), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy, as they may be amended by us from time to time, and agreeing to our collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in this way, please do not use any of this service or otherwise provide with Personal Information.

OGP Nigeria collects only the information required to provide this web service to you. The amount of information provided by you and collected by OGP Nigeria depends on the circumstances. We may collect Personal and Non-Personal.

1. Personal Information means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household, or is otherwise defined as personal information under applicable law. 
2. Non-Personal Information refers to information that does not meet the definition of Personal Information above.

1. User communications. When you send email or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our service.
2. Information Collected Through Technology. The website automatically collects and receives certain information from your computer or mobile device, including the activities you perform on the website, the type of hardware and software you are using (for example, your operating system or browser), and information obtained from cookies (see below). This information is used to further understand users’ needs to better the service provided.
3. We use technology to automatically gather information by the following methods:
   • Cookies. Cookies, including local shared objects, are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive which work by assigning to your computer a unique number that has no meaning outside of the website. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually configure your browser to prevent this. Not accepting cookies may affect functionality of certain features of the site.
   • IP Address. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you begin services with an Internet services provider. Each time you access this website and each time you request one of the pages of the OGP Nigeria website, the server logs your IP address.
   • Web Beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in web pages and emails. The website may use these technical methods in HTML emails that OGP Nigeria sends to Users to determine whether they have opened those emails and/or clicked on links in those emails. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that is Personal Information.

1. Personal Information. We identify the purpose for which your Personal Information is collected and will be used or disclosed. If that purpose is not listed below, we will identify any additional purposes for which we will collect your Personal Information, before or at the time of collection, and we will obtain your consent to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information for such additional purpose(s).
2. By using this website, you will be deemed to consent to our use of your Personal Information for the purposes of:
   • communicating with you generally;
   • protecting against fraud or error;
   • providing information or services requested by you;
   • personalizing your experience with the OGP Nigeria website, as well as evaluating statistics on the website activity;
   • performing statistical analyses of your behavior and characteristics, in order to measure interest/needs in and use of the various sections of the site;
   • communicating with you on other websites;
   • email gating;
   • delivery of content and information to Third Party Services Providers;
   • complying with legal and governmental requirements; and/or
   • fulfilling any other purpose that would be reasonably apparent to the average person at the time that we collect it.
3. We extend the rights granted to "data subjects" under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the "GDPR") to all of its Users. Consequently, you have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time (if our processing is based on consent) and the right to object to our processing of your Personal Information (if processing is based on legitimate interests).
4. Non-Personal Information. We may use Non-Personal Information for the following purposes:
   • System Administration: We may use Non-Personal Information for the purposes of system administration, assisting in diagnosing problems with our servers, monitoring system performance and traffic on the website and to gather broad demographic information about the site’s Users.
   • Personalization: We use cookies and IP addresses to track features such as delivering Content specific to your interests and informing you of new, relevant services or certain third party offerings.

Category: Identifiers

Sources of Collection: Website visits. 

Purposes of Collection: To enable OGP Nigeria Secretariat improve the website and to communicate with you.

Disclosures for a Business Purpose: To service providers for the purpose of providing the website Services to you.

Our Service contains links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

This Privacy Policy is backed by extant laws including the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), The Nigerian Constitution (Section 37), the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us directly as follows:

Email us on: info@ogpnigeria.gov.ng