Last Updated 27th January 2023
Edves has adopted this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to govern the collection, use, and storage of data. Edves places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This Policy was created in order to demonstrate Edves’s commitment to the privacy of all participants and governs any collection and use of personal information including on social media, on our website, event platforms or event apps. By accessing our website or providing your information to us, you accept and agree to the practices described in this Policy.
What Types of Data We Collect and How We Use It
We collect a variety of information when you visit our website and apply for our competition.
Personal Data may include name, school name, email, mobile phone, address and country/region.
Here is what we collect:
- Name: We may use your name to personalize digital and print communications sent to you by Edves, on name badges at the competition, to list on the Edves website and/or newsletter.
- School Name: We may use your school name on digital and print communications sent to you by Edves, on name badges at the competition, to list on the Edves website and/or newsletter.
- Email: We may use your email to send you communications regarding Edves news, information on programs, products, services, and purchases you make. Mobile Phone: Depending on your communication preferences, Edves may contact you on your mobile phone regarding the competition or other Edves information.
- Address: We may use your address to deliver communications sent you by Edves. Your address may be reported in aggregate (e.g. the number of attendees in your school) when reporting on demographics and analyzing trends.
- Country/region: We may use your country and region to know where you are based and to be used to analyze data collected for the competition.
How We Collect Personal Data
In general, an applicant will know when Personal Data is being collected because he or she will have to fill out a form or has emailed the organization. In addition, we may collect Personal Data through your use of the website(s) and Apps, or any social media.
Applicants may generally browse public portions of the Edves website anonymously without providing any detailed information. However, Personal Data is required in connection with registering for the competition.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored for varying amounts of time on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Edves may use cookies in order to collect certain information about you, such as IP addresses (the Internet address of a computer), domain names (e.g., whether you are logged on from a .com, .gov, or .edu domain), and the type of computer and operating system being used. We may also use cookies to identify your computer when you revisit our website or to recall your authentication information. We may collect such information in order to better operate the website so as to enhance your experience while using the website. You have the option of setting your computer to disable cookies or to alert you when cookies are being used. If you choose to disable cookies, please be aware that portions of the website may not function properly.
How We Share Information
Edves may provide personal information to third-party agents that have been hired to help provide a requested service or to facilitate us in providing our services to you in the course of the competition. This may include payment processors, system providers, Edves newsletter publishers, website analytics, and updates on programs and services. Visitors may opt out of the sharing of the collected information by contacting us.
Edves reserves the right to disclose without notice any information in its possession if required to do so by law, to protect or defend its rights or property, or to respond to an emergency.
External links
This Policy only addresses Edves’s use and disclosure of your Personal Data. The website may contain links to other Edves websites for more information on our Catalyst events, products and services.
Rights of Other African Residents
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Data.
You have the right to:
- Request access to your Personal Data. This enables you to receive a copy of your Personal Data provided for the competition and to verify that we are lawfully and correctly processing it.
- Request correction of your Personal Data. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- Request erasure of your Personal Data. You may have the right to request that Personal Data we hold about you is deleted and you no longer have interest in the competition. This implies that benefits available only to competitors would not be accessible to you.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
How You Can Access and Change Information
Edves acknowledges that you have the right to access your Personal Data. In case you request us to remove data, we will respond within a reasonable timeframe. Upon request, we will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Data. You can update or correct your Personal Data or remove it from our system by making a request to us at the contact information provided below. Requests typically receive a response within thirty (30) days. If access cannot be provided within that time frame, we will provide the requesting party with an estimated date by which the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, we will provide an explanation of why access has been denied.
Our Security Measures to Protect Your Personal Data
We are committed to taking reasonable efforts to secure the information that you choose to provide us, and we use a variety of security procedures to help protect against unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of Personal Data. We restrict access to Personal Data to our employees, contractors and servicers who need to know the information to operate, develop, or improve our services.
Unfortunately, no transmission of Personal Data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, and despite our efforts, Edves cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, or to or from our online services. Edves has no responsibility or liability for the security of information transmitted via the Internet. If you have questions about this Policy or the security of your Personal Data, please contact us as indicated under the “Contact Us” section below.
We retain your Personal Data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
Modifications
We may amend this Policy from time to time without prior notice. If we decide to change this Policy, we will share a new update date so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it, so please review it periodically.
Your continued use of our website will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy or our treatment of the information you provide us, please contact as at:
Contact: Kolade Orilowo
Email: kolade.orilowo@edves.net
Phone: +234 908 809 8400
Address: 140 Borno Way, Ebutte Metta, Lagos state.
TERMS OF SERVICE
Last Updated: 27th January, 2023
Please read this Terms of Service (“Terms,” “Terms of Service”) carefully before using the www.catalyst.edves.net Website (the “Website”) operated by Edves (“us,” “we,” “our”) as this Terms of Service contains important information regarding limitations of our liability. Your access to and use of this Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to everyone, including but not limited to applicants, users and others, who wish to access and use the Website.
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the Terms, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.
PROHIBITED USES
You agree that you will use this Website in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and these Terms at all times. The following is a non-exhaustive list of prohibited uses of this Website. You agree that you will not perform any of the following prohibited uses:
- Impersonating or attempting to impersonate Edves Limited or its employees, representatives, subsidiaries or divisions;
- Misrepresenting your identity or affiliation with any person or entity;
- Sending or attempting to send any advertising or promotional material, including but not limited to spam, junk mail, chain mail or any similar material;
- Engaging in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any person’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined in our sole discretion, may harm us or the users of this Website or expose us or other users to liability;
- Using the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage or impair the Website or interfere with another party’s use of the Website;
- Using any robot, spider or other similar automatic technology, process or means to access or use the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on this Website;
- Using any manual process or means to monitor or copy any of the material on this Website or for any other unauthorized purpose;
- Using any device, software, means or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website, including but not limited to viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other such materials;
- Attempting to gain unauthorized access to, interfering with, damaging or disrupting any parts of the Website, the server(s) on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website;
- Attempting to attack or attacking the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack;
- Otherwise attempting to interfere with the proper working of the Website;
- Using the Website in any way that violates any applicable federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations.
NO WARRANTY ON WEBSITE
This Website is provided “as is,” No warranty, express or implied (including any implied warranty of merchantability, of satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose or use) shall apply to this Website, whether arising by law, course of dealing, course of performance, usage of trade or otherwise.
AVAILABILITY, ERRORS AND INACCURACIES
We assume no liability for availability, errors, or inaccuracies in the information provided on this Website. Ideas and information are kept in storage but can be the same with others. We would like to state that Edves would not be responsible to prevent others from submitting similar ideas.
We make no representations about the suitability of the information, products, and services contained on this Website for any purpose, and the inclusion or offering of any products or services on this Website does not constitute any endorsement or recommendation of such products or services by us.
We disclaim all warranties and conditions that this Website, its servers, or any email sent from us are free of viruses or other harmful components.
DAMAGES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
In no event shall Edves Limited be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of, relating to, or in any way connected with your access to, display of, or use of this Website or with the delay or inability to access, display or use this Website, including but not limited to your reliance upon opinions or information appearing on this Website; any computer viruses, information, software, linked websites operated by third parties, products or services obtained through this Website, whether based on a theory of negligence, contract, tort, strict liability, consumer protection statutes or otherwise, even if Edves Limited has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
This limitation of liability reflects the allocation of risk between you and us. The limitations specified in this section will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in these Terms of Use is found to have failed of its essential purpose. The limitations of liability provided in these Terms of Use inure to the benefit of Edves Limited.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES
This Website contains an embedded form to a website operated by another party other than us. We provide the form to take registration data only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. Our inclusion of such does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
All contents of this Website are Edves Limited. All rights reserved. Website, and all content and other materials on this Website, including, without limitation, all logos, designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, data, software, other files and the selection and arrangement thereof (collectively, ” Content “) are the proprietary property of Edves Limited and are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Edves Limited.
If you are aware of an infringement of our intellectual property, please let us know by contacting us at kolade.orilowo@edves.net.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond to any claim that Content posted on the Website infringes on the copyright or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity.
If you are a copyright owner, or authorized on behalf of one, and you believe that the copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please submit your claim via email to kolade.orilowo@edves.net, with the subject line: “Copyright Infringement” and include in your claim a detailed description of the alleged infringement.
You may be held accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) for any misrepresentation or bad-faith claims on the infringement of any Content found on and/or through the Website on your copyright.
If you believe in good faith that materials hosted by us infringe your copyright, you (or your lawyer) may send us a written notice that includes the following information. Please note that we will not process your complaint if it is not properly filled out or is incomplete. To report that your intellectual property rights have been infringed upon, please email us at kolade.orilowo@edves.net and include the following information:
- an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright’s interest;
- a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., web page address) of the location where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work;
- your address, telephone number, and email address;
- a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
GOVERNING LAW, SEVERABILITY, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, AND VENUE
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Website, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had between us regarding the Website.
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions including, without limitation, the interpretation or breach thereof, shall be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria.
CHANGES
We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time without any prior notice to you.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about our Terms and Conditions, please contact us at kolade.orilowo@edves.net
DISCLAIMER
Please read this Disclaimer carefully before using the catalyst.edves.net Website (the “Website”) operated by Edves Limited (“us,” “we,” “our”) as this Disclaimer contains important information regarding limitations of our liability. Your access to and use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Disclaimer. This Disclaimer applies to everyone, including, but not limited to applicants who wish to access or use the Website.
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Disclaimer. If you disagree with any part of this Disclaimer, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.