INTRODUCTION

Effective Date: December 1, 2019.

This is the Privacy Statement and Policy (“Privacy Statement”) for AMCO-Africa. and its subsidiaries and affiliates. AMCO-Africa and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “AMCO-AFRICA”, “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person, and which you provide or as you access and use materials on AMCO-AFRICA.com (the “Site”). In addition, information that you submit to AMCO-AFRICA in response to an email request for information or other outreach from AMCO-AFRICA, or through AMCO-AFRICA’s employment application processes, will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with AMCO-AFRICA’s business activities, like conferences and events, and client services, and on websites, applications, and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Sites”), in our capacity as data controllers.

Please see our Terms of use for more information about our online terms and policies in general.

AMCO-AFRICA may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you are able to remain informed about the information we collect and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected here. This Site may contain links to external sites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. AMCO-AFRICA does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third-party sites to which we link. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. By browsing our website and expressly consenting where required (for instance, when submitting your application), you agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement.

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT, AND HOW WE USE IT

What information do we collect?

AMCO-AFRICA collects information from you when you create your account for the Site, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities, databases, or register for conferences and other AMCO-AFRICA-sponsored events. If you do not provide such information, you will not be able to create an account for the Site, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities.

AMCO-AFRICA collects personal data in the course of its business activities, including in connection with some client services. We also collect personal data on certain areas of the Sites when you register for or apply for jobs through the AMCO-AFRICA Recruitment Portal, create a user profile, register for AMCO-AFRICA newsletters and alerts, sign up for conferences and events, and/or participate in public user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personal data collected varies and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, background information required to apply for a job, unique personal identifiers, financial information, subject areas of interest and/or demographic information.

In addition, we sometimes aggregate demographic information and the types of systems and browsers of users AMCO-AFRICA also may conduct user surveys on the Web or use technologies to provide AMCO-AFRICA with information on a number of areas, such as user identity, user viewing habits, whether or not users found what they were searching for, whether the Site content is relevant to user needs, and the like. We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Sites. The information we automatically collect may include IP address, device identifier, web browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) on our Sites. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Sites. The information automatically collected will be associated with any personal data you have provided.

AMCO-AFRICA may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as data brokers or aggregators, in the course of its business activities including in connection with some client services. We may combine this data with existing information we have about you or use it independently, for the purposes of our benchmarking and data analytics activities (e.g., analysis of recruiting practices across an industry, detecting fraud patterns in connection with financial transactions, foot traffic in retail environments). We will always seek to confirm that the third party has informed you in advance about its, and AMCO-AFRICA’s, use of this data.

How do we use personal information?

AMCO-AFRICA uses your personal data to fulfill your requests for information, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, personalize content that you view or receive on the Sites, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the Sites’ performance and functioning, publish your letters to the editor or comments, prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, enforce AMCO-AFRICA’s agreements, and accomplish other purposes you may initiate or request. In some situations, the collection of personal data may be required for the operation of the Sites, or we may use it in the course of our business activities, including in connection with some client services, for example, to provide certain services or products such as our benchmarking products. We may combine and/or analyze personal data to evaluate and offer content and services most relevant to you. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to Contactyou.

The purposes and uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Site and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:

(i) for the purposes of safeguarding the legitimate interests pursued by AMCO-AFRICA. This includes:

• Informing you about updates to the service and notifying you about other products and services offered by AMCO-AFRICA that may be of interest to you, including information regarding publications and events
• Tailoring your experience at the Site with relevant AMCO-AFRICA materials
• Understanding the Site’s user population, identifying subject areas of interest, and determining whether the Site is designed to work with the computer settings of a majority of our visitors
• Measuring and improving the effectiveness of AMCO-AFRICA marketing programs across different channels.
• Improving our web content and navigation.

(ii) on the basis of your consent. Insofar as you have granted us consent to the processing of personal information for specific purposes (for example, your application form for employment with AMCO-AFRICA), the lawfulness of such processing is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

(iii) for compliance with a legal obligation. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and social security requirements.

AMCO-AFRICA and its service providers may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies, including web beacons, to manage our Sites and our services and collect analytics about how you use them. AMCO-AFRICA and its service providers may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you. The information provided throughout this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more details regarding our use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Our Sites do not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services. Accordingly, we do not alter our data collection and use practices in response to “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers.

We will not sell, share, or rent or otherwise make available your personal information to other parties, except that we may disclose the information to third parties who perform services on our behalf and have a need to access the information in connection with those services. Any third parties will only process this information to the extent to which and within the limits that AMCO-AFRICA itself is permitted to process that data. In addition, AMCO-AFRICA may disclose your Contactinformation in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to AMCO-AFRICA.

Use of information collected via mobile devices

In connection with our mobile applications, AMCO-AFRICA may use third party service providers to analyze user activity to fix errors, monitor usage, and improve the performance of the mobile applications. For example, AMCO-AFRICA receives reports on some of our mobile applications’ aggregate usage and browsing patterns, including information about the type of device used, articles accessed, and other events occurring within our apps. AMCO-AFRICA also receives reports on certain errors occurring within mobile applications.

HOW WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

The third parties with whom we may need to share personal information to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Website include:

• our subsidiaries or affiliates;
• our advisors;
• our third party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services and marketing and events services;
• our business partners for publications and events co-organized by AMCO-AFRICA and them;
• law enforcement bodies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order

In addition, we may disclose information about you:

• When we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;
• If disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person;
• To enforce our Terms of use;
• To protect our property, services and legal rights;
• To prevent fraud against AMCO-AFRICA, our subsidiaries, affiliates and/or business partners;
• To support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions; or
• To comply with any and all applicable laws.

In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a re-organization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.

The legal basis by which we process your personal data

Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based:

• in part, on our legitimate interests in promoting and protecting AMCO-AFRICA, building and maintaining relationships. recruitment, and providing our services;
• in part, on your consent, for example if you create a user profile, or register for our newsletters or alerts, or for business purposes that support web operations such as understanding and enhancing the quality of your experience on our web-sites;
• in part, to comply with the law, when certain information is necessary to satisfy our legal or regulatory obligations.

Data recipients and international data transfers

Personal data collected in the course of AMCO-AFRICA business activities, including in connection with some client services, as well as on the Sites may be transferred from time to time to AMCO-AFRICA subsidiaries and affiliates and their personnel, as well as to our third party service providers located throughout the world, including in countries where the local law may grant you fewer rights than you have in your own country. Additionally, the Sites may be viewed and hosted by AMCO-AFRICA and our third party service providers anywhere in the world. Where required by law, we have put in place legal mechanisms designed to ensure adequate data protection of your personal data that is processed by AMCO-AFRICA subsidiaries, affiliates and third party service providers, including the transfer of your personal data to countries other than the one in which you reside. If you would like more information about these legal mechanisms, which may include the EU’s Standard Contractual Clauses, please Contactus at the address below. By using any of the Sites and providing information on any of them, you voluntarily consent to such trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

AMCO-AFRICA will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. AMCO-AFRICA may provide access to your personal data to third party service providers engaged by AMCO-AFRICA to provide services related to the Sites as well as related to AMCO-AFRICA’s business activities, including in connection with some client services, in the manner agreed upon in our client services agreements. We maintain processes designed to ensure that any processing of personal data by third party service providers is consistent with this Privacy Policy and protects the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your personal data.

We also may share your personal data with third party service providers who perform services and functions on our behalf to support our interactions with you, including, for example, processing recruitment materials, administering surveys or contests, or communicating with you.

User forums

You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. AMCO-AFRICA is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Sites.

Link to third party sites

AMCO-AFRICA may provide links to third party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Sites. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by AMCO-AFRICA of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and AMCO-AFRICA shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

Social Networking

The Sites may allow you to sign into and associate your social network accounts including, but not limited to, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, with AMCO-AFRICA. The Sites also may allow you to log in to a AMCO-AFRICA account using certain social network account credentials.

By associating your social network account with AMCO-AFRICA or logging in to a AMCO-AFRICA account using your social network account credentials, you give us permission to access information that you have made available in your public profile for that social network account. The information available in your public profile varies based on the social network and your settings, but may include your email address, real name, profile picture, gender, and location. We use the information we receive from your social network account in accordance with the social network’s terms of use and this Privacy Policy. Please refer to the privacy settings in your social network account for information about what data is shared with AMCO-AFRICA and other connected applications and to manage the data that is shared through your account, including information about your activities using our Sites.

If you would like to disconnect a social media account from us, refer to the settings of that social network account and its provider.

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

AMCO-AFRICA retains your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. We may retain your personal information for longer if they may be the subject of a legal claim, or may otherwise be relevant for future litigation.

AMCO-AFRICA retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship.

We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, AMCO-AFRICA will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.

AMCO-AFRICA Recruitment portal/AMCO-AFRICA Recruiting Program website

Through the AMCO-AFRICA Recruitment portal, you can apply for positions with AMCO-AFRICA or sign up for a AMCO-AFRICA Recruiting Program where you can be notified of any potential job openings or other similar opportunities that might be of interest. The Recruitment Privacy Notice describes more in detail how AMCO-AFRICA and our subsidiaries and affiliates handle and protect the personal data that we collect in connection with the recruitment process.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

AMCO-AFRICA may use cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place a small amount of data on your devices to monitor your website activity to allow us to collect information about how you use our Site and our services. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer.

Please refer to your browser instructions or you can visit https://http://aboutcookies.org/ which will give you more information.

Once you have given your consent to use cookies we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time you will need to delete our cookies using your web browsers settings. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies.

We use the following types of cookies:

• “persistent cookies” to improve your experience when using the Site.
• “session cookies” to enable your use of our Site and to remember your settings. Session cookies are deleted automatically at the end of your visit.
• “web analytics cookies”. These cookies are used by us or third-party providers to analyze how the Site and our services are used, including the following types:

MARKETING

If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every e-mail that is sent to you by us. When subscribing to AMCO-AFRICA e-mail newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES

This website contains links to other Web sites not operated by AMCO-AFRICA.

AMCO-AFRICA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-AMCO-AFRICA web sites to which we link from the Site. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and sites not governed by our Privacy Statement. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.

COMPLIANCE WITH LAW

AMCO-AFRICA complies with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. AMCO-AFRICA may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, state or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.

ACCESS RIGHTS

In accordance with applicable data protection laws, including but not limited to the GDPR, you have a right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information. If any of the information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it, please follow the process outlined below and we will amend our records where appropriate. You also have the right to require us to erase your personal data, stop processing your personal data, restricting the processing of your personal information, right of portability of your personal information and/or to withdraw your consent to processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. If you think we may have incorrect personal information, or would like a copy of the personal information we hold on you, or to exercise any other data protection right, please Contact us. Please note that we need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information.

You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.

CHILDREN

AMCO-AFRICA understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, particularly in their online interactions. This Site is not designed for and does not intentionally target or solicit to children 18 years of age and younger, and AMCO-AFRICA does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.

SECURITY

AMCO-AFRICA has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.

Each employee or contractor having access to any personally-identifiable information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personally-identifiable information, AMCO-AFRICA cannot guarantee that your personally-identifiable information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and AMCO-AFRICA cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when information is supplied over the internet or any public computer network.

USE OF AMCO-AFRICA WEB SITES

Your access to and use of the Site are subject to this Privacy Statement and certain other terms and conditions, contained in our Terms and Conditions of Use.

Unsubscribe

If you have registered for AMCO-AFRICA newsletter or alerts, or you receive invitations to survey or events from AMCO-AFRICA and you prefer not to receive future email communications from us, please review the communications settings in your profile on AMCO-AFRICA.com, follow the instructions on the page of the Site where you have provided such information, subscribed or registered or write to global_unsubscribes@AMCO-AFRICA.com to unsubscribe from all AMCO-AFRICA communications.

Your rights

Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data that we have collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or requesting deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we have collected about you and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data.

If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please Contactus at datasubjectrights@AMCO-AFRICA.com. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data. We will make reasonable attempts to promptly investigate, comply with, or otherwise respond to your requests as may be required by applicable law. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fully complying with your request depending upon the circumstances and the request, such as for example, where producing your information may reveal the identity of someone else. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee for complying with your request where allowed by applicable law, and/or deny your requests where they may be manifestly unfounded, and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unwarranted under applicable law.

In addition, and where granted by local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.

Consent; changes to Privacy Policy

By using the Sites, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Sites.