Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we collect, share, use and protect your personal information when you visit or use this site and other access other services offered by ESQ Trainings Limited. Be assured that we will keep protecting your information.

ESQ Trainings Limited users have the opportunity to make choices about how their personal information may be shared, and we encourage you to make choices that enable us provide you with products and services tailored just for you.

Who are we?

The Site is owned and operated by ESQ Trainings Limited. Any reference to “ESQ Trainings Limited” in this privacy policy mean “we”, “our” or “us” in this privacy policy.

Definition of Terms

“Consent” means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the Data Subject’s (users) wishes by which they clearly signify agreement to the Processing of Personal Data relating to him or her.

“Data Controller” means ESQ Trainings Limited. Reference to “ESQ Trainings Limited” in this privacy policy mean “we”, “our” or “us”.

“Data Subject” mean you as the user on the website or application.

“Data Protection Laws” means the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (NDPR), the NDPR 2019 Implementation Framework, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any relevant data protection laws.

“Data Protection Officer” refers to the selected personnel assigned with the duties of ensuring compliance with relevant data protection laws, relevant data privacy instruments and relevant data protection directives. 

“NITDA” means the National Information Technology Development Agency.

“Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person i.e. name, address, email address, address, postal code, phone number or other relevant information as may be required from time to time. 

“Data Breach” refers to a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to personal information, stored or otherwise processed. 

“Privacy Policy” means this Data Privacy Policy

What Information do we collect? 

ESQ Trainings Limited given the services we provide may collect personal information, such as your name, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, or employment information. When purchasing courses on our website, our third-party payment platform we partner with to bill our users may collect and store your billing and bank card information if you authorize them to do so. ESQ Trainings Limited may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

Legal Basis for collection

As a data controller, the legal basis for using your personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy is as follows:

1. As a user, your personal information is necessary to perform our obligations under any contract with you i.e. comply with the terms of use of our site, your academic institution or learning centre, your employer or other organization that may be providing you with access to our services.

1. As a user, your personal information is necessary to continually run, grow and develop the ESQ Trainings Limited brand; continually build relationships with partners, sponsors and academic institutions; carry out market research and analysis; continually improve on marketing and business development and for administrative and auditing purposes.

1. ESQ Trainings Limited does not sell, rent or lease its user lists to third-parties. ESQ Trainings Limited may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external partners or sponsors about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In these instances, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party without your express consent.

1. ESQ Trainings Limited may share its users data with our external payment platform to help us perform tasks required to complete a purchase transaction, provide user support, send you emails.  ESQ Trainings Limited may share information on your use of our site, such as links clicked, non-sensitive texts entered, with third party providers of web analytic software in order to enable us improve our services. All third parties partnering with us or working for us are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services and they are obliged to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

1. ESQ Trainings Limited keep track of the pages our users visit while using our platform, in order to determine which of our products and services are the most popular. This data enables us deliver customized content and advertising within the websites we operate to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

When may your information be disclosed? 

1. ESQ Trainings Limited may disclose user personal information when we are required to or we believe it is appropriate to comply with the provisions of the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena, court order etc.); to enforce or apply this Privacy Policy or our other policies or agreements; to initiate, render, bill, and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our or our users’ rights, property or safety; to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of the Services; or if we believe that an emergency involving the danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires or justifies disclosure of personal information.

1. Information about our users, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of a merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information could be transferred to third parties as one of ESQ Trainings Limited’s business assets. In such an event, we will attempt to notify you before your personal information is transferred, but you may not have the right to opt out of any such transfer.

How long do we keep this information?

ESQ Trainings Limited will not hold your personal data for longer than is necessary. We keep information about your visit to our website for different lengths of time depending on what it is used for, anything from a few minutes and up to 3 years.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small file that is placed on your computer’s hard drive. Its functions include storing your login and session statuses, recording your user preferences and analyzing web traffic.

Cookies enable websites and applications to store your user preferences in order to enhance your overall website experience by better understanding your preferences, likes and dislikes. Cookies also allow websites to identify when users are logged on their site and when they return to their site, test new content and analyze web traffic with data analytics.

Asides from the data that you elect to disclose and share with us, we cannot access and do not have access your computer or any other information about you with cookies.

Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you can adjust your browser settings to disable cookies. This may however prevent you from enjoying the full experience of our website as it was intended.

User Rights

• Access, Rectification and Deletion of your Personal Information. As a user, you have the right to access, rectify or delete your personal information that we collect. To protect the privacy and the security of your personal information, we may request data from you to enable us to confirm your identity and right to access such data, as well as to search for and provide you with the personal data we maintain. There are instances where applicable laws or regulatory requirements allow or require us to refuse to provide or delete some or all of the personal information that we maintain. To exercise your rights, you may make updates within your customer account on the website or application. We may not accommodate a request to delete or change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

• Unsubscribe from Our Marketing Communications. If you no longer wish for us to use your email account to send you marketing emails or non-transactional promotional materials, please directly click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our email messages to you or contact us at legal@ESQ Trainings Limited.com .

Children

At the moment, our services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, children under the age of 16 or minors. If you are a minor, please do not attempt to fill out our forms or send any personal information about yourself to us. If a minor has provided us with personal information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact us at legal@ESQ Trainings Limited.com  immediately to remove the relevant personal information and unsubscribe the minor.

If we become aware that a minor has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to promptly delete such information from our files.

Links to Third-Party Sites

The ESQ Trainings Limited website may contain links to other websites. If you click on a Third-Party link, you will be directed to that site. Please note that we do not operate or control these external websites and advise you to review the privacy policies of these websites. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any Third-Party sites or services.

Changes to the Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 2022 and will remain in force subject to any changes or amendments to any of its provisions. Our Privacy Policy is under regular review and we may update it from time to time to reflect best practice and to ensure compliance with any changes or amendments to the Data Protection Laws. We will notify our users when any changes are made to this Privacy Policy.

Contact

In providing your telephone, phone number, postal code, address and e-mail address, or similar details, you agree that we may contact you by these methods to keep you informed about our products and services and for such reasons that may enhance our service delivery to you. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through our Data Protection Officer, Email: legal@ESQ Trainings Limited.com and we will be happy to address your concerns and respond to your comments.