Introduction

Audible Talents understands how much you value your privacy and we strive to respect that privacy. We are committed to protecting your personal data when you visit our website. In this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), we describe how we collect, use, and disclose personal information through www.audibletalents.com “website” and any other websites, features, applications, or online services that are owned or controlled by Audible Talents and that post a link to this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection

Users of our service may be Clients, Freelancers, prospects or visitors. This website is for business users only. It is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children or persons under 18 years of age.

Information You Provide to Us

Personal Data: When you use our services, you may provide us with information about you. This may include your name and contact information, financial information to make or receive payment for services obtained through the Audible Talents platform, or information to help us deliver your services (including those you provide when you sign up to our newsletter), process payment or verify your accounts. When you use these services, we may also collect information related to your use of the services and aggregate this with information about other users. This helps us improve our services for you. You may also provide us with information about your contacts or friends if, for example, you would like to refer them as client or freelancer.

Biometric Identifiers or Service Interaction Information: We may collect Personal Information such as a photograph of your face, a selfie, or other data to verify your identity and to detect fraud, identity theft, or other misuse of your account through the use of facial recognition and other technologies. We may request documents to verify this information, such as a copy of your government-issued identification. The biometric identifiers or information collected are used only for identity verification and platform security and use integrity purposes.

Automated technologies or interactions: Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

Technical Data from the following parties:

• analytics providers such as Google;
• advertising networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Google; and
• search information providers such as Google.
• Contact, financial and transaction data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as Paystack or PayPal.

Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.

Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Special Categories: Unless it is absolutely necessary for any activity we are conducting on your behalf, we do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions; you may give us your identity, contact and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

apply for our services;

create an account on our website;

subscribe to our service or publications;

enter a competition, promotion or survey; or

give us some feedback.

Controller

Audible Talents Ltd is the controller and is responsible for your personal data.

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

Contact details

Full name of legal entity: Audible Talents Ltd.

Email address: support@audibletalents.com

Telephone number: (+234) 809-104-4510

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) or the Information Commissioner’s Office (UK) (ICO). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach these bodies, so please contact us in the first instance.

Data Subject Rights.

In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Access Personal Information about you, including: (i) confirming whether we are processing your personal information; (ii) obtaining access to or a copy of your personal information.
• Request Correction of your personal information where it is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated. In some cases, you can update your personal information by sending us an email at support@audibletalents.com
• Request Deletion, Anonymization or Blocking of your personal information when processing is based on your consent or when processing is unnecessary, excessive or noncompliant. Note that if your information is deleted, then your account may become deactivated. If your account is deactivated or you ask to close your account, you will no longer be able to use our services.
• Request Restriction of or Object to our processing of your personal information when processing is noncompliant.
• Withdraw your Consent to our processing of your personal information. If you refrain from providing personal information or withdraw your consent to processing, some features of our services may not be available.
• Request data portability and receive an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us.
• Be informed about third parties with which your personal information has been shared.
• Request the review of decisions taken exclusively based on automated processing if that could affect data subject rights.
• It is your duty to protect your login details, this includes username and passwords.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Third-party marketing

We will not share your personal data with any third-party company for marketing purposes. However, we may make specific introductions on your behalf where you have authorised us to do so and it is necessary or recommended for you to receive advice, services or products from such third parties.

 You can opt out of receiving these promotional emails, but not service-related messages, at any time either through the unsubscribe link in the email we send you or by contacting us.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

We will typically not rent, sell or share your personal information with third parties except to provide products and services you have requested when we have permission, or as described in this policy, including under the following circumstances:

when we believe in good faith it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms and conditions, or as otherwise required by law; or/and

when we believe in good faith that it is necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or/and

we may transfer information, including any personally identifiable information, in the event Audible Talents is acquired by or merged with another organization of similar objectives.

Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

The administrators of Audible Talents website take reasonable and ethical measures to safeguard your personal information during transmission and when stored on our network. However, due to the nature of open communication on the internet, communications between you and the website may not be secure, depending on the network you are using to communicate with us.

If Audible Talents becomes aware of an actual or potential security breach through which sensitive personal information may have been compromised, we will notify you and any applicable regulator electronically so that appropriate protective steps can be taken. By using this website, or providing personal information to us through any means, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of this site.

Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Audible Talents has the discretion to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our site and revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

By accessing your account, you are agreeing to abide by the following Terms of Services:

You agree to keep your log in details confidential and to not share it with anyone. If you suspect that others have obtained your log in details, contact us immediately by email at support@audibletalents.com 

You certify that any information provided by you is true, accurate and complete.

You understand and accept that as a security measure for administrative reasons, we can revoke your access if you fail to abide by the Terms of Services.

You understand and accept that by using your account and applying online, we can communicate with you (or your representative, if applicable) via e-mail.

To continue, choose “I Accept” to indicate your acceptance or “I Do Not Accept” if otherwise.

Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns or grievances regarding this Privacy Policy, you can email us at support@audibletalents.com