Thank you for visiting our website. We care about your privacy.

This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected at this site. They spell out the policies of how we handle data that we receive from you, how that data is kept and processed, and how that data will be used or shared.     

Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways. These practices may be changed, but any changes will be made known and posted on the site and any changes will only apply to activities and information on a going forward, not retroactive basis. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of January, 2024.

Definitions:

Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession.

Data Controller

Data Controller means a person or business who either alone or jointly with other persons determines the purposes for which and the way in which personal data are, or are to be processed. The data controller will decide the purpose for which personal data is required and what personal data is necessary to fulfil that purpose.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, SeekerList will be your Data Controller.

Data Processor

Data Processor means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. A data processor simply processes any data that the data controller gives them. The data processor is the third-party company that the data controller chooses to use and process the data. That being said, the third-party data processor does not own the data that they process nor do they in any way control it. We may use the services of various Data Processors in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject

Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of personal data.

User

The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.

 Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically from using the Service. An example is the duration of a page visit.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data typically a text file generated by a website and saved by your device's web browser that the website can retrieve at a later time. Its common purpose is to remember information about you such as registration or login credentials or shopping cart contents for a specific site.

Collection of Information

We collect data through a variety of means. The following outlines the various ways by which we may obtain personal data from You.

Data You Give Us:

We collect personally identifiable information, like names, email addresses, phone numbers, etc., ("Required Information") when voluntarily submitted by you during Registration. This information is only used to fulfill your specific request, unless you give us permission to use it in another manner, for example to add you to our mailing lists.

You may need to register an account and provide this Required Information if you wish to use all features of the Service. You could choose not to give us this information and still be able to use the Service, but some Service functionalities may be limited to you. For example, you will not be able to post ads or interact with other users if you do not register an account.

You may also be required to provide information about yourself to confirm your identity in the event that your account has been blocked or disabled and requires reactivation.

While posting an ad, it is inevitable not to provide some personal information about yourself such as your name and contact details such as your phone number and location. In certain instances, you may have to make available your Personal Information and Curriculum Vitae in certain announcements. You acknowledge that by providing your personal data in an announcement you are making such data publicly available and that we have no control over this. You should carefully consider the risks associated with the fact that you make certain information, in particular, your phone number and location publicly available.

You also acknowledge and agree that in order to provide the service, we will make public some personal data from your profile. This is to enable us to facilitate communication and transactions amongst Users.

Chat

There are some instances where You may choose to communicate to Sellers or other Users via chat. It is imperative to note, however, that chats on Our platform are not end to end encrypted and the Administrator may be able to read some or all of Your chats. By using chat, you consent that communications between You and other Users can be seen by the Administrator and you are at liberty to choose between using the chat module or to communicate directly to other Users via phone call or e-mail.

Data Given To Us By Third Parties:

When you choose to log in using Facebook, we get personal data from your Facebook account. This includes your name, Facebook ID, profile image, email address, gender, date of birth, friends list, location, etc. If you log in using Google, we also get similar information.

You can refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference which describes what categories of information Facebook may share with third parties. You could read their data policy about how they share data with third parties. You could also read Google's privacy policy about how they share your information.

Data We Collect Automatically:

We also collect data automatically. For example, your IP address and Usage Data.

 Usage data:

Usage Data is data collected automatically from using the Service. Example is the duration of a page visit. We record and log the features and content you interact with on Our Service, how long you remain on the Service and what sections you normally use.

 Cookies or Tracking Technology:

We use cookies and tracking technology depending on the features accessed on our website. Cookie and tracking technology are useful forgathering information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the Site, and understanding how visitors use the Site.

A cookie is a small amount of data typically a text file generated by a website and saved by your device's web browser that the website can retrieve at a later time. Its common purpose is to remember information about you such as registration or login credentials or shopping cart contents for a specific site. As a result, certain information that you have earlier entered into certain fields on the website may automatically appear next time when You use our Service to prevent you from retyping them all over again. So cookies help customize the Site for our visitors.

Cookies can either be session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when you close your browser and is used to make it easier for you to navigate our Service. A persistent cookie however remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Cookie data will be stored on your device and most of the times only for a limited period of time. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology, however, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information.

Transaction Data:

When payments are made through the Service, financial account data, such as your credit or debit card number and or mobile money wallet number may have to be provided to Our third-party service providers. We do not personally collect or store such information though we may receive some credit or debit card-related data and some data about the transaction, including: date, time and amount of the transaction and also the payment method used.

Device and Location Data:

We collect data from your device. Examples of such data include type and model of device, operating system, Internet Service Provider, Hardware ID, mobile carrier, language settings, time zone, etc.

Data about how you found us:

We collect data about your referring URL that is, the website you were on before you visited our site.

Advertising IDs:

We collect Advertising Identifiers from your device depending on your operating system. This makes us send personalized ads to your device. These numbers can typically be reset through the settings of your device's operating system.

 
How We Use Your Personal Data

We process your Personal Data primarily to provide, operate, maintain, improve, understand and personalize our Service.

Your Personal Data may also be used for the following purposes:

To create and manage your Account and User Profile.

To meet or fulfill the reason you provided the information to us.

To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so.

To provide support and assistance for the Service.

To communicate with you about the Service, including Service announcements, updates or offers.

To personalize your experience, website content, and communications based on your preferences, including targeted offers and ads served through the Service.

To process orders and other transactions.

To respond to user inquiries and fulfill user requests.

To monitor the usage of our Service.

To detect, prevent and address technical issues.

To market, improve, and develop the Service, including research, testing and analysis, and also product development.

To protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal, or harmful actions and maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Service.

To comply with our legal or contractual obligations, enforce our Terms of Service and resolve disputes.

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.

Note: We will not use the Personal Data we collect from you for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you prior notice. We may however process, use, or share your personal data when the law requires it.

 With Whom We Share Your Personal Data.

We may share your personal data with third parties that help us provide, operate, maintain, improve and personalize our Service. The types of third parties with whom we may share your information include:

Payment Processors

Data Analytics Providers such as Google and Facebook

Other users in the event where you post information publicly or as otherwise necessary to initiate or effect a transaction

A third party as part of a merger or acquisition

Other parties authorized by You

Social media services when you interact with them through your use of the Service

Customer relationship management and customer support providers

Law enforcement agencies and other public authorities

Marketing partners

Hosting and other technology and communications providers

Security and fraud prevention consultants

Ad Services. Example Google AdSense

Third-party business partners who you access through the Service

How We Protect Your Personal Data

The security of your data is important to us which is why we've taken steps to ensure its protection. It's imperative to note however 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 would not be able to guarantee its absolute security.

We maintain strict administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal data you provide to us against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, theft, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

Whenever you access or use our Service, we make use of SSL(HTTPS) security to ensure that data you provide is transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "HTTPS" at the beginning of the address of the webpage. Payment processors also make sure that the data you submit to them is encrypted to prevent unauthorized access to them. Other service providers and contractors who might have access to your data in order to provide services on our behalf will be contractually obliged to keep such data in confidence, provide adequate data security measures, and would not use that data for any other purpose. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job, for example, billing or customer service, are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers or servers in which we store personally identifiable information are also kept in a secure environment.

Although we will do our utmost best to protect your personal data by any reasonable means possible, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our website and any transmission is at Users own risk. Under no circumstance will we be held liable for any loss, damage, theft, or misuse of data transmitted to us that is caused by factors that arise out of Our reasonable control.

Transfer of Data

We may transfer to, and store the data that we collect about you in countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you provided the data. When any such transfer is made, we will make sure that the data is protected in accordance with the policies described in this Privacy Policy. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of any Personal Data represents your agreement to such transfers.

Disclosure of Data

Under certain circumstances, We may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities such as the Courts or government agency.

We may also disclose your data in the faithful belief that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights or property of SeekerList, our employees, agent, partners et al. Or to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the general public. Or to protect against legal liability or to comply with a legal obligation. Or to also prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing or wrong conduct in connection with the Service or a breach of the Terms.

Retention of Data

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide the Services to you and improve the Services for all users generally. In some cases, we retain personal data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule, or regulation. Subsequently, any information we retain is in a rather depersonalized or aggregated form and not in a way that would personally identify you.

We may also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes and to improve the functionality of Our Service.

Exercising Your Rights

You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data including those set forth below.

Personal Data Request:

A copy of your personal data collected may be requested by sending an email to support@seekerlist.com.

Editing or Updating Personal Data:

You may edit, review, change or update any personal data you have previously provided to us in the settings section of the website provided this information remains an accurate and true information about yourself as spelled out in our Terms Of Service.

Rectification:

If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct them by emailing us at support@seekerlist.com.

 Objection and Restriction:

You can contact us to let us know that you object or restrict the further use of some or all of your Personal Data for certain purposes, such as for direct marketing purposes.

 Data Wipe or Erasure:

In the event that you decide to stop using the Service for any other reason, you wish to have your personal data wiped off, a complete erasure of your personal data may be requested by sending us an email at support@seekerlist.com and we will take the necessary steps to honor your request.

Kindly note that, we may be legally required to keep some aspects of data for a certain time, in which event, your request will be granted after we have fulfilled our obligations.

For more information about these rights or to submit a request, please email support@seekerlist.com.

Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if the request is frivolous or impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law. In any case, we may still respond to notify you of such a decision. In certain instances, you may need to provide us with additional information which may include Personal Data to verify your identity and also the nature of your request.

Personal Data of Minors

As noted in our Terms of Service, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from people under the age of 18. If you are a child under the age of 18, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Service or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected any personal Data from a person under 18, we will take steps to remove that data from our systems. If you believe that a child under 18 may have provided us with personal data, please contact us at support@seekerlist.com.

External Websites

Our websites may contain links to various third-party sites that are not operated by us. If you follow a link to any of these third-party sites, please note that these sites have their own privacy policies that govern them and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these sites, their content or their policies. Please make sure you read and understand their policies before submitting any personal data to them.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to be informed of any updates or changes. By continuing to access or use the Service after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

Have Questions?

If you have any further questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices generally, please contact us via support@seekerlist.com