Privacy Policy
How we protect, store, and utilize your personal information and ambassador profile data.
1. Personal Information Collection
The PBAT Smart Nation Initiative collects personal information directly when you register as a grassroots ambassador, subscribe to our newsletter circulars, submit inquiries, or request technical support. This information includes your full name, email address, phone number, and detailed geographic information (including State, LGA, and Ward). For project sponsors or individual donors, we also log contact and organization profiles, along with pledge amounts. This data is strictly collected to help us organize regional coding camps, manage hardware distributions, and coordinate local volunteer assignments.
2. Purpose of Data Processing
We process your personal and geographic information for specific, legitimate operational purposes related to our digital sensitization programs. These purposes include:
- Verifying and managing ambassador credentials and tracking community assignments.
- Sending critical updates regarding local town halls, national webinars, and training courses.
- Analyzing regional technical needs to guide hardware and network bandwidth allocations.
- Publishing aggregate, anonymous participation and training metrics for accountability reports.
3. Data Security, Access, & Sharing
We implement modern administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, loss, alteration, or misuse. All coordinator registry entries and donation pledges are stored securely in database servers with strict access controls. We do not sell, rent, or trade user data or coordinator contacts with commercial third-party marketing services. Access to your personal information is restricted to authorized steering committee directors and technical administrators who require the data to manage our volunteer network.
4. Cookies & Web Analytics
Our platform uses basic cookies and web analytics tools to improve user experience and monitor website performance. Cookies help us analyze visitor traffic, recognize returning coordinators, and save user navigation preferences. These analytics do not track your activity on other websites or collect personal identifying details without your consent. You can configure your web browser settings to block or delete cookies, though this may limit your access to certain interactive elements of our portal.
5. User Rights & NDPR Compliance
Our data management practices align with the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) and other applicable privacy standards. Registered ambassadors and public users have the right to access, update, correct, or request the deletion of their personal information from our database records. If you wish to review your registered data, update your coordinator profile, or request the deletion of your account, please send an inquiry through the Contact Us form. We will review and process your request in accordance with our data protection policies.