Privacy Policy

The Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture (CALA) is an AGRA-led initiative implemented in partnership with African Management Institute (AMI) and Policy LINK. This privacy policy refers to the partnership between the CALA parties and any data sharing agreement established between the parties. Here within the AGRA-led initiative is referred to as CALA.

CALA respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

CALA is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We use the information we collect about you to help us understand more about how our website is used and to be able to send you communications about CALA that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise. The ‘personally identifiable information’ is information that enables us to identify you, such as your email address, name, title, and address. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please note to check back periodically.

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 policy of every website you visit.

The Data We Collect About You 

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you include your name, email address and contact data.

Cookies
Like many websites, CALA uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service. A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computer’s hard disk through your web-browser so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org

Use of Personal Information

CALA uses the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise.

Use of Information

As a general rule, CALA will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. If you sign up to receive our newsletter and updates, we will send you communication regarding CALA’s work and activities electronically.

We comply with all laws to which we are subject. With respect to personally identifiable information you provide to us, we will only disclose it to the extent that we, in good faith, believe that applicable law requires it.

Updating Information

The accuracy of your individual identifying information is important to CALA. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that CALA maintains about you. In the meantime, if you change email address or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us.

Protection of Information

CALA is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the individual identifying information that you provide to us.

Information We Collect

As a visitor, you can browse our Website to find out more about our activities. You are not required to provide us with any personal information as a Visitor.

Automatically Collected Information

When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by your interaction with our Website. Such information is typically considered non-personal information.

Cookies

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you are headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our Website.

Information Regarding Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your personal information.

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information, as described in this Privacy Policy, depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your personal information because:

• We need to perform a contract with you, such as when you use our services
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or to delete the personal information we have on you
• The right of rectification
• The right of restriction
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your personal information.

Service Providers

We employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to maintain our Website on our behalf, to perform Website-related services or to assist us in analysing how our Website is used. These third-parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Contact Details  

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at [email protected]