Privacy policy
This Privacy Statement describes the ways in which we, European Business Chamber of Rwanda ltd (TIN: 110913331), EBCR hereinafter, collect, hold and use information about individual persons who visit this website.
By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of information as set forth in this privacy policy. You also acknowledge that EBCR may periodically change, modify, add or remove or otherwise update this privacy policy at its discretion, without prior notification.
EBCR undertakes to always handle your Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of collection. It is our intention to post changes to our privacy policy on this page so that you are fully informed concerning the types of information we are gathering, how we use it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed. Our Privacy Policy can be located on our homepage and is also available on any page where Personal Data are requested. At such data collection points, further explanation may be provided, where appropriate, as to the purposes for which the data will be used.
Pledge on privacy
The term “Personal Data” as used in this Privacy Policy refers to information such as your name, birth date, e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number that can be used to identify you. Generally, we will only process your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. However, we reserve the right, to conduct additional processing to the extent permitted or required by law, or in support of any legal or criminal investigation.
EBCR has established industry-standard measures to ensure the safety of your personal information and will continuously improve on them. Personal information provided on ebc-rwanda.org, the website for which these standards are set, are only used and processed to the extent necessary for EBCR to fulfil its obligations to you, and/or to comply with our legal obligations.
EBCR does NOT store or keep your personal information in its servers, but rather relies on a secure storage environment that meets the safest industry standards to protect and keep your personal information out of reach from any unauthorized third party. EBCR may request that you disclose certain information for the particular purpose of the obligation being undertaken such as an online transaction, a subscription to our newsletter, a registration to an event, etc. You may be requested to provide certain personal identifiable information such as your name, address, telephone numbers, email address and/or nationality. EBCR may access some of this information for the purpose of its customer management services. You have the right to access, change, and oppose any information that concerns you (read “Use of your Personal Information” below). In the event that you wish to exercise your right, please contact us at the address provided at this end of this document.
EBCR reserves the right to update or modify the Privacy Policy, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised version of the Policy on ebc-rwanda.org. If we decide to change and/or modify our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on ebc-rwanda.org so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by way of an email. If you so wish, you may withdraw your consent to such use subject to and in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy.
Use of your personal information
As a general policy, EBCR does NOT collect personal identifiable information. However, if you wish to use a certain service or product available on ebc-rwanda.org, or receive information, or participate in an event, you will be asked to provide certain information in order to process your request. EBCR may disclose your information to a third party ONLY in order to fulfil its obligation to you, or to comply with our legal duties. For such cases, EBCR will notify you and request your consent before proceeding. EBCR shall take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information on the website.
Records of your activity will be stored alongside your personal information as you keep using our products/services on ebc-rwanda.org. These records will only serve in the management and administration of the services rendered to you and will help enhance your overall online experience.
Communications
By providing your contact details, including your email address, and subscribing to our newsletter you are consenting to us processing your data and sending communication you. You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time, by selecting “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any email sent to you by EBCR, or by contacting us at the contact email address provided at the end of this document. By providing your contact details, including your email address, and subscribing to our newsletter you are consenting to us processing your data and sending communication you. You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time, by selecting “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any email sent to you by EBCR, or by contacting us at the contact email address provided at the end of this document.
Access to your personal information
You have the right to access, change and oppose any action on your personal information at any time. If you no longer wish to disclose your personal information to EBCR, you may let us know through the address provided at the end of this document and we will remove any of your personally identifiable information from our records. But remember, doing so may hinder our abilities to fulfil our obligation(s) to you, or exercise good servicing to you.
Access to historical records associated with your personal information may be availed to you for free (at no charge).
Links to other sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to this website (that is: ebc-rwanda.org). We may provide links to other websites which we believe may be of interest to our visitors. We aim to ensure that such websites are of the highest standard. However, due to the nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee the privacy standards of websites to which we link or be responsible for the contents of sites other than this one, and this Privacy Policy is not intended to be applicable to any linked, non-EBCR site.
Need to know more?
If you have any queries or complaints about our compliance with this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to make any recommendations or comments to improve the quality of our Privacy Policy, please contact us at this address:
Address: EBCR, Kimihurura, Kigali, Rwanda.
Contact email: execsec@ebc-rwanda.org
Telephone:(+250) 787 681 118