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The lata.ng mobile application ("Lata") and the services made available via it (collectively, the "Service") may collect personal data about you. This Privacy Policy describes what personal data is collected and how it will be used and shared.
BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING: (I) THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY; (II) THAT YOU ARE OVER 16 YEARS OF AGE (OR THAT YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN HAS READ AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR YOU); AND (III) THAT YOU ARE OVER THE AGE OF 18. You may not utilize the Service if you disagree with this requirement or are unable to uphold it. You must email the support staff to seek account and data deletion in this situation. In relation to personal data, "process" includes gathering, storing, and disclosing to third parties.
Lata.ng Online Marketplace Nigeria Limited, a company registered in the Federal Republic of Nigeria (with registered office at abacha road, karu, fct abuja.) will be the controller of your personal data.
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT We collect data you give us voluntarily (for example, an email address). We also collect data automatically (for example, your IP address). Data you provide to us. When you sign up for the Service and/or use it, you could be requested for personal information. This information includes your access to your images, albums, and their metadata as well as your first and last names, phone number, email, gender, and date of birth (collectively referred to as "Required Information"). If you wish to submit an ad in the Mobile Phones category, unlock your account, or make a duplicate account the main, you must give us your ID or another form of identification. If you want to take part in the auto auction as a dealer, you must give us your Bank ID and C (certificate of formation of legal business). To use our Service and register an account, you will need to provide Required Information. You will be able to use the Service even if you do not give this data to us, but some Service’s functionality may be limited to you (for example, if you do not register an account, you will not be able to chat with other users, post ads, see contact details of other users). In order to complete your request, you might occasionally need to give us extra information in your communications with our Support Team (for instance, if your account was previously restricted, we could ask you to prove your identity by giving us a copy of an ID document). You have the option to include more personal details about yourself when publishing an announcement on the Service. You may choose to make your resume or any images of you or containing your personal information available, for instance. You understand that by include your personal information in the notification, you are making such information available to the public. Additionally, you acknowledge and agree that in order to provide the Service, we must disclose some personal information from your profile to the public. This will allow us to: promote user-to-user interactions and transactions. You specifically realize and agree that certain people who view the posted advertising in the Jobs area may also see your email as part of your advertisement in the Seeking Work CVs section. You should carefully consider risks associated with the fact that you make certain information – in particular, you phone number, address, photos, passport and financial details or exact location – publicly available.
2.2 Data provided to us by third parties When you decide to log in using Facebook, we get personal data from your Facebook account. This includes your profile image, name, and Facebook ID. Unless you opt-out on the Facebook Login screen, we will also collect other data, such as email address, gender, date of birth, friends list, and location as listed in your Facebook profile. For more information, please refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference (describes the categories of information, which Facebook may share with third parties and the set of requirements) and to the Facebook Data policy. In addition, Facebook lets you control the choices you made when connecting your Facebook profile to the App on their Apps and Websites page. We receive your name, email address, profile picture, and Google ID when you log in using Google. In compliance with this Privacy Policy, we utilize the personal information you provide to Google. Visit Google's Privacy Policy to learn more about how it handles your data. Visit Google Permissions to cancel access that has been granted to us.
We obtain your Apple ID, name, and email when you choose to log in with Apple. You can utilize Apple's Hide My Email feature to send our communications to your personal email by creating and sharing a special, random email address upon sign-in. By doing the above actions, Apple allows you to withdraw the access granted to the App on your Apple ID Manage Page. When you decide to log in or verify your phone number using Truecaller, we get personal data from your Truecaller user profile upon your consent. This includes your phone number, name, addresses (country code; city; street; zip code), profile image, job title, company name, gender, and other information from your profile. For more information, please refer to the Truecaller Privacy Policy. If you were invited to create an account in the Service, the person that invited you can provide personal information about you, such as your phone number, email address, social media account or other contact information. To verify your identification, we could ask for your name, valid government ID number, and photo. In order to verify this information with official sources, we shall share it with Smile Identity Inc., a third-party service provider. Your full name, date of birth, photo, address, phone number, gender, and the expiration date of your government ID, as well as any other information the issuing authority may supply, may be collected by Smile Identity Inc. using your ID number from the relevant governmental sources. Your data may be processed or stored by Smile ID outside of your nation.
In our data protection practices we strive, in particular, to provide that personal data is:
processed in accordance with specific, legitimate and lawful purpose consented to by you;
is adequate, accurate and without prejudice to the dignity of human person;
stored only for the period within which it is reasonably needed; and
secured against reasonably foreseeable hazards and breaches such as theft, cyberattack, viral attack, dissemination, manipulations of any kind, damage by rain, fire or exposure to other natural elements.
We use your personal information to:
To offer our Service (4.1).
This includes facilitating your seamless use of the Service and preventing or resolving Service defects or technical problems. To personalize your experience, see 4.2
We use the information we collect about you to customize the Service's content to your choices and interests and to make offers to you.
4.3. To administer your account and offer you client service In order to reply to your requests for technical help, Service information, or other communications from you, we process your personal data. This includes gaining access to your account to respond to requests for technical help. For this reason, we could send you emails or updates concerning the functionality of our Service, security, payment transactions, notices regarding our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy
4.4. To communicate with you regarding your use of our Service We communicate with you, for example, by push notifications or in the chat. As a result, you may, for example, receive a notification whether on the Website or via email that you received a new message on Lata. To opt out of receiving push notifications, you need to change the settings on your browser or mobile device. To opt out of certain type of emails, you need to follow unsubscribe link located in the footer of the email, by contacting our support team at support@lata.ng, or in your profile settings. The services that we use for these purposes may collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by our users, as well as when they interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
4.5. To research and analyze your use of the Service This aids in improving our ability to comprehend and evaluate our business, as well as sustain, innovate, and plan, create, and build Lata and our new products. We also evaluate and refine our offers using such data for statistical analysis reasons. This helps us to better determine which Lata features and areas our customers like, as well as which user demographics utilize our service. As a result, we frequently base our decisions on how to make Lata better on the outcomes of this processing. For instance, if we see that the Jobs area is not as popular as the others, we can concentrate on making it better.
4.6. To send you marketing communications We process your personal data for our marketing campaigns. We may add your email address to our marketing list. As a result, you will receive information about our products, such as for example, special offers, and products of our partners. If you do not want to receive marketing emails from us, you can unsubscribe following instructions in the footer of the marketing emails, by contacting our support team at support@lata.ng, or in your profile settings. We may also show you advertisements on the Website, and send you push notifications for marketing purposes. To opt out of receiving push notifications, you need to change the settings on your device or/and browser.
4.7. To tailor our advertisements Your personal information is used by us and our partners to create customized adverts that may even be displayed to you at the appropriate moment. If you have visited our website, for instance, you could see advertisements for our products, for instance, on your Facebook news feed. Using information from advertising technologies on and off of our Services, such as unique cookie or similar tracking technology, pixel, device identifiers, geolocation, operation system information, and email, we may target advertising to you through a number of ad networks and exchanges.
With third parties who assist us in running, providing, integrating, customizing, supporting, and marketing our Service, we exchange information. For the purposes and parties listed in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy, we may exchange certain sets of personal data. Particularly, the following categories of third parties with whom we share information: 6.1. Providers of services In accordance with our instructions, we provide personal information to outside parties we employ to carry out business operations or offer services on our behalf. Your personal information could be disclosed to the following categories of service providers: cloud storage providers (Amazon, DigitalOcean, Hetzner) data analytics providers (Facebook, Google, Appsflyer) login service providers (Google, Apple, Facebook, Truecaller) marketing partners (in particular, social media networks, marketing agencies, email delivery services; such as Facebook, Google) payment services providers (Solid) local banks and credit organizations (Access Bank, Sterling Bank, Union Bank, Sovereign Finance, Purple Money, etc.); 6.2. Law enforcement agencies and other public authorities. In order to enforce our Terms of Use, protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, as well as that of our affiliates, you, or others, we may use and disclose personal data. We may also do so in order to comply with legal processes from courts, law enforcement, regulatory, and other governmental bodies, as well as in other circumstances allowed by law as a result of a merger or purchase, third parties We could purchase or sell assets or company offerings as we grow our enterprise. In these kinds of deals, customer information is typically one of the transferred corporate assets. Additionally, we may divulge this information to any affiliated companies (like our parent company or subsidiaries) and transfer it as part of corporate transactions like the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
No limitation of liability shall avail us in case we act in breach of the principles set out.
To be in control of your personal data, you have the following rights: Accessing / reviewing / updating / correcting your personal data. You may review, edit, or change the personal data that you had previously provided to Lata in the settings section on the Website. You may also request a copy of your personal data collected during your use of the Service. Deleting your personal data. You can request erasure of your personal data by sending us an email at support@lata.ng or you can delete your account via the link. When you request deletion of your personal data, we will use reasonable efforts to honor your request. In some cases, we may be legally required to keep some of the data for a certain time; in such event, we will fulfill your request after we have complied with our obligations. limiting or objecting to the use of your personal information, including for direct marketing. You have the right to request that we cease using all of your personal information or just a portion of it. The right to complain to the appropriate authority. Please get in touch with us directly so that we can resolve your problems. You do, however, have the option to file a complaint with a reliable supervisory authority for data protection. To exercise any of your privacy rights, please send a request to support@lata.ng.
We do not knowingly process personal data from persons under 18 years of age. If you learn that anyone younger than 18 has provided us with personal data, please contact us at support@lata.ng.
This privacy policy may be changed sometimes. You will be informed through our Service or by another method if we decide to make significant changes to this privacy statement, and you will then have a chance to review the updated privacy statement. You consent to being bound by the updated Privacy Policy by using the Service after such changes take effect.
If you have a Lata account, we will keep your personal information for as long as it is reasonable necessary to achieve the goals outlined in this privacy statement, which includes providing you with the service. Additionally, we will keep and use your personal information as required to meet our legal obligations, settle disputes, and uphold agreements. After granting your request to have your personal information deleted, we will continue to maintain your hashed email address, phone number, papers of identity, and information indicating that your account has been banned. We will also retain and use your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements .
For more information about this Privacy Policy and its earlier iterations, please get in touch with us at any time. Please email us at support@lata.ng with any inquiries you may have about your account or your personal information.