WE ARE COMMITTED TO YOU

PariVest Technologies Limited (‘’PariVest’’ or “we” or “our” or “us”) is committed to protecting our client’s personal information which we obtain to provide our services, as described here in our Privacy Policy.

This Policy is addressed to our current and/or prospective clients whose personal information we collect and control in the conduct of our business on our website www.parivest.com (the “Site”) or the Parivest mobile app (the “App”) and the provision of any of our products, features, digital assets, services, or any portion thereof (collectively, the “Service”).

Our relationship with you is our most important asset. We understand that we have been entrusted with your private information, and we use our best efforts to maintain that trust. PariVest protects the security and confidentiality of the personal information we have received and implements controls to ensure that such information is used as permitted by law and for proper business purposes in connection with the management or servicing of our relationship with you.

PariVest does not sell your personal information to anyone. Nor do we provide such information to third parties except as required by law or for discrete and reasonable business purposes in connection with the servicing and management of our relationship with you.

Details of our approach to privacy and how your personal information is collected and used are set forth in this Policy.

What we may collect

Personal identification information – We collect and use information about you to administer our Service. Information collected includes:

• Personal contact information such as name, contact address, email addresses, gender, telephone numbers, details of next of kin, photograph and any other information you provide to us when registering with the Service;
• Demographic information;
• Occupation, Career history, professional background and investment history;
• International passport, driver license or any other means of identification;
• Transactional data, including financial information;
• Information about your computer and your visit to and use of the Service including your internet protocol (IP) address, geographical location, browser type and version, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referral source, and information on action taken on the Site; and
• And any other information we may deem necessary, and which may be required by the extant Nigerian laws and regulations.

We may collect personal identification information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, automatically on visiting the Site or the App, registering on the Site, making payments for our products and services, subscribing to our newsletter, responding to a survey, or filling out a form, and in connection features or resources made available on our Site.

While using some features of the Service, you may be required to submit information about other people. You represent that before disclosing such information, you have obtained that person’s consent to the disclosure and the processing of his/her/its personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

What Information do we collect from other sources?

• Other advisory agreements and legal documents
• Investment questionnaires and suitability documents
• Transactional information with us or others
• Other information needed to service your account[s]

How is your personal information used?

We will only use your personal information with the purpose of providing you the Service. In providing you with the Service, we will use your personal information to:

• Monitor, audit, evaluate, and otherwise administer the Service;
• Provide you with access to protected areas of our Site or App;
• Provide continuous service to you and conduct business processing functions including by providing your personal information to our related bodies corporate, contractors, service providers, or other third parties;
• Assist with the administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), planning, product or service development, quality control, or research purposes of PariVest contractors and service providers;
• Communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
• Conduct investigations and comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, contractual obligations, and our policies and terms;
• For other purposes required or authorized by law, including other purposes for which you have provided your consent;
• Protect against, and prevent identify-fraud, copyright infringement, unauthorized use and distribution of protected content, and other unlawful activity, claims and liabilities; and/or
• Perform data analysis (such as market and customer research).
• In the event of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, arrangement, dissolution, liquidation, or other similar proceedings (collectively “Business Transfer”), the personal information held by us may constitute part of the asset that is transferred.

In the event that we use personal information collected for other purposes not identified above or in this policy where direct client consent is required under applicable laws and/or regulations, we will provide specific notice at the time we collect such personal information.

Right to Request Access to your Personal Data

We are committed to the protection of our client’s personal data and will inform when we disclose your data to third parties. You may request for access to your information at no cost and for the update of any inaccurate, irrelevant, excessive, outdated, misleading, or unlawfully obtained information be corrected, deleted, or in the case of a dispute, indicate that a correction has been requested, but not made.

Your Rights in Relation to Your Personal Data

You have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information, we hold about you under certain circumstances.

These rights are to:

• Request rectification of your Personal Data;
• Request the erasure of your personal data in accordance with Nigerian Data Protection Regulation and after all due diligence regarding reasons for such request have been carried out, act on data;
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal data;
• Lodge a complaint about the handling of your personal data with the National Information Technology Development Agency ("NITDA").
• Ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your Personal Data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your Personal Data to any third party for such purposes.
• Be informed about the existence of automated decision-making processes, including profiling as well as meaningful information about the logic involved, the significance, and the envisaged consequences of such processing.
• A copy of the personal data we hold about you, as well as the information about what we do with it, who we share it with, and how long we hold it for.
• Consent to this Privacy Policy and withdraw your consent at any time.
• Freely transfer your personal data received from us to any other person.

We may however withhold personal data that you request to the extent permitted by law as well as where it is deemed lawful as directed by a court order.

How do we protect your information?

To safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we maintain physical, procedural, and electronic security measures. These include safeguards such as secure passwords, encrypted file storage and a secure office environment. Our technology vendors provide security and access control over personal information and have policies over the transmission of data. Our associates are trained on their responsibilities to protect your personal information.

We require third parties that assist in providing our services to you to protect the personal information they receive from us.

Internet Security

Although we have made efforts to secure data that you submit to us on our Site, as our Site is linked to the internet which is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information that you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.

Links to Third-Party Web Sites and mobile applications

As a convenience to you, PariVest may provide hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. When you select these hyperlinks, you will be leaving our Site. PariVest has no control over third-party websites or applications, their content, or security. Accordingly, when you access these third-party websites, it is at your own risk. We encourage you to read the associated privacy policies by such third-party websites to learn more about their data privacy management practices. PariVest may, in its sole discretion, block links to our Site and Content without prior notice.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we retain your personal information for the period necessary to serve the purposes for which we obtained it. We may also retain your personal information beyond such period in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, or another lawful basis, including but not limited to, compliance with our contractual obligations, legal obligations, regulatory obligations, legal claims, or another legitimate interest.

How do we keep your information accurate and up to date?

We will endeavor to ensure your personal information is kept accurate, complete, up-to- date, and relevant. Please let us know if any of your details change. If you feel your personal information is not accurate, complete, or up to date, please notify us and we will take reasonable steps to ensure it is corrected. You can contact us using the details listed below.

How long do we retain your information?

We maintain personal data no longer than we need to use it in accordance with the PariVest Data Retention Policy. In some circumstances, we may retain your personal data for longer periods if in accordance with regulatory, legal, tax, or accounting obligations. In all cases, where your personal data is no longer required or you request for its deletion, we will ensure it is disposed of in a secure manner.

Accessing and updating your Personal Data

Whenever you use our services, we aim to provide access to your personal data upon request. If that personal data is wrong, we shall update or delete such data as soon as possible – unless we are required to keep that personal data for legitimate business or legal purposes for a longer period. When users request to update their personal data, we may ask them to verify their identity before we execute the request.

We shall, at your request, confirm what personal data we hold about you and how such personal data is processed. The following categories of information regarding user personal data are available upon Request.

• The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing;
• The categories of Personal Data collected, stored and processed;
• Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to;

Transfer of Your Data to other Jurisdictions

In accordance with extant laws, we may transfer the personal information we obtain about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. To the extent required by applicable laws, when we transfer your information to recipients in other countries (such as the United Kingdom), we will protect that information as described in this policy.

Do we use “cookies” or Obtain Personal Information by Automated Means?

We may use “cookies” to help us tailor our Site to better suit your needs (for example, we may use cookies to enable us to save any personal preferences indicated by you) and to provide a more effective route to various components of our Site. Cookies are small text files that are stored in your computer's memory and hard drive when you visit certain web pages. They are used to enable Sites to function or to provide information to the owners of a Site.

Automated Decision Making.

Our Site contains cookies that function as an automated decision-making mechanism to determine user location.

Third party cookies.

Third-party cookies are cookies set by a website other than the website you are currently visiting. When you visit our Site, if we have links to third-party websites, you may receive cookies that are set by that third party. These cookies are used for the purposes described above. We do not control the setting of these third- party cookies, so we suggest you might wish to check the third-party websites for more information about their use of cookies and how to manage them.

Amending internet browser settings to disable cookies

You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, notify you when a cookie is set, or delete cookies that have already been set. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. You are free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on our Site.

Who is the data controller?

PariVest is a data controller and determines the purposes for and manner in which personal data it receives is processed or is to be processed.

Any Questions?

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy or would like to exercise your rights, you may contact our Chief Compliance Officer using the information below:

Who to Contact?

Should you have any queries, please contact us, PariVest Technologies Limited on +234 817 946 3542 [email protected]