Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and website offered by Zickie.ng or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies collectively referred to as Zickie.ng. In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post supplementary privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information.

Information we collect and how we use it

We understand that in course of delivering our numerous financial services and products to you online, we will come across a number of information pertaining to your good self which to our mind are purely personal and may even be classified information but for the existing relationship which dictates that you shall either fill them in and/or divulge same in order to be linked to our site, Zickie.ng will handle the information in this manner.

Information you provide

When you sign up for any Zickie.ng service that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our payment services, we require your bank information. We typically do not store this information and when we do, we store the information on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.

Log information

When you access Zickie.ng services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website.

User communications

When you send email or other communications to Zickie.ng, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Affiliated sites

We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites e.g. Websites of our subsidiaries. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Zickie.ng in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Other sites

This Privacy Policy applies to Zickie.ng services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed or linked from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

Zickie.ng only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

  • Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content.
  • Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services.
  • Ensuring the technical functioning of our network.
  • Developing new services.

You can find more information about how we process personal information by referring to the supplementary privacy notices for particular services.

Choices for personal information

When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Zickie.ng may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing

Zickie.ng only shares personal information with other companies or individuals in the following limited circumstances:

We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information. We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to

(a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request,

(b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof,

(c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or

(d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Zickie.ng, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If Zickie.ng becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to Zickie.ng employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Data integrity

Zickie.ng processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use Zickie.ng services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical or for which access is not otherwise required.