Privacy Policy
888 AFRICA AFFILIATE PRIVACY POLICY
Last revised: September 1, 2022
INTRODUCTION
The Company (as defined in the Affiliate Scheme & Affiliate Agreement, available here: https://partners.888africa.com/terms_and_conditions.asp), (the “Company”) enables affiliate (“you”, “your” or “Affiliate”) to participate in its affiliate program (the “Affiliates Scheme”).
The Company is deeply committed to safeguarding the privacy expectations of its Affiliates. Accordingly, we have put in place this Privacy Policy, which outlines our data protection
practices, including how we collect, use, disclose and protect your Personal Information, as well as your rights with respect to your Personal Information.
In this Privacy Policy you will read about:
● WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
● MINORS
● CONDITIONS FOR PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
● HOW WE USE THE COLLECTED INFORMATION?
● MARKETING
● TO WHOM WE SHARE INFORMATION?
● INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION
● THIRD-PARTY TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
● RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
● YOUR RIGHTS
● HOW WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SECURED
● CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
● HOW TO CONTACT US
We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy carefully and use it to make informed decisions. By creating an account through our Services, you hereby agree to the Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to our Affiliates’ websites, which have their own terms and privacy policies. Our Affiliates are solely responsible for establishing policies for and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including those relating to the collection of personal information.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
We collect two types of information from our Affiliates:
Personal Information
The first type of information is information that identifies or may reasonably identify an individual reasonable effort (“Personal Information”). Personal Information which is being gathered may consist of the following:
Registration details
When you open an affiliate account and register as an Affiliate, you will be asked to provide us with certain details about yourself, such as first and last name, email address, company, physical address, phone number, city, and country, ID number, username and password.
Governmental-issued ID
In certain instances, you will be required to provide a copy of a governmental-issued ID, for the identity verification process.
Payment information
By its nature, your use of our services includes financial transactions, thus requiring us to obtain your financial details, which include, but are not limited to your payment details (such as bank account details and financial transactions performed through our services).
Voluntary information
We also collect information that you provide us voluntarily. For example, when you respond to communications from us, communicate with us via email or share additional information about yourself through your use of the Services.
Information we collect from third parties
We collect Personal Information from third-party service providers, such as information about your credit history from credit agencies and other financial information which is relevant to the provision of the Services, as well as information which is gathered in order to verify your identity and prevent fraudulent or illegal activity.
Non-personal information
The second type of information is un-identified and non-identifiable information pertaining to an Affiliate, which may be made available or gathered via the Affiliate’s use of the Services (“Non-Personal Information”). Non-Personal Information which is being collected consists of technical information and aggregated usage information, and may contain, among other things, the Affiliate’s operating system, type of browser, screen resolution, and browser and keyboard language.
For the avoidance of doubt, any Non-Personal Information connected or linked to any Personal Information shall be deemed as Personal Information as long as such connection or linkage exists.
MINORS
The Services are not designed or directed to persons under the age of 18 or persons under the age of legal consent with respect to the use of the Services of any jurisdiction, whichever is higher (“Legally of Age”). If you are not Legally of Age, you should not download or use the Services nor provide any Personal Information to us.
We reserve the right to access and verify any Personal Information collected from you. In the event that we become aware that a user who is not Legally of Age has shared any information, we may discard such information. If you have any reason to believe that a minor has shared any information with us, please contact us at:
https://partners.888africa.com/contact.asp
CONDITIONS FOR PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will process your Personal Information for a variety of reasons, each of which is prescribed by relevant data protection laws.
Fulfillment of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation It is necessary for us to process your Personal Information where it is necessary for the performance of a contract (such as for the Affiliate Agreement) or in order for us to comply with our various legal and/or regulatory responsibilities, including, but not limited to, complying with the conditions of our gambling licenses and complying with any AML and KYC legislation.
Legitimate interests
We also process your Personal Information where we deem such processing to be in our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests and provided always that such processing will not prejudice your interests, rights, and freedoms.
Examples of us processing in accordance with legitimate interests would include:
(i) where we disclose your Personal Information to any one or more of our associate/subsidiary companies following a restructure or for internal administrative purposes;
(ii) processing for the purposes of ensuring network and information security, including preventing unauthorized access to our electronic communications network;
(iii) safeguarding the integrity of our Services by combatting, reporting and sharing information related to suspicious betting patterns or fraudulent activities;
(iv) adhering to regulatory and statutory requirements;
(vi) sharing personal information with our advisers and professional services providers (such as auditors) for ensuring our compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
Consent
Our processing of your Personal Information will primarily be necessary for us to provide you with the Services. However, on certain occasions, we may ask for your consent to process Personal Information. In these instances, your Personal Information will be processed in accordance with such consent and you will be able to withdraw this consent in writing at any time.
HOW WE USE THE COLLECTED INFORMATION?
We use your Personal Information for the purposes listed below:
● To set up, manage and update your affiliate account;
● To provide and operate the Services;
● To communicate with you and to keep you informed of our latest updates to our Services and special offers;
● To promote our Services by displaying Affiliates’ testimonials of our Services. The testimonials are displayed on our Services as well as on websites operated by our affiliates and partners.
● To conduct analytics, statistical, and research purposes, in order to improve and customize the Services to your needs and interests (such as by compiling aggregated reports about the usage of certain features of our Services);
● For customer relationship management purposes, to support and troubleshoot the Services and to respond to your queries;
● To enable us to further develop, customize and improve the Services based on Affiliates’ common preferences and uses;
● To identify and authenticate your access to certain features of the Services;
● To detect and prevent fraudulent and illegal activity or any other type of activity that may jeopardize or negatively affect the integrity of the Services, including by identifying risks associated with your activity on our Services;
● To investigate violations of our policies and Affiliate Agreement as well as enforce our policies and the Affiliate Agreement;
● To investigate and resolve disputes in connection with your use of the Services; and
● As required by law or regulation (such as Know Your Customer ("KYC") and Anti-Money Laundering regulatory requirements), or as required by other governmental authorities, to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process or respond to a
government request.
MARKETING
The Company will use your Personal Information, such as your name, home address, email address, telephone number, etc., ourselves or by using our third-party subcontractors for the purpose of providing you with promotional materials, concerning the Services as well as products, services, websites and applications which relate to:
(i) other subsidiaries of the Company;
(ii) Company’s business partners and affiliates (collectively: “Marketing Affiliates”), which we believe may interest you.
You may at any time decline receiving further marketing offers from us or from our business partners and marketing affiliates by contacting us at https://partners.888africa.com/contact.asp
Please note that even if you unsubscribe from our marketing mailing list, we may continue to send you service-related updates and notifications.
TO WHOM WE SHARE INFORMATION?
We do not rent, sell, or share your Personal Information with third parties (“Recipients”) except as described in this Privacy Policy. The Personal Information will be disclosed to Recipients only to the extent required for the specific purpose, as stipulated in this Privacy
Policy. We share Personal Information with any of the following recipients:
● Subsidiaries and affiliates of the Company;
● Subcontractors and third-party service providers, as well as their subcontractors, which by way of example include (but are not limited to) cloud computing companies, marketing affiliates, identity verification, and fraud prevention services, and other data verifiers;
● Credit reporting agencies;
● Payment service providers, payment processors, and banks;
● To any third parties who provide services in relation to the operation or promotion of our applicable service;
● Auditors, contractors, or advisers of any of the Company’s business processes;
● To any third parties in the context of investigating, detecting or preventing fraudulent or illegal activity, or any violations of our policies and Affiliate Agreement (e.g. governmental authorities, police, banks, and other investigatory organizations);
● Licensing authorities, governmental and regulatory bodies, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; and
● Potential purchasers or investors in the Company, or in the event of a corporate transaction (e.g. sale of a substantial part of our business, merger, reorganization, bankruptcy, consolidation or asset sale of an asset or transfer in the operation thereof) in relation to the Company (in such event, the acquiring company or transferee will assume the rights and obligations as described in this Privacy Policy).
In addition to the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy, we share Personal Information with those Recipients for any of the following purposes:
● Storing such information on our behalf, for example by using cloud computing service providers;
● Processing such information to assist us with our business operations (e.g. to process payments and your deposits; authenticate your access; audit our operations; detect and prevent fraudulent or illegal activity; etc.);
● Performing research, technical diagnostics, or analytics;
Whenever we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or legal claims, enforce our policies (including our Affiliate Agreement and Privacy Policy), protect your safety or the safety of others, as well as to investigate or prevent any fraud, for security reasons or to help us with any other related technical issue.
TRANSFER OF INFORMATION
Since we operate globally, it may be necessary to transfer your Personal Information to countries outside the Africa. The data protection and other laws of these countries may be more comprehensive as those in Africa.
We use our best efforts to ensure that your Personal Information is protected in accordance with our privacy policy, through contractual means (such as by using the contractual clauses approved by the relevant regulators for data transfer) or other means (such as ensuring that the jurisdiction imposes adequate safeguards for data protection).
THIRD-PARTY TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
When you visit or access our Services (for example when you visit our websites), we use (and authorize third parties to use) web beacons, cookies, pixels, scripts, tags, and other technologies (“Tracking Technologies”).
The Tracking Technologies allow us to automatically collect information about you and your online behavior, as well as your device (for example your computer or mobile device), for different purposes, such as in order to enhance your navigation on our Services, improve our Services performance and customize your experience on our Services. We also use this information to collect statistics about the usage of our Services, perform analytics, deliver content which is tailored to your interests, and administer services to our Affiliates, advertisers, publishers, customers, and partners. We also allow third parties to collect information about you through Tracking Technologies.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you have registered with an account through our Services, the Company will retain your Personal Information during the period your account is active. In addition, the Company will retain your Personal Data for additional periods, to enable the Company to meet its legal obligations under applicable laws or regulations, such as the applicable gambling regulations, Know-Your-Customer, and Anti-Money Laundering regulations. In addition, the Company may retain your Personal Information for longer periods, provided that retaining such information is necessary for the Company’s legitimate interests, such as fraud prevention and record keeping.
YOUR RIGHTS
You may contact us at any time and request:
● To access or delete any Personal Information relating to you;
● To change or update any Personal Information relating to you (for example, if you believe that your Personal Information is incorrect, you may ask to have it corrected or deleted). Note that you may also request that we will correct errors with regard to
your Personal Information (except in cases where the information is required to be kept in its original format under any applicable laws and regulations);
● That we will restrict or cease any further use of your Personal Information;
● That we will provide the Personal Information you volunteered to us in a machine-readable format.
Please note that these rights are not absolute and requests are subject to any applicable legal requirements, including gambling regulations and other legal and ethical reporting or document retention obligations. We may also rectify, replenish or remove incomplete or inaccurate information, at any time and at our own discretion, in accordance with our internal policies.
HOW WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SECURED
We take great care in implementing and maintaining the security of the Services and your information. We have put in place appropriate physical and technological safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data security, and to use correctly the information we collect online. These safeguards vary based on the sensitivity of the information that we collect and store.
Although we take reasonable steps to safeguard information, we cannot be responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access or abuse the Services, and we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will prevent such access.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, so please re-visit this page frequently. We will provide notice of substantial changes to this Privacy Policy on the Services and/or we will send you an e-mail regarding such changes to the e-mail address that you volunteered. Such substantial changes will take effect seven (7) days after such notice was provided on any of the above-mentioned methods. Otherwise, all other changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as of the stated “Last Revised” date, and your continued use of the Services after the Last Revised date will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any general questions about the Services or the information that we collect about you and how we use it, please contact us via email at https://partners.888africa.com/contact.asp, Attn: Data Protection Officer
We will make an effort to reply within a reasonable timeframe. Please feel free to reach out to us at any time. If you are unsatisfied with our response, you can reach out to the applicable data protection supervisory authority.