Privacy notice

Who we are

This website, sozidara.com, is run by Sozidara Systems Limited, registered in Nigeria with RC 9866768 and based in Abuja. We decide why and how the personal information collected through this website is used, which makes us its data controller under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA).

For anything about this notice or your information, email us at team@sozidara.com.

What we collect and why

When you use the contact form

The form asks what your message is about, your name, your email address and your message. Your organisation is optional. We save what you send in the website’s database and email a copy to our team at team@sozidara.com, so we can reply to you directly. We use it to answer you and to follow up on what you asked about.

When you join the games waitlist

On the Play page you can leave your email address to hear when our first game is ready. We save it in the website’s database and use it only for that.

When you email us

If you write to team@sozidara.com, we receive your email address and what you write, and use them to reply.

When you visit the site

Every visit to a website carries technical details, such as your IP address, your browser and device type, and the page you asked for. The company that hosts the site uses them to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, and keeps logs of the site’s requests and errors for us, which we use to find and fix problems and to keep the site secure.

We count visits with a privacy-friendly analytics tool from our hosting provider. It shows us which pages people view, which sites they arrive from, what kind of device and browser they use, which country they’re in and how quickly the pages load. It doesn’t use cookies or store anything on your device, doesn’t fingerprint your browser, and doesn’t follow you to other sites. We see only totals, never who an individual visitor is.

We also count which links people click and how many forms are sent, so we know what’s useful. Each count records the page, the link or form, and for the contact form the topic you chose. It never records who you are or what you type, and it uses no cookies.

There is no advertising or cross-site tracking on this site. We don’t build profiles of visitors or use automated decision-making.

Our legal basis

The NDPA lets us use personal information only when we have a lawful basis. Ours are:

• Answering messages from the contact form or by email: our legitimate interest in replying to people who write to us. When you ask about working with us, answering is also a step you asked us to take before any agreement.
• The games waitlist: your consent, which you give by joining. You can withdraw it at any time.
• Visits and logs: our legitimate interest in keeping the site working and secure.
• Counting visits, clicks and form submissions: our legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used, so we can improve it. We see only totals, which identify no one.

Who receives it

Our team reads what the forms collect and the emails you send us. Two service providers handle personal information for us:

• Our hosting provider runs the website and its database, counts visits for us, and sends copies of contact form messages to our team.
• Our email provider hosts our team mailbox, team@sozidara.com, where those copies and any emails you send us arrive.

If you’d like to know who they are, email us and we’ll tell you. We don’t sell your information or share it with anyone else, unless the law requires us to.

Where it’s kept

The website’s database, which holds contact form messages and waitlist addresses, is kept by our hosting provider in Western Europe. Keeping it there means your information is transferred outside Nigeria. Our hosting provider serves the site from data centres around the world, so the details of a visit may also be handled outside Nigeria. Emails to and from our team are kept in our mailbox with our email provider.

On the site itself, only signed-in members of our team can read what the forms collect.

How long we keep it

• Contact form messages and emails: as long as we need them to answer you and follow up, then we delete them.
• Waitlist addresses: until we’ve told you the first game is ready, or sooner if you ask us to remove yours.
• Request and error logs: up to seven days.

When we delete something from the website’s database, it can stay in the database’s recovery history for up to 30 days.

Your rights

The NDPA gives you these rights over your personal information:

• Access: ask whether we hold information about you, and get a copy.
• Correction: have wrong or incomplete information corrected.
• Deletion: have your information deleted.
• Restriction: have us limit how we use it.
• Objection: object to our using it where we rely on our legitimate interests.
• Portability: receive it in a common machine-readable format, or have us send it to another organisation.
• Withdrawing consent: where we rely on your consent, as for the games waitlist, withdraw it at any time. This doesn’t affect what we did before.

To use any of these rights, email team@sozidara.com. Please write from the email address you used with us, so we can confirm the request is yours. We’ll reply without undue delay. Some rights have limits set by the law; if we can’t do what you ask, we’ll explain why.

If you think we haven’t handled your information properly, you can complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) at ndpc.gov.ng. We’d welcome the chance to put things right first, so please tell us too.

Cookies

The public pages of this site don’t set any cookies, and counting visits and clicks doesn’t use them either.

Campus One

Campus One, the family of apps we build for universities, has its own privacy notice at campusone.com.ng/privacy. If you use Campus One or one of its apps, that notice explains how your information is handled there. This notice covers only sozidara.com.

Changes to this notice

We’ll update this notice when what the website collects, or how we use it, changes. The date at the top shows when it last changed.