Privacy Policy

Terms of Service

 

Copyrights

Copyright Africa Champion of Tree (ACT) Awards. All rights reserved.

 

Content Accuracy & Updates 

All content and information on this website are provided to the best of our knowledge. Details, award criteria, or event specifics may change from time to time. Please reach out to our team or check the website for the most up-to-date information.

while efforts are made to ensure accuracy, information may change, and users should verify details before making decisions.

 

Trademarks

All featured/partner brand names on the pages of the Africa Champion of Trees (ACT) Awards  websites are legally protected trademarks and the Africa Champion of Trees (ACT) Awards does not lay any claim on them.

 

Licenses

While we’re happy to share information and creativity through our website, all content, including designs, text, graphics, and media, remain protected under copyright and intellectual property law. No part of this website may be copied, reproduced, or reused without written permission.

 

Liability

We strive to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the information on our website. Additionally, our website may contain links to third-party sites that we believe may be of interest. Please note that we do not have control over the content of these external sites and cannot be held responsible for their accuracy or policies.

 

Social plugins

The ACT Awards website may use social plug-ins (“buttons”) for networks such as Facebook, Instagram, X, Tiktok, and LinkedIn. These are deactivated by default, they only become active when you click on them, after which data may be shared with those networks. a social plugin may lead to data collection by third parties and advised users to review respective privacy policies before engaging.

 

Cookies Policy

We use cookies to make your experience on the ACT Awards website smoother, more secure, and more personal.

 

Why do we use cookies?

1. To improve site performance and usability
2. To understand how visitors use our site (analytics)
3. To deliver content and ads that are relevant to you

 

Types of cookies we use:

1. Essential cookies: Help the website function (like navigation and security).
2. Analytics cookies: Help us understand visitor behavior to improve the site.
3. Marketing cookies: Help us (and partners like Google and Facebook) show you content that matches your interests.

 

Managing your cookies
When you first visit, you’ll see a pop-up asking you to accept or decline cookies, or manage preferences. You can change these settings at any time through your browser or by returning to our cookie settings page.

 

Data Privacy
We never sell or share your personal data without your consent. For full details, check out our Privacy Policy.

 

Privacy Policy

 

Your Privacy Matters
At the ACT Awards, we’re committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights.

 

What we collect:

1. Browser type, operating system, IP address, visit time and pages visited
2. Information you provide via forms (e.g., nomination forms, newsletter signups, contact forms)

 

How we use your data:

1. To improve your experience on our site
2. To communicate with you when you opt in
3. For analytics and site security
4. To comply with legal obligations

 

Third parties & social plugins:
We may share data with trusted service providers who help run our website (IT providers, marketing agencies), but only what’s necessary. Our social media buttons only share data if you activate them by clicking.

 

Your rights:

1. Right to access, correct, or delete your data
2. Right to restrict processing or object
3. Right to withdraw consent at any time

 

To exercise your rights or ask questions, please contact us at: info@africachampionoftreesawards.org

 

Security
We take all reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data.

 

Changes to this policy
We may update these policies from time to time. We’ll let you know if there are any major changes, but we encourage you to review them periodically.

 

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Privacy Policy 

 

Data protection

We appreciate your visit to our website. Protecting any personal information is very important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect your personal information, what we do with it, and what rights you have on that basis. 

 

Collection and processing of your personal data

1. Whenever you visit our website, we store certain information about the browser and operating system you are using; your date and time of visit; status of your interaction, which pages you visited on our website; search phrases you used to get to our website; the page from which you visited us from.
2. We store your personal data when you provide this data, e.g. sign up to our mailing list, contact form, chats or any other forms we may use. This is permitted to us on the basis of a consent given by you in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.
3. You are neither legally or contractually obligated to share your personal information. However, certain features of our website may depend on the sharing of personal information. If you do not provide your personal data in such cases, you may not be able to use these features, or they may be available with limited functionality. 

 

Use of your personal information

1. Information collected during your visit to our website to enhance your user-experience and to protect our IT systems against attacks and any other unlawful activities.
2. Any information shared e.g. sign up to our mailing list, contact form, chats or any other forms we may use – is used for designated purposes, such as, customer management and when required processing and billing as well as any other business transactions within the required scope in each instance.
3. For other purposes (for example, display of personalised content or advertising based on your usage behaviour), we and, if applicable, selected third parties, use your personal data if and to the extent you give your consent through our consent management system.
4. In addition, we use personal data to the extent that we are legally obligated to do so. For example, storage for the fulfillment of commercial or tax-related retention obligations, release in accordance with official or judicial orders – law enforcement authorities.

 

Transfer of personal data to third parties; social plug-ins; us of service providers

1. Our website may contain an offer from a third party. If you click on such an offer, we transfer data to the respective provider to the required extent.
2. Social plug-ins on our website from our social networks are integrated. When you visit our website, the social plug-ins are deactivated, that is, no data is transmitted to the operator of these networks. However, once you click on the respective social plug-ins to establish a direct connection to the server of the respective network, the respective network can associate your visit to our website with your user account details. In the event you want to avoid this, log out of our website and there won’t be an association. When you activate the social plug-in, the network transfers the content that becomes available directly to your browser, which integrates it into our website. In this situation, data transmissions can also take place that are initiated and controlled by the respective social network. Your connection to a social network, the data transfers taking place between the network and your system, and your interactions on that platform are governed solely by the privacy policies of that network. The social plug-in remains active until you deactivate it or delete your cookies.
3. If you click on the View 360 Angle or activate a social plug-in, personal data may reach providers in countries that may have different data protection policies. Kindly remember this before clicking on a link or activating a social plug-in and thereby triggering a transfer of your data.  
4. We also use qualified service providers – IT Service providers, marketing agencies, to operate, optimize and secure our websites. We only pass on personal data to the latter insofar as is required and necessary. 

 

Cookies

1. Cookies may be used when you are visiting our website. 
2. Cookies are small files that are stored on your desktop, notebook or mobile device used to visit a website. Cookies make it possible to determine your preferences, e.g language and any other settings to offer you a certain user experience. Cookies may also contain personal data. 
3. We also use qualified service providers – IT Service providers, marketing agencies, to operate, optimize and secure our websites. We only pass on personal data to the latter insofar as is required and necessary. 
4. The use of cookies also depends on the settings of the web browser you are using. Most web browsers are preset to automatically accept certain types of cookies; however, you can change these settings to suit you.
5. In the event you decide against the use of cookies or delete them, you may not have access to all functions of our website or individual functions may be limited.

 

Security

We continuously take security measures to protect your information managed by us from being tampered with, lost, destroyed or accessed by unauthorized individuals.

 

 

Legal Foundations for processing

1. If you have  given us your consent to process your personal information, then that is the legal foundation for processing it. This is in line with the Kenyan Data Protection Act and incorporated is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
2. The Kenyan Data Protection Act and GDPR is the legal basis for processing personal information for the purpose of entering into a contract or performing a contract with you. 
3. If processing your personal information is required to fulfill our legal obligation, we are authorised to do so. 
4. Furthermore, we process personal information for purposes of protecting our legitimate interests as well as the interests of third parties. This may include maintaining functionality of our IT systems, direct marketing and those of any third parties we are closely working with. As part of the consideration of interests required in each case, we take into account various aspects, in particular the type of personal information, the purpose of processing, the circumstances of processing and your interest in the confidentiality of your personal information.

 

Deleting your personal data

Your IP address and the name of your internet service provider, which we store for security reasons, are deleted after seven days. We delete your personal information as soon as the purpose for which it was collected and processed has been fulfilled. Beyond this time period, data storage only takes place to the extent made necessary by legislation, regulations or any other legal  provisions we are subjected to. Should it not be possible to delete data in individual cases, the relevant personal data is flagged to restrict their further processing.

 

Rights of the Data Subject

1. As a data subject, you have the right of access, right of rectification, right to erasure, right to restriction of processing and right to data portability.
2. If you have consented the processing of your personal data by us, you have the right to revoke the consent at any time. We may further process such data pursuant to applicable legal basis. 
3. You can address any claims or declarations to the following email address: info@africachampionoftreesawards.org

 

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If you sign up for emails on our website, the information provided during registration will be used solely for marketing purposes. You may cancel the subscription at any time by using the option to unsubscribe contained in the mail.