An Agricultural Technology Company providing agricultural solutions through the use of information technology to improve farming system.

This cookie policy explains how we use cookies and other similar technologies when you use our Service. It also explains how you can control their use. Your continued browsing of the Service indicates your consent to our use of cookies.

CoFarmers Agriculture Technology Limited is an entity responsible for the use of cookies on the Service. If you have any questions, you can contact us at support@cofarmers.ng.

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone, or other electronic device) when you visit our Service to store a range of information, for example, your language preference, or browser and device you are using to view the website or the app. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain different that the domain of our Service, for our advertising and marketing efforts.

Session cookies expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards. These cookies allow our website to link your actions during a particular browser session.

Persistent cookies will remain on your device for a period of time and will expire on a set expiration date, or when you delete them manually from your cache. These cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions and allow your preferences and actions across our Service to be remembered.

How can you manage your cookies and similar technologies?1. Browser and device settings

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

Chrome

Firefox

Opera

Internet Explorer

Safari

Edge

The detailed instructions on how to control your cookies through browser settings can also be found here:

https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-control-cookies/.

Please note that blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many services. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our Service.

To opt out of data usage by Google Analytics follow instructions: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

To reset your device identifier or opt-out of personalized advertising, follow Google instructions or Apple instructions.

2. Cookies purposes

Cookies are used by us for the following purposes:

1. To speed up the loading of pages.

2. To recognize you the next time you visit our Service. As a result, the information, which you have earlier entered in certain fields on the Service may automatically appear the next time you use our Service.

3. To recognize and count the number of visitors, to know which pages are the most and least popular, and to see how visitors move around our Service when they are using it. As a result, we will be able to improve the way our Service works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

4. To make our Service and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

5. To measure advertising performance.

6. To prevent fraudulent activity and improve security.

7. To personalize the content of the Service.

8. To analyze the performance of the Service and fix bugs.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We share information with third parties that help us operate, provide, improve, integrate, customize, support, and market our Service. We may share some sets of personal data, in particular. The types of third parties we share information with include, in particular:

1. Service providers

We share personal data with third parties that we hire to provide services or perform business functions on our behalf, based on our instructions. We may share your personal information with the following types of service providers:

cloud storage providers (Google) data analytics providers (Facebook, Google) login service providers (Google, Smarterasp,Facebook) marketing partners (in particular, social media networks, marketing agencies, email delivery services; such as Facebook,Instagram Google) payment services providers (Flutterwave,PayStack) local banks and credit organizations

2. Law enforcement agencies and other public authorities

We may use and disclose personal data to enforce our Terms of Use, to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others, and to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, or in other cases provided for by law.

3. Third parties as part of a merger or acquisition

As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customers’ information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also share such information with any affiliated entity (e.g. parent company or subsidiary) and may transfer such information in the course of a corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

We process your personal data, in particular, under the following legal bases:

1. your consent;

On this basis we use your cookies as described in our Cookies Policy .

2. to perform our contract with you;

3. for our (or others’) legitimate interests; Under this legal basis we, in particular:

communicate with you regarding your use of our Service This includes, for example, sending you push notifications reminding you that you have unread messages. The legitimate interest we rely on for this purpose is our interest to encourage you to use our Service more often. We also take into account the potential benefits to you.

i. research and analyze your use of the Service Our legitimate interest for this purpose is our interest in improving our Service so that we understand users’ preferences and are able to provide you with a better experience (for example, to make the use of our mobile application easier and more enjoyable, or to introduce and test new features).

ii. send you marketing communications The legitimate interest we rely on for this processing is our interest to promote our Service in a measured and appropriate way.

iii. personalize our ads The legitimate interest we rely on for this processing is our interest to promote our Service in a reasonably targeted way.

iv. enforce our Terms of Use and to prevent and combat fraud Our legitimate interests for this purpose are enforcing our legal rights, preventing and addressing fraud and unauthorised use of the Service, non-compliance with our Terms of Use.

4. to comply with legal obligations.

If there is a data breach that may cause a risk for the rights and freedoms of individuals, we will notify competent supervisory authority, when such notification is mandatory. If the risk is assessed by us as “high”, we will also notify the affected data subjects without undue delay. The time frame for such notification will be developed by us on the basis of number of affected data subjects and time needed to collect contact information for notifications.

If the measures taken or proposed to be taken in response to the breach did not address your concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority, or to seek redress in a court of competent jurisdiction.

We collect data you give us voluntarily (for example, an email address). We also collect data automatically (for example, your IP address).1 Data you give us.You may be asked to provide us information about yourself when you register for and/or use the Service. This information includes: first name, last name, phone number, email, gender, date of birth (together “Required Information”), address details, working hours etc., as well as access to your photos, albums and their metadata. You will need to provide us with your ID or similar identification document if you want to post advertisement in Mobile Phones category, unblock your account or make duplicate account primary. You will need to provide us with your Bank ID and САС (certificate of incorporation of legal entity) if you want to participate in car auction as a dealer.

To use our Service and register an account, you will need to provide Required Information. You will be able to use the Service even if you do not give this data to us, but some Service’s functionality may be limited to you (for example, if you do not register an account, you will not be able to chat with other users, post ads, see contact details of other users).

Sometimes you may also need to provide us additional information in the communication with our Support Team in order to fulfill your request (for example, if your account was previously blocked, we may ask you to confirm your identity by providing an ID document).

While posting an announcement on the Service, you can decide to provide additional personal information on yourself. For example, you can decide to make available your CV or any photos of you or bearing your personal information. You acknowledge that by providing your personal data in the announcement you are making such data publicly available. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that we will make public some personal data from your profile to provide the Service, – it will enable us to facilitate communication and transactions between the users. In particular, you acknowledge and agree that your email will be shown as a part of your advertisement in the Seeking Work CVs section to some users with the posted advertisement in the Jobs section.

You should carefully consider risks associated with the fact that you make certain information – in particular, you phone number, address, photos, passport and financial details or exact location – publicly available.

2. Data provided to us by third parties

When you decide to log in using Facebook, we get personal data from your Facebook account. This includes your profile image, name, and Facebook ID. Unless you opt-out on the Facebook Login screen, we will also collect other data, such as email address, gender, date of birth, friends list, and location as listed in your Facebook profile.

For more information, please refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference (describes the categories of information, which Facebook may share with third parties and the set of requirements) and to the Facebook Data policy. In addition, Facebook lets you control the choices you made when connecting your Facebook profile to the App on their Apps and Websites page.

When you log in with Google, we get your name, email address, profile picture and Google ID. We use your personal data from Google in accordance with this Privacy Policy. To know more about how Google processes your data, visit its Privacy Policy. To remove access granted to us, visit Google Permissions.

When you decide to log in using Apple, we get Apple ID, name and email from your account. You can use Hide My Email function during signing in with Apple, and it will create and share a unique, random email address that will forward our messages to your personal email.

Apple lets you revoke access provided to the App on your Apple ID Manage Page by following the next steps.

If you were invited to create an account in the Service, the person that invited you can provide personal information about you, such as your phone number, email address, social media account or other contact information.

We may collect your name, official government ID number and photo image to confirm your identity. For this we will share this information with a 3rd party service provider, Smile Identity Inc., in order to validate it with the governmental sources. Smile Identity Inc. may use your ID number to collect the following additional data on you from the governmental sources: full name, date of birth, image, address, phone number, gender, government ID expiry date or other additional information associated with your ID number that the issuing authority may provide. Smile ID may process or store your data outside of the borders of your country.

3. Data we collect automatically:

1. Data about how you found us

We collect data about your referring URL (that is, the place on the Web where you were when you tapped on our ad).

2. Device and Location data.

We collect data from your device. Examples of such data include: language settings, IP address, time zone, type and model of a device, device settings, operating system, Internet service provider, mobile carrier, hardware ID, and Facebook ID.

3. Usage data

We record how you interact with our Service. For example, we log the features, and content you interact with, how often you use the Service, how long you are on the Service, what sections you use, how many ads you watch.

4. Advertising IDs

We collect your Apple Identifier for Advertising (“IDFA”) or Google Advertising ID (“AAID”) (depending on the operating system of your device). You can typically reset these numbers through the settings of your device’s operating system (but we do not control this).

5. Transaction data

When you make payments through the Service, you need to provide financial account data, such as your credit card number, to our third-party service providers. We do not collect or store full credit card number data, though we may receive credit card-related data, data about the transaction, including: date, time and amount of the transaction, the type of payment method used.

6. Cookies

As explained in our Cookies Policy

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We will store your personal data for as long as it is reasonably necessary for achieving the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy (including providing the Service to you), which includes (but is not limited to) the period during which you have a CoFarmers account. We will also retain and use your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will store your hashed email address, phone number, identification documents, and information on the fact your account has been blocked after fulfilling your request on deleting your personal data.

We will also retain and use your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

To be in control of your personal data, you have the following rights:

Accessing / reviewing / updating / correcting your personal data. You may review, edit, or change the personal data that you had previously provided to CoFarmers in the settings section on the website.

You may also request a copy of your personal data collected during your use of the Service.

Deleting your personal data. You can request erasure of your personal data by sending us an email at support@cofarmers.ng or you can delete your account via the link.

When you request deletion of your personal data, we will use reasonable efforts to honor your request. In some cases, we may be legally required to keep some of the data for a certain time; in such event, we will fulfill your request after we have complied with our obligations.

Objecting to or restricting the use of your personal data (including for direct marketing purposes). You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data or limit our use thereof.

The right to lodge a complaint with supervisory authority. We would love you to contact us directly, so we could address your concerns. Nevertheless, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.

To exercise any of your privacy rights, please send a request to cofarmershelp@gmail.com

We process your personal data:1. To provide our Service

This includes enabling you to use the Service in a seamless manner and preventing or addressing Service errors or technical issues.

2. To customize your experience

We process your personal data to adjust the content of the Service and make offers tailored to your personal preferences and interests.

3. To manage your account and provide you with customer support

We process your personal data to respond to your requests for technical support, Service information or to any other communication you initiate. This includes accessing your account to address technical support requests. For this purpose, we may send you, for example, notifications or emails about the performance of our Service, security, payment transactions, notices regarding our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy.

4. To communicate with you regarding your use of our Service

We communicate with you, for example, by push notifications or in the chat. As a result, you may, for example, receive a notification whether on the Website or via email that you received a new message on CoFarmers. To opt out of receiving push notifications, you need to change the settings on your browser or mobile device. To opt out of certain type of emails, you need to follow unsubscribe link located in the footer of the email, by contacting our support team at support@cofarmers.ng, or in your profile settings.

The services that we use for these purposes may collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by our users, as well as when they interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.

5. To research and analyze your use of the Service on Cofarmers

This helps us to better understand our business, analyze our operations, maintain, improve, innovate, plan, design, and develop CoFarmers and our new products. We also use such data for statistical analysis purposes, to test and improve our offers. This enables us to better understand what features and sections of CoFarmers our users like more, what categories of users use our Service. As a consequence, we often decide how to improve CoFarmers based on the results obtained from this processing. For example, if we discover that Jobs section is not as popular as others, we may focus on improving it.

6. To send you marketing communications

We process your personal data for our marketing campaigns. We may add your email address to our marketing list. As a result, you will receive information about our products, such as for example, special offers, and products of our partners. If you do not want to receive marketing emails from us, you can unsubscribe following instructions in the footer of the marketing emails, by contacting our support team at support@cofarmers.ng, or in your profile settings.

We may also show you advertisements on the Website, and send you push notifications for marketing purposes. To opt out of receiving push notifications, you need to change the settings on your device or/and browser.

7. To personalize our ads

We and our partners use your personal data to tailor ads and possibly even show them to you at the relevant time. For example, if you have visited our Website, you might see ads of our products, for example, in your Facebook’s feed.

We may target advertising to you through a variety of ad networks and exchanges, using data from advertising technologies on and off of our Services like unique cookie or similar tracking technology, pixel, device identifiers, geolocation, operation system information, email.

How to opt out or influence personalized advertising

iOS: On your iPhone or iPad, go to “Settings,” then “Privacy” and tap “Advertising” to select “Limit Ad Track”. In addition, you can reset your advertising identifier (this also may help you to see less of personalized ads) in the same section.

Android: To opt-out of ads on an Android device, simply open the Google Settings app on your mobile phone, tap “Ads” and enable “Opt out of interest-based ads”. In addition, you can reset your advertising identifier in the same section (this also may help you to see less of personalized ads).

Google allows its users to opt out of Google’s personalized ads and to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics.

Facebook also allows its users to influence the types of ads they see on Facebook. To find how to control the ads you see on Facebook, please go here or adjust your ads settings on Facebook.

Please refer to our Cookies Policy to find out how to manage the use of cookies.

8. To enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use and to prevent and combat fraudWe use personal data to enforce our agreements and contractual commitments, to detect, prevent, and combat fraud. As a result of such processing, we may share your information with others, including law enforcement agencies (in particular, if a dispute arises in connection with our Terms of Use).9. To comply with legal obligationsWe may process, use, or share your data when the law requires it, in particular, if a law enforcement agency requests your data by available legal means.10. To process your paymentsWe provide paid products and/or services within the Service. For this purpose, we use third-party services for payment processing (for example, payment processors). As a result of this processing, you will be able to make a payment and use the paid features of the Service.11. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

12. GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

13. Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

CoFarmers does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 18 years of age. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

We do not knowingly process personal data from persons under 18 years of age. If you learn that anyone younger than 18 has provided us with personal data, please contact us at support@cofarmers.ng.

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to make material changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified through our Service or by other available means and will have an opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy. By continuing to access or use the Service after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.