Privacy Statement

Personal Data

African Century Group, a company registered in Mauritius, controls personal data that is collected or obtained through this website by the use of cookies.

If you use this website, you may choose to provide personal data to (for example, by sending us an email). We will process the personal data that you provide through this website to answer your query and if relevant, to manage our business relationship with you or your company. Certain anonymous information is also recorded about you when you visit this website, including details of your domain name, IP address, operating system and browser.

Cookies statement – our use of cookies and tracking data

A cookie is a short text file that may be stored on your hard drive when you visit a website. We use the following types of cookies on this website:

– “Google Analytics” cookies (a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc). Google Analytics sets four cookies that allow us to analyse traffic on the website. Google Analytics cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to this website and to see how visitors move around the site (in particular, what pages of the website are being visited). This helps us to improve the way our website works.
– “Session cookies” – to identify and maintain a browsing session, and to remember whether you have rejected cookies through your browser settings.

These cookies do not collect or track any personal data or information about you as an individual.  Instead, we use the information collected to monitor how the website is used, and to enhance the accessibility of the website.

We do not use cookies or other tracking data to send you advertising or promotional material.

Note that most web browsers allow some control of cookies through browser settings. If you delete or block our cookies, some parts of the website may not work properly, because some of our cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of this website.

This Privacy Statement places all users of this website on notice about our use of cookies. Your continued use of this website confirms to us that you are aware of our use of cookies and have no objection to this.

Online security

We take reasonable steps to protect the security of information (including personal data) that is provided by you or exchanged with you through this website.

Our security measures include using firewalls, intrusion detection systems and virus scanning tools to protect against unauthorised persons and viruses from accessing the information that you provide to us, and we to you. However, please be aware that there are inherent risks in transmitting information by use of the Internet and other online or electronic transmission systems and that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted in this way.

Transfers of personal data collected or obtained via this website

Personal data that is collected through this website may be stored and processed in any country where African Century Group operates.

As with personal data that we collect in other ways, personal data that is collected online may be shared between companies in the African Century Group and with external service providers who assist us with our services and functions.

This website may contain links to third party websites (i.e. that are not provided by African Century Group). Before providing personal data to third party websites, we recommend you examine the privacy policies on those websites. African Century Group is not responsible for the privacy practices on third party websites.

Data security

As noted above, African Century Group is regulated under data protection laws and privacy laws in its countries of operation around the globe. A common feature of those laws is that steps must be taken to keep personal data secure from unauthorised access, loss, destruction, misuse, modification or disclosure. African Century Group uses reasonable and appropriate physical and electronic security measures to keep personal data secure.

Questions and contact information

If you have any questions or complaints about your privacy or wish to make an access request, please email us or contact one of our African Century Group offices.

This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time. When appropriate, a revised statement will be posted on this website which will incorporate any changes. We recommend you return periodically to review the latest Privacy Statement.

This Privacy Statement was posted in March 2013.