The Sahara Centre
1. Who we are
The Sahara Centre (TSC) is athink tank dedicated to repositioning indigenous African knowledge systems as rigorous frameworks for contemporary governance and development. We use the term “indigenous intelligence” to describe this body of knowledge, and our work spans research, programming, and convening across Nigeria and the broader continent.
Our registered address is 135a Brickfield Road off Apapa Road, Lagos, Nigeria. You may contact us at culture@saharacentre.org
2. What You Are Subscribing To
By submitting your email address through our website, you are consenting to receive electronic communications from The Sahara Centre, which may include:
We will not use your email address for any purpose beyond what is described above without obtaining your consent.
3. Your Consent
By entering your email address and submitting the subscription form on our website, you confirm that:
Your subscription is entirely voluntary. You may unsubscribe at any time without consequence.
4. How to Unsubscribe
You may withdraw your consent and unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by:
Once we receive and process your request, we will remove your email address from our active mailing lists. Please allow up to 10 business days for this to take effect. Note that unsubscribing from our mailing list does not delete your data from our records; please refer to our Privacy Policy below for information on data deletion requests.
5. Frequency of Communications
We aim to communicate thoughtfully and sparingly. You will not receive daily messages from us. The volume of communications will depend on the volume of our programming and publications, but we endeavour to send no more than two to four communications per month except in the case of time-sensitive event announcements.
6. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Subscription Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. Where changes are material, we will notify subscribers by email before the changes take effect. Your continued subscription following notification of changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.
1. Introduction
The Sahara Centre (“TSC”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your data when you interact with our website and subscribe to our communications.
This Policy applies to information collected through our website at www.saharacentre.org and any related digital communications we send to you.
2. What Personal Data We Collect
When you subscribe to our mailing list or interact with our website, we may collect the following categories of personal data:
We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as data about your health, beliefs, or ethnicity) and we do not ask for payment information on our website.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use the personal data we collect for the following purposes:
We process your data on the basis of your consent, which you give when you subscribe. You may withdraw this consent at any time (see Section 7 below).
4. How We Store Your Data
Your data is stored on Google Workspace and our mail subscriber servers, which operate in accordance with industry-standard data security practices. We retain subscriber data for as long as you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we will retain a suppression record of your email address to ensure we do not contact you again unless you re-subscribe, but your data will not be used for any active communications purpose.
If you would like us to fully delete your personal data from our records, you may make a data deletion request (see Section 7).
5. Sharing Your Data
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. We may share your data in limited circumstances only:
If we share data with any third-party service provider, we take reasonable steps to ensure they handle it in a manner consistent with this Policy.
6. Cookies and Analytics
Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to understand how visitors use our site and to improve user experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. You may adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies; however, some features of our website may not function optimally if you do so.
We may use tools such as Google Analytics to collect anonymised data about website traffic. This data does not identify you personally. For more information on how Google uses this data, please visit www.google.com/policies/
7. Your Rights
Subject to applicable law, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at culture@saharacentre.org. We will respond to all requests within a reasonable timeframe and in any event within 30 days.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our website and communications are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under the age of 18. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will promptly delete it.
9. Links to Third-Party Sites
Our website may contain links to external websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or applicable law. We will post the updated Policy on our website with a revised effective date. Where changes are material, we will notify subscribers by email.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at:
The Sahara Centre
135a Brickfield Road
Off Apapa Road
Costain
Lagos
