Last Updated: June 22, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to grantsdatabase.org (“we,” “us,” “our”). We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, process, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, grantsdatabase.org, including any other media form, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”).
This policy has been prepared in compliance with the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA), 2023, and other applicable data protection regulations. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
2. What Information We Collect
We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
a) Personally Identifiable Information (PII):
- Registration Data: When you register for a free or premium account, we collect your name, email address, phone number, and organization name.
- Payment Data: For premium subscriptions, we collect data necessary to process your payment, such as your payment instrument number (e.g., a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by our payment processors (e.g., Paystack, Flutterwave). We do not store full credit card numbers on our servers.
- Grant Writing Service Data: When you inquire about our grant writing services, we collect information about your project, funding goals, and organization to facilitate the consultation.
b) Derivative Data (Collected Automatically):
- Our servers automatically collect information when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
c) Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
- We use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy section below.
3. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Process your payments and subscriptions.
- Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you (with your consent).
- Email you regarding your account or order.
- Fulfill and manage services, such as our grant writing consultations.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
- Notify you of updates to the Site.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements as stipulated by Nigerian law.
4. Lawful Basis for Processing
In compliance with the NDPA 2023, we process your personal data based on the following lawful grounds:
- Consent: We will process your data for specific purposes where you have given us clear and affirmative consent (e.g., for marketing communications).
- Contract: We process your data to fulfill our contractual obligations to you (e.g., providing premium membership services you have paid for).
- Legal Obligation: We may process your data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data for our legitimate interests, such as improving our services, provided these interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms.
5. Disclosure of Your Information (Third-Party Sharing)
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing (Paystack, Flutterwave), data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service.
- Advertising Partners (e.g., Google AdSense): We may share information with third-party advertisers to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
6. Use of Cookies and Google AdSense
We use cookies to enhance your experience. Our partners, including Google AdSense, may also use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
7. Data Security and Retention
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, or as required by law.
8. Your Data Protection Rights under NDPA
As a data subject in Nigeria, you have the following rights:
- The right to be informed: You have the right to know how we collect and use your data, which is the purpose of this policy.
- The right of access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data that we hold.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete 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 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.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
9. Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last Updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at:
123 Impact Drive, Yaba Lagos, Nigeria
Email: outreach@grantsdatabase.org
Phone: +234 (0) 811 192 88587