Privacy policy

General Principles:

Tek Headquarters is strongly committed to protecting personal data. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights. It applies to personal data provided to us, both by individuals themselves or by others. We may use personal data provided to us for any of the purposes described in this privacy statement or as otherwise stated at the point of collection. We will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a manner that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

Please take some time to read our Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy which constitutes part of this agreement and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our site.

What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our website. Our site may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you are visiting other website(s) even if it is linked via our website, we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

The data we collect about you:

• Personal identification data may include First name, middle name, last name, age, guardians name such as, Father and Mother name.
• Your designation, your geographical location, your previous company, the fact you visited our company, how did you know about us.
• Contact data may consist of contact details, address details, email address.
• Usage data may include, the products and services you use of the company and how you use the company’s site.
• Content data may include the comments, texts, images you may upload onto the company’s site which contains personal data.

What Data is Being Collected?

Our Websites:

Generally, you can visit our website without providing any personal data about yourself. However, in order to access some parts of our websites and/or for you to request specific information or services, we may need to collect personal data from you which we will process for the purposes described hereunder.

As part of pre-contractual and/or contractual obligations, we may process your personal data for:

• answering any requests, queries or inquires you may submit on our website, but also
• enabling you log on certain restricted parts of our website
• managing your participation to online context

We may also use the personal data you share with us, for:

• maintaining and improving the website as well as to ensuring its security
• conducting customer satisfaction surveys
• manage the forums to which you may take part
• recruitment purposes related when you submit a resume or a job application online, and
• compiling aggregate statistics regarding the use of the website.

These purposes are justified by our legitimate interest to make sure that you enjoy the experience when visiting our website and interacting with us.

Job Applicants:

As part of any recruitment process Tek Headquarters collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. We will collect your work history details, how long have you been working, your prior company names or addresses, other work experience, contact details and any other information you have on your CV. We will always be clear about what we are asking for and why, and we will always ask for your consent to provide the information we need to adhere to legal requirements.

How Long Do We Keep Your Data?

We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected in terms of job necessarily.

When you are an existing client, we will keep your personal data as long as our contractual and/or business relationship lasts. We may then place your personal data in an intermediary database for five (5) years after our contractual and/or business relationship lasts.

If you are a prospect with no established contractual and/or business relationship, we will not keep your data for longer than three (3) years after you last contacted us.

If you are a candidate, please note that if you are not hired, we will delete the information you shared with us at the latest two (2) years after you shared the information.

Finally, the log information we may collect for the security, maintenance and improvement purposes mentioned above will not be kept longer than one (1) year after collection.

If you would like to know what data we hold on you then please contact your nearest office and we will be happy to help.

Sharing of your data

We may also be required – by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence— to disclose your personal data. We may also disclose your personal data if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate.

We may also disclose personal information if we determine in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our rights and pursue available remedies, enforce our terms and conditions, investigate fraud, or protect our operations or users.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy:

This policy was last updated on 20th May 2020. We may periodically change this Policy to keep pace with new technologies, industry practices, and regulatory requirements, among other reasons. We expect most such changes to be minor.

When collecting and using personal data, our policy is to be transparent about why and how we process personal data.

Any changes will be published on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our site following the alterations.

Cookies

Cookies are used on this website. By using our website, you agree that cookies are to be placed on your device as further explained below.

Cookies are small pieces of data that a website sends to your computer’s web browser while you are navigating through it. They have many different purposes, but mainly, cookies enable you to navigate between pages easily, to remember your preferences, and eventually to improve the user experience. These cookies may then be stored on your machine to identify your computer.

Cookies used on this website can be either set up by our website or by a third-party website. Moreover, these cookies can be “session” or “persistent” cookies: a session cookie is a cookie that is automatically deleted when the user closes the browser, whereas a persistent cookie is a cookie that remains stored in the user’s terminal device until it reaches a defined expiration date. Cookies used on Tek Headquarters website have a maximum lifetime of 12 months.