Who we are: Uwani Hub, a CSR project of How Do You Tech

Our website address is: https://uwani.org.

This site provides informational, educational and/or entertainment resources that help young and old people explore personal empowerment, creativity, technology and communication as well as learning resources and training.   

Professional advice of any kind including therapeutic, medical, and legal advice is not provided on this site. You agree that you read and/or use the information on this site of your own free choice and at your own risk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Audio-Visual Release Agreement

By participating at any or all programmes run by Uwani Hub, I understand that portions of each event will be photographed and/or audio/video-recorded for use by the foundation in and outside Nigeria, as well as digitally. I agree that UWANI.ORG has the right and permission to use and publish such media — which may include my name, likeness, voice, city/state of residence, or photograph — for any purpose in any format, online (including, but not limited to, UWANI.org, and its corresponding social media channels and/or offline, now and hereafter without further compensation, permission, or notification. I understand that all official recordings taken by UWANI HUB are the exclusive property of UWANI HUB, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license for general use, and I do not ask for nor expect compensation or notification of the use of official recordings or photographs in which I appear or partake in.

Comments

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. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

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.

Workshop Registration Form For Minor(s)

Any minor that registers on our platforms does so indicating that they have the consent of their wards/guardians to take part in our programmes.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Embedded content from other websites

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use google analytics to analyse our traffic to be able to better target our audience and reach out to them better.

We promise we will never SELL your data for any reason whatsoever.

How long we retain your data

We store your data in our database for as long as needed because we also want to stay connected with every individual that passes through our hub, offering our support and guidance in any tech way needed or required.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

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.

What rights you have over your data

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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How we protect your data

We engage standard methods to make sure all your data is secured on our platform.

What third parties we receive data from

We receive data from members and friends of our hub who want their friends or family to participate in our free programmes.

Your contact information

We can be reached at hello@uwani.org