NATIONAL VEHICLE REGISTRY

TERMS & PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes your privacy rights regarding how and when we collect, use, store, share and protect your information across our website, APIs, applications, email notifications and tools regardless of how you use or access them.

When this policy mentions “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to the controller of your information under this policy.

Despite this, you alone control and are responsible for any and every any and every information provided to us through the use of our services as provided in the Terms of Service.

When using the platform, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure, and use of your information in Nigeria as described in this privacy policy. This includes any information you choose to provide that is deemed sensitive under applicable law.

We respect the privacy of our online visitors and registered users and we will take reasonable steps to protect your information.

It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information. We have outlined our privacy policy below.

What We Do to Information Collected Personal

Upon registration, we collect personal information which you voluntarily provided by lawful means. We collect and use personal information solely for fulfilling the purposes specified by us and for other ancillary purposes.

This refers to the personal information you submit when you register (e.g., email address, name, user type, password, contact number, Tax Identification Number, etc.) it may also include anonymous information that is linked to you, for example, your IP Address. It should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.

The following lists what we use your personal information for. These may be updated from time to time.

  1. To verify the information provided.
  2. To prevent, detect and manage any illegal and fraudulent activity.
  3. To improve our services to you.
  4. To address any inappropriate use of our services.
  5. To update our website layout, database and content.
  6. To target newsletter and service updates.
  7. Resolve disputes that may occur.
  8. To provide you with access to our service.

Additional personal information may be gotten from third party applications and other identification/verification services. For example, from your financial institution.

Once you begin to use our services, we keep all records of your transactions and we will not share or disclose your personal information with a third party without your consent.

Protecting Your Information

We will protect your personal information by using global security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as against any unauthorized access, risk of loss, disclosure, copying, misuse or modification.

Other security measures include but not limited to, firewall, data encryption and granting access only to staff in the Ministry of Finance in order to fulfil their job responsibilities.

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use cookies to identify you as a user and to customize and improve our services. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer or mobile device. It enables us to remember your account log-in information, IP addresses, web traffic, number of times you visit, date and time of visits.

Some browsers may automatically accept cookies while some can be modified to decline cookies or alert you when a website wants to place a cookie on your computer. If you do choose to disable cookies, it may limit your ability to use our website.

Links to third party websites:

Please be informed that this Privacy Policy applies solely to the Site and does not apply to any third party websites you may access from our site. To determine how they deal with your Personal Information, you should ensure that you read their respective privacy policies.

Data Storage

We will only retain personal information on our servers for as long as an account has been registered on the platform. Once an account has been activated, your information is stored on our servers for as long as necessarily obligated by law.

This policy may change from time to time at our sole discretion.

Security and Retention

We make reasonable efforts to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk associated with the processing of Personal Data. We maintain organizational, technical and administrative measures designed to protect Personal Data on the platform against unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration or misuse. Your Personal Data is only accessible to a limited number of personnel who need access to the information to perform their duties. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised), please contact us immediately.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy, please contact us electronically or send physical mail to: info@vreg.gov.ng