Privacy policy

• Service: the Afripace website and app, its courses, the AI Academy and AI Tools pages, the instructor application, affiliate links and our WhatsApp channel.
• Personal data: information that identifies you directly or indirectly, such as your name, email address or phone number.
• Usage data: technical information collected automatically, such as IP address and browser type.
• Data controller: Afripace Ltd, which decides why and how personal data is processed.
• Data processor: a company that processes personal data on Afripace's behalf, such as our host or email provider.

• Students: to give you access to your courses, keep your progress, issue certificates and let others check them, and help you when you need it.
• Payments: to check payments, open courses and contact you about an order, by email or WhatsApp.
• Accounts: to send sign-in links and messages about your account.
• Instructors: to review applications, reply to them and pay instructors.
• Affiliate programme: to track purchases made through affiliate links and pay earnings.
• WhatsApp channel: to send you to our channel and keep a list of who joined it.
• All users: to improve the Service, protect it against fraud and abuse, and meet our legal and accounting duties.

Our WhatsApp channel is a one-way broadcast: WhatsApp does not show followers' phone numbers to the channel's admins or to other followers. The number you leave on our form is stored by Afripace to send you there.

In a WhatsApp group, your phone number, profile name and messages are visible to the other members, so avoid sharing sensitive personal or financial information there. You may ask us to remove your number at any time.

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only as needed to run the Service:

• Instructors: may learn how many students take their course, but not your contact details.
• Members who share a link: see how many purchases came through their link and what they earned, never who made them.
• Certificates: a certificate shows its name, course and date to anyone who has its number.
• Payments: Mobile Money operators and Paystack process payments. Afripace does not store card numbers.
• Hosting and infrastructure: Supabase (database and sign-in, servers in Ireland), Vercel (website hosting) and Resend (emails), with encryption and access control.
• Videos: lessons play through YouTube (Google), which may collect information under its own privacy policy when you play a video.
• WhatsApp (Meta): handles your information under its own privacy policy when you follow our channel.
• Legal compliance: we may disclose information when required by law, a court order or a regulator, for example under Ghana's Data Protection Act, Nigeria's NDPA or South Africa's POPIA.

• Tracking: when you arrive through someone's affiliate link, a cookie keeps their code for 90 days so that a purchase can be credited to them.
• Earnings: records of earnings and payouts are kept for tax and accounting purposes.
• Rules: members who share a link must follow the affiliate programme terms.

We use industry-standard safeguards to protect your information:

• Encrypted connections (HTTPS) and encrypted storage.
• Access rules inside the database itself: each member can reach only their own information, and only a few admins can see orders.
• Access limited to authorised people.
• Card payments handled by a PCI-DSS compliant provider.
• Monitoring of the Service for abuse and fraud.

• Accounts: kept while you use them and for 2 years after your last activity.
• Payments and affiliate earnings: kept as long as accounting and tax rules require.
• Certificates: kept so they can still be checked, unless you ask us to delete them.
• Applications and WhatsApp channel numbers: kept until you ask us to delete them.
• Usage data: kept for up to 12 months for security and statistics. Anonymous counts may be kept longer, as they say nothing about you.

When a period ends, the information is deleted or made anonymous, unless the law requires us to keep it longer.

Your information is stored in the European Union (Ireland) and may be handled by providers in other countries, such as the United States. We rely on legal safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses, so that your information stays protected in line with the privacy laws that apply.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access your personal data.
• Correct inaccurate data.
• Delete your data.
• Withdraw your consent, for example to leave our WhatsApp channel list.
• Object to or restrict processing.
• Export your data.

To exercise these rights, write to legal@afripace.com. Regional laws:

• GDPR (European Union): access, objection and data portability rights.
• CCPA (California, United States): the right to know, delete and opt out.
• Ghana, Nigeria (NDPA), South Africa (POPIA), Kenya and other countries: your local privacy rights are respected.

Afripace is intended for people aged 16 and over. If you are under 16, you may only use the Service with the permission of a parent or guardian. We delete information collected from a minor by mistake when asked.

Afripace uses cookies and similar storage to:

• Keep you signed in.
• Remember your language.
• Remember an affiliate code for 90 days, when you arrive through someone's affiliate link.
• Remember, in your browser only, your light or dark display choice, where you stopped in each video, and whether you closed the install-the-app message.

We use no advertising or social media tracking cookies. You can clear cookies and stored data in your browser settings at any time.

We may update this policy from time to time. If we make significant changes, we will tell you by email or on the Service. Continuing to use the Service after an update means you accept it.

For questions, requests or complaints about your privacy:

• Email: legal@afripace.com
• Phone and WhatsApp: +233 55 848 9134
• Address: Afripace Ltd, Accra, Ghana