Privacy Policy

Last revised 6 August 2022.

Scope of policy

This privacy policy (the “Policy” or the "Privacy Policy”) describes how TBOM Model collects, uses, consults or otherwise processes an individual's Personal Data. For the purposes of this policy, "TBOOM MODEL” refers to a virtual mentorship eLearning company whose focus is to connect mentees and mentors at no cost. The company is yet to be registered under the Nigerian law. The email address of the company is support@tbommodel.com. The website is https://www.tbommodel.com/. In all cases described in this Policy, TBOM MODEL is committed to protect the privacy of our every user and will collect and process all personal data under strict confidentiality rules. These rules applies to visitors and subscribers of the websites of TBOM MODEL; natural persons contacting us through the contact or other forms available on the websites; subscribers to our newsletter(s); users signing in to use TBOM MODEL services; users signing in to download Free eBooks and users signing in to attend and/or watch webinars amongst others. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you how we gather, define, and use information that could identify you, such as your name, email address, address, other contact details, online identifiers or other information that you provide to us when using TBOM MODEL websites or when relying on the services provided. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Contacting Us

If you have general questions about your account or how to contact Customer Service for assistance, please send us an email at support@tbommodel.com. For questions specifically about this Privacy Policy or use of your personal information please contact privacy@tbommodel.com. Please note that if you contact us to assist you, we may need to authenticate your identity before fulfilling your request.

Collection of Information

The purpose of the Website is to create a virtual and interactive platform for mentees and mentors to facilitate mentorship. As such, werequire prospective users to provide the following information to feed the algorithms developed to facilitate such interactions;

  1. Personal Information
  2. Content published on TBOM MODEL is accessible by all visitors, with limited restrictions to those who did not sign-up as users of the model. Visitors may register (“sign-up”) as a mentee or mentor. Upon signing-up, an account is created for the user (“Account”), with a corresponding in-active dashboard. Users who sign-up on-site are required to confirm their registration by clicking on an activation link which is sent to them via email. Users are required to provide part or all of the following information below, depending on the features or services they wish to access; First and last name, Email address, gender, photograph (optional), area of interest, amongst others.Once you complete activation, the created dashboards will become active.

  3. User Contributions
  4. There may be opportunities for users to provide information to be published or displayed on the blogs of TBOM Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "Contributions"). Such Contributions are posted on our Website or transmitted to us and others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

  5. Non-personal Information
  6. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on our Website, we may store such information on our servers.

  7. Correspodence Information
  8. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on our Website, we may store such information on our servers.

  9. Payment Information
  10. TBOM-MODEL is free for users. However, other associated services that may require financial transactions may be included as part of our sustainability plans. Therefore, to protect you against fraud, unauthorized transactions (such as money laundering), claims and other liabilities, we will only collect an identification number and order details which enable us to match each user to the payments made.We can also allow our third-party payment vendor to collect information for the purpose of collecting these fees. We do not have access to the payment information that you provide to our third-party payment vendor and this information is subject to the privacy policy of the third-party payment vendor. For more information regarding what payment information our third-party payment vendor collects and how it uses this information, please see their privacy policy whenever it is live.

Use of Information

We use the information to provide to run the algorithms deigned for the TBOM MODEL, this includes establishing a dashboard and profile management system for you, and making you visible to another user. For example, we use information to:

  1. We use your e-mail to send you system e-mails about the functionality of the TBOM-MODEL. If you want to stop receiving our system e-mails, you will have to de-activate your Account or contact support@tbommodel.com.
  2. There may be opportunities for users to provide information to be published or displayed on the blogs of TBOM Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "Contributions"). Such Contributions are posted on our Website or transmitted to us and others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

  3. We may use your area of expertise or interest to optimize your searches as you use the TBOM MODEL.
  4. We use Website navigation data to operate and improve the Website. We may also use Website navigation data alone or in combination with your Information to provide aggregated information about TBOM MODEL.
  5. We collect the IP Addresses to track when you use our Website. We use IP Addresses to monitor the regions from which you navigate our Website and sign-up to use our Services. Your IP-address is also registered for statistical purposes and to better our advertising and layout of the Website. In specific, we use your IP Addresses for the following reasons:
    • Send the most appropriate adverts based on geographic area or information derived from your IP address. Many IP addresses are commonly associated with Internet service providers, universities, or major corporations in specific regions or localities. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.
    • Estimate the total number of Internet users visiting our Website from specific countries or regions of the world.
    • Assist third party advertisers to track effectiveness of the promotions they run on our Website, visits to and business at third party's websites.

Use of Business information by other third party

We aim to partner with third-party advertising networks and professional societies to either display adverts/product on our Website or to manage our adverts on other Websites. These ad network partners do not collect and do not have access to any Information. They may, however, anonymously track your internet usage by various means, for example, through the use of cookies.We will also make reasonable efforts to make sure that our users, who use our Services, will use the information available to them solely for eLearning-related purposes. However, we cannot control their use of that information outside this scope and we are not responsible for such unauthorized uses. TBOM MODEL reserves its right to share your Information with a third party in case of sale merger, control changes, reorganization or liquidation of the Company. All actions will naturally be completed in compliance with applicable laws of personal data and privacy.Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect and use it. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example to prevent payment fraud or confirm your identity).For questions about our use of your personal information (including legal basis and transfer mechanisms please contact privacy@tbommodel.com

Protection of Information

We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and un-authorized access, use and modification. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risks of processing your personal information. Our team at TBOM MODEL have executed non-disclosure agreements, which provide explicit confidentiality protections. Any member who violates such privacy and/or security policies is subject to possible termination and civil and/or criminal prosecution.

We do not make any of your Information available to third parties for their marketing purposes. TBOM MODEL runs on individual servers and no data given or collected is shared with other social media platforms.If however, we need to share your Information with third parties, we will notify. Please note that no transmission over the internet can guarantee confidentiality and non-disclosure, and as such, you transmit at your own risk.

We use robust security measures to protect data from unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and help ensure the appropriate use of data. When the Services are accessed using the internet, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology protects your Information, using both server authentication and data encryption. These technologies help ensure that your Information is safe, secure, and only available to you and to whom you have granted access.

We do not tolerate Spam. To report TBOM MODEL related spam, please contact us at support@tbommodel.com. You may not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our TOS. We may check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content of the Website, but we will not permanently store messages sent through these tools.

TBOM MODEL does its utmost to secure communications and data storage in order to protect confidentiality of your Information against loss and interception by third parties. However, it is important to know that there is no zero-risk against loss or interception by others of your Information. You are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of your Account’s username and password.

Storage of Information

We save your Information in our database in order to improve our Website’s and user experience and in accordance with our TOS. If you wish that your information be permanently deleted from our database when you stop using our Services, please notify us at support@tbommodel.com

Information and Rights

Once you have provided your Personal Data, you have several rights, which you can in principle exercise free of charge, subject to statutory exceptions. These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal Personal Data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. To exercise any of your rights, you can file a request here privacy@tbommodel.com

  • Right to withdraw consent
  • Wherever we rely on your consent, you will be able to withdraw that consent at any time you choose and at your own initiative by logging into your account on our website (if you have one) or by contacting us at privacy@tbommodel.com. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the collection and processing of your data based on your consent up until the moment where you withdraw your consent.

  • Right to access and rectify your data
  • You have the right to access, review, and rectify your Personal Data. You may be entitled to ask us for a copy of your information, to review or correct it if you wish to rectify any information like your name, email address, passwords and/or any other preferences, you can easily do so by logging into your account on our website (if you have one) or by contacting us here privacy@tbommodel.com. You may also request a copy of the Personal Data processed as described in this Privacy Policy.

  • Right to erasure
  • You have the right to erasure of your Personal Data processed by us as described in this Privacy Policy in case it is no longer needed for the purposes for which the Personal Data was initially collected or processed or in the event you have withdrawn your consent or objected to processing as described in this Privacy Policy and no other legal ground for processing applies. Should you wish to have your Personal Data erased, please file a request here privacy@tbommodel.com.

  • Right to restriction of processing
  • Under certain circumstances, you may ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data. This is for example the case when you contest the accuracy of your Personal Data. In such event, we will restrict the processing until we can verify the accuracy of your data.Should you wish to have your Personal Data restricted, please file a request here privacy@tbommodel.com.

  • Right to data potability
  • Where you have provided your data directly to us and where the processing is carried out by automated means and based on your consent or the performance of a contract between you and us, you have the right to receive the Personal Data processed about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and request portability of your Personal Data.

  • Other websites
  • TBOM MODEL may contain links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of information may differ from ours. These websites and platforms have separate and independent privacy or data policies, privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully. In addition, you may encounter third party applications that interact with eLearning Industry’s services.

  • Children
  • We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16. In the event we learn that we have collected Personal Data from a child under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, steps will be taken promptly to remove that information. If you believe that we have or may have information from or about a child under 16 years of age, please contact us at privacy@tbommodel.com.

  • Changes to this privacy policy
  • We reserve the right to modify and update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will bring these changes to your attention should they be indicative of a fundamental change to the processing or be relevant to the nature of the processing or be relevant to you and impact your data protection rights.

Data Retention

We retain your Personal Data for as long as is required to fulfil the activities set out in this Privacy Policy, for as long as otherwise communicated to you or for as long as is permitted by Nigerian law.

Adapted from https://elearningindustry.com/

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