Privacy Notice

This privacy notice explains how West Africa Group ("West Africa Group", "we", "us") collects, uses and protects personal data you submit through this website. It applies to opportunity enquiries, partner enquiries, producer and supplier registrations, partnership and compliance enquiries and general contact.

Data we collect

• Contact details: name, organisation, email, phone, location.
• Enquiry details: opportunity or need, sector, brief, timeline, budget or volume.
• Producer and supplier registrations: commodity, capacity, quality, certifications, destination markets, documentation and coordination preference.
• Technical data: analytics events, where you have consented to analytics cookies.

How we use your data

• To respond to your enquiry and assess potential trade opportunities.
• To assess producer and supplier registrations and match to buyers or opportunities.
• To respond to partnership, procurement and compliance enquiries.
• Where consented, to measure and improve the website via analytics.

Legal basis

We process personal data on the basis of taking steps at your request before a contract, our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries, and your explicit consent where indicated (for example, analytics cookies and producer and supplier registrations).

Sharing and storage

Form submissions are routed to a controlled mailbox/CRM and stored securely. Registration details are stored privately and never exposed publicly. We do not sell your data. We identify any third-party processors used and document them on request.

Retention

We retain enquiry data for as long as is necessary to respond to and follow up on the enquiry, and producer and supplier data for the purpose of assessing and matching opportunities. You can ask for your data to be removed at any time.

Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, erase or restrict the processing of your personal data, and to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority. To exercise these rights, email contact@wafrica-group.com.

Contact

For any privacy questions, contact us at contact@wafrica-group.com.