Privacy Policy

We collect information you provide when you create an account, create or update your profile, use BIZCULAR, contact us, submit feedback, or use other features of the platform.

Depending on how you use BIZCULAR, we may collect:

• Name
• Email address
• Profile photograph
• Business or company name
• Job title or role
• Biography
• Business information
• Business interests
• Desired connections
• Location information that you choose to provide
• Other information you voluntarily add to your profile

We may also automatically collect certain technical and usage information, such as:

• IP address
• Device type
• Browser type
• Operating system
• Pages and features used
• Date and time of activity
• General technical information about how you interact with BIZCULAR

If you submit feedback, we may collect your email address, feedback, account identifier where available, submission date and time, and related technical information used to prevent abuse and manage feedback.

We use the information we collect to:

• Create and manage your BIZCULAR account
• Provide BIZCULAR's networking and discovery features
• Personalize your experience
• Help you discover relevant entrepreneurs, businesses, professionals, and potential connections
• Recommend or display potentially relevant connections based on information you provide
• Improve the functionality and usability of BIZCULAR
• Communicate with you about your account and the service
• Respond to questions, feedback, and support requests
• Detect and prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity
• Maintain the security and reliability of the platform
• Process payments and provide paid features where applicable
• Analyze usage and improve our products and services
• Comply with applicable legal obligations

Personalization — BIZCULAR uses information you provide, including information in your profile, preferences, interests, and activity on the platform, to personalize parts of your experience. This may include helping determine which businesses, entrepreneurs, professionals, or potential connections are more relevant to you.

Information collected through BIZCULAR may be stored on our backend infrastructure and databases.

We store information so that we can provide account functionality, maintain your profile, personalize your experience, operate the platform, maintain security, and provide features that require persistent data.

We take reasonable measures to protect information stored on our systems, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

BIZCULAR is a networking platform. Information that you choose to include in your public or discoverable profile may be visible to other BIZCULAR users.

This may include information such as:

• Your name
• Profile photograph
• Business or company
• Role
• Biography
• Business interests
• Other profile information you choose to publish

Please do not publish sensitive or confidential information that you do not want other users to see.

We may use third-party service providers to help operate BIZCULAR.

These providers may support services such as:

• Hosting
• Databases
• Authentication
• Security
• Analytics
• Communications
• Payment processing
• Infrastructure and application services

These providers may process information on our behalf when necessary to provide their services.

We do not sell your personal information as a standalone product.

If you purchase a paid BIZCULAR feature or subscription, payment processing may be handled by a third-party payment provider such as Paystack.

Payment providers may process payment information, including card or payment details, according to their own privacy policies and security practices.

BIZCULAR may receive information such as:

• Payment status
• Transaction reference
• Amount
• Currency
• Payment date
• User/account information associated with the transaction

We use this information to confirm payments, provide paid features, maintain transaction records, prevent fraud, and manage subscriptions or purchases.

BIZCULAR may use cookies, local storage, session technologies, and similar technologies to:

• Keep users signed in
• Maintain sessions
• Remember preferences
• Improve security
• Understand how the platform is used
• Improve the user experience

Where required by applicable law, we will provide appropriate notices or choices regarding non-essential cookies and similar technologies.

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Provide BIZCULAR services
• Maintain your account
• Personalize your experience
• Provide requested features
• Maintain security
• Prevent abuse and fraud
• Resolve disputes
• Comply with legal obligations
• Protect our legitimate business interests

When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal, security, and operational requirements.

We use reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no internet transmission, database, or online storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and should contact us if you believe your account has been compromised.

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to:

• Request access to information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of certain information
• Request restriction of certain processing
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Ask questions about how your information is used

You may also be able to update certain information directly through your BIZCULAR account.

To make a privacy request, contact the BIZCULAR team using the contact information provided on our website or within the application.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

If you want to delete your BIZCULAR account or request deletion of your personal information, contact us through the contact method provided within the BIZCULAR application or website.

Certain information may need to be retained where required by law, necessary for legitimate security or fraud-prevention purposes, or required to complete financial or transaction records.

BIZCULAR is intended for users who are legally permitted to use the service under applicable law.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to BIZCULAR inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

BIZCULAR and its service providers may process or store information using infrastructure located outside the country where you live.

Where required by applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to provide appropriate safeguards for international transfers or processing of personal information.

BIZCULAR may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, or services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services that we do not control.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing them with personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as BIZCULAR develops, our services change, or applicable legal requirements change.

When we make material changes, we may provide notice through BIZCULAR, our website, email, or another appropriate communication method.

The “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Policy indicates when it was most recently updated.

If you have questions, concerns, requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or the way BIZCULAR handles personal information, please contact the BIZCULAR team through the contact information provided on the BIZCULAR website or within the application.