Last modified: April 2024
Protecting your privacy is as important to us as it is to you. For us, it’s more than just making sure we comply with the relevant legislation; you trust us with your personal information, and we respect that trust. This Privacy Statement explains why and how we collect, use, and store your personal information. Our processing of personal data must be transparent and secure, in conformity with the privacy legislations of Nigeria as contained in Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) act 2019, the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA) of 2023. the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This Privacy Statement contains the information required by NDPR, NDPA, POPIA, GDPR and other relevant privacy legislation.
1. What is this notice about?
We want you to understand who you are sharing your information with, what kind of information we collect and how we use the information.
In your day-to-day dealings with the Retail Supermarkets Nigeria LTD ((RSNL) Shoprite & Freshmark) we obtain information about you. We want you to know exactly what that information is and what we do with it. This Privacy Statement describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose your personal information, in conjunction with your access to and use of RSNL’s web and app platforms.
This Privacy Statement is part of our agreement with you.
This Privacy Statement forms part of our agreement with you. You should read it along with the terms and conditions that apply. These terms and conditions can be accessed on the specific RSNL websites or products, and www.retailsupermarkets.com. This notice may change from time to time.
From time to time, we may have to amend this notice to accommodate changes in our business or services or if legal requirements change. It is your responsibility to check that you have read the latest version.
2. Who you are sharing your information with
Retail Supermarkets Nigeria LTD.
The following companies or brands are part of Retail Supermarkets Nigeria LTD: Shoprite and Freshmark.
For this document we will refer to the Retail Supermarkets Nigeria LTD. Our corporate address is at The Palms Mall, off British International School Way, off Lekki Expressway, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. We recommend you contact us via our website.
3. When this Privacy Statement applies
This Privacy Statement applies:
• when you use any of our products or services.
• when you apply to us for a job or work placement.
• when you supply services to us where this involves any personal information.
• as a result of your relationship with our clients; and/or
• to any information collected from or shared with third parties.
This Privacy Statement also applies to our websites, apps, and online services as well as any publications or newsletters that you request.
4. Personal Data we Collect
“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘Data Subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person; It can be anything from a name, address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information.
Information that you voluntarily provide to us.
We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us including when you communicate with us via forms, email or other channels; when you sign up for newsletters, alerts, or other materials; and when you respond to our communications or requests for information.
The information you provide may include current and historical personal information including your name, contact details, title, identification, employment, positions held and enquiry/complaint details and information about the organisation with which you are affiliated. We may also collect personal information about your other dealings with us and our clients, including any contact we have with you in person, by telephone, email or online.
Information from other sources
We may collect information from other sources, such as social media platforms that share information about how you interact with our social media content, and any information gathered through these channels will be governed by the privacy settings, policies, and/or procedures of the applicable social media platform, which we strongly encourage you to review. We will handle any unsolicited information in accordance with law, including destroying or de-identifying such information where we are required to do so.
When you use our online services, we may collect the following:
Information you provide by completing forms (this includes information you give us, submitting material, requesting services, entering competitions, registering for any of our online offerings or subscribing to our newsletters or other services).
• Your name and address.
• Your delivery address (if different to above).
• Your contact telephone number in case we need to call you.
• Your credit or debit card number, expiry date and security code.
• Information you provide by your participation in competitions, live chats, or message boards.
• Information you provide to us if you contact us, for example to report a problem with our online services or raise a query or comment.
• Where our online services require that you enter a password or other information in order to access certain features, we will collect such credentials when you enter them.
If you apply for a job with us
We may request personal information about your education, employment, racial background, and state of health. As part of your application you will be asked to provide your express consent to our use of this information to assess your application and to allow us to carry out both recruitment analytics and any monitoring activities which may be required of us under applicable law as an employer.
We may also carry out screening checks (including reference, background, directorship, financial, identity, eligibility to work, vocational suitability and criminal record checks) and consider you for other positions. We may exchange your personal information with academic institutions, recruiters, screening check providers, health service providers, professional and trade associations, law enforcement agencies, recruitment analytics providers, referees, and your current and previous employers.
We may also gather additional information about you from publicly available resources such as LinkedIn or other social or professional media platforms and collate this with the information that you provide to us. Without your personal information, we may not be able to progress considering you for positions with us. In some instances, personal information must be provided to us in order for us to legally or contractually perform services to you, for example where we are required by law to gather personal information for anti-money laundering identification purposes. Where relevant we will highlight to you those details that we are required to collect.
We collect personal data when you contact our call centres to respond to your query.
When you contact our customer support services, we collect information that helps us to categorise your query, respond to it and, if applicable, investigate what went wrong. We also use this information to track potential problems and trends to customise our support responses to provide a better service to you. Calls are recorded for quality control and record-keeping purposes.
Our call centres are committed to keeping your personal information safe and secure. Please take care not to provide more information than what we ask for. Please do not provide your bank account details or passwords to our Call Centre Agents. Any unnecessary information you give us will not be retained.
We collect information while you use our websites.
Every time you connect to our websites, we store web server logs which show your IP address (the unique number which your machine uses when it is connected to the Internet), what you looked at, whether the page request was successful or not, and which browser you used to view the pages. The use of this data is strictly for statistical and personalisation purposes only. This helps us understand which areas of the site are of particular interest and which pages are not being requested. It also tells us how many hits and page requests we get.
We use cookies to optimise your website experience, but you can opt out.
A cookie is a small piece of information stored by your browser on your device. It may contain some personal details in an encrypted format, which can be recalled when you return to the website. This speeds up our identification, ordering and delivery processes.
We use cookies to identify the device you use to connect to our website. We use anonymous cookies to collect data about how you use our website, so that we can improve and optimise your website experience. You can opt out of cookies by activating the setting on your web browser which allows your web browser to refuse cookies. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our website and this may have a detrimental effect on your experience and the web-based services that we can offer you. You may delete the cookies stored on your computer at any time.
Other tracking pixels may also be collected as required.
Our stores and facilities may be monitored by CCTV cameras.
Our facilities may be monitored by CCTV cameras for public safety and crime prevention. The footage is stored in a secure location and every precaution is taken to keep it secure.
We don’t collect the information of persons under 18.
We do not collect the information of persons under 18 without the consent of their parents or guardians unless otherwise stated in our product Terms and Conditions. If you are under the age of 18 you must not provide personal information to us without the consent of your parent or guardian and we reserve the right to ask for proof of guardian or parent’s consent. It is important to note that this does not apply to our CCTV cameras that collect information of members of the public mainly for public safety and crime prevention.
5. Why we need your personal data
We use your personal data to provide our products and services to you.
We use your personal information to provide our products and services to you. This includes:
• processing your payment card details in order to complete any purchase.
• processing your orders and transactions for goods and services.
• delivering products that you order online.
• processing your basket details to create a profile to give you personalised offers.
• responding to your queries and comments
• when we have a legal duty to use or disclose your information.
We use your personal data to learn more about the products and services that interest you.
• To conduct market research to understand your preferences, learn more about the products and services that you are interested in and i improve the products and services we offer to you.
• To inform and provide you with the opportunity to make use of products, services, and benefits that we offer and that we believe may be of interest to you.
Please note that we will not contact you telephonically for unsolicited marketing purposes or send unsolicited marketing communications to you by mail, SMS, or email if you have not opted in to receive them.
6. Sharing your information
Your privacy is important to us, and we undertake to not use or share your personal information unless for business purposes. We will not provide any of your information to entities outside our group to permit them to market their goods or services to you.
You agree that we may make your information available to the following people and organisations in order to process your data as set out in this Privacy Statement:
• Your data may be used by other divisions and entities in the Retail Supermarkets Nigeria LTD.
• We only share your personal data with companies that help us to provide our services to you and who have agreed to keep your information secure and to only use it for authorised purposes.
• We use suppliers or service providers who we trust to provide services to us and sometimes that involves sharing your information with them. They operate under strict requirements aimed at keeping your personal information secure and confidential and they will only use it for the purpose for which we have sent it to them. We will engage external service providers with appropriate Non-Disclaimer and/or Data Sharing Agreements to protect your data.
• We may share your personal information with banking institutions and the issuers of payment cards you use.
• To governmental, judicial, regulatory and law enforcement bodies and agencies, including any credit regulator.
Sometimes we have to send your personal data to other countries.
Some of these service providers may be located in other countries that may not have the same levels of protection of personal data as Nigeria. The Attorney General of the Federation may need to approve sending personal data to some countries because they do not meet a minimum standard of data protection. In other cases, we will require that they undertake to protect the personal data of our customers to the same level that we do.
7. Your rights and preferences
You have the right to know what personal data we have about you, to correct it and to opt out of any marketing.
You have the right to:
• ask what personal information we hold about you.
• ask what information was sent to our suppliers, service providers or any other third party.
• ask us to update, correct or delete any out-of-date or incorrect personal information we hold about you.
• unsubscribe from any direct marketing communications we may send you.
• object to the processing of your personal data.
• object to automated decision making.
• Lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (NDPC).
• Withdraw, at any time, consent to the processing of their personal data.
It can take us up to 30 days to respond to your request and we may charge a small fee. If you want us to delete all personal data we have about you, you will probably have to terminate all agreements you have with us. We cannot maintain our relationship with you without having some of your personal information. We can refuse to delete your personal data if we are required by law to keep it or if we need it to protect our rights. Please contact our Data Protection Officer shown at the end of this Privacy Statement if you want to submit any request to us. We will provide you with a form and the amount of any fee.
Some of your information is available online.
Other information can be corrected on request via the contact form on our website.
8. Security
We take your privacy and the security of your personal data seriously.
We have implemented reasonable security safeguards to protect the personal information that you give us. For example, sensitive data (such as your credit card information) is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and our website.
You can play a role in protecting your information by never sharing your username, PIN or password with anyone or submitting it to a website you don’t recognise. Always log off after a web session and change your password regularly.
We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. No system is perfect so we cannot guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical or managerial safeguards.
Please note that any email you send to us is not encrypted and may be monitored by us. Please do not send us sensitive or confidential personal information by email.
We will inform you if your privacy is ever compromised.
Although we cannot prevent all security threats, we have measures in place to minimise the threat to your privacy. Should there be a data breach where your personal data is directly affected, we will follow the guidelines provided by the applicable data privacy legislation in order to inform you.
More information
If you have any questions or queries regarding our privacy policy.
To contact our Data Protection Officer, kindly address your request to “The Data Protection Officer” with the details below:
Data Protection Officer
Name: Olawale Kazeem Ajiboye
Email: compliance@retailsupermarkets.com
Corporate Address: The Palms Mall, off British International School Way, off Lekki Expressway, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria