Last Updated: June 21, 2025
Welcome to the Ghana International Awards website. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy policy applies to all personal information we collect through our website, at our events, and through other means such as email, telephone, and in-person interactions. It explains:
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Ghana International Awards collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our newsletter, register for an event, submit a nomination, or vote for nominees.
Ghana International Awards is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@ghanainternationalawards.com
Postal address: 123 Independence Avenue, Accra, Ghana
Phone: +233 (0) 302 123 456
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
You may give us your Identity, Contact and Profile Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing |
|---|---|---|
| To register you as a new website user | (a) Identity (b) Contact |
Performance of a contract with you |
| To process nominations and votes | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests |
| To manage our relationship with you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests |
| To send you our newsletter and marketing communications | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Consent (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests |
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We may transfer your personal data to countries outside Ghana. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of Ghana, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the details provided in section 1.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy team:
Email: privacy@ghanainternationalawards.com
Postal address: 123 Independence Avenue, Accra, Ghana
Phone: +233 (0) 302 123 456
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Data Protection Commission (DPC), Ghana's supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the DPC, so please contact us in the first instance.
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on June 21, 2025. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.