Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) constitute the Privacy Policy that governs the use of this website (kampusdiscount.com) (“Site”), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use our Site. By using our Site, you indicate that you accept our Privacy Policy and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, you crefrain from using the Site.

Information about us

kampusdiscount.com is a site operated by ACCESSPLUS COMMUNICATIONS LTD, (“we”, “our” and “us”). We are registered in Ghana under company number CS630742015.

Accessplus Communications Ltd. (“KampusDiscount”“us”“we”, or “our”) respects your right to privacy. Your ability to make informed choices about the uses of your information is important to us. If not otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms have the meaning given to them in the Terms of Service, and/or use our mobile application (“App”) and/or our Services (“Services”).

The Privacy Notice also explains how we collect, process, transfer, store and disclose the information collected, as well as your ability to control certain uses of the collected information.

Personal Data means any information that refers, is related to, or is associated with an identified or identifiable individual or as otherwise may be defined by applicable law. This Privacy Notice details which Personal Data is collected by us in connection with provision of the Site, App, and Services.

Privacy Notice Key Points

The key points listed below are presented in further detail throughout this Privacy Notice. You can click on the items in this section in order to find out more information about any topic.

  • Personal Data We Collect
  • Sharing the Personal Data We Collect
  • International Transfer
  • Security
  • Your Rights – How to Access and Limit Our Use of Certain Personal Data
  • Data Retention
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies
  • Third Party Sites and Services
  • Children
  • Communications
  • Changes
  • Comments and Questions
  • Personal Data We Collect.
    • Depending on your usage and geographic location, we collect different types of data and we and any of our third-party sub-contractors (“Subcontractors”) and service providers we use or cooperate with (“Service Providers”) use the data we collect for different purposes, as specified below. It is your voluntary decision whether to provide us with certain Personal Data, but if you refuse to provide such Personal Data, we may not be able to register you and/or provide you with the Services or part thereof on our App and/or Site and/or any other platform we may use to provide our Services.
    • Visitors to the Site.
      • Contact Information. If you contact us, whether by submitting an online form that we make available or by sending an email to an email address that we display on the Site with questions, comments, or for purposes of customer/technical support, interest in advertising or regarding open positions, we collect the information contained in your message and any other information, including Personal Data, you provide.

How we use this data. To respond to your request or inquiry, to contact you regarding advertisement with us or regarding jobs at Accessplus.

Legal Basis. We process this Personal Data based on performance of a contract when we respond to your request or inquiry.

      • Automatically Collected Data. When you visit the Site, we will collect information about your computer, including non-Personal Data such as your operating system and browser type, and Personal Data such as your IP address, browsing history, and information regarding your viewing history on the Site. 

How we use this data. (1) to review usage and operations, including in an aggregated non-specific analytical manner, develop new products or services and improve current content, products, and Services; (2) to prevent fraud, protect the security of our Site and Services, and address any problems with the Site and/or Services.

Legal Basis. We process this Personal Data for our legitimate interests to develop our products and Services, review usage, perform analytics, prevent fraud, for our recordkeeping and protection of our legal rights.

    • Users. When you use the Services, we collect the following types of Personal Data from you:
      • Registration Data. If you chose to register in order to use our Services, you will be required to register and provide us with the following mandatory Personal Data: your name and email address as well as a password that you will choose and use for your account, your gender, parents/guardian’s name, upload of your Ghana card, students’ ID card, among others. If you use the Services by logging in through a third-party login/account registration service (such as Facebook, Google, or Twitter), we also receive Personal Data about you as provided by such third-party service, as determined by such third party’s policies and your preferences.

How we Use this Data. We use this Personal Data in order to provide you with the Services and to respond to your inquiries and requests and to contact and communicate with you and to provide you with informational newsletters and promotional materials relating to our App and Services, including via email; and (2) to prevent fraud, protect the security of and address any problems with the Site or App.

Legal Basis. (1) We process this Personal Data for the purpose of providing the Services to you, which is considered performance of a contract with you, including responding to your inquiries and requests and providing customer support.

      • Automatically Collected Data. When you use the Services on our App or Site, we will collect information about your mobile device, including non-Personal Data such as your operating system, browser, device type, and Personal Data such as your IP address, device ID, your browsing history and any information regarding your viewing and purchase history on our Services.

How we Use this Data. (1) to review usage and operations, including in an aggregated non-specific analytical manner, develop new products or services and improve current content, products, and Services; (2) to prevent fraud, protect the security of our Site, App, and Services, and address any problems with the Site, App, and/or Services.

Legal Basis. We process this Personal Data for our legitimate interests to develop our products and Services, review usage, perform analytics, prevent fraud, for our recordkeeping and protection of our legal rights.

      • Usage Data. We collect data regarding Products that you have saved. This data includes the product name, price, color, size, description and the link to the product on the applicable third-party online store. When you purchase products in connection with our Services, we collect data regarding the products that you purchased. This data includes purchase basket size, date of purchase and name of online store.

How we Use this Data. We use this Personal Data (1) in order to provide you with the Services and to respond to your inquiries and requests and to contact and communicate with you and (2) to review usage and operations, including in an aggregated non-specific analytical manner, develop new products or services and improve current content, products, and Services.

Legal Basis. (1) We process this Personal Data for the purpose of providing the Services to you, which is considered performance of a contract with you. (2) When we process this data in order to review usage, this is based on our legitimate interests to develop our products and Services.

    • Additional Uses
    • Statistical Information. By analyzing all of the information we receive, including all information concerning users we may compile statistical information across a variety of platforms and users (“Statistical Information”). Statistical Information helps us understand trends and customer needs so that new products and services can be considered and so that existing products and services can be tailored to customer desires. Statistical Information may be linked to Personal Data. We may share such Statistical Information with our partners, without restriction, on commercial terms that we can determine in our sole discretion.
    • Analytics. We and/or our Service Providers or Sub Contractors, use analytics tools (“Tools”), including Google analytics to collect information about the use of the Site, App, or Services. Such Tools collect information such as how often users visit the Site or App, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites and mobile applications they used prior to visiting the Site or App. We use the information we get from the Tools to improve our Site, App, and Services. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Service located at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and the Google Privacy Policy located athttp://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
    • Direct Marketing. As described above, we may use Personal Data to let you know about our products and Services that we believe will be of interest to you and, if you have consented, about products and services of third parties. We may contact you by email or through other communication channels. In all cases, we will respect your preferences for how you would like us to manage marketing activity with respect to you. To protect privacy rights and to ensure you have control over how we manage marketing with you:
      • We will take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level and only send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you.
      • At any time you can update or correct your personal profile within your account, or change your preferences for the way in which you would like us to communicate with you, including how you receive details of latest offers or newsletters from us.
      • You can ask us to stop sending email marketing by following the “unsubscribe” link you will find on all the email marketing messages we send you. Alternatively, you can contact us at support@kampusdiscount.com.
      • You can change the way your browser manages cookies, which may be used to deliver online advertising, by following the settings on your browser as explained below.
      • If our marketing activities are based upon your consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time by changing your preferences on your personal profile.
    • Legal Uses. We may use your Personal Data as required or permitted by any applicable law, for example, to comply with audit and other legal requirements.
  • Sharing the Personal Data We Collect. We share your information, including Personal Data, as follows:
    • Business Partners. Accessplus works with certain third-party business partners through affiliate marketing programs. This means that with respect to (some of your) interactions on the website, such as saving items, clicking on links to third-party websites, clicking on advertising links, or purchasing an item, Accessplus may earn commissions from its business partners, however we will not share any details of your activities or items you have tagged with them.
    • Service Providers, and Sub Contractors. We also disclose information, including Personal Data we collect from and/or about you, to our trusted Service Providers and Sub Contractors, who have agreed to confidentiality restrictions and who use such information solely on our behalf in order to: (1) help us provide you with the Site, App, and/or Services; (2) aid in their understanding of how users are using our Site, App, and/or Services; (3) for the purpose of direct marketing (see above for more details).

Such Service Providers and Sub Contractors provide us with IT and system administration services, data backup, security, and storage services, data analysis, and help us serve advertisements and provide other marketing services.

    • Data Controllers. When you use our Services, we also disclose your Personal Data to additional third parties, such as business partners, which act as independent, separate controllers with respect to the collection of your Personal Data. 
    • Business Transfers. Your Personal Data may be disclosed as part of, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets or acquisition (including in cases of liquidation) in such case, your Personal Data shall continue being subject to the provisions of this Privacy Notice.
    • Law Enforcement Related Disclosure. We may share your Personal Data with third parties: (i) if we believe in good faith that disclosure is appropriate to protect our or a third party’s rights, property or safety (including the enforcement of the Terms and this Privacy Notice); (ii) when required by law, regulation subpoena, court order or other law enforcement related issues, agencies and/or authorities; or (iii) as is necessary to comply with any legal and/or regulatory obligation.
    • Other Uses or Transfer of Your Personal Data. If you use our Services together with or through a third-party service, site and/or mobile application, we may receive information (including Personal Data) about you from those third parties. Please note that when you use third-parties outside of our Site, App, or Services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.
  • International Transfer.
    • We use Sub Contractors and Service Providers and have affiliates who are located in countries other than own and send them information we receive (including Personal Data). We conduct such international transfers for the purposes described above. We will ensure that these third parties will be subject to written agreements ensuring the same level of privacy and data protection as set forth in this Privacy Notice, including appropriate remedies in the event of the violation of your data protection rights in such third country.
    • Whenever we transfer your Personal Data to third parties based outside of Ghana, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that we only transfer your Personal Data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Data, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Commission.
    • Please contact us at support@kampusdiscount.com if you would like further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your Personal Data out of Ghana.
  • Security. We implement and maintain appropriate technical and organization security measures, policies and procedures designed to reduce the risk of accidental destruction or loss, or the unauthorized disclosure or access to Personal Data appropriate to the nature of such data. The measures we take include:
    • Safeguards – The physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards we employ to protect your Personal Data include secure servers and SSL encryption of data.
    • Access Control – We dedicate efforts for a proper management of system entries and limit access only to authorized personnel on a need to know basis of least privilege rules, review permissions once per month, and revoke access immediately after employee termination.
    • Internal Policies – We maintain and regularly review and update our privacy related and information security policies.
    • Personnel – We require new employees to sign non-disclosure agreements according to applicable law and industry customary practice.
    • Encryption – We encrypt the data in transit using secure HTTPS protocols.
    • Database Backup – Our databases are backed up on a daily basis for certain data and are verified regularly. Backups are encrypted and stored within the production environment to preserve their confidentiality and integrity, are tested regularly to ensure availability, and are accessible only by authorized personnel.
    • However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
    • As the security of information depends in part on the security of the computer you use to communicate with us and the security you use to protect user IDs and passwords, please take appropriate measures to protect this information.
  • Your Rights – How to Access and Limit Our Use of Certain Personal Data. Subject to certain exemptions, and in some cases dependent upon the processing activity we are undertaking, you have certain rights in relation to the Personal Data that we or other controllers hold about you, as detailed below. For any requests to exercise such rights with respect to information held by other controllers, please contact the applicable controller directly. If you wish for us to notify all independent controllers, please specify that request when you contact us in order to exercise any of your rights. We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes and make every reasonable effort to honour your wish to exercise your rights as quickly as possible and in any event, within the timescales provided by applicable data protection laws. We reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity before we provide you with any information and/or comply with any of your requests, as detailed below:
    • Right of Access. You have a right to know what Personal Data we collect about you and, in some cases, to have such Personal Data communicated to you. Subject to applicable law, we may charge you with a fee. Please note that we may not be able to provide you with all the information you request, and, in such case, we will endeavor to explain to you why.
    • Right to Correct Personal Data. Subject to the limitations in applicable law, you may request that we update, complete, correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated Personal Data.
    • Deletion of Personal Data (“Right to Be Forgotten”). You have a right to request that we delete your Personal Data if either: (i) it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected, (ii) our processing was based on your consent and you have withdrawn your consent, (iii) you have successfully exercised your Right to Object (see below), (iv) processing was unlawful, or (iv) we are required to erase it for compliance with a legal obligation. We cannot restore information once it has been deleted. Please note that to ensure that we do not collect any further Personal Data, you should also delete our App from your mobile devices, terminate your account with us, and clear our cookies from any device where you have used our Site or App. We may retain certain Personal Data (including following your request to delete) for audit and record-keeping purposes, or as otherwise permitted and/or required under applicable law.
    • Right to Restrict Processing: You can ask us to limit the processing of your Personal Data if either: (i) you have contested its accuracy and wish us to limit processing until this is verified; (ii) the processing is unlawful, but you do not wish us to erase the Personal Data; (iii) it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, but we still need it to establish, exercise, or defend of a legal claim; (iv) you have exercised your Right to Object (below) and we are in the process of verifying our legitimate grounds for processing. We may continue to use your Personal Data after a restriction request under certain circumstances.
    • Direct Marketing Opt Out. You can change your mind at any time about your election to receive marketing communications from us and/or having your Personal Data processed for direct marketing purposes. If you do, please notify us by contacting us at support@kampusdiscount.com. We will process your request as soon as reasonably possible, however it may take a few days for us to update our records before any opt out is effective.
    • Right to Object. You can object to any processing of your Personal Data which has our legitimate interests as its legal basis, if you believe your fundamental rights and freedoms outweigh our legitimate interests. If you raise an objection, we have an opportunity to demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate interests which override your rights and freedoms.
    • Withdrawal of Consent. You may withdraw your consent in connection with any processing of your Personal Data based on a previously granted consent. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing prior to such withdrawal.
    • Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Data Protection Commission. You may have the right to submit a complaint to the relevant supervisory data protection authority if you have any concerns about how we are processing your Personal Data, though we ask that as a courtesy you please attempt to resolve any issues with us first.  
  • Data Retention
    • Subject to applicable law, we retain Personal Data as necessary for the purposes set forth above. We may delete information from our systems without notice to you once we deem it is no longer necessary for these purposes. Retention by any of our processors may vary in accordance with the processor’s retention policy. Your data will be retained for as long as you have a registered account.
    • In some circumstances, we may store your Personal Data for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax, audit, accounting requirements and so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your Personal Data or dealings. To determine the appropriate retention period, 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 those purposes can be achieved through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.
    • Please contact us at support@kampusdiscount.com if you would like details regarding the retention periods for different types of your Personal Data.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies
    • What are Cookies? A cookie is a small piece of text that is sent to a user’s browser or device. The browser provides this piece of text to the device of the originating user when this visitor returns.

A “session cookie” is temporary and will remain on your device until you leave the Site.

A “persistent” cookie may be used to help save your settings and customizations across visits. It will remain on your device for much longer or until you delete it.

First-party cookies are placed by us, while third-party cookies may be placed by a third party. We use both first- and third-party cookies.

Information may also be collected through web beacons, which are small graphic images (“pixel tags”), which usually work together with cookies in order to identify users and user behavior. These may be shared with third parties.

We may use the terms “cookies” to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us identify you in the manner described above.

    • How We Use Cookies. We use cookies and similar technologies for a number of reasons, for example, in order to help personalize your experience. Third parties through which we provide the Services and/or our business partners may be placing and reading cookies on your browser or using web beacons to collect information. When visiting the Site, you shall be notified of the use of and placement of cookies and other similar technologies on your device as specified herein.

The specific names and types of the cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies we use may change from time to time. 

    • Third Party Cookies. We use the following third-party cookies: Additionally, cookies may be placed in messages we send in order to track your interaction with such emails.
  • Third Party Sites and Services. Portions of the Services may involve linking to or using websites or services belonging to third parties, including those of third-party vendors or retailers. All use of third-party applications or services is at your own risk and subject to such third party’s privacy policies.
  • Children. Accessplus does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. In the event you become aware that an individual under the age of 16 has enrolled without parental permission, please advise us immediately at support@kampusdiscount.com.
  • Communications. As part of the Services, we may send you e-mail or other messages and/or a newsletter about us or our Services. You may also elect to receive notifications from us regarding sales, coupons and products that are “back in stock” or “low in stock”, as well as the addition of new stores to our Services. You may remove your Personal Data from our mailing list and stop receiving future communication from us by following the UNSUBSCRIBE link located at the bottom of each communication or by emailing us at support@accessplusgh.com. You will also be given the opportunity to unsubscribe from commercial messages in any such email or other message we send as well as through your account settings. Please note that we reserve the right to send you service-related communications, including service announcements and administrative messages, relating either to your account or to your transactions on these Services, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Should you not wish to receive such communications, you may cancel your account.
  • Changes. When visiting our Platform, you shall be asked to accept the terms of this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree with the terms hereof, please do not use the Platform or Services. We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time – in which case, we shall notify you of such changes. We will post the updated Privacy Notice on this page. Please come back to this page every now and then to make sure you are familiar with the latest version. Any new Privacy Notice will be effective from the date it is accepted by you.
  • Comments and Questions. If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Notice, or if you wish to exercise any of your legal rights as set out herein, please contact us at support@kampusdiscount.com.