Privacy Policy

Overview

Our website address is: https://www.directory.lawyard.org. This platform exists to provide access to legal professionals across Africa. Privacy and data integrity are core to the Lawyard Protocol.

Comments & Interaction

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media & Metadata

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookie Protocol

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience and last for one year.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Data Retention & Rights

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).

If you have an account, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, or request that we erase any personal data we hold (excluding data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes).