Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

MacGregor Farms Nigeria Limited. (Collectively referred to in this Privacy Statement as “we,” “us,” or “MacGregor Farms Nigeria Limited.”) recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by users of our websites, subscribers to our magazines, registrants for our events, recipients of our email newsletters and all of our customers. We created this policy with a fundamental respect for our users’ right to privacy and to guide our relationships with our users. This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for all products and services owned by MacGregor Farms Nigeria Limited. A current list of our publications, websites, and products can be found at www.macgregorfarmsng.com

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

MacGregor Farms Nigeria Limited. collects information from our website users, magazine subscribers, email subscribers and customers. Below, we will describe the type of information we collect and how we use it to provide better services to our customers.

Website

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information, such as online behaviour and information about your computer, mobile or other device. The information collected may include, without limitation, the make, model, settings, specifications (e.g., CPU speed, connection speed, browser type, operating system, device identifier) and geographic location of you and/or your computer, mobile or other device, as well as date/time stamp, IP address, pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, the site(s), application(s), destination(s), and/or service(s) you arrived from, and other clickstream data. We use this information to monitor and improve our websites and Services.

This information is collected through a third-party service, Google Analytics.

Payment Information

For our services that require payment (such as certain events, products and subscriptions), we also collect credit card information (such as account name, number, expiration date, and verification code), which is used for billing purposes only. We utilize a service, CyberSource, to assist with payment management.

Online Registration

Registration may be required to participate in certain website features, such as commenting or reading premium content. When you register, you may be asked for personal information such as your name, email address, and a username and password that you select. We collect this information to identify who you are, to provide you with access to the service you requested and communicate forgotten password notifications.

Note that all personal information sent or posted via your commenting appears on our site and becomes public information for which we are not responsible. We reserve the right to delete comments that may be deemed inappropriate. 

Newsletter

When you sign-up for our newsletters, we may ask you to provide your name, email address, demographic information, hobbies, and interests. We use this information to provide the requested services as well as provide relevant special offers. We use demographic information about our audience to improve our service, for marketing purposes and/or industry reporting purposes.

We use a third-party provider, What Counts, to deliver our email messages. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter

You can opt-out of our email messages at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions located near the bottom of each message. If you have received an email in error or would like to submit a complaint regarding an email message you received.

Promotions

When you enter a contest, sweepstakes, or giveaway (“promotion”), or register for an event/online course/webinar, we may ask you to provide your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, demographic information, and interests. We use the information collected to administer your participation in the promotion, to notify you about the upcoming events/online courses/webinars, and to notify the winners and award prizes. Name, city and state will also be listed on our promotion winner’s page, this is necessary to comply with promotion laws.

We may offer promotions that are sponsored or co-sponsored or presented with identified third parties. The third parties will be identified on the promotion entry form. By participating in such promotions, the information, you voluntarily submit may be provided to both MacGregor Farms Nigeria Limited. and the third parties identified on the form. Ogden Publications has no control over the third parties’ use of this information. Participation in these promotions is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether to disclose requested information.

Surveys

When you participate in a survey or poll, we may ask you to provide your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, demographic information, and/or interests. We use this information for market research, audience analysis and to improve our Services. We use a third-party provider, Survey Monkey, to conduct our surveys and polls. For more information.

We may also share survey information with advertisers and marketing partners in an aggregated, non-personally identifiable form. Personal information will only be provided to third parties after ensuring that depending on the circumstances you have either consented or not objected.

Email this Article

If you elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about our articles, sites and services, we may ask for the friend’s name and email address. MacGregor Farms Nigeria Limited. will store and use this information to send the friend an invitation. This information may also be used to provide the friend information about our company and related products and services. The friend may contact us as specified in the subsequent message to request that no further communications be sent.

Communications with Us

We have features where users can submit information to us (such as our comment/feedback forms). Letters to the editor and similar submissions may be made public. Requests for service, support or information may be forwarded as needed to best respond to a specific request. We may retain emails and other information sent to us for our internal administrative purposes, and to help us to serve customers better.

Communications from Us

To best serve our customers, we may send updates that contain important information about our sites and services. The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order or request, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, third-party promotions etc. We may also send promotional messages to an email or postal mail address that our cookies associate with you when you browse our sites.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGY

Our websites have features that automatically collect information from users, to deliver content specific to users’ interests and to honour their preferences. This information assists us in creating sites that will serve the needs of our users.

We use “cookies,” a piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. The use of cookies and pixels enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our sites.

Further, beacons are used in email messages to measure the effectiveness of our messaging and how visitors use our website.

Disabling Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or reject most cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set. This can be done by visiting the relevant support page for your browser.