Privacy policy

This policy explains how Bytes & Digits ("Bytes & Digits", "we", "us") handles personal information collected through this website, bytesndigits.com.

We are a software development and digital solutions company registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Nigeria. Our head office is at 12 Simbiat Abiola Way, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. We are the data controller for personal information collected through this website. You can contact us about this policy at info@bytesndigits.com.

We do not ask for, and you should not send us, sensitive information such as government identification numbers, payment card details or passwords.

If you choose to allow personalisation, your browser also keeps a record of the pages and services you view on this website. It is stored on your own device only (see our cookie policy); we do not receive it.

Apart from the contact and consultation forms, this website does not ask you to create an account or give us personal information. We do not use third-party analytics tools or advertising trackers on this website, and we do not build profiles of visitors. We do measure how the website is used with our own cookie-free analytics, described in the section “How we measure website use” below.

To understand which pages are useful and how people find us, we run our own simple analytics on our own systems. We do not use a third-party analytics service. Each time a page of this website is opened, your browser tells this website, and we record: the address of the page (without anything after a ? or #), the name of the website you came from, if any (for example google.com, but not the page or your search terms), campaign tags in the link you followed (utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign), the type of device (mobile, tablet or desktop), and an anonymous code.

The anonymous code lets us count visitors without knowing who they are. It is made from your IP address and browser type combined with a random value that changes every day and is then deleted. We do not store your IP address or browser type. Because the random value is deleted, the code cannot be turned back into your IP address or matched with codes from other days: if you visit on two days, we count you as two visitors.

No cookie and no on-device storage is used for this. Search-engine crawlers and automated tools are not counted. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, nothing is recorded. We keep these page-view records for 180 days and then delete them. We use them because we have a legitimate interest in understanding and improving our website.

Each article in our Insights section shows how many times it has been read. When you keep an article open for a few seconds, your browser asks this website to add one to that article's total. The total is the only thing we keep: we do not record who read the article, which articles you read, or when.

To avoid counting a refresh twice and to ignore search-engine crawlers and automated tools, your IP address and browser type are used while that request is handled. Your IP address is turned into a one-way (hashed) code and held for at most 30 minutes, only so that a repeat visit to the same article within that time is not counted again, and is then discarded. No cookie or on-device storage is used for this. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, your reading is not counted at all. Opening an article page is also counted as a page view, as described above.

The share buttons on articles (WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X, Facebook and email) are ordinary links. Nothing is loaded from those services while you read; they only learn of the article if you choose to click one, and their own privacy policies then apply. The images in our articles are served through this website.

Neither form signs you up to marketing, and we do not sell your personal information.

We use your information to take steps you ask for before a possible agreement (responding to your enquiry), for our legitimate interests in running and securing our website and business, and where the law requires it. Where we rely on your consent we will say so at the time, and you may withdraw it.

Some of these providers, such as Cloudflare, operate internationally, so your information may be processed outside Nigeria.

We keep enquiry details for as long as we need them to deal with your enquiry and any resulting relationship, and for as long as the law requires.

This website sets one necessary cookie that remembers your cookie choice. Only if you agree, it also uses on-device storage that remembers the pages and services you view so we can personalise what you see. It does not use analytics or advertising cookies. Our own page-view counting uses no cookies or on-device storage and is described in our privacy policy. The Cloudflare Turnstile check loads from Cloudflare when the contact form is shown and is covered by Cloudflare's own policies. The fonts used on this website are served from the website itself, not from a third party.

Full details are in our cookie policy. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

To use any of these rights, email us at info@bytesndigits.com. We may need to confirm your identity first. If you are unhappy with how we handle your information you can also complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.

This website and our services are intended for businesses and institutions, not for children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last changed.

Bytes & Digits, 12 Simbiat Abiola Way, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. Email: info@bytesndigits.com.