Please read our privacy policy carefully. The Policy is curated to guide the use of ME Academy’s Platforms.
Last Updated: 1st September, 2025
We are ME Academy (“We”, “us”, “our” or “ME Academy”). For the purpose of the legislation on Data Protection, ME Academy is the controller of Your personal information (herein defined).
For any access request, questions, or inquiries about how We use Your Personal Information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at support@me-academy.org
We do not take Your trusting us with Your Personal Information for granted. The privacy of our Users is important to us, and We are committed to safeguarding it responsibly and in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Protecting Your private information is our priority.
This Privacy Policy governs the collection, access to, and use of Your data, the Platforms, and our Products. By accessing or using the Platforms, You consent to the data practices described in this Policy and our Terms and Conditions of Service. Please note that if You sign up for ME Academy’s Affiliate Programme, this Privacy Policy and the Affiliate Terms and Conditions will apply to You and You agree to be bound by them. If You do not agree to any part of this Privacy Policy, then You must desist from accessing the Services. By proceeding to access or use the Services, You agree to these terms and are bound by them.
2.1. Account: means an account opened and maintained by You with ME Academy to enable You to use or access our Services.
2.2 API: Application Programming Interface is a set of protocols, tools, and definitions for building software and applications. They include related documentation, source code, SDKs (Software Development Kits), executable applications, and other materials provided by the API partner.
2.3. Cookies: Small text files placed on your device by a website, which store information about your preferences and actions.
2.4. Data Protection Legislation: Nigerian Data Protection Act 2023, Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (as may be amended, extended, re-enacted or consolidated from time to time – the “NDPR”) and other applicable laws.
2.5 Geolocation Data: Information about your physical location; typically collected from your IP address or GPS-enabled devices.
2.6 LMS: This Learning Management System (LMS) platform, which is owned and provided by ME Academy for the delivery of online courses, training programmes, and educational content focused on the practice of corporate
commercial law.
2.7 Personal Data or Personal Information: Any information relating to an identifiable person, which may include but is not limited to: name, email, identification numbers, IP address, geolocation, etc. It is information that can be used alone or with other data to identify, contact, or locate an individual.
2.8 Platform(s): the LMS and the SME Hub.
2.9 Policy: This Privacy Policy by ME Academy.
2.10 Processing of Personal Data: Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, such as collection, storage, modification, sharing, analysis, or deletion.
2.11 Products: the LMS, SME Hub, the Services, and any other products and/or services currently offered by ME Academy, or that may be introduced at a later date.
2.12 Services: Products and services provided by ME Academy on the Learning Management System, including the online courses, training programmes, and educational content focused on the practice of corporate commercial law, and the legal resources and templates provided by ME Academy through the SME Hub.
2.13 SME Hub: The platform provided by ME Academy for the support of Startups and SMEs in building and sustaining a culture of corporate governance, legal, and regulatory compliance through ME Academy’s provision of ready-to-use legal resources tailored to meet business needs.
2.14 Third Party: Any entity or individual outside of ME Academy who may have access to personal data for specific purposes, such as analytics, marketing, customer service, billing for Services, or legal compliance.
2.15 Tracking Technologies: Tools such as pixels, cookies, and other tracking mechanisms that are used to collect and analyse user behaviour and interaction with the LMS and/or SME Hub, often for marketing and improvement of services.
2.16 User, You, Your: Any individual or entity that accesses, registers for, or otherwise accesses and/or uses the Platform, our Products or any of the Services.
We may collect personally identifiable information, such as, but not limited to, name, physical address, telephone number, and IP address. The information that we collect and store often depends on the type of Product you use. For example, when you subscribe to a course or access a legal resource, we collect and maintain your account information, such as your login details, password, email address, and contact information.
If you contact our customer service team, we may retain relevant communication records, such as emails, phone calls, or chat transcripts, to improve the quality of our Services and resolve any issues you raise. If a third party sponsors your access and/or use of any of our Products, we may collect and store information about your affiliation with the sponsoring third party, for account management and reporting purposes. We will retain user information in compliance with applicable legal and operational requirements. We will also honour requests to delete personal data submitted by account holders, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by us. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, operating system, cookie information, referring website addresses, and Internet Service Provider. ME Academy also collects geolocation information based on visitors’ IP addresses. This information is used by ME Academy for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Services. In order to better understand how users use its site and to improve its services, we may also collect information about your use of our Site, such as pages visited, links clicked, text entered, and mouse movements.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data about your use of our Platform to third parties, this information may be collected and used by them. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of entities or services you access from our website so that you can understand how those entities collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements, privacy practices, or content on websites or services outside of those we operate.
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when you purchase a course from our Platform, we store your information for our records.
3.1. The Personal Data we have about You is made available to us when you do any of the following:
Social media: depending on Your settings on the privacy policies for social media and messaging services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. You may give us permission to access information from those accounts or services.
Other Sources: We may receive information about You from other sources, including publicly available databases and combine this data with information we already have about You, this helps us to update, expand, and analyse our records and provide services that may be of interest to You.
3.2. Use of your Personal Data
We collect and use your personal information to operate and improve our Services and deliver the Services you have requested. ME Academy may also use your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from ME Academy and its affiliates that may interest you. We may also contact you to participate in surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
We do not sell, rent, or lease our customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In cases where you request us to do so, we will share your personal information with trusted business partners so that they can offer you products or services that you’ve expressed interest in. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, telephone number) shall not be transferred to the third party without your express consent.
We may share data with vendors or processors to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, perform tasks required to complete a purchase transaction, provide customer support, or provide other types of customer relationship management. We may also share information on your use of our Site, such as the pages visited, links clicked, non-sensitive text entered, and mouse movements, with third party providers of web and application analytic services in order to enable ME Academy to understand site usage, detect fraud and any potential threats as well as improve its Services. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide the services, and they are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of your information, although in some cases, those third parties are allowed to use aggregated and disidentified data for the improvement of their own services.
Additionally, if you access the Platform through a third party, and in the course of doing so you provide information to them, the third party may retain and use the information you provide pursuant to their privacy policy. In such cases, the third party’s use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policy and not this Policy.
We may disclose personal information when we believe it is required to comply with the law (such as, a lawful subpoena, warrant or court order); to enforce or apply this Privacy Policy or our other policies or agreements; to initiate, render, bill, and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our or our users’ rights, property or safety; to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of the Services; or if we believe that an emergency involving the danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires or justifies disclosure of personal information.
In certain situations, We provide an API licence to business partners in order for them to provide certain services to ME Academy via their own websites or applications. In these situations, we may collect, store, and disclose to the relevant API partner your personal data to enable the API partner to offer our Services and/or its services to you, or for purposes of sending you marketing communications as permitted under applicable law. We also collect, store and use personal information gathered via the API business relationship for purposes of monitoring and improving our Services.
Finally, you consent to receiving emails and updates from ME Academy. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails or updating your preferences in your account settings
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we may share your account information if we are required to by law or to fulfil services for you. Furthermore, we also collect certain tracking information about your activity on our website to personalise your experience and to improve the service for our members. You may also access our Services via a third-party application or website that connects to ME Academy’s technology, and in those cases, we may also collect, use, and share your personal information in similar ways to those described above.
You may access, modify, correct, or delete information (including personal data) previously submitted by logging into your ME Academy account and navigating to “Account Settings” to update the relevant fields. You may also modify or delete drafts, as well as remove completed documents or personal information stored in your account.
To request the deletion of your data, including any residual information that may not be accessible through your account, you may contact our customer service team at +234-8032973926 during our regular business hours (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday, West African Time). Upon receipt of your request, we will process the deletion in accordance with applicable data protection regulations and our internal retention policies. Upon receiving your request, ME Academy will process the deletion as follows:
Please note that certain information may be retained for regulatory compliance, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, or other legitimate business purposes, as permitted by applicable laws.
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you can access, modify, correct, or delete documents and account information (including personal data) through your ME Academy account. For more complex deletions or technical issues, our customer service team can assist in processing the request to ensure complete removal in accordance with this Policy.
We have set out below Your rights as a User of our Services and Products, as they relate to Your Personal Information:
If You wish to exercise any of the rights set above, please contact us using the contact information provided in the Contact Us section of this Policy. Where we are unsure of Your identity, we may ask You for proof of Your identity for security reasons before dealing with Your request.
Our website uses “cookies” to help personalise your online experience. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to You.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to allow you to be logged in to your account. If you register an account with ME Academy, a cookie helps us recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recalling your personal information, such as your billing address. When you return to our website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features of our Service.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to log in to your account or fully experience the interactive features of the Platform or any of Products and Services.
We use tracking pixels and other technology to track the pages our customers visit within our website. This data is used to understand our customers’ needs, how customers use the Platform, our Products and/or Services, improve the Platform, our Products, and our Services, and to deliver customised content and recommendations to Users whose behaviour indicate that they are interested in a particular subject area. We use third parties such as Google Analytics for data collection and analysis to collect, process, and store your site usage and browser information on our behalf when you use our Services.
We use tracking technologies to create remarketing audiences of Users based on user behaviour and visits to our website. We may also target these users with custom ads based on affinities/interests, geographic and demographic signals. Furthermore, ME Academy may use email addresses to target users with custom ads through third party advertising platforms. We share certain customer information with third parties to perform services (advertising) on our behalf.
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we use cookies to personalise your experience on our website. If you would rather we didn’t, you can change your browser settings to refuse them, but this will impair your use of our Platform. You can access the Cookies Policy here.
We process your Personal Data based on the following grounds:
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ME Academy processes your Personal Data with your consent, to fulfil or enter into contracts, improve our Services, prevent fraud, comply with legal obligations, protect vital interests in case of emergencies, and when required for public interest.
In the event of any arrangement whereby ME Academy sells or transfers all, or a portion of, its business or assets (including in the event of a reorganisation, dissolution or liquidation) to third parties, you hereby consent that your Personal Data held with ME Academy through your use of our Platform can be transferred or assigned to third parties who may become the controllers and/or processors of your Personal Data that was held by ME Academy prior to such arrangement.
We shall at all times ensure that you are notified when your Personal Data is intended to be transferred to third parties in the circumstances outlined in this paragraph.
You consent to the transfer of your Personal Data to a recipient in a foreign country or to an international organisation located outside of Nigeria, if we comply with the Nigerian Data Protection Act 2023, Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (as may be amended, extended, re-enacted or consolidated from time to time – the “NDPR”) and other applicable laws.
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information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as well as, in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information could be transferred to third parties as one of ME Academy’s business assets. In such an event, you may not have the right to opt out of any such transfer.
You are responsible for safeguarding and preventing unauthorised access to the user information and password that you use to access our Services. You agree not to disclose your password to any third party, and you are responsible for any activity using Your account, regardless of whether you authorised that activity. Please immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your account.
We use industry standard security measures to secure your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. We regularly review our security measures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware that, despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We retain Your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
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we use industry standard security measures to keep your personal information safe. You can do your part by using a unique, strong password and keeping it private.
When you interact with our Platform using your device, your data may be processed or transferred by third-party platforms, such as web browsers, operating systems, cloud services, and email providers. For instance, if you access our website through a web browser or mobile device, your data may be subject to that platform’s data collection and processing policies.
ME Academy does not control how these external services handle your data. Their data collection, usage, and storage practices are governed by their respective privacy policies. We strongly recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party service you use to understand how your data may be affected. If you have concerns about third-party data processing, consider reviewing your device or browser settings and adjusting privacy preferences accordingly.
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some other services you use such as your browser, email services, or device, may handle your data in ways we don’t control. We advise you to check their privacy policies to understand how your data is being handled.
In the event of a data breach:
A report will be filed with relevant regulatory authorities in compliance with the Data Protection Legislation.
We will not be responsible for any personal data breach which occurs as a result of:
If you know or suspect that a personal data breach has occurred, you should immediately contact us at support@me-academy.org
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in the event of a data breach, we will promptly notify affected users, providing details about the nature and scope of the breach. We will take immediate steps to secure our systems and minimise any potential harm while reporting the incident to the relevant authorities. However, we will not be liable for breaches caused by events beyond our control, such as natural disasters, acts of terrorism, war, civil unrest, or instructions given by you to transfer data to third parties. If you suspect a data breach, please contact us immediately.
Any person subject to this Policy who is found to be in breach of this Policy by:
failure to implement safeguards required by the NDPR or any of the security measures provided in this Policy:
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any person who breaches this Policy, may be liable to civil liabilities, and penalties.
Our Services are not intended for use by persons under the age of 18 years, and such use is prohibited by our Terms and Conditions of Service. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18 years. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please Contact Us.
If we inadvertently collect data from a minor:
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no one under the age of 18 years should use ME Academy’s Services.
We may change the provisions of this Privacy Policy at any time, and will always post the most up-to-date version on our website. We may provide notice by email to you at the last email address you provided us, by posting notice of such changes on our sites and applications, or by other means consistent with applicable law. By continuing to use the Platform, you accept any changes made to this Policy.
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this is the most recent version of the Policy. If we change it, we will update it here.
Our website is hosted in Nigeria. We may transfer your Personal Data to third parties or servers located outside of Nigeria. Such transfers will comply with the Data Protection Legislation and other applicable laws by ensuring adequate safeguards. Accordingly, by providing your personal information through the Website, you consent to the transfer of your personal information from your country of residence to Nigeria.
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We protect personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Legislation.
From time to time, We may display sponsored content, affiliate links, promotional materials, or advertisements our Platforms. These sponsorships or advertisements may be placed directly by ME Academy or through third-party advertising partners.
While we strive to work only with sponsors and advertisers whose values align with ours, we do not control the content, accuracy, or practices of third-party advertisements or sponsored offerings. Interactions with such content—including clicking on links or engaging with promotional offerings—are governed by the privacy and data protection policies of the sponsoring entity or advertiser.
We do not share your personal data with sponsors or advertisers except where it is necessary to fulfil a service you have opted into. Where such sharing occurs, we will ensure the third party is bound by adequate data protection obligations.
ME Academy shall not be held liable for any loss, damage, or inconvenience arising from your reliance on, or interaction with, third-party sponsored content or advertisements that appear on our Platforms.
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sometimes, we show sponsored content or ads on our Platforms. If you click on them, your interaction is with the advertiser, not us. We don’t share your personal information with them unless you’ve agreed to it, and we’re not responsible for what happens outside the Platform. Always check their privacy policy before sharing your info.
If you have any complaints or disputes relating to our Services or this Agreement, please contact us at support@me-academy.org. We will investigate and work on resolutions for complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of Personal Information within a reasonable time in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may request additional details from You regarding your complaints and keep records of your requests and their resolutions.
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All disputes shall be resolved in accordance with this Policy and Nigerian data protection laws.
We welcome your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. Please contact Us at support@me-academy.org or at +234-8032973926 during our regular business hours (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday, West African Time).
For more information, please review our Terms and Conditions of Service. If You wish to participate in our affiliate programme, please review the terms of the programme at this link: Affiliate Terms and Conditions
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Feel free to get in touch!
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