Africa Traders Arena — Privacy
This notice explains what personal data Africa Traders Arena collects, why, and how long it is kept. We do not sell personal data and we do not use advertising trackers.
Who we are
Africa Traders Arena is organised by HAAVE FRANCIS, based in Nigeria, who is responsible for your personal data. Contact: support@africatradersarena.com.
Your account and entries
- Registration: your name, email address and a securely hashed password, used to run your account, verify your email and contact you about the competition.
- Entries and payments: the league you enter, payment references, amounts and confirmation times. Naira payments are processed by Paystack, which receives your email address and the entry amount to create the payment; your card or bank details are entered on Paystack’s checkout and are not received by us. Crypto payments are processed by NOWPayments; we never receive your wallet keys.
- Trading activity: your virtual trades, balances and results, used to run games, rank traders and award prizes. Your display name and results can appear on public leaderboards.
Website messages
If you send us a message through the chat box on the website, we store your message, the email address you give us, your name if you add one, and the page you sent it from. The message is forwarded to our support mailbox, and any reply is sent to you by email (through our email provider, Resend). We use these details only to answer you. Messages are kept only as long as needed to deal with your question, and you can ask us to delete them at any time.
Website analytics (no cookies)
We count visits to understand how people find the site. This does not use cookies or any other storage on your device.
- Each day, your IP address and browser details are combined with a random value that changes daily and turned into a one-way code (a hash). Only that code is used to count you once per day; your IP address is not stored.
- Because the random value changes every day, visits on different days cannot be linked together, and the code cannot be turned back into your IP address.
- We also record the page you viewed, the website or campaign tag that referred you (domain only) and an approximate country based on your browser’s language setting.
- Known bots are excluded. Daily counts, including the daily codes, are kept for 120 days and then deleted.
Cookies
We use one essential cookie, arena, only when you sign in, to keep you signed in for up to 12 hours. We remember that you closed the chat box using your browser’s local storage, which never leaves your device. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. Our pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when fonts are downloaded.
Sharing
We share personal data only with providers who help run the service: our hosting provider, Paystack for Naira payments, NOWPayments for crypto payments, and Resend for email. Market prices are fetched by our server from biquote.io; no personal data is sent to biquote.io. We may disclose data where required by law or to prevent fraud.
Keeping and protecting data
Account and entry records are kept while your account is active and for as long as needed to run the competition, settle prizes, handle complaints and meet legal obligations. Sensitive settings are stored encrypted, and access to organiser tools is restricted.
Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or delete your personal data, or object to how we use it, by emailing support@africatradersarena.com. If you are in Nigeria, you may also complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.