Privacy Policy

1. Overview

This Privacy Notice provides information on how Forensic Electronic and Digital Law Consultancy (FEDLAC) collects and processes your personal data when you visit our website and other related platforms (“www.fedlac.co”). It sets out what we do with your personal data and how we keep it secure and explains the rights that you have in relation to your personal data.

2.    Who We Are

Forensic Electronic and Digital Law Consultancy  (“FEDLAC”, “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) provides innovative technology-driven training, tailored courses, workshops, and advisory services, alongside digital evidence management, forensic investigation support, and AI-driven legal solutions. FEDLAC supports legal practitioners in the collection, analysis, and proper handling of electronic and digital evidence, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and compliance with evidential standards.

We are committed to protecting personal data in accordance with the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA) and General Application and Implementation Directive, 2025, (GAID) and any applicable regulations issued by the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC)

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and safeguard personal data in the course of our operations.

3.    Nature of Personal Data We Collect and Process

FEDLAC collects the following personal data directly from you when you register your personal details on our Site:

• contact details such as your full name, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses;
• online registration information such as your password and other authentication information;
• in certain cases, your marketing

We automatically collect and store certain types of information regarding your use of our Site including information about your searches, views, downloads and purchases.

4.    Cookies

Cookies enables us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with an improved browsing experience. For more information about cookies and how we use them, please read our Cookie Policy by clicking here.

5.    Use of Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data collected on our Site:

• to register and onboard you as a new
• to process and respond to your needs on our
• to manage your relationship with
• to improve our website functionalities, products and
• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including verifying your identity where
• to prevent, detect and manage risk against fraud and illegal
• any other purpose that we disclose to you in the course of providing products and services to you.
• If you register for any of our webinars, we will only contact you to send you details about the event.

6.    Legal Basis for the processing of Your Personal Data

We are committed to ensuring that we legally process your personal data in our custody. FEDLAC shall only process your personal data if at least one of the following conditions apply:

• you have given your consent to the processing of his/her personal data for one or more specific purposes;
• the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract;
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which FEDLAC is subject;
• processing is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or that of another natural person;
• processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in exercise of official public mandate vested in FEDLAC.

7.    Sharing of Your Personal Data with Third-Parties

We may need to share your personal data with third-parties under the following circumstances:

1. to enable provide our services to you, end to
2. to analyse data, provide marketing assistance, process payments, transmit content, and provide customer service.
3. to comply with applicable laws and regulations or to respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies.
4. to protect the rights of our clients, operate and maintain the security of our systems and network to ensure the preservation of life and property and prevention of fraud and
5. to protect the rights or property of FEDLAC or others, including enforcing our agreements, terms, and policies.

8.    Transfer of Personal Data Abroad

FEDLAC shall implement appropriate safeguards to ensure the security of personal data to be transferred to a foreign country in compliance with the provision of the NDPA and GAID or any other applicable data protection legislation. In particular, we shall, among other things, enter into Data Processing Agreements with the recipients of such personal data in the foreign country to ensure protection of your personal data.

Where personal data is to be transferred to a recipient in a foreign country deemed to have inadequate data protection laws, FEDLAC will take all necessary steps to ensure that informed consent is obtained from you, and you are aware of the risks inherent including ensuring that personal data is transmitted in a safe and secure manner.

9.    Data Security and Retention

We take the security of your personal data in our possession seriously. In line with our commitment to protect your personal data in our possession, we have developed appropriate organisational, technical and physical measures to protect the personal data you provide, or we collect against unauthorised access, loss or theft, as well as against any risk of loss, disclosure, copying, misuse or modification. Such measures include but are not limited to the use of secure servers, firewall, multiple factor authentication security, data anonymisation (as may be necessary), and granting access on a need-to-know basis only to employees in order to perform their job responsibilities.

FEDLAC will only retain your personal data under the following circumstances:

• as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose of providing our services to you; and
• for the period needed to comply with our legal and statutory obligations under applicable law.

10.  What are Your Rights in relation to our Collection and Processing of your Personal Data

Users of our Site are entitled to exercise the following rights in relation to their personal data collected and processed by FEDLAC:

• right to withdraw consent in relation to the processing of their personal Please note that, consent withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
• right to be informed regarding their personal data;
• right to request for and access any personal data collected and stored by FEDLAC;
• right to request the deletion of their data;
• right to be informed about appropriate safeguards in place where data is transferred abroad;
• right to request rectification of personal data which is stored by FEDLAC;
• right to request the transmission of data from FEDLAC to a third party (right to the portability of data);
• right to object to automated decision-making and processing;
• right to object to direct marketing;
• right to request the processing of their information; and
• Right to lodge a complaint with the NDPC

11.  Review of our Privacy Notice

We may need to review and make necessary updates, modifications or amendments to our Privacy Notice to ensure compliance with applicable data protection legislations including the NDPA and GAID or as a result of changes in our systems and processes arising from the use of technology. We will notify you of any material changes in the way we collect and process your personal data on our Site by placing a notice online or via email. Your continuous use of our services after such notice, will be construed as your consent to carry on with the processing of your personal data.

12.  Dispute Resolution and Complaint Handling Mechanism

In line with our objective of creating a rewarding customer experience on our website and mobile application, FEDLAC has developed a dispute resolution and complaint handling process to ensure the effective management and timely resolution of all complaints relating to this Privacy Notice. In the event that you have any complaint regarding this Privacy Notice, please send us an email via fedlacdataprotection@gmail.com. We will investigate and work towards ensuring the prompt resolution of all disputes and complaints relating to the use and disclosure of personal data in line with the provisions of the NDPA and the GAID.

In the event that the outcome of the resolution of your complaint is unsatisfactory, you are at liberty to lodge a complaint to the NDPC.

13.  Changes to our Privacy Notice

We regularly review and update our data protection practices to ensure continued compliance with applicable laws and the protection of your rights. As part of this process, this Privacy Notice may be revised from time to time. Where material changes are made, we will indicate the date of the latest update at the beginning of this Notice and, where appropriate, notify you through suitable communication channels. Any personal data previously collected will not be processed in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the purposes communicated at the time of collection, unless required by law or with your consent.

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding this Privacy Notice or the way your personal data is handled, you may contact us at fedlacdataprotection@gmail.com.