Your data — handled with care.

01Who we are

Inspire Africa Platform Ltd (company no. 12759109) is the data controller for personal data processed through this website and our pathways. Our registered office is 71–75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. Our regional office handles operations across our African corridors.

For data-protection enquiries, contact our legal team at legal@inspireafrica.onmicrosoft.com.

02Data we collect

We collect personal data only where it is necessary to deliver our services, meet legal obligations, or pursue legitimate operational interests. The categories of data we collect depend on your relationship with us.

From workers and candidates

• Identity: name, date of birth, nationality, passport and ID details
• Contact: email address, phone number, postal address
• Professional: CV, qualifications, work history, references, language proficiency
• Assessment data: readiness scores, behavioural assessments, interview notes
• Financial: bank details and information necessary for salary-linked finance
• Health and biometric data where required by destination-country immigration rules

From employers and government partners

• Organisation, role and contact details of representatives
• Job descriptions, role requirements and placement records
• Compliance documentation related to ethical-recruitment standards

When you join the community

Our community is hosted on Mighty Networks. Before we hand you over, we ask for your details on our own signup page so that we — not only our community provider — can support you.

• Which of our audiences you belong to — worker, employer or recruiter, government or public sector, education or training provider, development partner or NGO, or something else
• Your first name, last name and email address
• Which page or campaign you came from, so we know what is working
• A one-way, irreversible hash of your IP address and your browser’s user-agent string, used to block automated abuse — we do not store the IP address itself

That is all we ask for at signup. We do not ask for your phone number, your address, your date of birth, identity documents, qualifications, or any health or police information.

We send a confirmation link to your email address, and you must open it before you reach the community. This protects you and everyone else in it: it keeps out automated signups and makes sure nobody can register using an address that is not theirs.

We also record the fact that a “Join the Community” button was clicked, before any details are entered. That record contains no name or email — only the page it came from and the anonymised values above. Once you arrive at Mighty Networks they will ask you to create an account with them, governed by their own privacy policy.

Automatically

• Device and browser information, IP address, approximate location
• Pages viewed, referral source and interaction events (see our Cookie Policy)

03How we use your data

We use personal data to operate the INSPIRE platform — matching qualified workers to ethical employers, supporting governments to govern mobility, and ensuring compliant deployment.

• Assess readiness, suitability and eligibility for international roles
• Match candidates to employer vacancies and coordinate selection
• Operate salary-linked migration finance, including affordability checks
• Manage immigration documentation, travel and aftercare
• Communicate updates relevant to your application or partnership
• Comply with legal, regulatory and ethical-recruitment obligations
• Improve our platform, products and service quality

04Lawful basis

Under UK GDPR and equivalent frameworks in our operating jurisdictions, we rely on one or more of the following lawful bases when processing your personal data:

05Sharing & disclosure

We share personal data only with parties necessary to deliver our services — and only under contractual safeguards consistent with this policy.

• Employers and prospective employers — where you have applied or been matched
• Mighty Networks, Inc. — our community platform. When you continue from our signup page to the community, you create an account with them directly and their privacy policy applies to it
• Government, regulatory and immigration authorities — where legally required
• Service providers (cloud hosting, identity verification, payment, communications) bound by data-processing agreements
• Professional advisers — legal, audit, compliance
• Successors in interest in the event of corporate reorganisation

06International transfers

Because INSPIRE AFRICA operates across the UK, EU, USA, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and African corridor countries, your personal data may be transferred outside your country of residence. Where it is, we use appropriate safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or adequacy regulations.

07Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to deliver the service, meet legal obligations, and support legitimate operational needs. Specific retention windows depend on the data category:

• Active candidate and placement records — for the duration of the relationship and up to seven years thereafter
• Financial records — six to ten years, depending on jurisdiction
• Marketing data — until you withdraw consent
• Community signup details (name and email) — three years from your last interaction with us, unless you ask us to erase them sooner
• Community click records, which contain no name, email or phone number — fourteen months
• Cookies — as set out in our Cookie Policy

08Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request erasure where there is no overriding legal basis to retain
• Restrict or object to certain processing
• Request data portability in a structured, machine-readable format
• Withdraw consent for processing based on consent
• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (e.g. the UK Information Commissioner's Office)

To exercise these rights, email legal@inspireafrica.onmicrosoft.com. We respond within one month, extendable by two months for complex requests.

09Security

We apply organisational and technical measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the data we process — including encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access control, vendor due diligence, secure cloud infrastructure and regular security review. No system is invulnerable, but we treat data security as load-bearing infrastructure.

10Changes to this policy

We update this policy as our services and the regulatory landscape evolve. Material changes are flagged on this page and, where appropriate, communicated by email to active users. The version and last-updated date at the top of this page record the current effective version.

11Contact

For any question about this policy or your personal data:

• Email: legal@inspireafrica.onmicrosoft.com
• Post: Inspire Africa Platform Ltd, 71–75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom
• WhatsApp (no calls): +256 750 329 751