Welcome to the eMC+ website. These terms of service govern your use of our services. By accessing or using our website and app, you agree to comply with these terms.
By accessing or using our services, you agree to abide by these terms and any additional terms and policies incorporated herein by reference. If you do not agree to these terms, please refrain from using our website.
Your use of our services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information. By using our services, you consent to the collection and use of your data as described in the Privacy Policy.
These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Nigeria. Any disputes arising from these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Arbitration Panel in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, CAP A18 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
The Mining Cadastre Office reserves the right to modify or update these terms at any time. We will notify users of any material changes to these terms.
By using our website you agree to these terms of service. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact
us at:
37 Lobito Crescent; Off Ademola Adetokunbo, Wuse II, Abuja
Phone: +234 816 4101937
Email: info[at]miningcadastre[dot]gov[dot]ng
Web: https://www.miningcadastre.gov.ng/
As the sole agency responsible for administration of Mineral Titles, the Mining Cadastre Office understands and appreciates the legal and economic benefits of data protection. MCO is also mindful of her obligations as the controller of personal information of Mineral Title Applicants/ Holders entrusted to her as one of the statutory regulators of the Mining Sector.
In fulfilling the data protection principles of lawfulness, fairness, transparency and accountability, the MCO has published this privacy policy (notice) to provide concise but understandable information on its data management practices especially as it relates to Data Protection guaranteed by section 37 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
Through the website (the "Site"), we shall provide you with access to varied user-generated and other content and interactive and informational resources (collectively, "Services"). This Privacy Policy sets forth our policies with respect to information including personally identifiable data ("Personal Data2) and other information that is collected from you when using the Site.
When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below:
Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily choose to provide such information such as when you contact us with inquiries, respond to one of our surveys, register for access to the Services or use certain Services. By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data through the Site, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to our offices and servers.
Other Information:
Non-Identifiable Data: When you utilize the Site, we may receive certain personally
non-identifiable information about your use of the Site. Such information, which may be collected passively
using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. We may store such information
ourselves or it may be included in databases owned and maintained by our affiliates, agents or service
providers. We may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total
number of new mineral title application by applicants to the Site, the number of applicants to each page of the
Site, and the domain names of our applicants' Internet service providers. It is important to note that no
Personal Data is available or used in this process.
In operating this Site, we may use cookies. A cookie is a piece of information that the computer or computers that host our Site give to your browser when you access the Site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. For instance, our Site may set a cookie on your browser that keeps you from needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the site.
Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Services, we may conduct research on our end user's demographics, interests and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregated data with our Affiliates and/or Agents. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective Applicants and Mineral Title Holders, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
We will use the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. Also, if you provide Personal Data in order to obtain access to the Services, we will use your Personal Data to provide access to such services and to monitor your use of such services. We may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand our users and to improve the Services. We may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you.
We will communicate with you through email and notices posted via the Services. These communications may include a series of welcome emails which help inform you about various features of the Services. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from us related to the proper functioning of your account.
Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information There are certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, including as set forth below:
Service Providers, Agents and Related Third Parties: We sometimes hire other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we may need to provide them with access to certain Personal Data. However, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.
Legal Requirements: may also disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith believing that, such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
You may use the Site without providing any Personal Data, however, you may not be able to use certain Services.
When You sign up for our Services that require registration, we ask you to provide Personal Data. If we want to use this Personal Data in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, we will ask for your consent prior to doing so. If we propose to use Personal Data for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific notice of Services, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of our use of your Personal Data for those other purposes.
This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to us through this Site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site, such as bulletin boards (collectively, "Public Areas"), any ideas for new products or modifications to existing services, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, "Unsolicited Information"), including all User Content, as that term is defined in our Terms of Use, that by its nature is accessible or intended to be accessible to other users of the Site. All such Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and we shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution. Please also note that any Personal Data or other information you provide to be displayed in your publicly available online profile will be displayed for others to see and thus will not be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We cannot and will not be responsible for what third parties do with any Personal Data or other information that you choose to make publicly available. As such, we advise that you exercise great care in determining what information you choose to make publicly available through this Site.
This Privacy Policy applies only to this Site. The Site may frame or contain references or links to other websites not operated or controlled by us (the "Third Party Sites"). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply our review or endorsement of the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
We take reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These steps include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store Personal Data. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the Site may not be secure. Therefore, you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to us via the Internet.
We restrict access to Personal Data to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our Services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline if they fail to meet those obligations.
We process Personal Data only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the Personal Data needed to provide or improve our Services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Data we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their Personal Data whenever necessary.
We regularly review our compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or our treatment of Personal Data by contacting us through this web site. When we receive formal written complaints, it is our policy to contact the complainant regarding his or her concerns.
The Site may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for us to make changes to this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, we reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data.
If you would like us to remove any of your personal data we might store, please contact us through the contact mechanisms of the Site or write to us.
We strive to keep your Personal Data accurately recorded. Through the Site, we provide you with access to update your profile and revise Personal Data previously submitted to the Site.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy or our information practices, please feel free to contact us at any time through the contact mechanisms of this Site or writing to us.