Privacy Policy
Liberty Research Institute ("LRI", "we", "us") respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal data we collect through this website, why, who else handles it, and the rights you have under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA). LRI is the data controller for the data described here.
1. What we collect and why
| Where | Data | Purpose · basis |
|---|---|---|
| Contact form | Name, email address, your role/reason for contacting us, your message, and a record that you ticked the consent box. | To read and reply to your message · your consent. |
| LRI Assistant (chat) | The questions you type and the recent conversation in that chat window. | To generate an answer · your consent (you choose to use it). We do not ask for, and you should not enter, personal or sensitive information. |
| Hosting and security logs | IP address, browser type, pages requested, date and time. | To deliver the site, prevent abuse and fix faults · our legitimate interest in running a secure website. |
| WhatsApp, phone and email links | Whatever you choose to send when you contact us that way. | To respond to you · your consent. WhatsApp's own privacy policy applies to messages sent through it. |
We do not sell personal data. We do not use it for automated decisions that significantly affect you.
2. Cookies and tracking
This website does not set cookies and does not use analytics or advertising trackers. If that changes, we will update this policy and ask for your consent where the law requires it.
3. Who handles your data for us
- Netlify, Inc. — website hosting, server logs and storage of contact-form submissions (United States and other regions).
- Anthropic, PBC — processes chat messages to generate the assistant's replies (United States).
- Google — serves this site's fonts (Google Fonts), which means your IP address is sent to Google when the page loads; and provides the email service we use to receive and answer messages.
These providers process data on our behalf or under their own terms. Where data leaves Nigeria, we rely on the safeguards these providers offer, as the NDPA requires.
4. How long we keep it
Contact-form messages and our replies are kept for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry and any follow-up, and no longer than 24 months after our last contact unless you become a partner, fellow or collaborator, or the law requires longer. We do not store chat conversations ourselves; the chat history lives only in your browser tab until you close it. Server logs are kept by our hosting provider for a short period.
5. Your rights
Under the NDPA you may ask us to: confirm whether we hold your data and give you a copy; correct it; delete it; restrict or object to our use of it; move it to another provider; and you may withdraw your consent at any time (this does not affect what we did before you withdrew). You also have the right to complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission. To use any right, email us at the address below.
6. Children
This website is not directed at children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect their data through it. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, tell us and we will delete it.
7. Security
The site is served over HTTPS, and we apply security headers and restrict what the site can load. No online service is perfectly secure, so please avoid sending sensitive information through the form or chat.
8. Changes and contact
We will post any change to this policy on this page and update the date above. Questions or requests: info@libertyresearch.com.ng · Liberty Research Institute, Galadimawa, Abuja, Nigeria.