Last updated: 19 August 2026
Introduction
At Institute of Hospitality Ghana, d/b/a IHG ("us", "we", "our" or the "Company") we value your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your data. This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes our privacy practices for the activities set out below. As per your rights, we inform you how we collect, store, access, and otherwise process information relating to individuals. In this Policy, personal data ("Personal Data") refers to any information that on its own, or in combination with other available information, can identify an individual.
We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the highest level of privacy regulation. As such, we follow the obligations under the below regulations:
- the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Ghana's Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843)
Scope
This policy applies to the Institute of Hospitality Ghana websites, domains, applications, services, and products.
This Policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services or platforms that may be accessed through (non-Institute of Hospitality Ghana) links that we may provide to you. These sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any Personal Data that you provide to these websites will be governed by the third-party’s own privacy policy.
We cannot accept liability for the actions or policies of these independent sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.
Processing Activities
This Policy applies when you interact with us by doing any of the following:
- Make use of our application and services as an authorized user
- Visit any of our websites that link to this Privacy Statement
Personal Data We Collect
What Personal Data We Collect
When you make a purchase, or attempt to make a purchase, we collect the following types of Personal Data:
This includes:
- Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
- Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method
- Purchase Information specifically if personalized or unique
When you use our products and/or features, we collect the following types of Personal Data:
- Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
- Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method
- Purchase Information specifically if personalized or unique
- Feedback, such as customer support or product reviews
How We Collect Your Personal Data
We collect Personal Data from the following sources:
From You. You may give us your Account Information, Payment Information, Financial Information, Demographic Data, Purchase Information, Content, Feedback, Product Information, by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide, for example, when you:
- Create an account or purchase products on our website;
- Use our products or services;
- Create content through our products or services;
- Express interest in our products or services;
- Downloading software and/or our mobile application;
- Subscribe to our newsletter;
- Complete a voluntary market research survey;
- Contact us with an inquiry or to report a problem (by phone, email, social media, or messaging service);
- When you log in to our website via social media;
Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect the following types of data (all as described above): Device Data about your equipment, Usage Data about your browsing actions and patterns, and Contact Data where tasks carried out via our website remain uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie section (below) for further details.
Third parties: We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties, including:
- Account Information and Payment Information from another individual when they purchase a gift for you on our website;
- Device and Usage Data from third parties, including analytics providers such as Google;
- Account Information and Payment Data from social media platforms when you log in to our website using such social media platforms;
- Content from communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to access your data on such third-party services or networks;
- Account Information and Payment Data from third parties, including organizations (such as law enforcement agencies), associations and groups, who share data for the purposes of fraud prevention and detection and credit risk reduction; and
- Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
If you provide us, or our service providers, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Policy. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the "Contact us" section below.
Device and Usage Data
When you visit a our website and/or mobile application, we automatically collect and store information about your visit using browser cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer), or similar technology. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Data we collect from third parties
We may receive your Personal Data from third parties such as companies subscribing to our services, partners and other sources. This Personal Data is not collected by us but by a third party and is subject to the relevant third party’s own separate privacy and data collection policies. We do not have any control or input on how your Personal Data is handled by third parties. As always, you have the right to review and rectify this information. If you have any questions you should first contact the relevant third party for further information about your Personal Data. Where that third party is unresponsive to your rights, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at Strategical Online BV (contact details below).
Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of such other services, or of social media networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices.
Purpose and Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data
We collect and use your Personal Data with your consent to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.
These purposes include:
- To deliver your product or service
- To fulfil orders including electronic and non-electronic shipment
- Building a Safe and Secure Environment
- To verify or authenticate your identity; and
- Investigate and prevent security incidents such as breaches, attacks and hacks
- Providing, Developing, and Improving our Products and Services.
- Deliver, maintain, debug and improve our products and services.
- Enable you to access Strategical Online BV services and set up accounts.
- For research and development
Where we process your Personal Data to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations. All of the above processing is necessary in our legitimate interests to provide products and services and to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business for example against fraud. Consent will be required to initiate services with you. New consent will be required if any changes are made to the type of data collected. Within our contract, if you fail to provide consent, some services may not be available to you.
Third Party Tools
We use these third party tools to store your information:
- Shopify
Interactive maps
Interactive maps on this site are provided using OpenStreetMap, an open-source mapping service. When a map is displayed, your browser requests map tile images directly from OpenStreetMap's servers, which may log your IP address as part of standard server access logs. OpenStreetMap does not set cookies or use this data for tracking or advertising purposes. For more information, see OpenStreetMap's own privacy policy.
International Data Transfer and Storage
Where possible, we store and process data on servers within the general geographical region where you reside (note: this may not be within the country in which you reside). Specifically, for European based companies, we have servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). Your Personal Data may also be transferred to, and maintained on, servers residing outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy as well as applicable data protection law. More information about these clauses can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D0914
Legal Requirement
We may use or disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with a legal obligation, in connection with a request from a public or government authority, or in connection with court or tribunal proceedings, to prevent loss of life or injury, or to protect our rights or property. Where possible and practical to do so, we will tell you in advance of such disclosure.
Service Providers and Other Third Parties
We may use a third party service provider, independent contractors, agencies, or consultants to deliver and help us improve our products and services. We may share your Personal Data with marketing agencies, database service providers, backup and disaster recovery service providers, email service providers and others but only to maintain and improve our products and services. For further information on the recipients of your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the "Contacting us" section below.
Retention & Deletion
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that data was collected and to the extent required by applicable law. When we no longer need Personal Data, we will remove it from our systems and/or take steps to anonymize it.
Merger or Acquisition
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
How We Keep Your Data Safe
We have appropriate organizational safeguards and security measures in place to protect your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.
The communication between your browser and our website uses a secure encrypted connection wherever your Personal Data is involved.
We require any third party who is contracted to process your Personal Data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law.
In the unfortunate event of a Personal Data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.
Your Rights for Your Personal Data
Right to be forgotten
Under EU/UK GDPR and Ghana's Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), you can request the deletion of your personal data ('right to be forgotten') if it is no longer necessary, consent is withdrawn, or processing is unlawful. While we will comply without undue delay, this is not an absolute right; we may retain data for legal obligations or claims.
Withdrawing Consent
If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the information found at the bottom of this page.
How to Exercise Your Rights
You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Data by sending the request to our privacy team by using the form below.
For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
Changes
We may modify this Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Policy then we will post an updated version of this Policy at this website. When using our services, you will be asked to review and accept our Privacy Policy. In this manner, we may record your acceptance and notify you of any future changes to this Policy.
Contact Us
To request a copy for your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request for your data to be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, we've made the process simple:
To contact us, please email us at: [email protected].
Write to us at:
Data Privacy Officer - IHG
1st Floor, HOTCATT Building (Formerly HCIMA), Adjacent Ministry of Information, Worker's College, Accra, Greater Accra - Ghana