01Who we are
MBI Nexus is the learning and engagement platform of the Maada Bio Institute for Human Capital Development (MBI), 12A Regent Road, Hill Station, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Its first programme is the WAIIS 2026 youth programme.
MBI decides how your information is used and is responsible for it. Premdeploy builds and runs the platform for MBI and may use your information only on MBI's written instructions.
02What we collect
We collect only what the programme needs:
- From the WAIIS 2026 delegate list: your name, email address, delegation and institution.
- From you, when you set up: your current stage, up to two investment pillars, your goal for WAIIS, the time you can give each day, anything that would help you take part (such as larger text, captions or a step-free venue), and whether to show you in the delegate directory.
- As you take part: your learning progress, practice scene results, your challenge team and its submission, the sessions in your agenda, your vote, your follow-up check-ins, and any interest you register in an opportunity.
- If you report a concern: what you tell us, with your name only if you choose to give it.
- To keep the platform working and secure: the cookies that keep you signed in and remember the low-data setting and your language, and a record of actions taken by MBI staff.
03What we do not collect
We do not ask for information about your health, religion, ethnicity, political opinions or other sensitive matters. Please do not include them in anything you write on MBI Nexus. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies.
04Why we use it
We use your information to run the WAIIS 2026 youth programme: to sign you in, show your learning plan and progress, form challenge teams, review and shortlist challenges, run the Youth Day vote, show the Summit programme and your agenda, list opportunities related to your pillars, follow up after the Summit, and report totals that identify nobody to MBI and its funders.
We do this because it is needed to provide the programme you joined. The delegate directory and sharing your details with an opportunity's organiser happen only with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
Sierra Leone does not yet have a data protection law in force. MBI follows the principles of the ECOWAS Supplementary Act on Personal Data Protection: your information is used fairly and lawfully, only for these purposes, kept accurate and secure, and kept no longer than needed.
05What we never do
- Sell your information or use it for advertising.
- Use it to train artificial intelligence, for independent research or for unrelated analytics.
- Send your practice scene replies to an AI service. Practice scenes are guided and their feedback is written in advance.
- Let practice scores affect challenge selection.
06Who can see it
- You, through your profile and the pages you use.
- MBI programme staff, each only for the part of the programme their role covers.
- Reviewers, who see your team's challenge submission.
- Other delegates, who see your name, delegation and pillars in the delegate directory only if you choose to appear in it. Your vote is never shown to anyone else.
- MBI's safeguarding lead, and nobody else, sees reports of concern.
- Our service providers, Cloudflare (hosting, files and email) and Supabase (database and sign-in), which process your information only on our instructions and under contract.
07Where it is stored
Our service providers store and process information in data centres that may be outside Sierra Leone. Your information is encrypted in transit and at rest, and the providers may use it only to provide their service to MBI.
08How we keep it safe
Access is checked by role on the server and in the database, not only on screen. MBI staff sign in separately from delegates and confirm each sign-in with a second factor. Every export, edit and deletion by staff is recorded.
09How long we keep it
We keep your information until 31 March 2028, one year after the last follow-up check-in closes, and then delete it or make it anonymous. Totals that identify nobody may be kept for MBI's reporting.
A report of concern is kept only as long as the safeguarding lead needs it to deal with the concern and any follow-up.
10Your rights
You can:
- see and download the information we hold about you, from Profile;
- correct it, by changing your answers in Profile or asking us;
- ask us to delete it, from Profile;
- withdraw any consent at any time, from Profile; this stops the use that relied on it;
- object to how we use your information, by writing to us.
11Contact us
We answer every request within 30 days. If you are signed in, use Profile. Otherwise, write to the Maada Bio Institute for Human Capital Development, 12A Regent Road, Hill Station, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
If we change this notice, we will publish the new version here with its date and tell you in MBI Nexus when the change affects you.