Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Afrikabal Inc. ("AXK Network", "we", "our", or "us"), headquartered in Dover, Delaware, with operating entities including Afrikabal UK Limited (London, UK), Afrikabal Kenya Ltd (Nairobi, Kenya), and Afrikabal Rwanda Ltd (Kigali, Rwanda), collects, uses, and safeguards personal and operational data when you visit our website (axk.org) or interact with our trade verification and settlement infrastructure.

We collect information necessary to deliver enterprise commodity verification, compliance evidence packaging, and settlement orchestration: • Contact and Representative Information: Name, work email address, phone number, role, and employer name submitted via inquiry forms or partner registration. • Counterparty & KYB Telemetry: Corporate entity filings, director and beneficial ownership details, sanctions and AML/CFT screening metadata collected pursuant to legal obligations. • Trade & Verification Data: Geolocation of production plots or mine sites, consignment identifiers, inspection certificates, bills of lading, and custodian transfer records. • Technical & Audit Logs: Cryptographic hashes, append-only system interaction logs, IP addresses, browser user-agents, and timestamped API telemetry for security and fraud prevention.

We process data under recognized legal grounds: • Performance of a Contract: To execute verification workflows, orchestrate payment instructions, and administer client accounts. • Legal and Regulatory Obligations: Compliance with anti-money laundering (AML), countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), sanctions screening, and statutory trade regulations (such as EUDR, CSDDD, and CBAM). • Legitimate Interests: Operating secure infrastructure, detecting fraudulent transactions, and ensuring network integrity. • Consent: Where explicitly granted by counterparties for sharing specific evidence packs with designated third-party buyers, banks, or insurers.

AXK Network does not sell or broker personal or trade data. Verification evidence packs (including plot coordinates, quality assays, and custody attestations) are disclosed to downstream counterparties (such as buyers, financing banks, and customs authorities) strictly on a consented, scoped basis. Counterparties retain audit logs detailing which entities accessed specific trade records and can revoke future access permissions.

Regulated services, including multi-currency account hosting, cross-border payment rails, foreign exchange conversion, corporate card issuance, and trade finance lending, are provided by independent licensed partner banks, payment institutions, and mobile money operators under their respective regulatory licenses and privacy notices. AXK Network provides the verified orchestration record and transmits instructions as a technology platform.

All communication is secured with TLS 1.3 encryption in transit and AES-256 at rest. Access controls enforce the principle of least privilege, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and segregation of duties. Where cryptographic anchoring or notarization occurs on public distributed ledgers (e.g., Stellar or XRPL), only irreversible mathematical hashes of documents or state roots are anchored; private commercial terms and personal data remain strictly off-chain.

We retain trade verification records and compliance evidence packs for the periods mandated by applicable statutory trade, tax, and anti-money laundering laws (typically 5 to 7 years post-settlement). Subject to jurisdiction, you possess the right to access, rectify, or request deletion of personal information, or object to processing. To exercise your rights, contact our Data Governance Officer at info@axk.org.

axk.org uses a small amount of browser storage: • Strictly necessary: remembering your cookie choice and whether you dismissed the announcement bar. These do not need consent and are never used to track you. • Analytics (optional): aggregated measurement of which pages are useful, used only if you accept analytics cookies. • Marketing (optional): campaign measurement on other platforms, used only if you accept marketing cookies. You can accept, reject or change your choice at any time using "Cookie settings" in the footer of every page. Rejecting optional cookies does not affect your use of the site.