Thank you for visiting www.e-startupskenya.co.ke (together with its content, subdomains, software available for download, tools, and services, the “Site”), which is operated by E-Startups Kenya. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this Site.
INTRODUCTION
We are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you share with us. “Personal Information” means any information that may be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to personally identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, personal profile, a home or other physical address, an email address, or other contact information.
CONSENT AND MODIFICATION
By using this Site, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy and to E-Startups Kenya processing of Personal Information for the purposes set forth herein. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change this Privacy Policy at any time, which change will be effective 30 days following posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Your continued use of our Site 30 days following such posting means you will accept those changes.
RECEIPT AND COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
We receive and/or collect information from you in the following ways:
A. General Access to the Site:We do not currently require you to provide Personal Information in order to have access to general information available on our Site.
B. Software Downloads:We offer you the opportunity to download certain software from the Site without charge. If you choose to do so, you may first be required to provide certain Personal Information (for example, by completing an online purchasing and pricing form), such as your name, email address, phone number, job title, company name, country, industry, total annual revenue, and number of employees.
C. Purchases: If you choose to purchase a service or product from us, we will require sufficient information from you to complete the transaction. Such information could include a credit card number and related account and billing information, invoice-related information, and other data required to process the order. We may also update such data should you grant us permission to bill you or your credit card for recurring charges, such as monthly or other types of periodic payments. We may use the tools, software, or services of third-party service providers to process transactions on our behalf (but we require that these parties agree to comply with this Privacy Policy). All information of this nature is maintained by us in a secure database and transmitted across the Internet from you to us using secured transmission encryption. Except as set forth herein, we will not share your financial Personal Information with any third person or entity.
We may provide you, via the Site, with the opportunity to contact us, receive an E-Startups Kenya newsletter, or participate in conferences, webinars, or special promotional or other programs (collectively “Events”). In order to participate in any of these Events, you will be required to provide certain Personal Information which may include your name, company, job title, address, email address, and phone number.
D. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: Some of our Site pages utilize “cookies” and other tracking technologies. A “cookie” is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about Site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a Site user. You may block cookies or delete existing cookies by adjusting the appropriate setting on your browser. Please consult the HELP menu of your browser to learn how to do this. If you block or delete “cookies” you may find the usefulness of our Site to be impaired.
E. Log Files: Like many other websites, this Site may make use of log files. The information inside the log files includes the IP address from which you access the Site, the type of browser and operating system you use to access the Site, the date and time you access the Site, the pages you visit, and the addresses of pages from where you followed a link to the Site. We may use such information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user movement around the Site, and gather demographic information. Such information is not linked to any information that is Personal Information, with the exception of the IP address which might be used to identify spamming attempts.
F. Newsletters: When you sign up or contact us through our website, we collect your name and email ID. We will also record the time and date of completion.
We use E-Startups Kenya ERP System to send out our e-newsletter and administer our mailing list.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we add your name and email address to E-Startups Kenya’s newsletter mailing list, which is managed via E-Startups Kenya ERP.
How to unsubscribe from the newsletter:
Every newsletter contains a quick and easy unsubscribe link in its footer. When you unsubscribe from a newsletter managed via E-Startups Kenya ERP, your details remain on the list of past recipients. This is to prevent any such member of our staff from accidentally manually re-adding you. If you are still a subscriber at the point when you contact us, on request your details can be permanently removed from the list – please get in touch if you would like this to happen.
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION
Any information, video, image, data, text, documents, or other content posted at your direction onto a public area of the Site, such as the E-Startups Kenya Blog/Demo, becomes publicly published content and will be available to all users of that public area of the Site, even if such content contains Personal Information. Please note that if you publish your contact information, you may receive unsolicited messages from users and visitors to the Site. We encourage you to publish only information you are sure you want to be accessible to anyone.
THE WAY WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you submit Personal Information to us through the Site:
We will use your Personal Information to improve our services to you, to contact you, and to identify and authenticate your access to the Site’s services that you are authorized to access.
We may also use your email address to send updates, a newsletter, or news regarding our services.
We may disclose your Personal Information or any information you submitted via the Site and its services if we have a good faith belief that disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, (ii) enforce our Terms of Service including investigations of potential violations thereof, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues, or (iv) protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of E-Startups Kenya, its users, yourself, or the public.
THE WAY WE USE ANONYMOUS INFORMATION
We may use Anonymous Information (as defined below), or disclose it to third-party service providers, to improve our services and enhance your experience with the Site and its services. “Anonymous Information” means information which does not enable the identification of an individual user, such as aggregated information about the use of our Site and services.
CHOICE
You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to E-Startups Kenya. The notices we will provide where E-Startups Kenya collects Personal Information on the Site should help you to make this choice. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit many parts of the Site, but you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services that involve our interaction with you.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD-PARTY SITES
Our Site may use a reputable third party to present or serve advertisements that you may see at our Site. These third-party ad servers may use cookies, web beacons, clear gifs, or similar technologies to help present such advertisements and to help measure and research the advertisements’ effectiveness. The use of these technologies by these third-party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by our Privacy Policy.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Site contains links to other sites. Other sites may also reference or link to our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Site is not intended for or structured to attract children under the age of 18. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 18 years of age.
SECURITY
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Policy or elsewhere, E-Startups Kenya shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage, or misuse of the User Information if such loss, damage, or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event. A “Force Majeure Event” means any event that is beyond the reasonable control of E-Startups Kenya and includes, without limitation, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes, lockouts or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, power failure, sabotage, computer hacking, unauthorized access to computer data and storage device, system failure, virus attacks, bugs, computer crashes, breach of security, and encryption.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently
Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to: access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at [email protected] or +254 707 655 659.
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
The terms and conditions of this Policy shall be governed by the laws of Kenya, and the courts in Nairobi shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve/adjudicate upon any disputes.