This Privacy policy summarizes important information pertaining to how we collect, use, and share any personal information collected. This Privacy policy is applicable to personal information collected through this website partner-network.buildafrique.com and mobile application (Buildafrique Partner Network).

1.    Personal information

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, as defined by applicable law of the land and for purposes of this website and mobile application such information shall be construed in accordance with the Kenyan Laws.

2.    Collection and Use

From time to time we shall collect personal information that you choose to provide. This includes information provided when registering with our website and mobile application, contacting us, completing surveys or questionnaires and posting information on public areas of our websites.

Through your use of this website and mobile application you may provide us with personal information such as your name, contact details, current location, occupation, personal preferences, and details of your website or mobile devise use.

By doing so, you are agreeing to our use of that information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

3.    Use of personal Information

We may use personal information collected from you to provide specific services that you request, as well as to provide additional services that may be of interest. For example, we may use your personal information in the following ways:

• Marketing Communications. We may use your personal information to communicate with you about our products and services, and those of our subsidiaries, affiliates, and any of their related businesses.
• Marketing analysis. We may use your personal information for internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends amongst our consumers or to measure the amount of traffic to our websites.
• Transactional purposes. We may use your personal information to respond to your queries and requests, maintain your accounts, and manage transactions such as credit card and mobile money transfer payments for any services offered by us.

4.    Disclosure of Personal Information

By continuing to use this website you hereby authorize us to disclose and or transfer your personal information to third parties but only in so far as such disclosure if for furtherance of the company’s objectives, permitted disclosure by the law and provided such third parties shall keep such information secret.

For purposes of this website permitted disclosure shall entail;

i.    third parties to whom you have provided your consent;

ii.    our service providers and subcontractors, including our affiliates, retained to perform functions on our behalf, or to provide services to us provided such service providers and subcontractors do not collect, use, or disclose the personal information for any purpose other than to perform such functions on our behalf, to provide services to us, or as otherwise required by law;

iii.    third parties who, in our reasonable judgment, are providing or seeking the information as your authorized or appointed legal agent; or

iv.    Carefully selected third parties, including our affiliates, to send you third party marketing and promotional information that may be of interest. In such circumstances these organizations may be bound by confidentiality obligations and restrictions on the use of your personal information. We will obtain your express permission before we allow a third party that is not an affiliate to send you any such marketing and promotional information;

v.    a person or entity, including our affiliates, in the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, financing, reorganization, or liquidation whereby we transfer, sell, or assign to such third party information concerning your relationship with us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and other information concerning your relationship with us; and

vi.    law enforcement, governmental or regulatory agencies, or other third parties in order to comply with applicable law, or where we believe such action is necessary in order to comply with applicable law, or to detect, protect, or defend us and/or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud, or other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our audit and security requirements, or to audit compliance with our corporate policies, procedures, legal, or contractual obligations.

5.    Public areas of our website

Information that you post on or through the public areas of the site or mobile application for instance chat rooms and discussion groups are generally accessible to, and may be collected and used by, others and shall not be subject to any privacy obligations to us.

6.    Security

Whereas we have instituted security mechanisms to safeguard and protect information collected by us from the websites and mobile application both from an administrative and managerial levels, we have no control over the privacy of any communications while in transit to us. We recommend that you do not include confidential, proprietary or sensitive information in such communications.

In the event that at our sole discretion we believe your information to be compromised we may notify you of such compromise but at all times shall be indemnified from any claims by you.

Provided that at all times you are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password, and you are responsible for any activity under your account and password. It is your sole responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your password, control access to and use of your account, and notify us when you wish to cancel your account. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this obligation.