When you submit your personal/private information to Kenyayote.com and all its sub-domains, you trust us. It is important to understand that we value your privacy and we will not wish to violate it.
Before you read our privacy policies below make sure that you go through our terms and conditions as they should be read together with our privacy policy.
This privacy policy applies to Kenyayote.com and all its subdomains.
Summary of Our Privacy Policy
- We will take reasonable measures to protect and store your private/personal Information from misuse.
- Third parties like Google will place ads on kenyayote depending on a user’s prior visit.
- You can opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google ads setting. Learn more on how Google manages data in its ads products in its Privacy & Terms web page.
- If you Opt-In to our email newsletter, your name, and email are collected. The purpose of this is to email you Kenyayote.com Newsletters. You can opt-out of our mailing list anytime by clicking the unsubscribe link available below each email. If you are still receiving newsletters from Kenyayote even after unsubscribing, then reach us through the email provided below this page so that we can take further action.
- a) Private information submitted in/on post/page/archive comments and public forums, by you or the public without our knowledge, does/does not fall under our Privacy Policy. If you have any privacy issues with such information, contact us using these contact options for action to be taken. b) Private/personal information (1) submitted under scam/con men or women-related posts, categories or pages do not fall under our privacy policy.
1. Registration / Forms Submissions
You will be required to register to use some features of Kenyayote websites.
Once you register, you become a member of Kenyayote and your names and username can be viewed by anyone. Therefore, do not use your email or phone number as a username.
When you register, we collect the information that you enter in the registration form. We may also collect personal information that you provide/enter in any form on our website. We may use such information to operate the site and provide you with services like verifying your identity when you sign in, facilitating and processing transactions that take place on the site, responding to support queries, facilitating the resolution of any disputes, managing our legal and operational affairs, updating you with news, providing you with a personalized experience, among other user cases defined in our terms and privacy policy.
2. Newsletter Subscription
By providing your email address, either during registration or through subscription forms, you are consenting to receive periodic emails from kenyayote.co.ke and its subdomains. You may unsubscribe any time or write us to unsubscribe you from our email list.
3. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
4. Web Push Notifications
When you subscribe to our Web Push notifications, you will receive updates via phone or desktop browser when we publish or update an article.
Web Push notifications at Kenyayote.com are operated by our third-party provider, who does not store any recognizable data about you.
You can unsubscribe from our web push notifications anytime by going to Kenyayote newsletter and turning off notifications. You can also contact us to unsubscribe you manually.
5. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract such information from images on the website.
6. Cookies
When you visit our website, there’s certain information that is recorded which is information that may not reveal your identity. If you are logged into your account, some of this information below could be associated with your account and is not limited to:
- your IP and Location
- your Internet service provider
- the date and time
- page session
- page visited
- referral website
For more information about how we use cookies, see http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
7. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
8. Analytics
Kenyayote.com and its subdomains use Google Analytics to collect visitor data. Read about Google Analytics’ privacy policy. If you want to opt-out, download the add-on from this page and install it in your web browser.
9. Advertising (Third Parties)
Third parties like Google will place ads on Kenyayote.com and its subdomains depending on a user’s prior visits to some sites. These advertising companies use cookies to anonymously collect data. No personally identifiable information is collected by these cookies. The anonymous data they collect is kept separate from the personal information about you as a user. Read more on how Google manages data in its ad’s products: Privacy & Terms web page.
10. Data Retention Period
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
11. What rights do you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you (request contact). This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
12. Data Protection Measures
Kenyayote uses a premium SSL Certificate to protect your data. This helps in encrypting communication between our hosting servers and your Browser.
We have also put in place other security measures to ensure that any personal information that you leave on our website is not stolen by spam bots and data harvesters.
If you find any data breach, immediately reach out to us at kenyayotecare@gmail.com. Our security experts will promptly investigate the matter and do their best to make sure the data breach is contained.
Our contact information
Contact our support team through kenyayotecare@gmail.com for any privacy concerns.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATED on 10th February 2024 (for grammar correction and layout changes)
