When you join KenyanDiasporaLink.com (website) you have a choice on which information you provide and what you want others to view about you on your profile. By submitting Personal Information through our Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy. Your Personal Information may be processed by Website in the country where it was collected including other countries where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less strict than the laws in your country.

What type of information do we collect?

We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily choose to submit to us through our Website. During registration/signup for the Website membership, we will collect information that you might deem private such as your email address, name, city, country, phone numbers, your gender, date of birth and other information that you might deem private. This information is collected the minute you begin the registration process under the member registration/signup page. This information is saved to your profile. You may update your profile any time by login in and going to Edit My Profile page. We will also collect any information that you enter in your profile and anywhere else on the Website. If and when you enter Personal Information throughout our Website using any of our available features and applications or plugins, we will collect any such information you enter. We will collect your e-mail addresses and any information contained in the e-mail you send us. Once you register with the Website and log in to our Website, you are not anonymous to us. We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under age.

What do we do with the information?

Information viewable by others is the profile default information and the information you choose to display on your profile. You have a choice on exactly what you want others to see on your profile. Our Website does not require any member to display some Personal Information such as Street Address. Visitors of the Website that are not registered members may view some of your profile information that you have uploaded to the Website unless you choose on your profile settings to disallow this.

To provide you with some of the features and services that the Website offers to its members, we may use Personal Information that is stored in your profile. We may also use your Personal Information such as email address when we send emails and general newsletters to members of the network. On the Website other members may see that you have viewed their profiles.

If you decide to use certain features of the Website some of the Personal Information on your profile including Personal Information, that you enter using one of these features, might be used and displayed. Members can use the search feature to search for other members by different criteria, like occupation or gender. The Personal Information that the Website members enter into their profile will be used for these searches. The Website maintains the right to analyze any collected information for its own internal purposes and in creating and implementing marketing strategies. In addition, the Website may remove personally identifying information from collected information. The Website may use Anonymous Information for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
Website does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.

Your Personal Information may be available to Website hosting staff. However, third parties do not have any independent right to share this information nor do they have the right to contact you directly. Website owns the information that you provide voluntarily to us throughout our Website. Please be aware that the handling of your Personal Information by our partners or the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to Website service, such as service and general announcements, administrative messages, newsletters, etc, that are considered as part of your account. You may opt out of some of these communications.

We will disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may disclose information, if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of the Website’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

Information Stored Automatically

By default, all web server log files capture Internet Provider (IP) addresses. We may use your IP address internally to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our website and to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or cause damage.

A cookie is a small amount of information sent from a web server to your computer. We use cookies when someone logs onto our website to maintain that login, to retain login information (if requested) and for the maintenance of our shopping cart or ecommerce service. Any activity you engage in while you are at the Website may be tracked. We may or may not use cookies to track your Internet activity before you enter or after you leave our website.

Other third parties may place advertisements and cookies on webpages within the Website. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Data Security

Website may contract third parties to maintain the website, membership application and database. These third parties take necessary precaution to protect your information against threats by implementing firewalls, SSL encryption, password protection, session management, etc. Website Administrator(s) and contracted third party support staff have access to user data. Your account information is also protected by a password that you select. However, no company, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

While we will make reasonable efforts to store any personal information held in a secure server or in secure files, and to keep this information accurate and up-to-date, the Internet is not a secure medium for the transmission of information. The Website cannot accept responsibility for the security of information you send to or receive from us over the Internet or for any unauthorized access to or use of that information.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information to or change information on our website are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. The Website is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of these other websites. Should you choose to follow a link to another website, you are subject to its privacy policy.

Contact Us
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please Contact us here.

Variation

Website may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to visit our website regularly to stay updated of these changes.