Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the Service. It also informs you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

Words with capitalized initial letters have meanings as defined under the following conditions. These definitions apply equally whether the terms appear in singular or plural form.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account: A unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of it.
• Company (referred to as "the Company," "We," "Us," or "Our" in this Agreement): Refers to edufocus.co.ke.
• Cookies: Small files placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of your browsing history and other uses.
• Country: Refers to Kenya.
• Device: Any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, cellphone, or digital tablet.
• Personal Data: Information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service: Refers to the Website.
• Service Provider: Any individual or legal entity processing data on behalf of the Company. This includes third-party companies or individuals hired to facilitate the Service, provide it on the Company’s behalf, perform related services, or assist in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Usage Data: Data collected automatically, either generated through the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (e.g., page visit duration).
• You: The individual accessing or using the Service, or the organization or legal entity that individual represents, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may request certain personally identifiable information to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• Usage Data

Usage Data

We collect Usage Data automatically when you use the Service. This may include details such as:

• Your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address
• Browser type and version
• Pages visited on our Service
• Date and time of your visit
• Time spent on specific pages
• Unique device identifiers
• Other diagnostic data

When accessing the Service via a mobile device, we may automatically collect additional information, including:

• Type of mobile device
• Unique mobile device ID
• Mobile device IP address
• Mobile operating system
• Mobile internet browser type
• Other diagnostic data

We may also collect information sent by your browser when you visit our Service or access it through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our service and store certain information. These technologies include beacons, tags, and scripts that help us collect data to improve and analyze our service. We use the following tracking technologies:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies: Cookies are small files placed on your device. You can configure your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, declining cookies may restrict access to certain features of our service. Unless you change your browser settings to block cookies, our service may use them.
• Flash Cookies: Certain features of our service may use locally stored objects (Flash Cookies) to remember your preferences or activities. Flash Cookies are managed differently from browser cookies. For instructions on how to delete them, refer to the guide: "Where can I change the settings for disabling or deleting local shared objects?"
• Web Beacons: Our service and emails may contain web beacons (also called clear gifs, pixel tags, or single-pixel gifs) that help us count visitors, track email opens, and gather website statistics, such as the popularity of content and ensuring system integrity.

Cookies are categorized as either Persistent or Session cookies:

• Persistent Cookies: Remain on your device after you go offline.
• Session Cookies: Are deleted when you close your browser.

We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes outlined below:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies

  Type: Session Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These cookies are vital for providing services through the website and enabling certain features. They authenticate users and prevent fraudulent account use. Without these cookies, we cannot deliver the services you request.

• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

  Type: Persistent Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These cookies track whether users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.

• Functionality Cookies

  Type: Persistent Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These cookies remember your preferences (such as login details or language settings) to provide a personalized experience and prevent you from re-entering preferences each time you visit the website.

For more details about the cookies we use and how to manage them, please review our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section in our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our service: Including monitoring usage patterns to improve functionality.
• To manage your account: Facilitating your registration and enabling access to account-related features.
• For contract performance: Handling the development, compliance, and delivery of purchased products, services, or other agreements.
• To contact you: Reaching out via email, calls, SMS, or app notifications about updates, service changes, or security alerts.
• To provide relevant offers and information: Sending news, promotions, and details about services similar to those you've used, unless you opt out.
• To manage your requests: Responding to your inquiries and service requests.
• For business transfers: Evaluating or conducting mergers, asset sales, reorganizations, or similar processes, where personal data may be transferred.
• For other purposes: Analyzing data trends, assessing promotional effectiveness, and enhancing our services and user experience.

Sharing Your Personal Information

Your information may be shared in the following cases:

• With service providers: To monitor service usage or facilitate communication with you.
• For business transfers: During negotiations or completion of mergers, acquisitions, or sales of company assets.
• With affiliates: Including parent companies or subsidiaries that adhere to this privacy policy.
• With business partners: To offer promotions or services jointly.
• With other users: Information you share publicly may be visible to all users and potentially beyond our platform.
• With your consent: Disclosures made for any purpose you approve.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Ezoic Services

This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.

A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you're visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.

The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP address
• Operating system type and version
• Device type
• Language preferences
• Web browser type
• Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)

Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as:

• Unique IDs
• Advertising IDs
• Geolocation data
• Usage data
• Device information
• Traffic data
• Referral sources
• Interactions between users and websites or advertisements

These data points are used to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.

You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: admin@edufocus.co.ke

• By visiting this page on our website: https://edufocus.co.ke/contact