Privacy Policy

Last updated: 15 December 2023

Introduction

Kipidi Biz College Proprietary Limited, Registration Number 2023/237464/07 (“us”, “we”, “our”) and along with entities in which we have a controlling interest and through which we conduct our operations (“affiliates”), this is our plan of action when it comes to protecting your privacy.

We respect your privacy and take the protection of personal information very seriously. The purpose of this policy is to describe the way that we collect, store, use, and protect information that can be associated with you or another specific natural or juristic person and can be used to identify you or that person (personal information). 

Applicability

This policy applies to you if you are a visitor to our website (Site), or a customer who has ordered or requested the goods or services that we provide.

Personal information includes: 

  • certain information that we collect automatically when you visit our website;
  • certain information collected on registration;
  • certain information collected on submission of forms; and
  • optional information that you provide to us voluntarily.

but excludes:

  • information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person;
  • permanently de-identified information that does not relate or cannot be traced back to you specifically;
  • non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us; and
  • information that you have provided voluntarily in an open, public environment or forum including any blog, chat room, community, classifieds, or discussion board (because the information has been disclosed in a public forum, it is no longer confidential and does not constitute personal information subject to protection under this policy).

Acceptance

You must accept all the terms of this policy when you visit our Site, order our goods or request our services. If you do not agree with anything in this policy, then you should leave the Site immediately and discontinue using our goods or requesting our services.

By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of its terms.

You may only send us your own personal information or the information of another data subject where you have their permission to do so.

Changes

We may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating the Site.

If you do not agree with the changes, then you must stop using the Site and our goods or services. If you continue to use the Site or our goods or services following notification of a change to the terms of this privacy policy, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted those updated terms.

Collection & Use

We will process your personal information if you give us your consent willingly or in accordance with the law.

Personal information will include:

  • your name and surname;
  • your email address;
  • your telephone number;
  • your company name, company registration number, and VAT number;
  • your postal address or street address; and
  • your username and password.

You give your consent to us for the collection of your personal information through the following:

  • registering as a member on the Site;
  • completing and submitting the various forms on the Site that request personal information prior to submission;
  • internet usage information on our server logs from your browser, such as your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browsing habits, click patterns, version of software installed, system type, screen resolutions, colour capabilities, plug-ins, language settings, cookie preferences, search engine keywords, JavaScript enablement, the content and pages that you access on the Site, and the dates and times that you visit the Site, paths taken, and time spent on sites and pages within the Site;
  • “cookies” being small text files placed on your device when you visit our Site. These files do not contain personal information, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal information with a certain device;
  • third party cookies or widgets our business partners use on our Site. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us;
  • web beacons (electronic image requests) that enable us to collect certain information on our Site to compile anonymous information about our Site.
    optional information provided to us on a voluntary basis.

We may use or process any goods or services information, or optional information that you provide to us for the purposes that you indicated when you agreed to provide it to us. Processing includes gathering your personal information, disclosing it, and combining it with other personal information. We generally collect and process your personal information for various purposes, including:

  • sales purposes – collecting orders or requests for and providing our goods or services;
  • marketing purposes – pursuing lawful related marketing activities; and
  • legal purposes- such as handling claims, complying with regulations, or pursuing good governance.

Disclosure

We may share your personal information with third parties who provide us with relevant services for the purpose of fulfilling our obligations to you. Third parties, where possible, will be required to honour this privacy policy.

We may disclose your personal information to comply with any law, subpoena or court order.

We will not sell personal information.

We may disclose aggregate statistics (information about the customer population in general terms) about the personal information to advertisers or business partners.

We may need to disclose personal information to our employees that require the personal information to do their jobs. These include our responsible management, human resources, accounting, audit, compliance, information technology, or other personnel.

Security

We take the security of personal information very seriously and always do our best to comply with applicable data protection laws. Our hosting company will host our Site in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced security measures to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. We authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities.

Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes explicitly set out in this policy, unless retention of the record is required or authorised by law; or you have consented to the retention of the record. During the period of retention, we will continue to abide by our non-disclosure obligations and will not share or sell your personal information. We may retain your personal information in physical or electronic records at our discretion.

Updating or removing

You may choose to correct or update the personal information you have submitted to us, by clicking the relevant menu in any of the pages on our website or contacting us by phone or email.