🔒 Privacy Policy
Your Privacy Matters to Kenyan Teachers
Last Updated: December 2024 | Effective Date: December 1, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how Kenyan Teachers collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our website. This document has been expanded to provide greater transparency about your data rights and our practices.
📄 1. Introduction
Welcome to Kenyan Teachers (https://kenyanteachers.com). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Our commitment is to be transparent about our data practices and to provide you with control over your personal information.
By accessing or using our website, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our website. We encourage you to read this policy carefully and contact us if you have any questions.
This policy applies to all information collected through our website and any related services, sales, marketing, or events. We may update this policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
📊 2. Information We Collect
A. Personal Information
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:
- Name and email address (when you contact us or subscribe to newsletters)
- Contact information (when you use our contact forms)
- Comments and feedback on our resources
- Download preferences and history
- Professional information such as school affiliation or teaching subject (if voluntarily shared)
B. Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information, including:
- IP address and browser type
- Device information and operating system
- Pages visited and time spent on each page
- Referring website or search query
- Clickstream data and navigation patterns
- Approximate geographic location (at country or city level, derived from IP address)
C. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us:
- Remember your preferences and login information
- Understand how you use our website through analytics
- Personalize content and advertisements based on your interactions
- Analyze website traffic and performance to improve our services
- Measure the effectiveness of our content and advertising
You can control cookie settings through your browser preferences. However, disabling cookies may limit your ability to use some features of our website.
🎯 3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for legitimate business purposes and to provide you with the best possible experience:
- To provide, operate, and maintain our educational resources and website
- To personalize your experience by presenting content and resources tailored to your interests
- To improve our website content, services, and user interface based on usage patterns
- To communicate with you about updates, new resources, and relevant educational information
- To analyze website usage and trends to better understand our audience’s needs
- To display relevant advertisements to support the free provision of our educational content
- To comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests from authorities
- To protect the rights, property, or safety of Kenyan Teachers, our users, or the public
- To conduct research and analysis to develop new educational tools and resources
We process your personal information based on legitimate interests, your consent, or to fulfill contractual obligations where applicable.
💰 4. Advertising Partners & Third-Party Services
Our website uses advertising services to generate revenue that supports our free educational resources. These services are essential to maintaining our platform without charging users.
Third-Party Advertising Services
We use third-party advertising companies, including Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
How third-party advertising works: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Your advertising choices: You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Advertising Cookies & Comprehensive Opt-Out Options
We are committed to providing you with control over your advertising experience. In addition to Google’s opt-out options, you have several ways to manage advertising preferences:
- Industry-Wide Opt-Out: Visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s YourAdChoices page to opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies.
- European Users: Visit the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s Your Online Choices page for users in European countries.
- Browser Settings: Adjust your browser settings to reject cookies. Most browsers provide instructions on how to do this in their “Help” section.
- Mobile Advertising ID Controls: On mobile devices, you can reset your advertising identifier or opt out of personalized ads in your device settings.
Important Note: Opting out does not mean you will not see advertisements. Rather, the ads you see may be less relevant to your interests. Also, if you clear your cookies or use a different browser or device, you may need to renew your opt-out choices.
Other Third-Party Services
We may use additional third-party services for analytics, performance monitoring, and content delivery. These services collect anonymized data to help us understand how our website is used and to improve its performance. Any data shared with these providers is governed by their respective privacy policies and our contractual agreements with them.
🛡️ 5. Data Protection & Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Our security practices include:
- Secure server infrastructure with regular security updates
- Encryption of sensitive data in transit using SSL/TLS technology
- Regular security assessments and vulnerability testing
- Limited access to personal information to authorized personnel only
- Secure data backup and recovery procedures
While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. No method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We encourage you to take steps to protect your personal information when online, including using strong passwords and keeping your login credentials confidential.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Our retention periods consider:
- The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data
- The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure
- The purposes for which we process the data
- Legal, contractual, or regulatory requirements for data retention
Children’s Privacy
Our website is intended for teachers and educational professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us immediately using the contact information below. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
👤 6. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Access: Request copies of your personal data that we hold
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
- Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data under certain conditions
- Right to Restriction: Request restriction of processing your data in specific circumstances
- Right to Object: Object to our processing of your data based on legitimate interests
- Right to Portability: Request transfer of your data to another organization in a structured format
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your data
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: File a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe we have violated data protection laws
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided below. We will respond to your request within 30 days, as required by applicable laws. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests to ensure the security of your personal information.
GDPR Compliance (For EU Visitors)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information depends on the data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your personal information because:
- We need to perform a contract with you (for example, if you subscribe to a paid service)
- You have given us permission to do so (for example, by subscribing to our newsletter)
- The processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights
- To comply with legal obligations and regulatory requirements
If you are an EEA resident, you have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and we will no longer process your data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
🔗 7. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. These links are provided for your convenience and reference. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. When you leave our website through these links, our Privacy Policy no longer governs your interaction with that third-party site. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any website that collects personally identifiable information.
The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Kenyan Teachers of the linked site. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s own risk. We are not responsible for any losses or damages in connection with the use of such links or linked websites.
📝 8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy.
We may also provide additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances, such as through a notice on our website homepage or, if you have provided us with your email address, by sending you an email notification.
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. Your continued use of our website after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified policy.
If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will provide more prominent notice. We encourage you to periodically visit this page to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect.
📧 Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise any of your privacy rights, please contact us:
Email: info@kenyanteachers.com
Website Contact Form: Contact Form
We will respond to your inquiry within 7-14 business days. For requests related to your privacy rights, we may need additional information to verify your identity before processing your request, as required by law.
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