PesaMail
PesaMail provides this Privacy policy to help you make
an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the PesaMail Site, PesaMail Software
and/or the PesaMail Service. If you do not agree to
our practices, please do not use the PesaMail Site, PesaMail Software, or PesaMail
Service.
This
Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the PesaMail
Terms of Service. Your use of the PesaMail Site, PesaMail Software and the PesaMail
Service and any personal information you provide on the PesaMail
Site or PesaMail Service remains subject to the terms
of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.
This Privacy
Policy is part of PesaMail's Terms of Service and
covers the treatment of user information, including personally identifying
information, obtained by PesaMail, including
information obtained when you access the PesaMail's
Site, use the PesaMail Service or any other software
provided by PesaMail.
This
Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that PesaMail does not own or control, or to individuals whom PesaMail does not employ or manage, including any of the
third parties to which PesaMail may disclose user
information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
PesaMail may obtain the following types of information
from or concerning you or your mobile phone device, which may include
information that can be used to identify you as specified below
("Personally Identifying Information"):
User
Provided Information: You provide certain Personally Identifiable
Information, such as your mobile phone number, push notification name (if
applicable), email address, name, billing information (if applicable) and
mobile device information to PesaMail when choosing
to participate in various uses of the PesaMail
Service, such as registering as a user, updating your status or requesting
status for your contacts. In order to provide the PesaMail
Service, PesaMail will periodically access your SMS
history, GPS Location data, address book, or contact list on your mobile phone
to locate the mobile phone numbers of other PesaMail
users ("in-network" numbers), or otherwise categorize other mobile
phone numbers as "out-network" numbers, which are stored as one-way
irreversibly hashed values.
Cookies
Information: When you visit the PesaMail Site, we may
send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of
alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your
browser. PesaMail uses both session cookies and
persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the
site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file
directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your
browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate
when a cookie is being sent. However, the PesaMail
Site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log
File Information: When you use the PesaMail
Site, our servers automatically record certain information that your web
browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include
information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP")
address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs,
platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and
the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the
date and time of your request, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify
your browser, your phone number, phone number you are requesting the status of
and various status information. When you use the PesaMail
Service, our servers log certain general information that our application sends
whenever a message is sent or received, or if you update or request any status
information, including time and date stamps and the mobile phone numbers the
messages were sent from and to.
If you
submit Personally Identifiable Information to us through the PesaMail Site, or PesaMail
Service, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and
provide to you the features and functionality of the PesaMail
Site and PesaMail Service. In particular, your mobile
phone number is essential to your use of the PesaMail
Service and will be retained.
Your
name (as it is saved in other user's mobile phone address book or contact list)
may be displayed to other users when you update your status messages through
the PesaMail Service and other users may contact you
through the PesaMail Service. We may use your mobile
phone number, e-mail address or other Personally Identifiable Information to
send commercial or marketing messages without your consent, We may use both
your Personally Identifiable Information and certain
non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data,
cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream
data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the PesaMail
Site and PesaMail Service and to create new features,
promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing
user preferences and trends. Hopefully we improve the PesaMail
Site and Service and don't make it worse. We may use cookies and log file
information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter
it during your visit or the next time you use the PesaMail
Service or PesaMail Site; (b) provide custom,
personalized content and information; (c) monitor individual and aggregate
metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (d) track
your entries, submissions, views and such.
We may
share personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data,
referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, asset views, number of clicks,
etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage
patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or
functionality on the PesaMail Site. We may collect
and release Personally Identifiable Information and/or
non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with State and county
laws (such as Copyright Law), international law or respond to a court order,
subpoena, or search warrant or equivalent, or where in our reasonable belief,
an individual's physical safety may be at risk or threatened. PesaMail also reserves the right to disclose Personally
Identifiable Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that PesaMail believes, in good faith, is appropriate or
necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, take precautions against liability,
to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations,
to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity
of the PesaMail Site or our servers, and to protect
the rights, property, or personal safety of PesaMail,
our users or others.
If you
do not agree with our Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, please delete your
account, uninstall the PesaMail mobile application
and discontinue use of the PesaMail Service; your
continued usage of the PesaMail Service will signify
your assent to and acceptance of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. To
protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as SMS
authentication in certain cases) to verify your identity before registering
your mobile phone number and granting you access to the PesaMail
Service. Please contact PesaMail via email to
support@PesaMail.com or available web forms with any questions or comments
about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, your consent, or your
opt-in or opt-out choices.
We do
not guarantee that PesaMail will be ad-free. We have
intention to introduce advertisement into the product.
PesaMail uses commercially reasonable physical,
managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of
your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security
of any information collected from your device and transmitted to PesaMail and you do so at your own risk. Using unsecured
Wi-Fi or other unprotected networks to submit messages through the PesaMail Service is never recommended. Once we receive your
transmission of information, PesaMail makes
commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However,
please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be
accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical,
technical, or managerial safeguards. If PesaMail
learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically
so that you can take appropriate protective steps. PesaMail
may post a notice on the PesaMail Site or through the
PesaMail Service if a security breach occurs.
The PesaMail Service are hosted in
third party websites of website hosting companies which could be located
anywhere in the world and are intended for and directed to users in Kenya. If
you are a user accessing the PesaMail Site and
Service from other parts of the world, or any other region with laws or
regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that
differ from Kenyan laws, please be advised that through your continued use of
the PesaMail Site and Service, which are governed by
Kenyan law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring
your personal information to the Kenya and you expressly consent to that
transfer and consent to be governed by Kenyan law for these purposes.
In the
event that PesaMail is acquired by or merged with a
third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information
we have collected from our users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or
other change of control. In the (hopefully) unlikely event of our bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting
creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal
information is treated, transferred, or used.
This
Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the
"effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any
changes. Your continued use of the PesaMail Site and PesaMail Service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy
Policy and any amendments.
Date
Last Modified: This Privacy Notice was last modified 19th August
2015
PesaMail is a suite of software applications which
collect contact data from participating mobile devices and aggregates it to one
contacts database which is then made available for query by participating
devices.