HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY POLICY)

RESPONSIBLE PERSON

HOW AND WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

We may collect the following Personal Data in the following ways:

• You may choose to provide us your Personal Data (e.g. Your name, user name, date of birth, contact information (e.g. e-mail address, phone number, address, country, state, province, ZIP/postal code), professional information (e.g. company, position, professional experience), pictures, video images, banking information (e.g. bank account number, securities account number)) upon registration, initiating and launching campaigns, making investments, posting comments, posting documents, signing up for alerts during the registration procedure, contacting us etc.;
• You may also choose to provide us Your Personal Data via third party services employed in this Site (the Personal Data listed above and/or other Personal Data that may be imported upon Your request from Facebook, Vimeo or LinkedIn etc.);
• We collect certain data by automated means, such as cookies and web beacons, when You visit our Site (e.g. IP address or domain names of the computers utilized to use this Site, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, URL addresses, information on actions taken on the Site, the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer, the country of origin, dates and times of Site visits, and the details about the path followed within the Site with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or Your IT environment).

Note that failure to provide and process certain Personal Data may make it impossible to use this Site and to provide our Services. Such Personal Data is usually marked with asterisk or otherwise.

COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of data that are installed on Your computer from websites that You visit. The following types of cookies may be used:

• strictly necessary/essential cookies without which it is not possible to use the features of the website and provide the services;
• performance cookies that collect information about how You use a website and are used to improve how a website works;
• functionality cookies that allow the website to remember choices You make (e.g. user name, language) and provide enhanced, more personal features;
• behaviorally targeted advertising cookies that are used to deliver adverts most relevant to You and your interests. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that You have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations (e.g. advertisers).

Most web browsers allow You to control cookies through the settings of the web browser. The Site supports “Do Not Track!” requests.

We use the following cookies:

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We do not use Your Personal Data for any other purposes than detailed in the Terms/Agreement/Policy. We may use Your Personal Data e.g. for the following purposes:

• to perform under the Terms/Agreement (e.g. to provide our Services, to enable registration and authentication on the Site, to contact You, to provide assistance, to collect feedback, to provide and receive comments and replies thereto, to display content from external platforms, to interact with external social networks and platforms (e.g. AddThis, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter);
• to exercise any rights and obligations ensuing from the law (e.g. accounting, resolving disputes and protecting our rights);
• to analyze, improve and personalize our Site and Services (e.g. provide customized content and information, to monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our Site and Services, Your behavior and third-party marketing activities (e.g. Google Analytics etc.), to monitor aggregate Site usage metrics, such as total number of visitors and pages viewed);
• to operate and maintain this Site (e.g. system logs, IP address). 

For other purposes we process Your Personal Data only in accordance with legislation and notifying You beforehand or by asking Your consent.

The information obtained via external social networks and platforms is always subject to Your privacy settings for each social network and platform.

We only add your e-mail address to our newsletter mailing list upon you prior consent. You can always opt-out from receiving commercial or promotional e-mails under Your account settings or through a direct link for unsubscribing from newsletters (refer to the bottom of newsletters).

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We implement appropriate organizational, technical and physical safeguards to protect Your Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access and against all unlawful forms of processing. We use firewalls, password protection and other access and authentication controls to avoid unauthorized access to Your Personal Data. The servers we use are located in a secure environment with limited access. Only employees who need it have access to Your Personal Data.

YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

To the extent required by law, You have the right to:

• receive information about Your Personal Data we process;
• ask us to correct Your Personal Data that is incorrect;
• ask us to stop or restrict processing, disclosing or enabling access to, delete or close Your Personal Data the processing of which is not permitted on the basis of law;
• withdraw any consent You have given to us for Personal Data processing;
• ask Your Personal Data portability;
• object automated decisions with respect to You;
• turn to the Data Protection Inspectorate or the court to safeguard Your rights.

These actions can either be done automatically by You by changing the respective settings of Your account or, if not automatically possible, then by contacting us, except the latter on the list, for which You have to contact the Data Protection Inspectorate.

We note that in some cases we make (partially) automated decisions regarding You (e.g. during KYC/AML procedures). In case You would like to debate automated decisions, contact us by regular post or e-mail.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

The provisions set out in the Terms/Agreement regarding changes apply.

CONTACT

If You have any questions, comments, complaints or requests related to this Policy or the processing of Your Personal Data, You can contact us via: care@funder.co.ke

COMPLAINTS

You can submit a complaint related to this Policy or the processing of Your Personal Data, to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC)