Last Updated: 10-Oct-2024
The State Department for Gender & Affirmative Action ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website gender.go.ke (the "Website"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Website.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information that you provide directly to us when you use our Website. The types of data we may collect include:
- 1.1. Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or other similar information you provide when filling out forms or communicating with us.
- 1.2. Usage Data: Information on how you access and use our Website, including your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages viewed.
- 1.3. Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Website and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- 2.1. Provide, operate, and maintain our Website.
- 2.2. Improve, personalize, and expand our Website.
- 2.3. Understand and analyze how you use our Website.
- 2.4. Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
- 2.5. Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, updates, and other Website-related purposes.
- 2.6. Send you emails and other communications related to our services.
- 2.7. Find and prevent fraud.
- 2.8. For compliance with legal obligations.
3. Sharing of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- 3.1. By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- 3.2. Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, and customer service.
- 3.3. Government Agencies: As a government department, we may be required to share information with other government agencies as required by law or for administrative purposes.
4. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
5. Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- 6.1. Access: You may request access to your personal data.
- 6.2. Correction: You may request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- 6.3. Deletion: In certain circumstances, you may request the deletion of your personal data.
- 6.4. Restriction: You may request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
- 6.5. Data Portability: You may request a copy of the personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section.
7. 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 and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us