Privacy Policy

Welcome to Upesi Jobs' privacy policy.

Upesi Jobs respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your

personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look

after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where

you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law

protects you.

mobile phone applications, or third-party solutions), including any data

you may provide us through the platform when you sign up for our

services. Please note that where third-party solutions are offered, such

third parties may have their own policies that you must consider prior to

using their respective services that we rely on to offer our services.

This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly

collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other

Controller

Upesi Jobs is the controller and responsible for your personal data

(collectively referred to as Upesi Jobs, "we", "us", or "our" in this

privacy policy).

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Office of the

Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC), the Kenyan regulator for data

protection issues (www.odpc.go.ke). We would, however, appreciate the

chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ODPC, so please

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and

current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during

your relationship with us.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and

applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may

allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control

these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy

statements. When you leave our platform, we encourage you to read the

privacy policy of every third-party website you visit. It is essential to

note that some of the third parties are not located in Kenya.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an

Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or

similar identifier, title, date of birth, and gender.

Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address,

and telephone numbers.

Financial Data includes bank account and payment details.

Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and

other details of products and services you have purchased from us.

Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders

made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.

Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products,

and services.

Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving

marketing from us and our third parties and your communication

preferences.

Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or

indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data,

which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this

includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical

beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union

membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric

data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and

offences, except where we encounter such information when vetting you for

the purpose of offering products for sale through our platform, or when a

person shares such information with us for the purposes of enquiries or

conducting an investigation.

Inasmuch as we do not intentionally collect information about your

health, any listing, search, or purchase of any medicinal product via our

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a

contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when

requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are

trying to enter into with you.

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including

through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact, and

create an account on our platform

purchase any product on our platform

initiate a purchase but fail to complete a transaction on our platform

subscribe to our service or publications

request marketing to be sent to you

equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data

by using cookies and other similar technologies.

Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal

data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out

below:

Technical Data from the following parties:

a) analytics providers

b) advertising networks

c) search information providers

Contact, Financial, and Transaction Data from providers of technical,

Financial reports from credit bureaus

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most

commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have

entered into with you.

Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third

marketing solutions that we have as a company. You have the right to

withdraw consent to marketing at any time by unsubscribing from the

marketing solutions.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful

ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your

data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal

ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than

Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, and Profile Data to

form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of

interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services, and

offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested

information from us or purchased goods or services from us and you have

not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal

data with any third party for marketing purposes.

links on any marketing message sent to you, or by contacting us at any

time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not

apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service

purchase, warranty registration secured through the sellers on our

platform, product/service experience, or other transactions.

Cookies

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we

collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for

another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new

purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the

purposes set out in the intended contract or compliance with a legitimate

legal purpose:

Internal third parties

External third parties

Specific or special third parties (like government agencies investigating

a matter)

Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of

our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other

businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then

the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in

purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. International transfers

We share your personal data within the corporate structure of the

company. This will involve transferring your data outside Kenya.

We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group

companies to follow the same rules when processing your personal data.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of Kenya, we ensure a similar

Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts

approved for use in Kenya which give personal data the same protection it

has in Kenya.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific

mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of Kenya.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your

personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data

breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where

we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

How long will you use my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably

necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the

purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or

reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer

period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a

prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we

In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data; however, it is

not an absolute right as per the Data Protection Act.

In some circumstances, we will anonymise your personal data (so that it

can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical

purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without

further notice to you.

9. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws

fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.

Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these

circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm

your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to

exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure

that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to

Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is

particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case,

we will notify you and keep you updated.

Withdrawing consent

You may withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent

to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the

lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your

consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide

certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the

case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Request Account Deletion

Submit a request to permanently delete your account and associated data

from Upesi Jobs.