Privacy policy
Introduction
Your privacy is important to us. This privacy statement explains the personal data Yumify Corp processes, how we process it and for what purposes.
This policy should be read together with the terms and conditions of use for other Yumify products and services. Where there is a conflict, this policy will prevail.
This policy applies to all customers, suppliers, agents, merchants, dealers and all the visitors frequenting any of the Yumify premises.
Definitions
"You" means
- • customer - the person who subscribes to, uses or purchases any of our products and services and access our websites or apps and includes any person who accesses any of the products and services you have subscribed to.
- • Any agent, dealer and/or merchants who has signed an agreement with us and is recognized as a merchant or agent in accordance with the applicable laws or regulations.
- • Any visitor that is a person (including contractors/subcontractors or any third parties) who gains access to any Yumify premises.
- • Any supplier who has been contracted by Yumify and executed a supplier contract.
"Yumify", "we", "us", "our" and "ours" means Yumify Corp
The word "includes" means that what follows is not necessarily exhaustive and therefore the examples given are not the only things/situations included in the meaning or explanation of that text.
Collection of Information
.1 Collection of Information
We collect your personal information with your consent when you do any of the following (Note that this list is not exhaustive)
.1.1 register for a specific product or service
.1.2 buy, subscribe to or use a Yumify product or service online, on the cloud, on a mobile or other device, in a Yumify Shop or other retail outlet
.1.3 subscribe to Yumify or third-party premium rates services, email or social media platforms
.1.4 ask our team for more information about a product or service or contact us with a query or complaint
.1.5 respond to or participate in a survey, marketing promotion, prize competition or special offer
.1.6 We may also collect your information from other organizations including, but not limited to credit-reference bureaus, fraud prevention agencies and other business directories
.1.7 We may collect your information when you interact with us as a supplier, agent, merchant or dealer as prescribed in this statement
.1.8 We also collect information when you visit any of our premises. This includes, but not limited to, your biometrics (fingerprint or facial recognition), ID Number, phone number or any other personal identification that relates to you
Note: We do not onboard minors (any person under 18 years of age) except where you additionally register on their behalf as their parent and/ or legal guardian. If you allow a child to use our services, you should be aware that their personal information could be collected as described in this statement.
.2 Information we collect
The information we collect and store about you includes but is not limited to the following:
.2.1 Your personal identity including your name, photograph, email address, location, phone number, identity document type and number, date of birth, email address, age, gender and mobile number portability records.
.2.2 Your credit or debit-card information, information about your bank account numbers and SWIFT codes or other banking information.
.2.3 Your transaction information when you use our Y-Pay service.
.2.4 Your preferences for particular products and services, based on information provided by you or from your use of Yumify (or third party) network, products and services.
.2.5 Name, family details, age, profiling information such as level of education, bank account status, income brackets, etc. collected as part of surveys conducted by Yumify and their agents on behalf of Yumify.
.2.6 Your contact with us, such as when you: call us or interact with us through social media, our chatbot ChaYua, email (we may record your conversations, social media or other interactions with us), register your biometric information such as your voice, finger prints etc, visit a Yumify Shop or other retail outlet.
.2.7 Your account information, such as your handset type/model, subscriptions (including third party subscriptions), billing statements, cloud hosting registration details, e-commerce registration and usage, Y-Pay and mobile money transactions.
.2.8 We use Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance recordings. CCTV Devices are installed at strategic locations to provide a safe and secure environment in all Yumify premises as a part of our commitment to community safety, security and crime prevention.
.2.9 When you request us to reserve parking for you, we will collect and retain your personal data (name, telephone number, and vehicle registration details), when you request Yumify to reserve parking space for you and where you use any of our parking facilities as a contractor. We use the data you provide to ensure effective visitor, contractor and car park management, Health and Safety compliance (orderly entry and exiting to and from the car parks and buildings) and inventory management.
.2.10 We maintain a register of visitors in which we collect and keep your personal data such as names, company/institution details, telephone number, vehicle registration details and National ID number. This information is collected for health, safety and security purposes.
.2.11 When you use Yumify Wi-Fi for guest and visitors, we collect email IDs and will provide user name and password. We record the device address and also log traffic information in the form of sites visited, duration and date sent/received.
.2.12 We may use your medical information to manage our services and products to you e.g. when you use our services designed for persons with disabilities such as our braille watch for the visually impaired.
.2.13 We collect your personal information when you visit us for purposes of accident and incident reporting. Yumify will collect personal data from the injured party or person suffering from ill health, such as, Name, Address, Age, next of kin, details of the incident to include any relevant medical history. The data is collected as Yumify has a legal duty to document workplace incidents/accidents and to report certain types of accidents, injuries and dangerous occurrences arising out of its work activity to the relevant enforcing authority.
.2.14 Incidents and accidents will be investigated to establish what lessons can be learned to prevent such incidents/accidents reoccurring including introduction of additional safeguards, procedures, information instruction and training, or any combination of these. The information is also retained in the event of any claims for damages.
.3 Use of information
We may use and analyze your information for the following purposes:
.3.1 Processing products and services that you have bought from Yumify or from third parties on our platforms
.3.2 Responding to any of your queries or concerns
.3.3 Verifying your identity information through publicly available and/or restricted government databases in order to comply with applicable regulatory requirements
.3.4 Carrying out credit checks and credit scoring
.3.5 Keeping you informed generally about new products and services and contacting you with offers or promotions based on how you use our or third-party products and services unless you opt out of receiving such marketing messages (you may contact Yumify at any time to opt out of receiving marketing messages)
.3.6 to comply with any legal, governmental or regulatory requirement or for use by our lawyers in connection with any legal proceedings
.3.7 In business practices including to quality control, training and ensuring effective systems operations
.3.8 To understand how you use our products and services for purposes of developing or improving products and services
.3.9 Preventing and detecting fraud or other crimes and for debt recovery
.3.10 For research, statistical, survey and other scientific or business purposes
.3.11 Provide aggregated data (which do not contain any information which may identify you as an individual) to third parties for research and scientific purpose
.3.12 Administer any of our online platforms/websites
.4 Sensitive (Special) Data
We may collect Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, criminal convictions and offences, gender, sexual orientation and biometric data). We will rely on any of the legal basis provided in clause .5(Legal Basis) below for such collection.
.5 Lawful Basis for processing your information
We will process your personal information based on any of the lawful basis provided for under the Data Protection Law:
.5.1 The performance of a Product/Service Agreement with you
.5.2 Yumify’s legitimate business interests
.5.3 Compliance with a mandatory legal obligation
.5.4 Consent you provide
.5.5 Public interest
.5.6 Your vital interest
.6 Retention of Information
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 consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, the need to comply with our internal policy and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Anonymized information that can no longer be associated with you may be held indefinitely.
Note: All this information is collected when you give your consent to be collected.
Disclosure of Information
.1 Any disclosure of your information shall be in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Yumify shall assess and review each application for information and may decline to grant such information to the requesting party.
.2 We may disclose your information to:
• law-enforcement agencies, regulatory authorities, courts or other statutory authorities in response to a demand issued with the appropriate lawful mandate and where the form and scope of the demand is compliant with the law.
• our subsidiaries, associates, partners, software developers or agents who are involved in delivering Yumify products and services you order or use;
• Fraud prevention and Anti money laundering agencies, credit-reference agencies;
• publicly available and/or restricted government databases to verify your identity information in order to comply with regulatory requirements;
• debt-collection agencies or other debt-recovery organizations;
• Survey agencies that conduct surveys on behalf of Yumify;
.3 Some of your information may be passed on to any person whom you receive mobile money from or send or intend to send mobile money to. Your information may be available to any third party involved in the operation of the mobile money service including Y-Pay Merchants, mobile money interoperability partners, ATM Switch providers and vendors of the Y-Pay money transfer technology platform.
.4 We shall not release any information to any individual or entity that is acting beyond its legal mandate.
.5 We will get your express consent before we share your personal data with any third party for direct marketing purposes.
Direct Marketing
• You may be required to opt in or give any other form of explicit consent before receiving marketing messages from us.
• You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by writing to us or logging into our website, www.yumify.co.ke/preferences and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the optout links on any marketing message sent to you or by attending to us or contacting us at any time through the provided contacts
• 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 already taken up, warranty registration, product or service experience or other transactions
The Use of Hyperlinks
• Our websites may provide hyperlinks to other locations or websites on the Internet. These hyperlinks lead to websites published or operated by third parties who are not affiliated with or in any way related to us and have been included in our website to enhance your user experience and are presented for information purposes only.
• We do not endorse, recommend, approve or guarantee any third- party products and services by providing hyperlinks to an external website or webpage and do not have any co-operation with such third parties unless otherwise disclosed. We are not in any way responsible for the content of any externally linked website or webpage.
• By clicking on a hyperlink, you will leave the Yumify webpage and accordingly you shall be subject to the terms of use, privacy and cookie policies of the other website that you choose to visit.
Personal Information and Privacy
To update your information, go to https://accounts.yumify.co.ke/ and sign in to your Yumify account to look at your personal information. You can change your account details whenever you like, any day any time.
We shall however lock you out, or ask for further identity details to confirm its you, when we realize malicious activities happening with your account, like multiple change of passwords and other malicious stuff, before accessing your account again.
We take your privacy a priority to us and promise to be more in future to secure your data religiously.
Your data rights
Subject to legal and contractual exceptions, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. They are as below: -
a) Right to be informed that we are collecting personal data about you;
b) Right to access personal data that we hold about you and request for information about how we process it;
c) Right to request that we correct your personal data where it is inaccurate or incomplete;
d) Right to request that we erase your personal data noting that we may continue to retain your information if obligated by the law or entitled to do so;
e) Right to object and withdraw your consent to processing of your personal data. We may continue to process if we have a legitimate or legal reason to do so;
f) Right to request restricted processing of your personal data noting that we may be entitled or legally obligated to continue processing your data and refuse your request;
g) Right to request transfer of your personal data in [an electronic format].
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us on support@yumify.co.ke.
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 receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within reasonable time. Occasionally it could take us longer 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.
How to contact us
If you would like to contact us on any topics in this privacy policy, you can email us on support @yumify.co.ke or submit a request via our digital platforms.
As a Data Controller and Processor, below are the contact details of our Data Protection Officer:
Data Protection Officer
Yumify HQ www.yumify.co.ke.
Along Bungoma Mumias Highway, Bungoma
Tel: +254 746 548 748
You can as well get our social contacts here to talk to us socially.
Amendments to this Statement
Yumify Corp reserves the right to amend or modify this statement at any time. If Yumify amends this statement, You can access the most current version of the privacy statement by clicking this link so that you will always know how your personal information is being used or shared. Any amendment or modification to this statement will take effect from the date of notification on the Yumify website, terms section.
Statement Effective Date
Tuesday 1st February 2022, 00:00 hrs