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Privacy Policy

Tanzania Tech, accessible from www.tanzaniatech.one, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This privacy policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Tanzania Tech and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at [email protected]

Purpose of information

The following information explains our privacy policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

From time to time, you will be asked to provide your personal information (e.g. name and email address, etc.) in order to access or use the services available on our website. These services include newsletters, competitions, “Unsubscribe”, live chats, message boards and Tanzania Tech membership.

By providing your details in the spaces provided, you allow Tanzania Tech and its service providers to provide you with the services you have requested. Whenever you provide your personal information, we will store that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are intended to provide you with the information you want. Tanzania Tech will comply with current laws and will endeavour to implement current best practices for the Internet.

Visitor Information

Whenever you visit the Tanzania Tech website, the pages you view, along with a cookie, are downloaded onto your computer (see section 3 for more on this). Nearly all websites do this, because cookies allow the company that owns the website to do many useful things, such as finding out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done by checking to see if there is a cookie left on the computer from the last visit.

Any information provided by cookies can help us give you better service and help us monitor visitor reputation. For example: if you visited our pages last time, say you entered into the hacks pages, then we can find this information in your cookie and a description of the hacks will appear when you enter again.

These cookies and the website marker provide us with non-personal statistics about visits to our pages, the time spent viewing the page, the routes used by visitors on the website, the data contained in the visitor’s screen settings and other standard information. Tanzania Tech uses this information, and the information obtained from other cookies used on the website, to help improve the service to its users.

If you want to reject a cookie, you may not be able to use our website properly and you can use the procedure set out below in section 7 to disable the marker on the web. To disable (remove) the marker on the web, you should send your request directly to [email protected].

What are cookies?

When you enter the network your computer will be given a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our network engine that stores all memories (server). The cookies themselves do not identify the user, but only the computer used. Many web companies do this when a user visits their pages in order to know how people access and leave the network.

Cookies record the network areas that the computer in question has visited, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to enable all cookies, notify them when a cookie is given out, or not receive cookies at any time. This latter point means that certain personal services cannot be offered to the user.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Use and Storage of Your Personal Information

When you provide any personal information to Tanzania Tech (e.g. for competitions, Tanzania Tech Community social services or Tanzania Tech membership), we have a legal obligation to you to look at how we use that data.

We must collect this information fairly, which means that we are obliged to tell you how we will use that data (see advertisements on relevant pages that explain why we are requesting that information) and tell you if we want you to send that information to anyone else. Generally, any information you provide to Tanzania Tech will be used within Tanzania Tech and its service providers. They will not be sent to anyone outside Tanzania Tech without your consent, except where we are obliged or allowed by law to disclose that information.

In the same way, if you send or submit insulting or inappropriate information about Tanzania Tech or to Tanzania Tech Media, it will be considered bad and/or repeated behavior, and Tanzania Tech may use any information available about you to stop this behavior. This includes informing other people such as your employer, school, or email service provider about the content of your writing or your behavior.

We will keep your personal information in our systems for as long as you use the service you requested, and we may remove it when the purpose is achieved, or when it comes to your Tanzania Tech membership, you decide that you no longer want to continue your registration as a Tanzania Tech member. However, for security reasons, Tanzania Tech may retain message text data (including content, names and members, time and date) resulting from the use of Tanzania Tech’s social services (Tanzania Tech Community) for six months. Where personal information is stored for unregistered individuals who have participated in other Tanzania Tech services (such as competitions), such information will be kept for a period deemed appropriate to ensure that these services are run properly. We will ensure that the personal information provided is securely stored in accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act.

If you have been informed on the Tanzania Tech website that your information may be used to enable Tanzania Tech to contact you for “administrative services,” this means that Tanzania Tech may contact you for several reasons related to the service you registered for. For example, we may provide you with news services via email or notify you that the relevant service is suspended for maintenance. We will not contact you to provide advertising, such as informing you about improving our services or new Tanzania Tech programs, unless you explicitly agree that we contact you for such purposes when you provide your information on the website, or later if you register for specific purposes to receive such advertising information.

Accessing Your Personal Information

You have the right to request a copy of your personal information held by Tanzania Tech and correct any errors. (These services are available through our Apps or if you leave comments on our website and other Tanzania Tech services).

Users Under 16 Years Old

If you are under the age of 16 or younger, please obtain permission from your parent/guardian whenever you want to provide your information on the Tanzania Tech website. Users who do not have such permission are not allowed to provide their personal information or use Tanzania Tech’s website in general.

How to Find and Control Your Cookies

If you are using Google Chrome: On the Task Bar, click: 1. Settings, then 2. click Content 3. Click Advanced Cookies 4. Click Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended), you can turn off cookies there.

If you are using Internet Explorer 6.0: 1. Select Tools, 2. Internet Options, 3. Click the Privacy Tab, 4. Click Custom Level, 5. Click the Advanced button, 6. Examine the override automatic cookie handing checkbox and choose Accept, Block, or Prompt for the action you want to take.

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5: 1. Select Tools, then 2. Internet Options, 3. Click the Security tab, 4. Click Custom Level, 5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are controlled in IE5 and change it to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for the action you want to take.

If you are using Internet Explorer 4.0: 1. Select View, then 2. Internet Options, 3. Click the Advanced tab, 4. Scroll down to the exclamation mark under Security and choose one of these three options to balance your use of cookies.

In Internet Explorer 3.0: You can select View, choose Options, and go to Advanced, then click the Warn Before Accepting Cookies button.

How to Find and Control Your Cookies?

If you’re using Google Chrome: On the Task Bar, click 1. Settings, then 2. Content, 3. Click Advanced under Cookies, 4. Click Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended) to turn off cookies.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 6.0: 1. Select Tools, 2. Internet Options, 3. Click the Privacy Tab, 4. Click Custom Level, 5. Click Advanced, 6. Check the box next to ‘override automatic cookie handing’ and choose Accept, Block, or Prompt for the appropriate action.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5: 1. Select Tools, 2. Internet Options, 3. Click the Security Tab, 4. Click Custom Level, 5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are controlled by IE5 and change it to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for the appropriate action.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 4.0: 1. Select View, 2. Internet Options, 3. Click the Advanced tab, 4. Scroll down to the Security section and choose one of the three options to adjust your cookie usage.

In Internet Explorer 3.0: You can select View, Options, and go to Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

How to Check Which Pages You’ve Visited Use Cookies?

If you’re using Google Chrome: On the Task Bar, click 1. Settings, then 2. Content, 3. Click Advanced under Cookies, 4. Click See all cookies and site data to see all the pages that use cookies.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0: 1. Select Tools, 2. Internet Options, 3. Click the General tab, 4. Click Settings, 5. Click View Files.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 4.0: On your Task Bar, click 1. View, then 2. Internet Options, 3. Under the General logo (the default tab), click 4. Settings, 5. Click View Files.

In Internet Explorer 3.0: On your Task Bar, click 1. View, 2. Options, 3. Advanced, 4. Click View Files.

How to Check Your Cookie Sign?

Click on the cookie to open it. You will see a short line of text and numbers. These numbers are your identification card, which can be seen by the company that gave you the cookie.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection

We are a Controller of some of your data and information.

The legal basis for Tanzania Tech Media to collect and use the Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

Tanzania Tech Media needs to perform a contract with you

  • You have given Tanzania Tech Media permission to do so
  • Processing your personal information is in Tanzania Tech Media’s legitimate interests
  • Tanzania Tech Media needs to comply with the law
  • Tanzania Tech Media will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
  • We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain situations, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update, or delete your personal information we hold about you.
  • The right to rectification.
  • The right to object.
  • The right to restriction.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to withdraw consent.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.

Conclusion

If you have any questions or comments regarding these privacy policies, you may contact us using the contact form available at the bottom or end of this website.

— Recent Changes —

These Privacy Policies were last edited on March 24, 2022.

We have added General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)