Biovision Africa Trust values privacy and transparency. Therefore we recognize the importance of protecting all information we collect about you. We also want to be transparent about our policy. This privacy statement therefore helps you to understand what information we collect about you and how we use it.
This policy applies to Biovision Africa Trust’s corporate website and other online services. The information collected online will be kept strictly confidential and will not be shared with third parties. A detailed explanation about how we safeguard your personal information is described below.
If you are applying for a job at Biovision Africa Trust or in any other Projects under Biovision Africa Trust, this privacy policy is also not applicable.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We do not require personal information to access our sites.
Biovision Africa Trust collects standard browsing information such as: your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the pages you visit, the time spent, the website that referred you to us, and the files you download. This information does not specifically identify the user. We don’t use your information for commercial purposes, only internally to facilitate analysis of site traffic.
Biovision Africa Trust maintains several email lists to keep subscribers informed about our activities. Users join our mailing lists voluntarily by signing up through a form available on our website. You may be asked to provide basic personal information such as your name and email address. We do not share email addresses with third parties, unless required to do so by Kenyan law.
We will keep your data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes above or for as long as we are required by law. After this, your personal data will be deleted.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. We use cookies on our website to facilitate traffic analysis and improve the performance and usability of the website. The cookies we use do not personally identify you or hold information about you as an individual. Specifically, Biovision Africa Trust uses:
Website application cookies: to enhance and simplify your visit. Your session data are anonymous, the website does not collect any user data.
Analytics cookies: to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. For web traffic analysis, we use a third-party service, Google Analytics. These third-party cookies are collected and managed anonymously, and do not include any information identifying you personally.
Cookies make browsing more efficient. You can delete or disable cookies in your browser settings. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust your browser preferences every time you visit a site and as a consequence some services and functionalities may not work.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We Strictly do not share your data with third party organizations
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data from loss, manipulation and unauthorised access. We continuously adapt our security measures in line with technological progress and developments.
We will not share your information with other websites or organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes.