Privacy Policy

1. About this Notice

This Privacy Notice provides information on how Maria Owadi Memorial Foundation collects and processes your personal data when you visit or use our website, mobile applications, devices, services, social media, online and physical locations, and applications that reference this Privacy Policy. It sets out what we do with your personal data and how we keep it secure and explains the rights that you have in relation to your personal data.

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2. Who We Are

Maria Owadi Foundation is a registered non-profit charitable organization in Kenya providing academic scholarship opportunity to needy students in rural and vulnerable areas.

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3. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data means any information that can be used to identify directly or indirectly a specific individual. We collect your personal data in order to provide tailored products and services and in order to analyse and continually improve our products and services. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data for marketing and personal data optimization purposes. Jumia also uses Google Digital Marketing to propose targeted offers for certain products and services to our customers.

You provide us with your personal data when you register your personal details on our website and mobile platforms.

​The personal data we collect includes:

1. Information you provide to us: We receive and store the information you provide to us including your identity data, contact data, and location address. We may also collect payment data when giving donation if you wish to. These types of personal data may include:

2. Contact details (such as your name, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses).

3. Demographic information (such as your date of birth, age or age range, and gender).

4. Online registration information (such as your password and other authentication information).

5. Payment information (such as your credit card information and billing address).

4. Cookies and Other Identifiers

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer, mobile phone or tablet if you agree. Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website and mobile applications, which helps us to provide you with an enhanced browsing experience.

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5. How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your personal data to operate, provide, develop services that we offer, including the following:

1. Registering you as a new member.

2. Processing and delivering your application requests and other services.

3. Managing your relationship with us.

4. Enabling you to participate in events, seminars, workshops, and surveys.

5. Improving our website, applications, and services.

6. Complying with our legal obligations, including verifying your identity where necessary.

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6. Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data

We will only process your personal data where we have a legal basis to do so. The legal basis will depend on the purposes for which we have collected and used your personal data. In almost every case the legal basis will be one of the following:

1. Consent: For example, where you have provided your consent to receive certain news, notice, or event details from us. You can withdraw your consent at any time, including by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any newsletter email we send you

2. Performance of a contract with you: This would also apply where we need to take steps prior to entering into a contract with you. For example, where you have purchased a product from us and we need to use your contact details and payment information in order to process your order and send the product to you.

3. Compliance with law: Where we are subject to a legal obligation and need to use your personal data in order to comply with that obligation.

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9. Data Retention

We will take every reasonable step to ensure that your personal data is processed for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. Your Personal Data may be retained in a form that allows for identification only for as long as:

1. We maintain an ongoing relationship with you. This will enable us to improve your experience with us and to ensure that you receive communications from us.

2. Your Personal Data is necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice and we have a valid legal basis.

3. C. The duration of:

(i) any applicable limitation period (i.e., any period during which a person could bring a legal claim against us).
We will actively review the personal data we hold and delete it securely, or in some cases anonymize it, when there is no longer a legal, business, or consumer need for it to be retained.

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10. Data Security

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.