Thank you for visiting Megatrend Africa web site (hereinafter, “Company”, “Our” or “We”). We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our web site visitors and this Privacy Policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy before using the Site or submitting any personal information.

By using our Site, you accept the privacy practices contained in this Privacy Policy. These privacy practices may change from time to time, but any changes will be posted. You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy whenever you visit our Site to make sure you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

1. What Information Do We Collect?

We may collect, store, and use personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information as described in more detail in the sections that follow.

A. Personally Identifiable Information

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

• information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services.
• information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us, including name, email, phone, and other relevant information to provide you with the service you’re requesting and important information.
• information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters, text messages, and voicemail broadcasts.
• any other information that you choose to send to us.

By submitting your email address on our Site, you agree to receive email from us. You can cancel your participation in any of these email lists at any time by clicking the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do.

By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your email address for custom audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we display custom advertising to specific people who have opted-in to receive communications from us.

In addition, you agree that by submitting your telephone contact information on our Site and/or registering to receive the product and/or service offered herein, such act constitutes a purchase, an inquiry, and/or an application for the purposes of providing you with value-adding information regarding our products and services.

B. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may also collect various types of non-personally identifiable information to help us make your experience more enjoyable, measure our Site’s activity to identify future improvements that should be made, and compile aggregate data to help serve site visitors better.

For example, we may use “cookies” as outlined in Section 2 “Cookies”, session logs, web beacons, GIF/pixel tags, banner adds, third-party click tracking analytics tools (such as Google Analytics), third party retargeting networks that may display our advertisements to you on other web sites that you visit to remind you about us, and third party networks that serve user-requested emails (e.g. for a refer-a-friend email) to collect non-personally identifiable or other aggregated information about site visitors.

Cookies are files containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser. We may use “session” cookies on the Sites. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you while you navigate any of our other Sites; keep track of items in your shopping basket; prevent fraud and increase website security. We will use the persistent cookies to: enable our Sites to recognize you when you visit; keep track of your preferences in relation to your use of our Sites.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Sites. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our Sites is used to create reports about the use of our Sites. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

2. Use and Disclosures of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us via this website is completely optional will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

• administer the website;
• improve your browsing experience by personalizing the website;
• enable your use of the services available on the website;
• send you products and services purchased via the website, register you for an event, send you important information regarding a teleclasses, webinars, live events, and related products and services.
• send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
• send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
• send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
• send you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (and you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications)
• provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
• deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
• keep the website secure and prevent fraud;
• verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service

Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

We will not, without your express consent, provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

• to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
• in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
• to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; or
• to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

3. International Data Transfers

Personal information that you submit for publication on the Sites will be published on the Internet and may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.

4. Commitment to Data Security

All information collected from you is stored in a technically and physically secure environment. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. All electronic transactions entered into via the Sites will be protected by encryption technology.

We use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, and we do everything we can to protect user information offline. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. Therefore, any information that you transmit to us, you do so at your own risk.

You are responsible for keeping your password and other login details confidential. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our Sites).

Furthermore, employees, contractors, and vendors who have access to your personally identifiable information in connection with providing services for us are required to keep the information confidential.

5. Third Party Actions

We do not control and are not liable for the actions of any third parties who we may promote and/or link to from our Sites. We pride ourselves in recommending quality companies, but have no control over the actions of those third parties, the content they provide, or their privacy practices. While we are not liable for any of the actions of those third parties, you should feel free to give us feedback from time to time on your experiences with any third parties to whom we work with so that we may enhance our future service to all customers.

6. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly intend to collect personally identifiable information from children under 18 years of age. If your minor child has provided us with personally identifiable information, you may contact us at the email or mailing address listed in Section 9: Contact Us if you want this information deleted from our records. We will then make reasonable efforts to remove your child’s information from the database that stores the information.

7. IP Addresses

We may use your IP address to help prevent fraud, to help diagnose problems with our server, to gather broad demographic information, and to offer you products and services.

8. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated. We are not responsible for any outdated personal information that you fail to update. Please send us any updates to the contact information provided in Section 9: Contact Us.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to clientcare@megatrendafrica.com or by post to P.O Box 24068 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.

We strive to provide excellent products, along with equally excellent customer service. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices, please feel free to contact us using the contact information above.