Client Data

Rafiki Digital provides web design services and design consultancy. We may receive, access or otherwise process personal information in order to provide our Services (the “Client Data”) to clients. Rafiki Digital will only process Client Data on behalf of – and under the instructions of – our clients, as set out in our client agreements, or where otherwise required by applicable laws. Our Clients are the data controllers of their respective Client Data, and we are the data processor.

Information We Collect

Information collected directly. We may collect personal information about you (e-mail address) directly from you. For example, when you fill out a ‘Let’s Talk’ form, signup for our mailing lists, register for events we host or sponsor, register for inquiry on our services or otherwise provide us information through the Sites. Generally, the information we collect includes your:

Email address

Automatically-collected information. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information when users access or use the Services or visit our Site, such as IP address, general location information, domain name, page views, a date/time stamp, browser type, device type, device ID, Internet service provider (“ISP”), referring/exit URLs, operating system, language, click stream data, and other information about the links clicked, features used, size of files uploaded, streamed or deleted, and similar device and usage information.For more information, see the “Cookie sand similar devices” section below.

Purposes and Legal Bases of Use

We use the personal information you provide to respond to your requestor inquiry and in the ordinary course of conducting our business, including asset out below:

Providing Support and Services: to provide and operate our Sites, communicate with you about your use of the Sites, provide troubleshooting and technical support, respond to your inquiries, fulfill your orders and requests, process your payments, communicate with you, and for similar service and support purposes.
Responding to Your Requests: to respond to your inquiries, fulfill your orders and requests, and consider your request or application (e.g., if you have submitted a resume or other application information online or by email, we will use it as part of the application review process).
Protect Our Legal Rights and Prevent Misuse: To protect the Sites and our business operations; to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorized activities and access, and other misuse; where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety or legal rights of any person or third party, or violations of our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy.
Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with the law or legal proceedings. For example, we may disclose information in response to subpoenas, court order, and other lawful requests by regulators and law enforcement, including responding to national security or law enforcement disclosure requirements.
General Business Operations: Where necessary to the administration of our general business, accounting, record keeping and legal functions.

Disclosures of Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. In general, we disclose the personal information we collect as follows:

Service Providers. We may share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, such as payment processors, hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, and customer service and support providers.
Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer information, including personal information, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event, including related to due diligence conducted prior to such event where permitted by law.
Legally Required. We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law (e.g., to law enforcement, courts or others, in response to a subpoena or court order).
Protect our Rights. We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us or, comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, and others.
Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.

Cookies and Similar Devices

Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities while using our Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future.

Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (also referred to as web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Services to, among other things, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of our Services. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

Log files. Most browsers collect certain information, such as your IP address, device type, screen resolution, operating system version, and internet browser type and version. This information is gathered automatically and stored in log files.

Third-Party Analytics. We also use automated devices and applications, such as GoogleAnalytics to evaluate use of our Services. We use these tools to gather non-personal data about users to help us improve our Services and user experiences. These analytics providers may use cookies and other technologies to perform their services, and may combine the information they collect about you on our Sites with other information they have collected for their own purposes. This Policy does not cover such uses of data by third parties.

Interest-Based Advertising

We work with third-party ad networks, analytics companies, measurement services and others (“third party ad companies”) to manage our advertising on third-party sites, mobile apps and online services. We and these third party ad companies may use cookies, pixels tags, and other tools to collect activity information on our Services (as well as on third-party sites and services), as well as IP address, device ID, cookie and advertising IDs, and other identifiers, general location information, and, with your consent, your device’s geolocation information; we and these third-party ad companies use this information to provide you more relevant ads and content and to evaluate the success of such ads and content.

Your Choices and Rights

Access, Amend and Correct. If you wish to access personal information that you have submitted to us, to request the correction of any inaccurate information you have submitted to us, to request deletion of or object to processing of your information, please send your request to contact@rafikidigital.biz. We may ask you for additional information so that we can confirm your identity.

Direct Marketing. You may always opt-out of direct marketing emails from us by following the instructions in such emails or emailing contact@rafikidigital.biz We may continue to send you transactional or service-related communications, such as service announcements and administrative messages.

Complaints. We will take steps to try to resolve any complaint you raise regarding our treatment of your personal information. You also have the right to raise a complaint with the privacy regulator in your jurisdiction.

Retention

As a general rule, we retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain appropriate business records, and enforce our agreements. In general, for example, we will retain relevant personal information of clients and Site visitors for at least three years from the date of our last interaction with you and in compliance with our obligations under applicable laws. Our clients instruct us on how long to retain Client Data, which we handle as a data processor. We may retain personal data for longer where required by our regulatory obligations, professional indemnity obligations, or where we believe necessary to establish, defend, or protect our legal rights and interests or those of others.