- Introduction
ABC LLP takes privacy seriously and we are committed to safeguarding the privacy and security of personal data we may collect from Users of our website or other channels. This Policy (together with the Terms and Conditions of use of this website and any other documents that the Terms and Conditions refer to), sets out the basis upon which any personal information (“your information”) we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this Policy. This Policy does not however, extend to any third-party websites that can be accessed from this website.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, ‘personal information’ means any information relating to an individual which if disclosed, would affect their privacy interest, regardless of whether the information was released by itself or in combination with additional information that would make it possible to identify the individual. Please read the following carefully in order to ensure that you understand our views and our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.
By using this Website, you are agreeing to the use of your information as described in this Privacy Statement.
- Collection of your personal information
Personal data may be freely provided by the users, collected automatically through usage data when using our website or from third parties and publicly available sources, such as credit reporting and government agencies.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this website is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Website to provide its services. In cases where this website specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the service.
- Personal Information categories processed by ABC LLP.
- Contact details (eg name, company name, job title, work and mobile telephone numbers and personal email and postal address.
- Professional details such as job experience and career history, educational background and professional membership, published articles, language skills.
- Family and beneficiary details for insurance and pension planning services such as the names, gender, nationality and dates of birth)
- Financial information such as taxes, bank details, payrolls
- Image of visitors that may be collected by CCTV at our offices.
We do not typically collect categories of personal information about individuals such as race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical belief, offences and criminal convictions, health and processing of genetic and or biometric data that uniquely identifies the individual.
Once prior consent of the individual is obtained then personal sensitive information can be processed for the following purposes.
- Adverse information about potential or existing applicants that may reveal criminal convictions.
- Diversity information volunteered by applicants.
- Personal identification documents that may reveal race or ethnic origin and possibly biometric data of private individual or applicants.
- How we collect information
Information you give us. You may give us information which may include (without limitation) your name, address, email address, personal description and photograph. This can be through:
- Filling in forms on our website (www.abc-llp.com) or by corresponding with us by telephone, email or otherwise.
- Registering or signing up for events, newsletters or publications on the website,
- Posting content or communicating via our website,
- Reporting a problem with our site and/or when you are providing us with feedback on our services or complete surveys.
You must, at all times, ensure that the information you provide to us is accurate and complete and that all registration details (where applicable) contain your real name, address and other requested details. You will notify us of any changes to these as soon as you are able so that we can update our records.
Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect the following information:
- The internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet
- your login information
- browser type
- time zone setting
- browser plug-in types and versions
- operating systems,
- domain names and platforms
- Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our website (including date and time)
- matters that you viewed or searched for
- page response times
- download errors.
- length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs)
- methods used to browse to and away from the page, referring website addresses and any phone number used to call us.
Information we receive from other sources. We work closely with third parties and may receive information about you from them. This may be obtained through your use of social media such as Twitter, Youtube or Linkedin. This information is used by us for the operation of the company, to maintain the quality of our services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our website. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our site so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside our website.
- Use of your personal information.
We will use information held about you:
- to provide you with such information as you may seek from us;
- to inform you as to any key developments or events in the context of ABC LLP and of its activities and/or to inform you about any changes to our activities;
- to ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to administer our website for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to carry out analysis and research to improve our services, publications, events and activities more generally;
- as part of our efforts to prevent and detect fraud and abuse and to keep our website safe and secure; and
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you, and to other users of the website, about matters that may be of interest to you.
We will ask for your permission before using personal data for purposes other than those set out in this policy.
- Cookies
Our website uses small files which are stored on your hard drive by our browser (“cookies”) to distinguish you from other users of our website and to monitor your use of the website during the time that you access it. This helps us to provide you with a good experience as and when you visit our website and allows us to improve our website. Cookies do not give us access to your computer or to any information about you other than the information that you have chosen to share with us. You can stop your browser from accepting cookies, but if you do so, some parts of our website may not work. For detailed information on the cookies, we use and for the purposes for which we use them please see our Cookie Policy.
For further explanation of cookies, see the cookiepedia webpage (https://cookiepedia.co.uk/)
In using our website you consent to our use of cookies as described above and in the Cookie Policy but if you do not wish to accept cookies then you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser (although, having done so, you may not be able to access all, or part only, of our website).
If you have any question regarding the use of cookies, please contact us.
- Third Party disclosure
We may share your information with any member of our corporate group which means any subsidiaries we may have, any holding company and any subsidiaries of any such holding company each as defined in accordance with Kenyan law (as from time to time amended).
We do not sell, rent, or lease our user lists to third parties. We may share your information with selected third parties including:
- partners, advisers, service providers and sub-contractors for the performance of any arrangement we enter into with them or with you;
- analytics and search engine providers and engineers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website;
- to the extent necessary in the event of a reorganisation and/or a restructuring of our business; and
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal, audit, public accountability or other obligation or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use of this website [NB see link to the website’s terms and conditions of use] and other agreements or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ABC LLP or others (note that this includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection);
All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to us, and they are required to maintain confidentiality of your information.
We will only disclose your personal information, without notice only if required to do so by law or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to
- Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us or our website.
- Act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users, or the public and
- Protect and defend our property rights. Otherwise, we will seek your consent and agreement to disclose your information.
Comments, blogs and other information that you may post on our website from time to time will be displayed publicly and to other users of, and visitors to, our website. We recommend that you take great care in disclosing information that may identify you or anyone else. We are not responsible for the protection or security of any information that you post in public areas.
- Retention period
We take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, modification or unauthorised destruction of the data. We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
If you request that we stop sending you our marketing information we will keep your record, contact details and appropriate information to enable us to comply with your request not to be contacted by us.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
- Security notification
ABC LLP will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the provisions of this policy.
Unfortunately, however, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we shall do our best to seek to ensure that we protect your information we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our website and, accordingly, any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information then we shall use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access, destruction, damage and prevent loss.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and we ask you not to share any such password with anyone.
- Your rights
We will take note of your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws such as:
- Right of access: User can request for more information about the personal data we hold about them.
- Right to rectification: If you have any reason to believe that the data, we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete.
- Right to object/ restrict processing: You have the right to object or restrict your data processing for certain purposes.
- Right to erasure: You have a right to have your personal data deleted upon request.
- Right to withdraw consent: You have a right to withdraw your consent at any time when we are processing your data based on consent.
You have the right to ask us not to process your information for any marketing purposes. We would inform you before collecting your information if we should ever intend to use your information for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purpose. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at as indicated below.
You are legally entitled to access information held about you and to know how such information is processed. If you would like to know what information we hold about you and/or how such information is processed, then please write to us at the address set out below. In respect of any such request we shall ask you for proof of identity and may charge a reasonable fee if allowed by the law.
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If any material changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified by a prominent notice on this website. The latest version will replace all earlier versions unless otherwise noted. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you disagree with these changes, you may not continue to use our website to submit any personal information.
For any queries, complaints, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or how we process or protect personal data and updating your details you can contact us:
We aim to respond within 14 days from the date we receive the communication requesting for more information on data management and processing.