Email Privacy Policy
The Brief also engages in emailing activities through sending of newsletters and other communications to those who subscribe to our website.
The Brief has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm and continuing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by those visiting and interacting with thebrief.co.ke public website and its emailing domain.
We hold the privacy of your personal information in the highest regard.
We want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, agreed to disclose information on our practices and have privacy practices reviewed for compliance by many independent privacy programmes.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us on +254 713 711071, or P.O Box 56262 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya.
The Brief complies with the Kenya Government’s and other countries’ set standards regarding the collection, use, and retention of Internet data.
Newsletters/news alerts
The Brief sends newsletters and other communications to those who subscribe on our website for the newsletter, free trial, or paid membership. We will use your email address to send these communications to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe in these email messages by entering your email address and clicking on Unsubscribe or clicking on the unsubscribe link in the email.
Newsletters and other communications may include tracking technologies that allow us to see when messages have been opened, links clicked, and pages in our own website visited as a response to the emailing.
Your Email Lists and Databases
While using this service, you provide third party email addresses which you own. This data may be imported using an import contacts or database upload feature. The Brief will not sell, rent, share, or otherwise make available your email lists and/or databases to anyone except internal support personnel, who may be assisting you in troubleshooting your account, unless it is required to do so in connection with legal process or in accordance with any law, regulation or order of a court or regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction. The Brief is not in the business of selling data. It is in the business of providing a web-based content and mass email service.
Website Usage Information
We use tracking information to determine which areas our site users visit based on traffic to those areas. The Brief does not track what individual users read, but rather how often each page is visited. This helps us maintain a superior and informative website for you.
The Information We Collect
Our registration forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, email address, address, and facts about your professional background, and similar information. We do not request sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers, unless they are signing up for and paying for our services. We never sell, share or trade any of our customer information with other companies.
Access
If you want to update your preferences and or to unsubscribe follow a well-described link in the newsletter or contact us on +254 713711071 or email editor@thebrief.co.ke. We may be required to retain some data to meet legal retention requirements. If this is the case, we will let you know in our response to your inquiry.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. The Brief stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one time email and tracking the success of referrals made through this programme.
Acquisition or Changes in Ownership
In the event The Brief is acquired, customer information would be considered part of those assets, and may be part of those assets that are transferred.
Legal Disclosure
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
Links to Other Sites
The Brief website contains links to other sites that we do not own or control. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
Testimonials
If you use a blog, public forum, or post a testimonial through tools that we may place on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you would choose to submit in these forums. All users have given permission to have their testimonials posted.
Cookies
We employ the use of cookies. By using The Brief’s website you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our privacy policy.
Most of the modern day interactive websites use cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit.
Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting. Some of our affiliate / advertising partners may also use cookies.
Disclaimer
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law in respect of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill). Nothing in this disclaimer will:
- Limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
- Limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
- Limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
- Exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer:
(a) Are subject to the preceding paragraph; and
(b) Govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer or in relation to the subject matter of this disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.
To the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
Contacting The Brief about Privacy
If you have any questions about our privacy statement, the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Website, please contact:
The Brief
P.O. Box 56262 – 00200
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel: +254 713711071
Or Email: editor@thebrief.co.ke
