Privacy Policy
Last Updated: Jun 15, 2025
At Kurimacye, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our mobile application.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site or use our services.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last Updated" date of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates.
1. Collection of Your Information
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the website or our mobile application includes:
Personal Data
Personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering for an account, expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, or otherwise contacting us. This personal information may include:
- Your name, email address, phone number, and home/billing address
- Financial information (credit card numbers, bank account details) for payment processing
- User credentials (usernames, passwords, security questions)
- Profile information (profile pictures, biography, location)
- Government-issued identification for verification purposes
Derivative Data
Information our servers automatically collect when you access the website or our application, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the site.
Mobile Device Data
Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the site from a mobile device.
Third-Party Data
Information from third parties, such as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the third party and grant the website permission to access this information.
2. Use of Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the website or our mobile application to:
- Create and manage your account
- Process transactions and send transaction notifications
- Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties
- Email you regarding your account or order
- Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the website
- Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits to the website more personalized
- Increase the efficiency and operation of the website
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the website
- Notify you of updates to the website
- Offer new products, services, mobile applications, and/or recommendations to you
- Perform other business activities as needed
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity
- Process payments and refunds
- Request feedback and contact you about your use of the website
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems
- Respond to product and customer service requests
- Send you a newsletter
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Marketing Communications
With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Interactions with Other Users
If you interact with other users of the website, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, following blogs.
Online Postings
When you post comments, contributions or other content to the website or our mobile applications, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the website in perpetuity.
Business Transfers
We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
4. Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the website and our mobile application to help customize the website and improve your experience. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy posted on the website, which is incorporated into this Privacy Policy.
Cookies
We use cookies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
Types of cookies we use:
- Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
- Advertising Cookies: Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.
5. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
6. Data Retention
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.
7. Your Rights
You have the right to access, rectify, delete, and restrict the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to receive a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller.
Account Information
You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:
- Logging into your account settings and updating your account
- Contacting us using the contact information provided below
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.
Marketing Communications
You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list – however, we will still need to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account.
8. Children's Privacy
Our website and services are not intended for use by children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at the email address provided below.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@kurimacye.com
Address: 123 Kigali Innovation City, Kigali, Rwanda
Phone: +250 783 897 863
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Your continued use of our website or our mobile application after the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
By using Kurimacye's services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.