Who we are
Sanaa Talents is a premier online platform created to celebrate, curate, and host a database of African artists and showcase their activities. Our website allows users to showcase their creative and performing arts talents, connect with potential employers, and access personalized services. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and complying with the Kenya Data Protection Act 2019. This privacy policy sets out how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you use our website.
Personal Information:
We may collect personal information from you when you create an account on our website. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, and a brief biography. Additionally, you may choose to upload pictures of yourself and your work to your profile.
We collect this information to create and maintain your user account, enable you to upload your pictures and bios to your profile, provide personalized services to you, such as recommendations for potential employers, communicate with you about updates and new features on the website, and enforce our Terms of Service.
User Rights:
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We may use your personal information for the purposes described above and below.
- To create and maintain user accounts
- To enable users to upload their pictures and bios to their profiles
- To provide personalized services to users, such as recommendations for potential employers
- To communicate with users about updates and new features on the website
- To enforce our Terms of Service
We may also share your personal information with third-party service providers (listed below) who help us operate our website and provide our services. These service providers are required to keep the information confidential and to use it only for the purposes of providing services to Sanaa Post Talents.
- MailChimp – Email marketing platform
- Clients wishing to book your talent – we have a “Book talent” button on your profile
How long we retain your data
We take the security of your personal information seriously. We store your data on secure servers and use encryption technology to protect against unauthorized access.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we have collected about you.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in the personal information we have collected about you.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected about you, subject to certain limitations.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, subject to certain limitations.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive the personal information we have collected about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that information to another controller.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, subject to certain limitations.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we process your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Contact us
Email us at [email protected]
