Privacy Policy for SuzyBelcher.com

Privacy Statement 

At Suzy Belcher, accessible from https://suzybelcher.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Suzy Belcher and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collected in Suzy Belcher. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. 

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

What is personal data?

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, telephone number, address, and email address.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website

• Improve, personalize, and expand our website

• Understand and analyze how you use our website

• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes

• Send you emails

• Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

Suzy Belcher follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Suzy Belcher uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read our cookie policy

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Suzy Belcher.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Suzy Belcher, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Suzy Belcher has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third-Party Privacy Policies

Suzy Belcher’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s data, not sell the consumer’s data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Kenya Data Protection Act

The Data Protection Bill which has been a subject of discussion for years was passed into law on 8 November 2019 when the president assented to it. The Data Protection Bill 2019, follows the path taken by the European Union in enacting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018 and makes Kenya the third country in East Africa to have legislation dedicated to data protection.

This law was expedited following concerns raised over the Huduma Namba registration exercise, with those opposed to the process raising concern about the safety of citizens’ personal data collected by the Government.

Purpose of the Act

The Act seeks to: give effect to Article 31(c) and (d) of the Constitution that contains the right to privacy;

• establishment of the Office of the Data Commissioner;

• regulate the processing of personal data,

• provide for the rights of data ‘subjects’; and

• obligations of data ‘controllers’ (Person who determines the purpose and means of the processing of personal data) and ‘processors’ (Person who processes personal data on behalf of the data controller).

Data Protection Principles

The Act requires Data Controllers and Processors to process data lawfully; minimize the collection of data; restrict further processing of data; require data controllers and processors to ensure data quality; and that they establish and maintain security safeguards to protect personal data.

Registration of Data Controllers and Processors

The Act requires that any person who acts as a data controller or data processor must be registered with the Data Commissioner. Therefore, once the office of the Data Commissioner is established, organizations meeting the definition of a controller or processor will need to register as such, and renew their registration every 3 years.

Transfer of Personal Data Outside Kenya

• Every data controller or data processor is required to ensure the storage, on a server or data center located in Kenya, of at least one serving a copy of personal data to which the Act applies.

• Cross-border processing of sensitive personal data is prohibited and only allowed when certain conditions are met or under certain circumstances specified in the Act (Part IV – 48 – 50)

• A data controller or data processor may transfer personal data to another country where—

  • the data controller or data processor has given proof to the Data Commissioner on the appropriate safeguards concerning the security and protection of the personal data;

  • the data subject has given explicit consent to the proposed transfer, after having been informed of the possible risks of the transfer such as the absence of appropriate security safeguards;

  • The transfer is necessary for performance of a contract.

Exemptions

The processing of personal data is exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection Act if—

1. exemption is necessary for national security or public order;

2. disclosure is required by or under any written law or by an order of the court e.g. Anti Money Laundering (AML) Laws;

3. the prevention or detection of crime e.g. AML/CFT laws;

4. the apprehension or prosecution of an offender; or

5. the assessment or collection of a tax or duty or any imposition of a similar nature

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Suzy Belcher does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.