Current as of January 2025
Your privacy is important to us at Umojalin. We respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website.
Welcome to Umoja linn. At www.umojalinn.com accessible from (https://umojalinn.com/) we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal data is handled securely and responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you access and use our platform.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at support@umojalinn.com.
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services, including:
When you register to the platform, create a user profile, create a project, complete forms, participate in surveys, sign up for events or newsletters, use the platform as a collaborator, and/or register to our affiliate or influencer program, we ask you to provide personal information. This includes a valid email address, login details, name, profile details (including optional fields such as phone number, address, gender, date of birth, and a profile picture), delivery address (as required for project creation), payment information (such as your payment method and credit card number, and withdrawal methods (including but not limited to direct bank account transfer details and PayPal account email, PayStack account information), information about your listed services and previous jobs (as provided in designer profiles and portfolios), and any other relevant files and details uploaded by you.
When you use www.umojalinn.com, we collect data such as IP addresses, device information, operating system, session duration, browser type, usage patterns, and cookies to enhance your experience. When you sign into and perform user activities in a registered account under www.umojalinn.com, we collect additional information such as project creation information (as relevant to buyers), bid proposal information (as relevant to designers), transactions summary, ratings and reviews, searches, platform pages visited, clicks, and other actions.
We may receive data from third-party vendors, business partners, and publicly available sources. For example, fraud and security warnings from service providers, and marketing insights from advertising partners. If you connect your account with a third-party service (e.g., Google, Facebook, Apple), we may collect profile information from those services, subject to their privacy settings.
We also receive certain information about you, if you are invited to www.umojalinn.com by another user, in such case we will receive limited information such as your email address, and we will use it for the same purpose it was provided and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Note: For platform visitors (defined as a user on www.umojalinn.com who has either not created and/or is not logged into a valid Umoja linn account), www.umojalinn.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include 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 information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Where relevant under applicable laws, all processing of your personal information will be justified by a "lawful ground" for processing. In the majority of cases, processing will be justified on the legal basis that:
We will use your personal information for the following purposes:
We use your personal information to send you direct marketing communications about our products, services or promotions from www.umojalinn.com that may be of interest to you or our related services. This may be via email, SMS, telephone or targeted online advertisements.
Our processing of your personal information for marketing purposes is based on our legitimate interest, on your consent, or on other legal basis permitted by applicable laws. You have a right to prevent direct marketing of any form at any time - this can be exercised by following the opt-out link attached to each communication or by sending an email to support@umojalinn.com.
We take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level, and to send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on the information we have about you.
We apply a general rule of keeping personal information only for as long as is required to perform the purpose for which it was collected. However, in some circumstances, we will retain your personal information for longer periods of time. We will retain personal information for the following purposes:
We share your personal information as follows:
Once you register, your username, country, and additional information regarding your activity is made public and is visible to all users of the platform. This information includes photos you upload, your published portfolio (as applicable to designers), ratings and reviews, and additional information or content you may choose to add to your profile. Your information will also be shared with other users when you message or otherwise communicate with them, accept message/job requests.
We share personal information to help facilitate interactions between users. For example, we may share project ratings information between buyers and designers. Such sharing of information is limited in scope and is intended to improve the services provided and enhance user experience.
We share personal information for business purposes with service providers that provide us with services for the purpose of operating www.umojalinn.com, opening and operating your account, as well as providing ancillary services and solutions.
We may share personal information about you when you submit reports or complaints about other users to allow them to protect their rights or as required by applicable laws.
We share personal information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, or other parties as required by law, or to investigate actual or suspected fraud, breaches of security, or violations of this Policy.
We share personal information with payment processors, fraud detection agencies, and similar third parties to facilitate payments, secure the Site, and protect against fraudulent transactions.
Like any other digital platform or site, we use cookies to improve and personalize your experience, provide our services, analyse website performance and for marketing purposes. Where the use of cookies on our platform involves the processing of your personal information, this Policy applies.
In the event that the platform contains links to third party sites (e.g. social platforms such as Instagram), note that if you navigate to a third party site from www.umojalinn.com, any data you provide to that site and any use of that data by the third party are not under the control of Umoja linn and are not subject to this Policy. You should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit. This Policy applies solely to personal information collected by Umoja linn.
Umoja linn is offered and available to users who are at least 18 years of age or older and of legal age to form a binding contract. Minors under 18 and at least 13 years of age, are only permitted to use the platform through an account owned by a parent or legal guardian with their appropriate permission. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Parents and guardians should at all times supervise their children's activities. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that personal information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@umojalinn.com
We implement technical and organisational measures in order to maintain the security of the platform, our services and personal information and in preventing unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or damage to it through industry standard technologies and internal procedures. In addition, we ensure that any third party processing your personal information equally provides for confidentiality and integrity of your data in a secure way. However, the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure, and although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the platform. Once we have received your data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Users who have registered to the platform agree to keep their password in strict confidence and not disclose such password to any third party.
According to applicable privacy laws, you may have the right and choices with respect to your personal information, including the right to request the deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances. If you are an Umoja linn user and you wish to delete your account information, please contact us via email at support@umojalinn.com.
We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date, and we provide you with the opportunity to update your information through your account profile settings. In the event that you believe your information is in any way incorrect or inaccurate, please let us know immediately. We will make sure we investigate the matter and correct any inaccuracies as quickly as possible where necessary or give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it - unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes.
When updating your personal information or deleting it, we will ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.
This section of the Policy applies to you if you are in the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK).
Under applicable EU regulation, you have the right to:
To exercise these rights, please contact us at support@umojalinn.com.
In addition to the above, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority. Please note that the right of access and the right to erasure do not constitute absolute rights and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access or erase in accordance with local laws.
We will ask you for additional data to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing data requested by you. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law. We will decline to process requests that jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or would cause us to take any action that is not permissible under applicable laws. Additionally, as permitted by applicable laws, we will retain where necessary certain personal information for a limited period of time for record-keeping, accounting and fraud prevention purposes.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of significant changes through our platform or email.
For any privacy-related inquiries, you can contact us at support@umojalinn.com
The Controller (within the meaning of the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR")) for the processing of personal data as described in this Privacy Policy is: Umoja linn, Tullamore, Ireland.