Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes the privacy and security practices that SAMALA LIMITED, its subsidiaries and affiliates (SAMALA, we or us) employ when collecting, using and handling (processing) personal information about you in connection with our subscription/registration based job matching platform known as M-JOBO consisting of our mobile phone App/Apps or USSD Codes (the Platform).
Personal information means all information that relates to an identified individual or to an identifiable individual. For example, your name, address, email address, educational and employment background, CV and job qualifications.
The Privacy Policy may change over time to comply with legal requirements or to meet our changing business needs. The most up-to-date version of the Privacy Policy can be found on our website. In case there is an important change that we want to highlight to you, we will also inform you in another appropriate way (for example email or a text message).
2. SCOPE
This Privacy Policy applies to our processing of personal information of potential candidates to inform them of job opportunities currently offered by different employers in through the Platform.
3. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Samala Limited with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and the local entity (ies) of the country (ies) in which you have subscribed to our job matching services are responsible for processing your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
4. WHICH CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE PROCESS?
We process personal information that you provide directly to us through the platform.
We may process the following categories of personal information for our job matching activities as further described in this Privacy Policy:
- name and contact details
- educational background
- employment background
- job qualifications and work eligibility, including your nationality, country of residence, and visa and immigration status
- description of jobs in which you have an interest
- compensation details, such as salary information, depending on your region
- information about your personality, competency and ability and suitability for any position
- certain types of sensitive personal information as described in Section 9 below
5. WHY AND HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use personal information for the following purposes:
- To inform you about job opportunities currently available with different employers
- to enable your use of our platform
- to analyze, develop and improve our platform
- to maintain the security of our platform
- to comply with applicable laws and regulations and to operate our business
These purposes are described below in further detail:
- To inform you about job opportunities currently available with different employers
We process information about you to inform you about available job opportunities based on your personal information and the requirements of potential employers. We may therefore include information about you in our job matching databases to manage our job matching processes.
- To enable your use of the Platform
When you choose to subscribe to our services we need to process your personal information so that we can create and manage your subscription.
To analyze, develop and improve the Platform
In order to analyze, develop and improve our Platform, we may process information about you, for example if you encountered any problems in using our Platform or if it is not functioning as expected. We may also process information about you to develop and test new products or system versions, patches and updates.
- To maintain the security of our Platform
We may use personal information about you as necessary to maintain the security of our Platform. For example, we may process information about you when investigating suspicious activity on our websites, systems and networks.