Data Privacy
The University of Nairobi provides access to services and information online in a manner that respects and protects your privacy. This statement describes our information-collection practices and explains how we use and protect your personal information.
This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect:
Through websites operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (the “Websites”)
- Through the management information systems made available by us for use on or through computers and mobile devices (the “Systems”),
- Through our social media pages
- Through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you
- Collectively, we refer to the Websites, the Systems and our Social Media Pages as the “Services”.
Personal Information
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual including your name and ID. No., phone number e.t.c.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including through the services, offline at various points of collection, from publicly available sources and from our partners when they share information with us.
Use of Personal Information
We and our third party service providers use Personal Information for legitimate business purposes including providing the functionality of our services and fulfilling your requests, to complete your transactions and to communicate to you about our offerings and operations.
We will engage in this activity with your consent or where we have a legitimate interest. Your information shall be protected from illegitimate processing by our third party service providers who shall be obligated to follow the guidelines of the data protection act.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose Personal Information to our third party services providers to facilitate services they provide to us. Including services such as payment processing, event registration, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email e.t.c. Also by using the Services, you may elect to disclose Personal Information through communication via emails, chat, profile pages, blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
Other Uses and Disclosures
We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, especially when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so to comply with applicable law and regulations, to cooperate with public and government authorities, to cooperate with law enforcement and for other legal reasons.
Other Information
Collection of Other Information
We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including through your browser or device, through your use of the System, using cookies and your IP Address.
Staff Privacy Statement | Student Privacy Statement
Contacting Us
The University of Nairobi is responsible for collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information and if you have any questions about this, please contact us at dataprotection@uonbi.ac.ke.
