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User Agreement - Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice describes how we process and handle your data regardless of the means you use to transmit the data to us.

1. Scope of this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice applies to your use of this website , mobile applications, services including payment services, irrespective of the method you use to access these Services, including access via mobile devices and apps.

2. Cookies & similar technologies

Kuubwa, its Services and selected third parties may use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better, more efficient and faster user experience or to show you personalized advertising. Without cookies the Kuubwa Services and third party services my not work correctly. Cookies are small text files that are automatically created by your browser and stored on your device when you use the Services.

3. What data we collect

We collect your data when you utilize our Services, create a new Kuubwa account(s), provide us with information via a web form, add or update information in your Kuubwa accounts, use our Services for communicating with us or others. We also collect personal data from other sources such as affiliates, credit bureaus, and data brokers.

4. Data Storage and Retention

Your data are stored by us and our service providers in accordance with applicable data protection laws to the extent necessary for the processing purposes set out in this User Privacy Notice. We will delete your data in accordance with our data retention and deletion policies or employ steps to render the data anonymous, unless we are legally obliged to keep your data longer such as for( tax, accounting, legal compliance or auditing purposes).

As far as legally permissible or required, we restrict the processing of your data instead of deleting it (e.g. by restricting access to it). This applies to cases where we may continue to need the data for the execution of the contracts or for the assertion of or defense against legal claims, or where such retention is otherwise required or permitted by law. In these cases, the duration of the restriction of processing depends on the respective statutory limitation or retention periods. The data will be deleted after the relevant limitation or retention periods have expired.

5. How we use your data

Your data is processed by use for various purposes and based on several different legal bases that allow this processing, such as to provide and improve our Services, to provide you with a personalized user experience on this website, to contact you about your Kuubwa account and our Services, to provide customer service, to provide you with personalized advertising and marketing communications, and to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate fraudulent or illegal activity.

We also share your information with third parties, including service providers acting on our behalf, for these purposes. In addition, we may share your data among out affiliates in order to fulfil our contract with you under the User Agreement and, if applicable, the Payments Terms of Use.

6. Your Responsibility

In the process of buying and selling you will be provided information about potential customers or supplier, you will gain addition information as you conclude transactions. We expect that you will follow out lead in ensuring that this information is protected and that you comply will local and national data protection laws and regulations. We expect you to follow industry good practices and precautions when handling such data.

7. Data Security

We protect your data through technical and organizational security measures to minimize risks associated with data loss, misuse, unauthorized access and unauthorized disclosure and alteration. To accomplish this, we use firewalls and data encryption, as well as physical access restrictions for our data centers and authorization controls for data access.