Privacy Policy

How does Kyivamall handle my privacy?

We advice our customers and website visitors to read through to the end this policy statement to avoid misunderstanding with us and the relevant authority. This policy statement details all information you may need to know to foster safe use and privacy. We reserve the right to refuse handling complains or case that would arise as a result of a client or visitor violation of the privacy statement. 

Privacy statement Kyivamall

To provide customers with the best possible service and experience, Kyivamall processes your personal data. Kyivamall community think that it is important to inform its customers how it handle their personal data and why and what it use it for. We also inform you about your rights in this regard. In this Privacy Statement, Kyivamall ensures it respond to most possible questions concerning the processing of customers’ personal data. We use certain words in the privacy policy. Below you can read what Kyivamall mean by some terms and words:

Personal data: data that communicate c something about customers directly or indirectly, for example, customers’ name, telephone number, email address, physical address and post address.

Processing: This concerns everything that Kyivamall does with customers’ data. For example, the collection, storage, removal and use of customers’ data from the portal and administration

Profile: This refers to customers’ and vendor’ dashboard or area they interact with customers, the company, and products or service the company offers.

Company: Kyivamall Limited

Vendor: People who register with Kyivamall to sell through its website

Customers: People who visits https://kyivamall.co.ke to purchase products. This includes potential customers who visit or are yet to visit the https://kyivamall.co.ke.

We respond to the following questions: 

Whose personal data does Kyivamall process?
Who is responsible for the processing of my personal data?
Why does Kyivamall process personal data?
Does Kyivamall also process special personal data?
Does Kyivamall use profiling?
How does Kyivamall handle my personal data?
What rules apply to Kyivamall when processing personal data?
What rights do I have with regard to the processing of my data?
Where can I go with a question or a complaint?
Can Kyivamall change this document?

Whose personal data does Kyivamall process?

We process personal data of our customers and website visitors.

Why does Kyivamall process personal data?

Kyivamall processes personal data for several reasons. We need information from our customers or website visitors because of the contractual agreements between them and Kyivamall. That is the case with:

To order
Delivery and pick up
Returns
Repair Services (additional services when purchasing products such as installation service)
Guarantee
Contact our customer service

Kyivamall Business

We, as a company think it is important that we provide our customers with personal service. That is in customers’ and the company’s interest. We use your data for this, for example:

User reviews
Customer satisfaction research
Improving the ease of use of the website
Contact our customer service
Telephone calls for training purposes
Personal advice
Social media
Fraud prevention
Camera security for the protection of your and our property

Kyivamall is legally obliged to pass on or store certain data to other organizations. This applies, for example, to:

A court order or judgment
A suspicion of fraud
Administration data that relates to payments, invoice and order for the tax authorities

And sometimes when you visit our website or register with as us as a vendor or customer, we insist on you giving us permission to use your data. This is true for:

Subscribe to the newsletter and/or relevant emails.
Visit Kyivamall website
Participation in the test panel via the Facebook page of Kyivamall
Participation in a giveaway via the Facebook page of Kyivamall

Our website and/or service collect data about website visitors under the age of 18 and we have no way to ignore such data. As such, Kyivamall advice parents and guardian to ensure their children responsible use the gadgets they buy them. The permission given to use by devices that access our website, Kyivamall assume consent of parents or guardian is given. If you are convinced that we have collected personal information about a minor without this permission, please contact us at report@kyivamall.co.ke and we will delete this information.

Does Kyivamall use profiling?

Yes. Kyivmall profiling for direct marketing. Profiling means collecting, analyzing and combining (personal) data with the aim of classifying you into certain (interest) categories. In theory, profiling uses all types of relevant data that we receive from you about purchases and click and search behaviour.

By analyzing data, we can add (interest) categories to your profile. For example, profiling ensures that the content of our websites, e-mails and our offers and online advertisements better match your interests. You can object to the use of direct marketing. See the section “Right to object (including Direct Marketing)” under “What rights do I have with regard to the processing of personal data”. If you object, we will exclude you from direct marketing in the future.

How does Kyivamall handle my personal data?

Kyivamall respects and protects customers’ personal data. We apply the following rules:

We treat your personal data confidentially.

We do not process more data than necessary.

We do not store your data longer than permitted by law and necessary for the processing of your data.

Within Kyivamall, customers’ personal data can only be used by employees who need the data for their work. Others we cannot process your personal data. Our employees have a duty of confidentiality.

We share personal data with third parties engaged by us to provide services to you. Think of delivery partners, payment partners, and IT service providers. Third parties can only receive our assignment if they demonstrably comply with our privacy conditions and guarantee confidentiality.

Your personal data may also be provided to third parties if we have a legal obligation to do so. For example, to the tax authorities or to a supervisor. No more personal data will be used than is strictly necessary.

When your data may no longer be stored, Kyivamall will destroy your personal data. 

Alternatively, we use your data anonymously. Then we no longer know that the data belongs to you. We do this, for example, for internal analyzes and reports.

How long store certain data depends on the nature of the data and the reasons for which it is processed. These are the deletion periods:

We delete recorded phone conversations for training purposes after one month.

We delete invoice, payment and order data in our administration after 2 years with or without notice to our customers and such deletion is irreversible.

We do not store data for account changes such as change in passwords

Our website contains links to Facebook/Messenger, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube websites. Our privacy policy does not apply to these links. We therefore recommend that our customers or visitors also consult the privacy policies of the websites to which reference is made.

What rules apply to Kyivamall when processing personal data?

When processing personal data, Kyivamall is bound by, among other things:

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for international clients and visitors

Data Protect Act

What rights do I have with regard to the processing of my data?

You can exercise the rights listed below.

With every request a customer submit, Kyivamall establish whether a customer is who they say. We do this by comparing the data a customer send in the request with the data stored about them. Customers send information such as their name and address, e-mail address, customer number or invoice number with their request. If the website cannot find a customer in the database, we cannot fulfill such request. We will then let customers know.

You can submit your request via privacy@kyivamall.co.ke or in writing:

Kyivamall Limited

PO Box 54-01001

We will handle your request within 14 days.

Right of access:

You have the right to access your data. We are hereby obliged to indicate which data we process, what the purposes of the processing are, to which parties your data will be provided, how long the data will be processed and the available information about the origin of the data (if the data is not come from yourself). The right of access only relates to access to your own data.

Do you have a Kyivamall account? Then you can view and adjust a large part of your data. You can also delete your Kyivamall account at any time via Kyivamall.

Right to rectification:

You can ask us to have your data rectified immediately if this data is not correct. You also have the right to complete incomplete data by sending an additional statement to Kyivamall. If Kyivamall has shared your data with other parties, we will take all reasonable steps to inform those other parties in order to also rectify your data.

You can change a lot of data yourself in your Kyivamall account.

Right to erasure:

Upon request, we are obliged to delete your data without unreasonable delay. If Kyivamall has shared your data with other parties, we will take all reasonable measures to inform those other parties to delete your data as well.

In some cases we cannot or may not delete all data. That is in the following cases:

Compliance with legal obligations, for example the legal obligation of the Tax and Customs to keep records.

Establishing, exercising or substantiating claims, for example based on your warranty.

Necessary data in the context of anti-fraud investigations.

Withdraw consent:

If the processing of data is based on consent, such as subscribing to a newsletter, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. After you have withdrawn your consent, Kyivamall will cease processing for that purpose.

If you subscribe to a newsletter, you can use the unsubscribe link in the newsletter. When you use this, we will no longer send you newsletters.

Right to object (including direct marketing):

You have the right to object to the processing of your data, for example if your data is processed for direct marketing. After your objection, your data will no longer be processed for direct marketing. 

Where can I go with a question or a complaint?

If you have a question, comment or complaint about the processing of personal data by Kyivamall, you can:

Send an email to privacy@kyivamall.co.kel

Call Kyivamall Customer Service on 0700-305-220

Fill in the contact form on the website

If we cannot come to an agreement together, you can submit a request to the Kenyan Data Protection Authority to mediate or advise you in the dispute with us. You can also start proceedings in court.

Can Kyivamall change this document?

Yes. Kyivamall periodically change the contents of this document and when this happens, we reserve the right to do so with or without notice to our customers or visitors. If there are new developments or if the legislation changes, Kyivamall management will adjust the Privacy Statement accordingly. 

You can always find the most current version of our Privacy Statement on the website.

This Privacy Statement was last amended on April 28, 2023.