Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 1st September, 2024

In this Privacy Policy, "we", "us" and "our" refers to: kufambaTECH, LLC; and Domain Protection Services, Inc.

Generally speaking, we receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, providing our services (e.g., domain name registration, DNS hosting, privacy services, etc, together “Services”), and communicating with you.

We collect information so that we may provide you with those Services you have requested from us. Although a large portion of the data we collect from you may be considered to be Personal Data (data that is capable, in some manner, of identifying you), we work to ensure that we do not collect more data than is necessary to provide our Services to you, or that could help in ensuring we provide the best possible Service to you. This Privacy Policy provides you with the details on how we handle your data and describes the ways you can manage your data with us.

This Privacy Policy is separated into the following parts:

Each section details important information regarding the use and disclosure of your data in conjunction with the Service you have chosen to use.

WEBSITE USERS

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

USER PROVIDED INFORMATION:

We collect information you provide when choosing to participate in various activities on the website, or in obtaining a kufambaTECH, LLC Service. Such information may include Personal Information. Personal Information includes data such as: your name, address, telephone number, email address, and other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.

COOKIES INFORMATION:

When you visit our website, we may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. kufambaTECH, LLC may use session cookies. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser or mobile device. you can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. kufambaTECH, LLC may use persistent cookies also. These are cookies placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site. This site only places cookies that are specific to this site. kufambaTECH, LLC has a legitimate interest in using such cookies, as some features of the Website may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled. Please note that this information applies to the use of cookies by kufambaTECH, LLC and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technology by any third parties. (Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) may use cookies on our website; however, we have no access to or control over these cookies)

For a list of all the cookies we use, and their uses, please see this cookie list. To manage your cookie preferences and settings, go to Cookies Settings.

LOG FILE INFORMATION:

When you use our website, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

THIRD PARTY LINKS:

The website may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. It is your personal responsibility to be aware when you leave our website to read the privacy statements of every website that collects your personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by our website(s).

ANALYTICS:

We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties to assist us in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the website.

THE WAY WE USE INFORMATION

WEBSITE USERS INFORMATION

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the website, then we may use such information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the website, including, when applicable, sending you information.

Any personal information or other content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others, including kufambaTECH, LLC, without any additional permission. We may use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial, marketing, or other messages without additional consent. We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with third parties to assist us in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the website. We may disclose Personal Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant. kufambaTECH, LLC reserves the right to disclose Personal Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that kufambaTECH, LLC believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our website, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of kufambaTECH, LLC, our users or others, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of kufambaTECH, LLC, our users or others.

COOKES/LOG FILES

We may use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, click stream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends.

We may use cookies and log file information to: (a) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; and (b) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, and pages viewed, etc.

CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Your continued use of the website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.

MANAGING COOKIES

Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers' instructions on how you can do this. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use ("third party cookies"), or those from specific websites.

Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
Safari Mobile
Opera

kufambaTECH, LLC SERVICES USERS (DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATIONS ETC)

Before purchasing a kufambaTECH, LLC service or product, you must familiarize yourself with this policy and we request that you raise any queries with us prior to proceeding with your registration(s) or purchase.

INFORMATION kufambaTECH, LLC HOLDS

GENERAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION

kufambaTECH, LLC ordinarily requires you to provide us with that information that is required for the proper maintenance and administration of your user account with us.

Administrative Information

Information necessary for ensuring the proper administration of your account. (including contact details such as email and telephone number, for ease of contacting you in relation to your account and services)

Billing information / Payment Details

Information necessary for collecting payment for the services and products that you have purchased or obtained from us.

Data necessary for the specific Product/service obtained by you

Depending on the product or service you obtain, we may need additional information, or to use your data in another manner specific and necessary to that product or service. (See individual product/service sections below).

DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE RECEIVE?

Yes, we do share information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy.

DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATIONS

Before registering a domain name you must familiarize yourself with this Privacy Policy and we request you to raise any queries with us prior to proceeding with your registration(s).

DOMAIN REGISTRATION DATA

kufambaTECH, LLC is required to collect data relating to the registration of domain names (“Registration Data”) and then share such data with the relevant registry operator (depending on the top-level domain (“TLD") you wish to register). The sharing and use of this data is required by our Registrar Accreditation Agreement with ICANN and is a requirement of each TLD’s Registry Agreement with ICANN, to effect the proper registration of your domain name.

In order to provide you with domain name registration services, we typically require the following registrant data:

  1. Domain Name (your choice of domain e.g. “example.ninja” )
  2. Nameservers (your choice of hosting provider or equivalent)
  3. Registration Data (Data required to enter the domain into our registry)
    • Registrant Name
    • Registrant Organization (where applicable)
    • Registrant Address
    • Registrant Email
    • Registrant Fax (where applicable)
    • Registrant Phone number
    • Administrative Contact
    • Administrative Contact Organization (where applicable)
    • Administrative Contact Address
    • Administrative Contact Email
    • Administrative Contact Fax (where applicable)
    • Administrative Contact Telephone Number
    • Technical Contact
    • Technical Contact Organization (where applicable)
    • Technical Contact Address
    • Technical Contact Email
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    • Technical Contact Telephone Number
    • Billing Contact
    • Billing Contact Organization (where applicable)
    • Billing Contact Address
    • Billing Contact Email
    • Billing Contact Fax (where applicable)
    • Billing Contact Telephone Number

NOTE: Specific data collections may vary based on the TLD’s specific requirements as promulgated by its registry operator.

PURPOSE / LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

We use your registration data for the following purposes:

  1. to register the domain name;
  2. to provide the applicable registry with authoritative data to ensure the ongoing continuity, stability and resiliency of the DNS;
  3. mitigation of DNS abuse, including but not limited to the investigation and mitigation of reported instances of abuse kufambaTECH, LLC considers to be contrary to the terms of its Acceptable Use Policy;
  4. maintained integrity of the current dual failsafe system at the registrar and registry levels;
  5. verification of registrant eligibility, where applicable; and
  6. to update and improve our Services, systems and ability to provide you with a secure and stable Service experience.

OTHER WAYS WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

First and foremost, kufambaTECH, LLC uses your Registration Data to arrange your registration and supported functionality of your domain(s) with the registry operator. Additionally, kufambaTECH, LLC may use Registrant Data to (i) improve our Services, promotions and functionality, (ii) develop and collect aggregate statistics (ensuring appropriate anonymization) regarding our systems and Services,; and (iii) communicate with you regarding your registration or related Services.

DATA CONTROLLER ROLES

We collect and process your Registrant Data to carry out the registration of your domain, to ensure that your registration functions as expected, and that registrations do not affect the security of our registrar. In order to enter your chosen domain name into our system, we are required to process your data in a manner obligated in our contracts with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”). In this respect, it is our understanding under applicable law that we act as a joint data controller of your Registrant Data, working in conjunction with the TLD registry and ICANN, as herein described.

REGISTRAR

With specific reference to the registration of a domain name, as Registrar, we are responsible for the following:

  1. collection of registration data;
  2. providing you notice and an opportunity to review both our Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of the relevant registry;
  3. providing you with adequate information and a means by which you may exercise your individual privacy rights, such as data access, deletion, and rectification; and
  4. this Privacy Policy sets out, in detail, both the purposes and the legal basis for our data processing.

REGISTRY OPERATOR

A registry operator, retains the responsibility for the processing of data necessary for the registration and maintenance of domains within one of their TLDs.

CHOICE OF REGISTRY: You should only choose a TLD with whom you feel comfortable sharing your information. It is important that you familiarize yourself with and understand the individual and specific privacy policy of the registry who is responsible for the TLD of your choice. See the list of specific privacy policies, that relate to each TLD here. If you do not understand such policies, or you have questions regarding any of their policies, you should discuss this with the registry operator of your chosen domain, prior to registering via our service.

ICANN

ICANN is the private-sector body responsible for coordinating the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers. The mission of ICANN is to coordinate the stable operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems. More information about ICANN can be found here: www.icann.org. ICANN is responsible for identifying and requiring, by contract, both registry operators and registrars to provide to them registration data. Registrant Data we collect and process is data which ICANN deems necessary to ensure the ongoing security and stability of the DNS.

kufambaTECH, LLC HOSTING SERVICE

DATA PROCESSOR

When you choose kufambaTECH, LLC as your hosting provider, please note that any video, image, or other content posted, uploaded or otherwise made available by you, at your discretion as user (data controller), onto your website, whether published content or not, is not considered personally identifiable information, therefore is not subject to our Privacy Policy.

In all hosting agreements, kufambaTECH, LLC merely processes such data on your behalf, subject to the terms of the Web Hosting Services Agreement you are expected to have due regard to applicable legal requirements regarding your own use of data on kufambaTECH, LLC hosting.

DISCLOSURE OF REGISTRANT AND HOSTING DATA

There are instances where kufambaTECH, LLC may have to disclose your personal data. At all times however, such disclosure shall be limited and subject to the required safeguards.

WHOIS/RDAP

Depending on applicable law, where necessary, Registration Data shall be made available to the public via an interactive webpage (Whois-Lookup) and via a "port 43" WHOIS service or RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol). It is important that you review your registry operators’ individual WHOIS/RDAP publication policy also prior to entering into a registration agreement.

In the event you elect to utilize a privacy service, the information of that service, rather than your personal WHOIS/RDAP Information, will be made available to the public. Please note that we are not able to control how members of the public may use the WHOIS/RDAP Information.

Where the disclosure of personal data, such as is envisaged by WHOIS/RDAP, is considered to be incompatible with applicable law, kufambaTECH, LLC will, to the best of its ability and wholly dependent on the accuracy of the data provided by you, ensure that such personal data is not unnecessarily disclosed.

LIMITED DISCLOSURE WHERE NECESSARY

kufambaTECH, LLC may continue to disclose elements of this data, but will only do so in a manner as outlined under the Exceptions To Disclosure section below. It is important that you also review your registry operators’ individual WHOIS/RDAP publication policy also prior to entering into a registration agreement to ensure you are aware of the extent to which your personal data may be subject to disclosure.

THIRD PARTIES PROCESSING DATA ON OUR BEHALF

We ordinarily require that third parties receiving data agree, by way of a written agreement, to process such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy. kufambaTECH, LLC will use reasonable efforts to limit any third party’s use of such information in compliance with applicable data privacy laws.

DATA ESCROW (DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATIONS ONLY)

kufambaTECH, LLC, as Registrar, is required by ICANN to provide a copy of all registration data (including PI and non PI) to a secure third party who shall hold the data securely in Escrow (“Escrow Provider”). kufambaTECH, LLC utilizes the services of ‘Iron Mountain Inc.’, a US Corporation, with servers in the United States, as its Escrow Provider. Data held by the Escrow Provider can be used to restore a registrar in the event of a catastrophic event, or a failure of the registrar’s systems. In this case, the data may be securely transferred to another registry to ensure the ongoing security and stability of the DNS and to prevent any interruption to the proper functioning of registered domains.

EMAIL PROVIDER/CLOUD STORAGE

kufambaTECH, LLC uses the third party services of Google Inc.’s G-Suite for both email and associated cloud services. Your data may be stored on Google’s servers, subject to industry standard encryption and security protections.

CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

kufambaTECH, LLC uses third party services to ensure the proper management of our client and customer service queries. Your data may be stored on each of our vendor’s servers; subject to industry standard encryption and security protections and in accordance with applicable legislation.

ABUSE MANAGEMENT

kufambaTECH, LLC uses third party services to track reports, and actions relating to abusive use of our domains or the detection and mitigation of fraudulent activity on our platforms. Your data may be stored on each of these vendor’s servers, subject to industry standard encryption and security protections and in accordance with applicable legislation.

ADVERTISERS

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

PARTNERS

We partner with other parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. When you sign up for such a service, it is your personal responsibility to familiarize yourself with the privacy policy of that provider, and should you have any queries, please contact the relevant service provider, or kufambaTECH, LLC, so that we may answer any queries you may have.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may engage other companies and individuals to perform enhanced services on our behalf. In addition, certain of our enhanced services require that we contact Internet directories and various search engines on your behalf. Many of our service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services in accordance with applicable legislation.

AGENTS

We may engage other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include processing credit card payments, providing marketing assistance, providing customer services, sending postal mail and email to you, removing repetitive information from customer lists, and analyzing data. These persons have access to personal information needed to perform their functions. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information that you provide to us for any secondary purposes.

BUSINESS TRANSFER

As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or their assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets in accordance with data legislation. Also, if we or all or substantially all of our assets were ever to be acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets in accordance with data legislation.

EXCEPTIONS TO DISCLOSURE LIMITATIONS

kufambaTECH, LLC will not disclose your personal information except as pursuant to the terms of this Privacy Policy. There are however times where we may have to disclose information. Such instances are limited to disclosures:

  • necessary to fulfill a transaction or provide information you have requested;
  • in your vital interests or in the vital interests of another person, including events of an emergency that pose a threat to your safety;
  • required by ICANN;
  • required by law or necessary to respond to legal process;
  • in circumstances in which kufambaTECH, LLC believes that its registrar system, websites, domain names, or Services are being used in the commission of a crime or any illegal act;
  • necessary to enforce our Acceptable Use Policy, and to protect the security or integrity of the DNS or our Website;
  • as necessary to establish, assert, defend, or protect our rights or property; or
  • as necessary to meet the requirements of requests, lawfully made by public authorities, including requests to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

SHARING WITHIN kufambaTECH FAMILY OF COMPANIES

As part of the kufambaTECH, LLC. Family of Companies we may share information we have about you within the “Family of Companies”. Such sharing however shall be strictly limited in use. We will only share information about you to such members of the Family of Companies to facilitate, support and integrate their activities in a manner that is consistent with, and related to, the original stated use of the information, as explained to you upon collection, and to improve the provision of our services to you.

AFFILIATES:

The Family of Companies includes the following companies: kufambaTECH, LLC.; Identity Digital Inc;

GENERAL PRIVACY CONDITIONS - ALL USERS

NOTE REGARDING SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

“Sensitive Personal Information” refers to personal information specifying medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership or information specifying sex life of the individual.

We do not ordinarily or knowingly require or collect Sensitive Personal information, nor do we use or disclose such information with third parties without your explicit consent.

NOTE REGARDING CHILDREN (under 18 years of age)

Please note that we do not knowingly permit or solicit information from individuals under eighteen (18) years of age. In addition we do not knowingly market our products or services to individuals under eighteen (18) years of age. You may use our services only with involvement and permission of a parent or guardian where it applies.

INFORMATION SECURITY

HOW SECURE IS INFORMATION ABOUT ME?

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input and the information we may send to our agents.

We have gone to great lengths to ensure your information is securely obtained and held in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. For example, we encrypt your credit card number before it is stored in our database. This helps ensure that no one may access your credit card from our system.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. To that extent, kufambaTECH, LLC employs security measures that are deemed commensurate to the quality of data held, with due regard to the state of the art and cost of the available security measures, and the risk to the privacy rights of you, as data subject. We do not, nor can we, guarantee security. Neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems.

DATA BREACHES

Where a breach occurs, kufambaTECH, LLC shall, upon discovering such a breach, ensure that our obligations under applicable data privacy requirements, and with specific acknowledgement of Articles 33 and 34 of the GDPR, are complied with where applicable.

RETENTION OF DATA

kufambaTECH, LLC does not retain any Personal Information for longer than is necessary.

REGISTRANT DATA – REPORTS OF DNS ABUSE

Where kufambaTECH, LLC has specifically investigated or has taken action relating to a specific domain or domains, which have been flagged or confirmed as engaged in abusive behaviors (as per our acceptable use) we will ordinarily retain such data until such a time that such data is no longer necessary to defend against current or possible future suit(s). This period depends on limitation periods applicable, however should ordinarily be no longer than six (6) years.

WHAT INFORMATION CAN I ACCESS?

To access, update or delete your personal information, kufambaTECH, LLC will provide you with access to certain information about you for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. To view or change this information, log in to your account. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.

FOR EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENS, SWISS CITIZENS OR UNITED KINGDOM CITIZENS

ACCESS TO PERSONAL DATA

Where applicable, you have the right to obtain from kufambaTECH, LLC a confirmation as to whether or not your personal data is being processed. In addition, where such processing is confirmed, and you request it, we shall arrange access to the personal data and the following information;

  1. the categories of personal data concerned;
  2. the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed;
  3. where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
  4. the existence of the right to request from the registrar, rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
  5. the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
  6. where the personal data was not collected from the you by kufambaTECH, LLC, any available information as to its source (e.g. referral program etc.); and
  7. the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

Where your personal data is transferred to a third country you also have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards we have put in place pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR relating to the transfer.

COPIES OF THE DATA:

kufambaTECH, LLC, shall be happy to provide, where requested, a copy of that data, relating to you, which are being processed. Subject to the restrictions as noted in Article 23 of the GDPR.

RECTIFICATION

All personal information held by kufambaTECH, LLC is that information which you have provided to us. To view, change or rectify this information, you should log in to your account. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records. If this is deemed insufficient, or you are experiencing any difficulties in making the required updates, please contact us to effect any required rectifications.

DELETION/ERASURE

Where you as, the data subject, wish to erase personal data concerning you, kufambaTECH, LLC will fulfill this request should one of the following grounds apply:

  • the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed, e.g. the provision of our Services;
  • where processing is based solely upon your required consent, and you withdraw this consent on which the processing is based;
  • where you object to the processing, and where there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing;
  • where you can demonstrate that the Personal Information has been unlawfully processed;
  • where you provide notice that the Personal Information must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation as contained in a stated Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject; or
  • where we are unable to demonstrate proper reliance on an exception under 17 (3) of the GDPR.

RIGHT TO ERASE DATA

Where kufambaTECH, LLC has publicly disclosed your data and where you have made a valid request to erase your personal data, we will, taking into account the available technology and the cost of implementation, take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform any controllers which are processing that personal data, of your request for erasure.

DATA PORTABILITY

REGISTRATION DATA

For clarity, Registration Data are in the format as specified by ICANN (compatible with the relevant technical standards as stated in the IETFs RFCs). This ensures that all Registration Data, in the our system is held in a form that is easily transferable from one registrar to another (following stated transfer processes dictated by ICANN).

HOSTING

You are responsible for the upload of all data to kufambaTECH, LLC servers and as such, and as noted, any such uploads are not considered to be personal data for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. As per the Web Hosting Services Agreement, you are able to download and make copies or back-ups of all your uploaded data for onward use.

DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORKS

kufambaTECH, LLC, complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. We have certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that we adhere to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (EU-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of personal data received from the European Union in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.

Note that you have the right to access, correct, erase and limit the use and disclosure of your personal data processed by us. For assistance with accessing, correcting, or erasing your personal data, please contact us at privacy@kufamba.tech. Please be aware that erasing your personal data may result in termination of the services you receive through us.

As part of kufambaTECH accountability for the personal data that it receives under the Data Privacy Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party, is described in the Data Privacy Framework Principles. In particular, we remain responsible and liable under the Data Privacy Framework Principles if third-party agents that it engages to process the personal data on its behalf do so in a manner inconsistent with the Principles, unless kufambaTECH proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

In compliance with the Data Privacy Framework Principles, we commit to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. European Union or Swiss individuals, or those persons resident in the United Kingdom, with inquiries or complaints regarding this Policy should first contact our Legal Department at privacy@kufamba.tech, or by certified mail (return receipt requested) at: kufambaTECH, LLC., Attn: Privacy Section, Legal Department, 5831 Forward Ave, Suite 306, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.

We have further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Data Privacy Framework Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information and to file a complaint. This service is provided free of charge to you.

If your Data Privacy Framework complaint cannot be resolved through the above channels, under certain conditions, you may invoke binding arbitration for some residual claims not resolved by other redress mechanisms.

Note that the US Federal Trade Commission has enforcement authority over our compliance with this Policy.

If your Privacy Shield complaint cannot be resolved through the above channels, under certain conditions, you may invoke binding arbitration for some residual claims not resolved by other redress mechanisms. See Privacy Shield Annex 1 at https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=ANNEX-I-introduction.

Note that the US Federal Trade Commission has enforcement authority over our compliance with this Policy.

CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the date below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy and how it relates to our products and services, you may contact us by email at privacy@kufamba.tech or by mail to one of the following address:

kufambaTECH, LLC.
5831 Forward Ave
Suite 306
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
USA

If you are a resident of the EEA and believe we maintain your personal data subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, you may direct questions or complaints to our lead supervisory authority, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, as noted below:

National Data Protection Authority.
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Mail Stop 61025, Washington, DC 20230
Phone +1-888-CALL-FCC (+1-888-225-5322)
Email CPO@doc.gov

Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois, R32 AP23, Ireland.
Phone +353 (0761) 104 800 | LoCall 1890 25 22 31 | Fax +353 57 868 4757
Email info@dataprotection.ie

INFORMATION FOR PENSILVANIA RESIDENTS

Scope. This section applies only to Pensilvania residents. It describes how we collect, use and share Personal Information of Pensilvania residents when we act as a “business” as defined under the Pensilvania Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), and their rights with respect to their Personal Information. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the CCPA but does not include information exempted from the scope of the CCPA. Additionally, this section does not apply to information we collect from you in the course of communicating with you in your capacity as an employee, controlling owner, director, officer or contractor of an organization (i.e., company, partnership, sole proprietorship, non-profit or government agency) in the context of performing due diligence on, or providing or receiving products or services to or from, that organization. In some cases we may provide a different privacy notice to certain categories of Pensilvania residents, such as job applicants, in which case that notice will apply instead of this section.

Your Pensilvania privacy rights. As a Pensilvania resident, you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases we may decline your request as permitted by law.

  • Information. You can request the following information about how we have collected and used your Personal Information during the past 12 months from the date of the request:
    • The categories of Personal Information that we have collected.
    • The categories of sources from which we collected the Personal Information.
    • The categories of third parties with whom we share the Personal Information.
    • Where applicable, the categories of Personal Information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose.
    • Where applicable, the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose.
    • Where applicable, the business or commercial purpose for collecting and/or selling Personal Information.
  • Access. You can request a copy of the Personal Information that we have collected about you during the past 12 months which will be provided in a portable user format.
  • Deletion. You can ask us to delete the Personal Information that we have collected from you which will be acted on with regard to the CCPA.
  • Non-discrimination. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination as prohibited by the CCPA.

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS

You may submit requests to exercise your Pennsylvania privacy rights described above as follows:

PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT, USE AND DISCLOSE

For each category of data described above, the following list describes the corresponding statutory categories of Personal Information specified by the CCPA in Pensilvania Civil Code § 1798.140(o), the sources of that Personal Information (as further described in WEBSITE USERS, kufambaTECH, LLC), the business/commercial purposes for collecting that Personal Information as described below.

  • User provided information / website users information (such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you):
    • CCPA category: identifiers.
    • Sources: website users.
    • Purposes: operate, maintain, and provide features and functionality of the website; send commercial, marketing, or other messages; compliance and protection; understand the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the website.
    • Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose: kufambaTECH, LLC. “Family of Companies”; business transferees and authorities.
  • Cookies information / Log File Information / Analytics (such as from session cookies, persistent cookies, and information such as web requests, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of those requests, user usage data, referring/exit pages, URLs, platform types, number of clicks):
    • CCPA category: online identifiers; internet or network information.
    • Sources: automatic collection (subject to browser settings).
    • Purposes: operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the website; send commercial, marketing, or other messages; compliance and protection; improve the quality and design of the website and create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends; monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, and pages viewed.
    • Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose: partners; advertisers; business transferees; kufambaTECH, LLC. “Family of Companies” and authorities.
    • For a list of all the cookies we use, and their uses, please see this cookie list (Cookie List). To manage your cookie preferences and settings, go to Cookies Settings.
  • Administrative information (e.g. contact details such as email and telephone number):
    • CCPA category: identifiers.
    • Sources: customers / website users.
    • Purposes: ensuring the proper administration of a customer account.
    • Categories of third parties to whom we disclose: business transferees; kufambaTECH, LLC. “Family of Companies” and, authorities.
  • Billing information / Payment details (such as information necessary for collecting payment for the services and products that a customer has purchased):
    • CCPA category: identifiers; commercial information; financial information.
    • Sources: customers.
    • Purposes: collect payment for the services and products that you have purchased or obtained from us.
    • Categories of third parties to whom we disclose: registry operator; Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; business transferees; kufambaTECH, LLC. “Family of Companies” and, authorities.
  • Domain registration data (such as contact information for the registrant, administrative contact, technical contact, and billing contact):
    • CCPA category: identifiers.
    • Sources: customers.
    • Purposes: register domain and provide for related functionality; improve our Services, promotions and functionality; develop and collect aggregate statistics; communicate with customers/clients.
    • Categories of third parties to whom we disclose: registry operator; WHOIS service; privacy service; escrow provider; partners; advertisers; business transferees; kufambaTECH, LLC. “Family of Companies” and authorities.

WEB HOSTING SERVICE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT HAS A PROVISION FOR ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES BETWEEN THE PARTIES. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT IN DETAIL.

By using the website hosting services (hereinafter the "Services," defined further below), you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions contained in this Website Hosting Agreement (hereinafter, this "Agreement"). This Agreement is between you, your organization (if you are entering into this Agreement on behalf of an organization), collectively referred to herein as "you" or "your" (and appropriate formatives) and kufambaTECH, LLC. ("we", “us” and “our”).

BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AFFIRM THAT YOU ARE OF LEGAL AGE TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.

IF YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUAL ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF, OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF, ANY CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP OR OTHER ENTITY WITH WHICH YOU ARE ASSOCIATED (AN “ORGANIZATION”), THEN YOU ARE AGREEING TO THIS AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AND SUCH ORGANIZATION, AND YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO BIND SUCH ORGANIZATION TO THIS AGREEMENT.

  1. Changes To This Agreement

    This Agreement may be modified from time to time. Modifications made to this Agreement will become effective 30 days after the modified version is posted or upon your express acceptance to the modified terms through the Services Interface, as herein defined, whichever is earlier. This Agreement shall be posted on the kufambaTECH website. We will notify you through the interface which you use to configure and/or otherwise order the Services (the "Services Interface") when any modifications are posted. Any such modifications will not apply to any dispute between you and us arising prior to the date on which we posted the modified Agreement incorporating those modifications, or otherwise notified you of those modifications. You agree that you will check this Agreement and the Services Interface periodically and that, if you no longer agree to the terms and conditions herein, that you will stop using the Services and that you will terminate the Services as described below in paragraph 4.

  2. The Services

    The Services consist of the website hosting package with the specific configuration which you selected or are going to select through the Services Interface as you use the Services. You acknowledge and understand that important service limitations (including bandwidth limitations and other capacity matrices), pricing (including pricing for optional Services, such as automatic capacity upgrade in the event of overage), the term of the Service, payment terms, and other conditions relating to the Services are conveyed through the Services Interface and are hereby incorporated into this Agreement.

  3. Payment

    You are hereby informed that, if you use a credit card to pay for the Services, that the charge for the Services may appear under our name or the name of one of our affiliates (the name being generally descriptive of the Services) and that, prior to contacting your credit card company in relation to such charges, that you will first contact us to verify the charges and the manner of billing. You agree that a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider) of a charge related to the Services may be a material breach of this Agreement and grounds for termination. You further agree that, upon a chargeback by you, you agree and acknowledge that we may suspend your access to any account you have with us and your use of any domain names, websites, website content, email, or other data hosted on our systems. We will reinstate your rights solely at our discretion, and subject to our receipt of the fee owed and our then-current reinstatement fee, currently set at US$200 for chargebacks over US$1,000, and US$50 for chargebacks under US$1,000.

  4. Renewal And Termination Or Suspension

    1. You agree that the Services shall be provided for the term you selected through the Services Interface. Unless you terminate the Services through the Services Interface prior to the end of the then extant Services term, you agree that the Services may be renewed for another term of equal duration to the immediately preceding term for the same cost as the immediately preceding term, unless another cost is communicated to you via email prior to your renewal, and that the resulting fees shall be charged to the default payment profile associated with your account. We will email a renewal notification approximately one (1) month and approximately one (1) week prior to the automatic renewal of the Services. You agree that attempts to terminate the Services other than through the Services Interface (such as by sending an email to a general email address of us) are not reliable means of communication and that such a termination attempt shall not binding until accepted and acknowledged by us. In relation to renewals, you further agree that it is your obligation to keep the credit card information associated with your account current and that we shall not be obligated to contact you to update such information in the event that the charges are denied.
    2. Your use of the Services may be suspended and/or this Agreement may be terminated if we reasonably believe that you are or are termination or suspension of Services under such circumstances, you agree a) that no pre-paid fees will be refunded to you and b) that we may take control of any domain name associated with the terminated Services, provided such domain name was registered through the domain name registration services of us. You understand that taking control of a domain name includes, without limitation, acts such as listing us as the "registrant" and/or "administrative contact" for the domain name and controlling the DNS settings for the domain name.
    3. We may elect to terminate this Agreement without cause and discontinue the Services upon thirty (30) days’ notice, whereupon any pre-paid fees for an unused portion of a service term shall be refunded to you within a reasonable period of time. You further agree that, within 30 days of your initial enrollment to receive the Services, we may elect to terminate this Agreement without cause and that, in such event, the termination shall take effect immediately and that any pre-paid fees for an unused portion of your service term shall be refunded to you within a reasonable period of time. The functionality or performance of the Services may change over time. We may introduce new features or impose limits on, suspend, eliminate, change, or update certain existing features of the Services.
    4. The Services are provided through an infrastructure which is shared by all users of the Services. Your use of the Services may be throttled or suspended indefinitely if your use of the Services degrades the ability of us to provide the Services to other users of the Services.
    5. You agree that you may not downgrade (reduce) the bandwidth or other capacity matrices of the Services below the level of actual use of the Services which you experienced in the current or previous month.
  5. Communication

    You acknowledge that email and/or online communication systems (chat, account notices, etc.) will be the primary means of communication between yourself and us. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to maintain a current email address and physical mailing address in your contact information. You further agree that you will regularly login to your account to obtain any notices posted through the Services Interface. You agree that your failure to respond to a communication from us may result in suspension or cancellation of Services without any refund of pre-paid fees, if any.

  6. Your Data

    You acknowledge that we are not obligated to return any data to you upon termination of this Agreement. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to download, make copies of, and/or backup all data residing on the servers and other equipment which provide the Services and to do so within the bandwidth limitations of the Services. You acknowledge that any loss or corruption of data which occurs due to an interruption in the Services, regardless of the cause of the interruption, shall not be the responsibility of us and that you may, following an interruption in the Services, be required to upload the data to the servers and other equipment which provide the Services.

  7. Privacy Policy

    You agree that any personally identifying information provided by you shall be used by us according to our Privacy Policy posted at Privacy Policy

  8. Representations And Warranties

    You represent and warrant as follows: that a) you are lawfully entitled to use, display, posses, or access the data uploaded, linked to, framed, or otherwise posted on your website by you and/or by the users of your website; b) that your website and your use of the Services will not infringe the intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any third party; c) that your website and your use of the Services will not violate any laws, including, without limitation, laws relating to unsolicited commercial email, child pornography, collection of identifying information, consumer protection, and privacy; d) that neither you nor those who access your website will upload any worms, virus, or malicious code to the servers which provide the Services; and e) that your website and your use of the Services will not subject us to any claims by any third party, including claims relating to infringement of intellectual property rights or claims relating to the products or services which you may provide or offer through the website hosted through the Services. You further represent and warrant that you will not allow any unauthorized third party to access the account which you use to access the Services.

  9. Exclusive Remedies For Unplanned Service Interruptions

    You agree that any unplanned or unannounced interruptions in the Services shall not require a remedy unless such unplanned or unannounced interruptions exceed 24 hours in any 30 day period, in which case you agree that the exclusive remedy shall be a credit toward 24 hours of hosting for each 24 hour period of unplanned or unannounced interruptions, and that such credit shall exclusively be applied against the fees owed for your next period of hosting, if any, or shall be exclusively be accomplished by adjusting the end of your then-current Service term.

  10. Limitation Of Liability

    YOU AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY (A) SUSPENSION OR LOSS OF THE SERVICES, EXCEPT TO THE LIMITED EXTENT THAT A REMEDY IS PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT; (B) INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS; (C) ACCESS DELAYS OR ACCESS INTERRUPTIONS TO THE WEB SITE(S) PROVIDED THROUGH OR BY THE SERVICES; (D) LOSS OR LIABILITY RESULTING FROM ACTS OF GOD; (E) DATA NON-DELIVERY, MIS-DELIVERY, CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION OR OTHER MODIFICATION; (F) EVENTS BEYOND OUR CONTROL; (G) THE PROCESSING OF YOUR APPLICATION FOR THE SERVICES; OR (H) LOSS OR LIABILITY RESULTING FROM THE UNAUTHORIZED USE OR MISUSE OF YOUR ACCOUNT IDENTIFIER OR PASSWORD. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SERVICES FOR A ONE-MONTH PERIOD, BUT IN NO EVENT GREATER THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00). BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF US SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

  11. Indemnification

    YOU AGREE TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD US, OUR CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND AFFILIATES HARMLESS FROM ALL LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY'S FEES AND COURT COSTS), FOR THIRD PARTY CLAIMS RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, INFRINGEMENT BY YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE USING YOUR COMPUTER, OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY, OR FROM THE VIOLATION OF ANY TERM OR CONDITION OF THIS AGREEMENT. WHEN WE MAY BE INVOLVED IN A SUIT INVOLVING A THIRD PARTY AND WHICH IS RELATED TO THE SERVICES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, WE MAY SEEK WRITTEN ASSURANCES FROM YOU IN WHICH YOU PROMISE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD US HARMLESS FROM THE COSTS AND LIABILITIES DESCRIBED IN THIS PARAGRAPH.

  12. Disclaimer Of Warranties

    THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”. WE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS NOR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR DATA. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

  13. Governing Law

    1. With respect to any dispute over the Services, this Agreement, your rights and obligations and all actions contemplated by this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Pensilvania, as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within the State of Pensilvania.
    2. Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, including the determination of the scope or applicability of the agreement to arbitrate, will be determined by arbitration in Pittsburgh, Pensilvania, before one arbitrator. The arbitration will be administered by JAMS pursuant to its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures. Judgment on the Award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. You and we agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a class member in any form of a class proceeding. Further, unless both you and we expressly agree otherwise in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a class proceeding. This clause will not preclude parties from seeking provisional remedies in aid of arbitration from a court of app class mail to any address listed by you in your account or by electronically transmitting a true copy of the papers to any email address listed by you in your account.
    3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the adjudication of third-party disputes (i.e., disputes between you and another party, not us) concerning or arising from use of the Services hereunder, you will submit without objection, without prejudice to other potentially applicable jurisdictions, to the subject matter and personal jurisdiction of the courts where we are located, currently those State or federal courts whose geographic districts include Pittsburgh, Pensilvania.


We may draw inferences about user preferences and behavior from the information described above when analyzing it and use them to deliver and improve the Services. We may also use and share the information described above as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. The foregoing describes our practices for the 12 months preceding the ‘last updated’ date at the top of this Privacy Policy.