Privacy Policy
Effective from November 30, 2023
Updated on November 30, 2023
Design 86 LLC is a design company. Our services are free Pesa Mezani mobile aplication and its support website mezani.app. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how it's shared when you use our services. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our services.
Contact
Design 86 LLC
2108 N ST STE N
Sacramento, CA 95816
privacy@mezani.app
Information We Collect
There are three basic categories of information we collect:
Information You Provide
Information We Get When You Use Our Services
Information We Get From Third Parties
Here are details on each of these categories:
Information You Provide
When you interact with our services, we collect information that you provide to us. For example our services require you to set up an account, so we'll need to collect a few important details about you, such as your full name, phone number, password and profile photo. Please note, that some of this information will be publicly visible on our services, such as your full name, phone number and profile photo.
You'll provide us with whatever information that you share with services. This can be sensitive financial information such as your Cash, mPesa or Bank Account balances in Finance overview or monthly Income and Expenses in Budget planner. Your privacy is our priority and we do maximum to protect the sensitive information. We don't share any of this information with other users of Pesa Mezani or third parties.
You'll also provide us with public information that you share with services such as your Items in Market. Keep in mind that the users who view your Market Items can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So don't share Items that you wouldn't want someone to save or share.
When you contact Support or communicate with us in any other way, we'll collect whatever information you volunteer or that we need to resolve your question.
Information We Get When You Use Our Services
When you use our services, we can collect information about which of those services you've used and how you've used them. We might know, for instance, what time you add an Item to the Market. Here's an explanation of the types of information we collect when you use our services:
Usage Information.
We collect information about your activity through our services. For example, we may collect information about how you interact with our services, such as how you transact TBC tokens with other Pesa Mezani users, such as the time and date of your transactions, and status of your transactions such as when you send the transaction and if it was completed.Content Information
When you use our services, for instance Items you may engage with the camera, photos or geolocation services. We collect information about the date and time when it was posted.
Device Information
We collect information from and about the devices you use. For example, we may collect: Information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, unique application identifiers, language and time zone. We may collect information about your wireless and mobile network connections. We also detect if you are connected to Internet or not.
Camera, Photos and Audio
Some of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device's camera, photos and microphone. For example, you won't be able to upload Item photos to the Market unless we can access your camera or photos. When you use Voice Help services, we collect information from your microphone.
Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies
Like most online services and mobile applications, we may use cookies, web storage and unique identifiers to collect information about your activity. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your device. Keep in mind though, that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services.
We do not engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs. We do not employ tracking devices for marketing purposes. We do not engage in affiliate marketing.
Log Information
We use Google Analytics to track the use of our services. We may collect log information when you use services, such as:
- details about how you've used our services;
- access times;
- parts of the app viewed and
- identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device.
Information We Get From Third Parties
When you use our services, we may collect information about you from third parties about your location. With your permission, we may also collect information about your location that includes methods such as GPS signals.
How We Use Information
What do we do with the information we collect? We don't share any information with advertising services, ad targeting or ad measurement. We use your information to:
- Develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain and protect our products and services.
- Personalize our services.
- Conduct research to better understand Pesa Mezani and user interests and trends, including the ways our services are used.
- Use information you provide to communicate with you on other messaging platforms.
- Enhance the safety and security of our products and services.
- Verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
- Enforce, investigate and report conduct violating our Terms of Service and other usage policies, respond to requests from law enforcement and comply with legal requirements.
- Send you communications, SMS or other messaging platforms, where permitted. For example, we may use SMS or other messaging platforms to respond to support inquiries or to share information about our products, services.
- Monitor and analyze trends and usage.
How We Share Information
Why do we share the information we collect? Most of the time, it's because you ask us to. Sometimes we share it because we need to. We do not share your sensitive financial information with the other users of Pesa Mezani or third parties. Here are the ways we may share information about you:
With other Pesa Mezani users.
We may share the following information with other Pesa Mezani users:
- Information about you, such as your phone number, full name and profile photo.
- Information about how you have interacted with our services and content you've created. Where your Market Items are located, if you choose to share your location on the Map, and other information that will help Pesa Mezani users understand your connections with others using our services. For example, because it may receive TBC tokens from someone who is already using the app.
- Information about your device, such as the operating system and device type, to help you display Market Items and other content in the optimal viewing format. We will display and share your Item's location when you have chosen to share it.
- Content that you post to the Market.
With all Pesa Mezani users, our business partners and the general public.
We may share the following information with all Pesa Mezani users, as well as with our business partners and the public:
- Information like your full name, phone number, profile photo.
- Your Market Items to an inherently public service like Market. This content may be viewed, used and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps and in online and offline broadcasts.
With our affiliates.
We may share information with entities within the Design 86 LLC and our clients.
With third parties.
We do not share your data with third parties for marketing purposes. We may share information with third parties in the following ways:
- We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services.
- We may share information about you, such as device and usage information, to help us and others prevent fraud.
- We may share information about you for legal, safety and security reasons. We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is needed to:
- Comply with any valid legal processing, governmental request or applicable law, rule or regulation.
- Protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others.
- Detects and resolves any fraud or security concerns.
- We may share information about you as part of a merger or acquisition. If Pesa Mezani or Design 86 LLC gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
Third-party content and integrations
Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in an Item map, to provide third-party developer integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to the Pesa Mezani. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services.
How Long We Keep Your Information
- We keep the content, like Finance overview Account balances, Budget planner Income and Expenses, Market Items until you delete them.
- We store your basic account information like your full name, phone number, profile photo.
If you ever decide to stop using Pesa Mezani, you can just ask us to delete your account. There may be legal requirements to store your data, and we may need to suspend those deletions if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or if your account, content created with other users is flagged by others or our systems. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
Control Over Your Information
We want you to be in control of your information.
Access, Correction
You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in our apps. We might ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we let you access or update your personal information. We may also reject your request to access or update your personal information for a number of reasons, including, for example, if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.
Deletion
If for some reason you ever want to delete your account, please contact us at privacy@mezani.app. You can also delete some information in the app, including sensitive information such as Finance overview Account balances, Loans, Budget planner Incomes and Expenses, Market Items in Market.
Security
We don't collect or store any unnecessary user data and we do maximum to protect your user data including your sensitive financial information. But remember that no data transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
External Links
Our services may contain external links to third party sites added by malicious users. If you click on an external link, you can be directed to that site. These services are not operated by us. We strongly advise you not to click any external links. We have no control over them. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any external third party sites, products and services.
Children
Our services are not intended for, and we don't direct them to, anyone under 18. And that's why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you find out that anyone under 18 has provided us with personal data, please contact us at privacy@mezani.app.
Updates
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we'll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we'll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that's available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice, such as adding a statement to our website home page or providing you with an in-app notification.