Effective Date: 20/05/2024

Introduction

Welcome to Caawi, a mentoring application developed by Somalis in Tech. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled securely and responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you use our application. By using Caawi, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

1. Personal Information:

• When you register for Caawi, we collect personal information such as your name, email address, and other contact details.
• We may also collect additional information you provide, such as your profile details, mentoring preferences, and any other information you choose to share.

2. Usage Data:

• We use PostHog to collect analytics data, including user interactions with the application. This may include screen recordings and other behavioural data to help us improve the user experience.

3. Automatically Collected Information:

• We may collect certain information automatically when you use Caawi, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, and access times.

4. Activity Logs:

• We capture logs of user activity within Caawi. This includes actions taken in the application, such as login times, pages viewed, features used, and other user interactions.

5. Cookies:

• We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our application and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our application.

How We Use Your Information

• To Provide and Improve Our Services: We use your information to operate, maintain, and improve Caawi, including to match mentors and mentees and to enhance user experience.
• Analytics and Research: We use PostHog to analyse how users interact with Caawi. This helps us understand usage patterns and improve our services.
• Activity Monitoring: Activity logs are used to monitor and enhance the security, performance, and functionality of the application.
• Cookies: Cookies are used to improve the functionality of our application, enhance user experience, and for analytical purposes.