At Fort School, accessible from fortschool.co.ke, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Fort School and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Fort School. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, and the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, phone number and email address.

We may use your Personal Information which we collect for the purposes and on the legal bases identified below:

3.1. Provide the services

This means using your Personal Information in order to provide the Services’ functionality to you, such as arranging access to an account, responding to your inquiries, and to allow you to utilize our various Service features

3.2. Enable you to use certain features

We may automatically process your Personal Information, in reliance of our legitimate interest, in order to enable you to use certain features of our Services, for example to publish a Fort School, make a comment(ask or answer a question), join a virtual school or “follow” a specific Fort School user.

3.3. Communicate with you.

We may need to communicate with you about your account and provide you with customer support to perform our contract with you for the use of the Service We may inform you about temporary or permanent changes to our Service, such as planned outages, security or compliance notifications, information about new features, version updates, releases, abuse warnings, and changes to this Privacy Policy.

3.4. Support and improve the Service.

Your Personal Information may be used to provide, support and improve the Services

3.5. Purchase and payment.

Your Personal Information may be used to bill and collect money owed to us by you.

3.6. Prevent abuse and misuse of the Service.

In order to protect against misuse or abuse of our Services, protect the rights of our Users, ensure compliance with our T&Cs and applicable law, and to pursue available remedies, we may use your Personal Information as is reasonably necessary. For example, we may periodically review the content which our Users submit or display in order to ensure that such content complies with our T&Cs, including through automated filtering mechanisms.

3.7. Comply with legal obligations.

We may use your Personal Information in order to comply with requests by public authorities, court orders, valid discovery requests , valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms.

3.8. Optimization and personalization of the Service

Personal Information may be used to provide you with suggestions and provide you with tailored features within our Services that optimize and personalize your experience. For example, on the platforms, we may display certain categories of Fort School quizzes on the basis of Fort School quizzes you have previously attempted, your location, and preferences.

3.9. Data analytics.

Your Personal Information may be used to perform data analytics in reliance on our legitimate business interests in improving and enhancing our products and services for our Users.

Fort School follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services‘ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users‘ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Like any other website, Fort School uses ‘cookies‘. These cookies are used to store information including visitors‘ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users‘ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors‘ browser type and/or other information.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Fort School, which are sent directly to users‘ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that Fort School has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Fort School‘s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers‘ respective websites.

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

8.1. The right to access

You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

8.2. The right to rectification

You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

8.3. The right to erasure

You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

8.4. The right to restrict processing

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

8.5. The right to object to processing

Your Personal Information may be used to bill and collect money owed to us by you.

8.6. The right to data portability

You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Fort School does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Fort School maintains a comprehensive security program designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality and integrity of Personal Information within our organization. We have in place appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information. Our security measures include data encryption, firewalls, data use, and access limitations for our personnel and service providers, and physical access controls to our facilities.

We do not retain Personal Information longer than necessary for the purposes for which Personal Information was collected. We retain Personal Information where we have an ongoing legitimate business or legal obligation to do so. Our retention periods will vary depending on the type of data involved, but, generally, we refer to these criteria in order to determine retention period: Whether we have a legal or contractual need to retain the data; Whether the data is necessary to provide our Service; Whether our Users have the ability to access and delete the data within their Fort School accounts; and Whether our Users would reasonably expect that we would retain the data until they remove it or until their Fort School accounts are closed or terminated. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, it will be deleted or anonymized as soon as possible and in accordance with applicable law.

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. If we make material changes in the Privacy Policy, for example if we seek to use Personal Information in a materially different way than we had previously, we will provide prior notice to you for example by email or a pop-up. You can always delete your account and stop using our Services if you do not accept the change.

If you have any questions or comments, or if you have a concern about the way in which we have handled any privacy matter, you may contact us on info@fortschool.co.ke.