Msingi Institute is committed to complying with all laws that protect the privacy of individual information, and such laws will prevail over any conflicting provisions of this Privacy Policy.

However, Msingi Institute Privacy Policy informs you about how we look after any personal data collected and provides information about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. It aims to give you information about Msingi Institute processes, your personal data through your use of our website, including any data you may provide to us through Website. We can be contacted regarding this privacy policy at [email protected].

Msingi Institute data-gathering and dissemination practices for our website are outlined below:

Collecting and the Use of Personal Data

When visitors leave comments on Msingi site, we collect the contact /comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection and to:

– Provide visitors requested services and or information that the visitor requested

– Identify and analyze type of information requested and usage trends

– Provide in-depth information about mental/substance use related publications and trends, etc. via email

– Comply with legal obligations

We will only use personal data for the purposes for which it was collected.

Media

If you upload images to Msingi website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

We use cookies to distinguish our visitors, track your IP address and usage of our site, and to identify the name of the website from which you linked to Msingi website.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave additional comment or information. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images and or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information provided as a user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username) by contacting Msingi website administrators.

Third Party Content

This website contains links to other websites which are not maintained by Msingi. Thus, Msingi does not review, endorse or approve the third-party sites and is not responsible for their content. You agree that linking to or using the third-party sites is at your own risk and that Msingi will not be liable for any loss or damages arising from your use of the sites. Msingi will not be responsible for information provided to you on the other sites.

Change/Modify

Msingi Institute may, and without notice, change, modify or relocate our Policy. Hence, it is the user’s responsibility to periodically review this Policy for changes.


Msingi Institute is a 501(c)(3) Registered Non-profit.