Privacy Policy

Last updated November 17, 2024

This Privacy Notice for Mawese (“we,” “us,” or “our“), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process“) your personal information when you use our services (“Services“), including when you Visit our website at https://mawese.com/ , Read our Content or Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events

 Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have questions or concerns, please contact us at mawese.com@gmail.com.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We collect personal information you voluntarily provide us when you register on the website through the registration form or the comment section and the Contact form

The personal information we collect may include the following:

  • names
  • email addresses
  • usernames
  • passwords
  • contact preferences

All personal information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

  • To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage your accounts. 
  • Keeping our website (Mawese.com) safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
  • To save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

This section applies to you if you are in the EU or UK.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

  • If you have permitted us (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
  • When we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests, those interests do not outweigh our interests and fundamental rights and freedoms.
  • Where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
  • If we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

  • During negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or are under common control.
  • We may share your information with our business partners to offer certain products, services, or promotions.

5. WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES?

We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third parties that we may link to or who advertise on our Services but are not affiliated with our Services.

6. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services and your account, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.

We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyze the use of the Services. The Google Analytics Advertising Features we may use include: Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reporting. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Services, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features through Ads Settings and Ad Settings for mobile apps. Other opt out means include http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page.

7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

You have certain rights under applicable data protection laws in some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada). These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure, (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information, (iv), if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making.

In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to processing your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us at mawese.com@gmail.com. We will consider and act upon any request by applicable data protection laws.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member State or UK data protection authority.

If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

10. California “Shine The Light” Law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at mawese.com@gmail.com

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. An updated “Revised” date at the top will indicate the updated version. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you by prominently posting a notice or directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.