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This policy describes the information we process to support Lafia.io.
We believe you should always know what data we collect from you, how we use it and that you should have meaningful control over it. We want to empower you to make the best decisions about your information that you share with us.
We require certain information to provide our services to you. For instance, you must have an account in order to upload or share content on Lafia.io. When you choose to share the information below with us, we collect and use it to operate our services.
If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. On Lafia.io this includes your first name, a password, and an email address, facebook account or twitter account. Bear in mind that your first name is always public.
Most activity on Lafia.io is public, including your profile information, your time zone and language, when you created your account, your posts and certain information about your posts like the date and time. Information posted about you by other people who use our services may also be public.
You are responsible for your posts and other information you provide through our services, and it is important to think carefully about what you make public especially if it is sensitive information. If you update your public information on Lafia.io, such as by deleting a post or deactivating your account, we will reflect your updated content on Lafia.io, Lafia.io for iOS, and Lafia.io for Android. By publicly posting content when you post, you are directing us to disclose that information as broadly as possible.
We use your contact information, such as your email address or facebook or twitter account or phone number, to authenticate your account and keep it – and our services – secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse and to send you information about our services, and to personalize our services.
If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email address, and your contact information to respond to your request.
We receive certain information when you use our services via our website or mobile applications, we use the data below to operate our services.
We utilize information about your signup and current location, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our services to you.
Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional information about your location – such as your current precise position or places where you’ve previously used Lafia.io.
In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in posts that appear on our websites or mobile applications.
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows it, we use cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our services such as by providing account security, personalizing the content we show you and remembering your language preferences.
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, which we refer to as “Log Data,” even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our services and interact with our email notifications. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms (including those not submitted as queries), and cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services. We use Log Data to operate our services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. For example, we use Log Data to protect the security of accounts and to determine what content is popular on our services.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, share, or disclose your personal data or other safety data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party, including a government’s request to disclose your personal data.
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new entity.
We share or disclose non-personal data, such as aggregated information like the total number of times people engaged with a post, demographics, the number of people who clicked on a particular link.
You control the personal data you share with us. You can access or rectify this data at any time. You can also deactivate your account. Please note, to help protect your privacy and maintain security, we take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with deletion, portability, or other related requests.
When you are logged into your Lafia.io account, you can manage your privacy settings and other account features at any time. It may however take some amount of time for privacy settings to be fully reflected throughout our systems.
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting us or writing to us via hello@lafia.io.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at https://lafia.io/privacy-policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you within Lafia.io, Lafia.io for iOS, or Lafia.io for Android. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Lafia is building infrastructure for the future of healthcare in Africa by creating products and solutions to make healthcare data sharing interoperable, secure, and patient driven.