Who we are
Our website address is: https://marainnovations.com.
Mara Innovations Centre Limited is a business consultancy and enterprise development firm headquartered in Lira City, Uganda, serving MSMEs, agribusinesses, NGOs, and development partners across East Africa. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect the personal information of visitors to our website, clients, and customers of our Mara Organics / Shea Nilotica product line.
If you have any questions about this policy or how your data is handled, please contact us at marainnovations@gmail.com.
Comments
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the 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
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 you do not have to re-enter your details when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we also set several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. If you log out of your account, login cookies are removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
We may also use cookies and similar technologies for basic website analytics, to understand how visitors use our site and to improve its content and performance.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, or articles from other websites). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
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.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information with:
Payment processors, to complete transactions for Mara Organics / Shea Nilotica product orders.
Email and communication service providers, to send newsletters or respond to enquiries.
Spam detection and security services, to protect the site and its visitors.
Government or regulatory authorities, where required by law.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We work with development partners and organisations in the course of our consultancy services; where this involves sharing any personal data you have provided, we will only do so with your knowledge and where relevant to delivering the service you requested.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognise and automatically approve any follow-up comments, rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
Enquiry, order, and contact form data is retained for as long as necessary to respond to your request, fulfil an order, or comply with our legal and accounting obligations, after which it is securely deleted or anonymised.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or have submitted an enquiry or order, you can request:
An exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
That we erase any personal data we hold about you.
This does not include data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, tax, or security purposes.
To make a request regarding your data, please contact us at [marainnovations@gmail.com]
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data collected through our website may be processed and stored on servers located outside of Uganda, depending on our hosting and service providers. Where this occurs, we take reasonable steps to ensure your data continues to be protected in line with this policy.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your data rights, please contact:
Mara Innovations Centre Limited
Lira City, Uganda
Email: marainnovations@gmail.com
Website: https://marainnovations.com