When you use our services, youre trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and work hard to protect your information and put you in control.
This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.
We build a range of gaming services.
You can use our services in a variety of ways to manage your privacy. For example, you can sign up for a Uswahili Account if you want to create and manage content like you add-on. And you can use many Uswahili services when youre signed out or without creating an account at all. And across our services, you can adjust your privacy settings to control what we collect and how your information is used.
And if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us.
We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our services
We collect information to provide better services to all our users. The information Uswahili collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls.
When youre not signed in to a Uswahili Account, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device youre using. This helps us do things like maintain your language preferences across browsing sessions.
When youre signed in, we also collect information that we store with your Uswahili Account, which we treat as personal information.
Things you create or provide to us
When you create a Uswahili Account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. You can also choose to add a phone number or payment information to your account. Even if you arent signed in to a Uswahili Account, you might choose to provide us with information like an email address to receive updates about our services.
We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save, docs and spreadsheets you create, and comments you make.
Information we collect as you use our services
We collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access Uswahili services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming your screen if your battery runs low.
The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. We also collect information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request.
We collect information about your activity in our services. The activity information we collect may include:
Terms you search for
Articles your read or videos you watch
Purchase activity
People with whom you communicate or share content
You can visit your Uswahili Account to find and manage activity information thats saved in your account.
We use data to build better services
We use the information we collect from all our services for the following purposes:
Provide our services
We use your information to deliver our services, like processing the terms you search for in order to return results or helping you share content by suggesting recipients from your contacts.
Maintain & improve our services We also use your information to ensure our service are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our services.
Develop new services We use the information we collect in existing services to help us develop new ones.
Provide personalized services, including content and ads
We use the information we collect to customize our services for you, including providing recommendations, personalized content, and customized search results.
Depending on your settings, we may also show you content based on your interests.
We dont share information that personally identifies you with advertisers, such as your name or email, unless you ask us to. Measure performance We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. For example, we analyze data about your visits to our sites to do things like optimize product design.
Communicate with you We use information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. For example, we may send you a notification if we detect suspicious activity, like an attempt to sign in to your Uswahili Account from an unusual location. Or we may let you know about upcoming changes or improvements to our services. And if you contact Uswahili, well keep a record of your request in order to help solve any issues you might be facing.
Protect Uswahili, our users, and the public We use information to help improve the safety and reliability of our services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm Uswahili, our users, or the public.
Exporting, removing & deleting your information
You can export a copy of content in your Uswahili Account if you want to back it up or use it with a service outside of Uswahili.
You can also request to remove content from specific Uswahili services based on applicable law.
To delete your information, you can:
Delete your content from
Search for and then delete specific items from your account profile
Delete your entire Uswahili Account
Changes to this policy
We change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We always indicate the date the last changes were published and we offer access to archived versions for your review. If changes are significant, well provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).