Privacy Policy

Business Name: Simon Designs
Website: simondesigns.co.ke
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Contact: simondesigns052@gmail.com

We publish The Leadership Review, a digital newspaper celebrating exemplary Kenyan leadership, as part of our portfolio of services.

We collect personal information only when you voluntarily provide it. This includes:

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To respond to your enquiries and provide design services you have requested
• To send you The Leadership Review newsletter if you have subscribed (you may unsubscribe at any time)
• To review and process leadership nominations for The Leadership Review
• To process payments for design services through IntaSend
• To improve our website content and user experience
• To comply with legal obligations under Kenyan law

We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

Under Kenya's Data Protection Act 2019, we process your personal data on the following legal bases:

• Consent — when you submit a form, subscribe, or contact us
• Legitimate interests — to improve our website and respond to enquiries
• Contract — to fulfil design service agreements with clients
• Legal obligation — where required to comply with Kenyan law

Information submitted through our website is stored in Sanity CMS, a cloud-based content management system hosted on secure servers with encryption in transit (HTTPS) and at rest.

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary. Contact enquiries are retained for up to 2 years. Newsletter subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe. Nomination data is retained for up to 3 years for editorial reference.

Our website uses the following third-party services that may process your data:

• Sanity CMS — stores form submissions and website content (sanity.io)
• IntaSend — processes payments for design services (intasend.com)
• Tawk.to — provides live chat functionality and may collect your IP address and chat messages (tawk.to)
• Netlify — hosts our website and processes web server requests (netlify.com)
• Google Fonts — serves web fonts and may log font requests (fonts.google.com)

Each of these services has its own privacy policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services.

Our website uses cookies to improve your experience. Specifically:

• Tawk.to live chat — uses cookies to maintain your chat session
• Session cookies — used to remember your newsletter subscription confirmation status

We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. You can control cookies through your browser settings, though disabling them may affect some website functionality.

As a data subject under Kenyan law, you have the following rights:

• Right of access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Right to rectification — request correction of inaccurate data
• Right to erasure — request deletion of your personal data
• Right to object — object to processing of your data for certain purposes
• Right to withdraw consent — unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at simondesigns052@gmail.com. We will respond within 30 days.

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us, please contact us immediately and we will delete it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of our website after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have any questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us: