Privacy Policy

At Dishi, accessible from `https://dishi.top`, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Dishi and how we use it, in compliance with the Data Protection Act of Kenya.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information in connection with the services we provide, including:

• Account Information: When you register for an account, we collect your name, email address, profile picture, and chosen username.
• User Content: Information you submit, such as reviews, ratings, photos, and lists of saved restaurants.
• Payment Information: If you claim a business and make a payment, we collect necessary transaction details, including M-Pesa phone numbers. We do not store your full M-Pesa PIN or banking passwords.
• Location Data: With your permission, we collect precise or approximate location data from your device to show you nearby restaurants.
• Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you interact with our Platform, including IP addresses, browser types, pages visited, and timestamps.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our Platform.
• Improve, personalize, and expand our Platform, including recommending restaurants based on your preferences and location.
• Process transactions and send related information, including confirmations and receipts.
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Platform.
• Find and prevent fraud, spam, and abuse.
• Comply with our legal obligations.

3. How We Share Your Information

We may share the information we collect in the following circumstances:

• With Restaurants: If you write a review, your public profile (name, photo) and the review content will be visible to the restaurant owner and the public.
• Service Providers: We share data with third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing (e.g., Safaricom/M-Pesa), data analysis, email delivery, and hosting services.
• Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information if legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Dishi uses "cookies" and similar tracking technologies to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

5. Data Security

We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect Personal Information both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error-free.

6. Your Data Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights under the Kenya Data Protection Act or other applicable laws, including the right to:

• Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate personal data.
• Request deletion of your personal data ("Right to be Forgotten").
• Object to our processing of your personal data.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at the details provided below.

7. Children's Privacy

Dishi is not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at via our Contact Page.