Privacy Policy

At PadMad, we collect personal information you provide to us directly and website usage data:

• Information you provide to us: When you fill out our contact forms, sign up for future events, subscribe to our newsletter, or ask us to contact you, we may collect your full name, email address, phone number, and company name. In the future, we may collect demographic data, always with your explicit consent.
• Website usage information: Through web analytics tools, we collect data about how you interact with our website. This includes your IP address, browser type, pages visited, time spent, and other traffic data. We also use cookies to enhance your experience.

The processing of your personal data is carried out under the following legal bases and for the purposes detailed below:

Your explicit consent:

• Purpose: Sending marketing communications (newsletters, event information, updates), managing contact forms.
• Legal Basis: Your express consent by accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions through the forms on our website. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

Execution of a contractual or pre-contractual relationship:

• Purpose: Processing your contact requests and managing your future participation in events or courses (once more formal payment/enrollment services are established).
• Legal Basis: The need to process your data to fulfill an agreement or to take steps at your request before formalizing a contract.

Legitimate interest of PadMad:

• Purpose: Improving our services, performing statistical analysis of website usage, and ensuring the security of our platform.
• Legal Basis: Our legitimate interest in operating and optimizing our business, provided this interest does not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Compliance with a legal obligation:

• Purpose: When required by law, court order, or competent authority.
• Legal Basis: The need to comply with a legal obligation applicable to Padmad.

To operate our website and offer our services, we may share your information with third-party service providers who act on our behalf. These providers assist us with functions such as managing web forms, analyzing website traffic and performance, hosting our platform, and interacting with social networks through buttons or links.

These third parties are obligated to protect your information and to use it only for the specific purposes for which we provide them with the data. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties. In exceptional cases, your data might be disclosed if required by law, court order, or competent authority.

Your personal data may be transferred and processed in other countries, including European Union countries or the United States, where some of our service providers operate. In such cases, Padmad ensures that such transfers are carried out with adequate safeguards, such as the signing of Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, or the adoption of other legally recognized transfer mechanisms that ensure a level of data protection equivalent to that established in the applicable regulations.

As the data subject, you have the following rights:

• Right of Access: To obtain information about whether your data is being processed, what it is, and for what purposes.
• Right to Rectification: To request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): To request the deletion of your data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or if you withdraw your consent.
• Right to Object: To object to the processing of your data for reasons related to your particular situation or for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to Restriction of Processing: To request the suspension of the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to Data Portability: To receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another data controller.

To exercise any of these rights, please send an email to hello@padmadkenya.com. To facilitate your request, we ask that you use “Data Rights Exercise” or the specific description of the right (e.g., “Data Deletion Request”) as the subject of the email. Please clearly state your request and provide the necessary information to verify your identity.

We will retain your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and to comply with our legal obligations. If you request the deletion of your data, we will securely delete it, unless there is a legal obligation requiring us to retain it for a specific period.

We are committed to protecting your personal information. We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We rely on trusted service providers to secure our website infrastructure.

Our website uses cookies to improve your Browse experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We use cookies that are:

• Essential: Necessary for the basic functioning of the site.
  Performance: To collect information about how visitors use our site and improve its operation.
• Functionality: To remember your preferences and enhance your experience.
• Advertising: To display relevant ads (although we currently do not process payments, these may be used by third parties like Google).

You can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the website’s functionality.

Our mission is to serve girls and women, but our website and online services are intended for use by adults, businesses, and organizations. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If we become aware that a minor has provided us with personal information without the verifiable consent of their parents or legal guardians, we will take the necessary steps to delete such information from our records.

For any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data, the exercise of your rights, or this Privacy Policy, you can reach us through our contact form.