Who we are
The Tafakari Digital Hub is run by the Centre for Research, Training and Publications (CRTP) at Hekima University College, Riara Road, off Ngong Road, Nairobi, Kenya. This policy explains what personal information the website handles and why. For any question about it, write to crtp.communications@hekima.ac.ke.
What we collect, and why
- Contact form. Your name, email address, country, area of interest and message, so that we can reply to you.
- Comments. Your name, an optional email address, an optional rating and your comment. Comments are reviewed before they appear, and your name and comment are then shown publicly. Your email address is never shown.
- Staff accounts. CRTP staff who manage the site have accounts with a name, username, email address and an encrypted password.
- Chat assistant. Your messages are sent to Anthropic, the provider of the Claude AI model, to produce a reply. We do not store the conversation on our server. To prevent misuse, we keep only counts of messages and a coded value derived from your internet address that changes every day and cannot be turned back into the address. The current conversation is kept in your own browser until you close the tab or choose “Start over”.
- Technical logs. Like most websites, our hosting server keeps standard records of requests, such as internet addresses and pages visited, to keep the site running and secure.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not use advertising or tracking services.
Cookies and browser storage
The site sets one session cookie, which keeps forms secure and keeps staff signed in. Your browser also stores your language choice and, while the tab is open, the chat conversation. None of these is used to track you across other websites.
Services from other providers
To show its pages, the site loads some content from other providers, which receive your internet address when it does:
- Google Fonts, for the typefaces.
- OpenStreetMap, for the map tiles on the heat map.
- jsDelivr, cdnjs and Tailwind, for code libraries the pages use.
- YouTube and Vimeo, when you play an embedded video. These services may set their own cookies.
- Anthropic, for the chat assistant, as described above.
Links to our social media pages take you to those services, whose own privacy policies apply.
How published content is prepared
Some articles, monitoring findings and video selections are prepared with the help of AI from public sources. A member of CRTP's team reviews and approves each one before it is published, and AI-assisted items say so.
How long we keep information
We keep messages, comments and account details only for as long as we need them for the purpose they were given for, and for our records. You can ask us to delete them sooner.
Your rights
You may ask to see the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted, and you have the other rights given by applicable law, including Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019. Write to crtp.communications@hekima.ac.ke and we will respond.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date at the top.