What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. They are designed to store basic information and help improve your browsing experience. Cookies are not viruses or computer programs and do not take up much space.

Types of Cookies We Use

How to Manage Cookies

Some services on this website require us to collect personal information from you. To comply with data protection legislation, we must tell you how we collect, process,store distribute and delete the information we collect and how it is used. Any information you submit will be stored securely and will never be passed on or sold to any third party.

User anonymity and personal information

Log files are maintained and analysed to monitor website usage. Log files do not capture personal information but do capture your IP address, which is automatically recognised by our web servers.

Aggregated analyses of these log files may be made available to DASSA staff and partner agencies to allow us to measure (for example) what works within the platform, user traffic, overall utility of the different parts of the platform of and the typical user paths through the site. This plus other technical data allows us to improve your user experience and maintain the website.

DASSA will not attempt to identify individual users except to ratify that they are human. You should be aware, however, that access to platform will generally create log entries in the systems of your ISP or network service provider. These entities may be in a position to identify the user computer equipment used to access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of network services and is beyond the responsibility or control of DASSA.

DASSA will make no attempt to track or identify individual users, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorised access to systems is being attempted or where inquiry with respect to processing of data is necessary. DASSA will also not process any personal data within the datasets any user. That responsibility lies solely on the user. In the case of all users, DASSA reserves the right to attempt to identify and track any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or resources operating as part of DASSA services.

As a condition of use of this site, all users must give permission for DASSA to use its access logs to attempt to track users who are reasonably suspected of gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorised access.

All log file information collected by DASSA is kept secure, and no access to raw log files is given to any third party.

Use of cookies

This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are used solely on a ‘per session’ basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.

Website Traffic

In order to improve our website structure and functionality, we count the number of visitors and how visitors move around the website. More specifically, we are tracking the following fully anonymised information:

• Masked 2 byte(s) IPs - e.g., 192.168.xxx.xxx
• Date and time of a page request
• Title of the page being viewed (Page Title)
• URL of the page being viewed (Page URL)
• URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page (Referrer URL)
• Screen resolution being used
• Time in local user’s timezone
• Files that were clicked and downloaded (Download)
• Links to an outside domain that were clicked (Outlink)
• Pages generation time/Page speed (the time it takes for webpages to be generated by the webserver and then downloaded by the user)
• Main Language of the browser being used (Accept-Language header)
• User Agent of the browser being used (User-Agent header)

We are not collecting personal data or geolocation information.

This information is hosted within the territory of Kenya.

Your Consent

By continuing to use our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy. You can withdraw your consent at any time by updating your cookie preferences.