Who we are
Your privacy is very important to Simply Addis. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Our website address is: https://www.simplyaddis.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Creating a Simply Addis account may result in follow up correspondences from a Simply Addis representative. You may remove your email address from the distribution lists of Simply Addis or our business partners at any time by notifying us or the business partners, respectively.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
As part of the normal operation of this Website, we may collect and, in some cases, disclose information about you. Personally identifiable information about you may be used to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze usage of the Website, to improve our Website content and to customize our Website’s content and layout. We believe these uses allow us to improve our Website and better tailor it to meet our user’s needs. We may use your first and last names, email address, your mailing address and telephone number, to contact you from time to time about our services.
We may also collect computer data or files, often called “cookies,” which may be sent by your web browser and stored on an individual computer to allow us to recognize you through the navigation of our Website and as necessary for us to facilitate various online transactions as well as your IP address to measure our Website traffic and to help you have a more personalized experience. To enable certain features on the Website, we may assign one or more “cookies” to your Internet browser. Cookies, among other things, speed navigation through our Website, keep track of information so that you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit, and may provide you with customized content. A cookie is an Internet mechanism composed of a small text file containing a unique identification number that permits a web server to send small pieces of information or text by means of your browser and place them on your computer’s hard drive for storage. This text lets the web server know if you have previously visited the web page.
We use cookies to collect and maintain aggregated data (such as the number of visitors) to help us see which areas of our Website are most popular with our users and to improve and update the content on our Website. The use of “cookies” may allow us to tailor your experience on the Website to destinations or other features that may interest you. We use this aggregated data only as explained in this Privacy Policy. We do not connect aggregated data to any name, address, or other identifying information.
We do not control third party tracking technology or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content you should contact the responsible provider directly.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
GDPR
We support the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which became enforceable on May 25, 2018, and ensure all our services comply with its provisions.
We are fully committed to our users’ rights to privacy and personal data protection. As an EU resident, you have rights to control information related to your personal data as follows:
- Understand what information we do collect;
- Request retrieval of your personal data;
- Request removal of your personal data.
What Information We Collect
As a part of our services, we collect certain personal information and use 3rd party services (which are GDPR compliant) for the following purposes.
| Data/Source | Purpose |
| Used as a unique identifier of the user (username) and the only communication channel between resource and the user. | |
| First name | Used to identify a user. |
| Last name | Used to identify a user. |
| Business address | We store the business addresses of our agents so our customers are able to contact them. |
| Mobile phone number | We store the phone numbers of our agents so our customers are able to contact them. |
| Office phone number | We store the phone numbers of our agents so our customers are able to contact them. |
| Fax number | We store the phone numbers of our agents so our customers are able to contact them. |
| Social URLs | We store the social account locations (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Plus, Pinterest) of our agents so our customers are able to visit them. |
| Properties | We store the address and amenities information of the properties listed on our site. |
| Comments | Per user permission to create comments on the published content. |
| Posts | Set per user permission to create/manage posts on our website. |
| Google Analytics | Third party service to track activities of the user on the resource. Used for aggregated statistics to improve user experience on the resource. (Google Analytics is GDPR compliant) |
| Google Adwords | Third party service for managing advertisement activities related to the resource via Google Ads Network. (Google Adwords is GDPR compliant) |
How to Retrieve Personal Date
You have rights to retrieve your personal data any time and request removal of the data. Be aware, we do not store copies of your personal data – removal of your personal data will result in complete data loss without revert option.
Our contact information
Simply Addis
Cape Verde Road
Across the street from EU offices
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
These privacy policies are subject to change at any time. If there are material changes to any of these privacy policies, we will post those changes and update the effective date of this policy. The policies and procedures described herein replace all previous policies and procedures regarding this subject.
This Privacy policy, effective December 1, 2018 is incorporated into and subject to the Terms and Conditions for use of this website