Information About The Processing Of Personal Data


Data controller

Please be informed that your personal data, collected by the contact form will be processed by Readied for Business, (“Readied for Business”, “we” or “us”) in its capacity as data controller.


Contact details
You can contact us in the following manner:
1) by mail info@readied4business.org
2) by telephone +254 725 165 110

Purposes and legal basis for processing

We will process your personal data in order to send you a newsletter that you have subscribed to on our website, which may also contain commercial information. The basis for data processing for this purpose is our legitimate interest which is the possibility of sending a newsletter to people who are interested in receiving it.


Transfer of personal data outside the East African Community

Recipients of data Readied for Business will transfer your personal data to data processors involved in the providing services for us (such as IT service providers, marketing agencies). These entities will process your personal data pursuant to executed data processing agreements with Readied for Business and exclusively based on instructions issued by Readied for Business. Transfer of personal data outside the East African Community Your personal data will only be transferred to entities outside the EAC that provide the appropriate level of personal data protection required in the East African Community (EAC).

Your personal data will be transferred to the United States (US) to data processors of Readied for Business, such as marketing service providers, provided that these entities participate in the European-US Privacy Shield Program established by the US Department of Commerce regarding the transfer of data from the EEA to the US. For more information on the Privacy Shield Program, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.

According to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of 12 July 2016 pursuant to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the United States ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred under the EU-US Privacy Shield from the

Therefore, the transfer of data to entities located in the US which are participants of the Privacy Shield does not require further safeguards.


Retention period

Your data for will be processed until you opt out the newsletter. If you let us know that you are not interested in receiving newsletter, we will delete your data immediately.


Your rights

You have the following rights related to the processing of personal data:

• the right to access your personal data,

• the right to rectification of your personal data,

• the right to erasure of your personal data,

• the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data,

• the right to object to the processing of your data for marketing purposes,

• the right to object to the processing of your data due to your particular situation.


Right to lodge a complaint

If you think that your personal data is not processed by Readied for Business in accordance with applicable data protection laws, please be informed that you have the right to lodge a complaint with the personal data protection authority in Kenya, i.e Office Of the Data Protection Commissioner. (Britam Tower, 12th & 13th floor Hospital Road, Upper Hill-Nairobi. Email: info@odpc.go.ke). If you reside in any part of the world, you can also lodge a complaint with a data protection authority in your country of residence.



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