Intrasoft Technologies Limited provides software solutions, leading edge innovative financial technology solutions, cloud-based core banking, implementation services, ongoing customer and product support, education technology solutions, insurance agency management system and other related services.
Customers include credit co-operatives, microfinance institutions, credit unions, self-help groups, SME credit providers and other lending organizations to an expanding user base around the world. We have held our values of integrity, transparency, and independence for more than 9 years. Central to this, customer service is our commitment to upholding the highest standards of data protection for our customers.
This Privacy Policy applies to all websites and web applications which link to this policy and are published by Intrasoft Technologies Limited (“Sites”).
If you wish to amend any of the information that we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, you can do so at any time through your account.
If you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please contact us at info@intrasofttechnologies.com.
Information we collect
This section details the information we may collect about you. We explain why, and how, we use it in later sections.
Account and Enquiry information:
If you are our customer and have an account or enquire about one of our products or services, we’ll ask you to provide us with some specific information, for example:
Basic personal details – such as name, title etc;
Personal contact details – such as home address, delivery address, home phone number, mobile phone number, and email address;
Work details – such as job title, department, company name, company address, work email address and office phone number;
Payment details – such as your bank account number and sort code.
Additional information:
On occasion, we will ask you to voluntarily provide additional information, for example:
Your opinion of our products and services;
Your preferences, including newsletters, blogs or occasional white papers;
Your career details and CV if you use our recruitment pages;
Information we obtain from partners and public sources
In some circumstances, we collect information about you from our partners or from publicly available websites to help us better understand our audience and enhance the relevance of our content. For example, in some cases we obtain the contact details of potential speakers for User Group events from public websites.
Information we obtain through cookies and similar tools
We use cookies (and similar technologies) and analytics tools across our Sites to collect information about you. This information can be used to improve the performance of the site, make advertising more relevant and enhance your user experience. We provide detailed information about cookies and similar technologies within our Cookie Policy; examples include:
Your location – we use cookies to display the version of the site that is most relevant to your location.
Your usage – we use cookies to understand how our customers use our Sites and interact with our communications and journalism. For example, we use technology on our Sites, which records user movements, including page scrolling, clicks and text entered. (It does not record payment details.) This helps us to identify usability issues and improve the assistance we can provide to users and is also used for aggregated and statistical reporting purposes.
Your device – we use cookies to understand what type of device you are using to show you the best version of the site. Your engagement with advertisements – we use cookies to understand what advertisements you have been shown, or clicked on, to bill our advertising partners, and to present you with advertisements that are more relevant to you.
If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions in the “How to manage cookies” section with our Cookie Policy below.
Intrasoft Technologies Cookie Policy
Intrasoft Technologies uses cookies to help it identify and track visitors, their usage of Intrasoft Technologies’s website, and their website access preferences. Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Intrasoft Technologies websites, with the drawback that certain features of our websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Lawful basis for processing
We do not process personal information unless:
User consent – This is where you have given us explicit permission to process personal information for a given purpose. For example, if you complete one of our general enquiry forms, we would ask for your consent if we wanted to use your personal information for any other purpose. You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
Legitimate business purposes – This is where we have a legitimate interest, as a business, to process personal information. For example, where we are aware of copyright infringements on our Site, it is in our legitimate interests as a business to identify those responsible. We take due care to balance our interests against your right to privacy.
Contractual necessity – This is where we have to process personal information to meet our contractual obligations. For example, if you are an online services subscriber, we would need to process your delivery address to fulfil your subscription.
Legal obligation – This is where we have to process personal information in order to comply with the law. For example, we process and retain customer invoice information to comply with financial regulations. How we use your personal information
We collect personal information for the following reasons:
To provide our service – We require some of your basic personal information so our services work as you would expect, for example, delivering written correspondence to your correct address, providing access to our digital content, notifying you of changes to our services and dealing with customer services queries. We may record customer calls for monitoring and training purposes.
To improve and maintain performance – In order to provide you with the best possible user experience, we need to make sure that our products and services work as they should. Using personal information helps us understand how our customers use our Sites so we can make improvements. This includes testing proposed developments on our Sites, reaching out to our customers with market research surveys and hosting subscriber focus groups.
To bill our customers – We, along with our authorized payments processors, securely process your payment information to take payments, give refunds and to detect and prevent fraudulent activity. We will also update your payment information in the event that a payment is unsuccessful. You can manage your payment information at any time by contacting customer services.
To monitor compliance with our policies and terms – We monitor for breaches of our terms and conditions and copyright policies. For example, we reserve the right to inform the subscription holder if, through use of a group subscription, you are using our content in breach of the terms and conditions or copyright policies of our Sites. We also monitor activity on our Sites to detect and prevent invalid or fraudulent traffic. To personalize our products and services – We improve your experience of our products and services by personalizing parts of our Sites and apps with the information you give us and what we learn about you. This includes showing you articles you may be interested in and recommending emails you may wish to sign up to. Where our Sites have such functionality, you can manage elements of personalization in your customer support account.
To communicate product changes and offers – We want you to get the most out of our products and services, including showcasing our latest content and newsletters. We will contact you with carefully curated Intrasoft Technologies offers and promotions, exclusive event invitations and feature announcements. For example, if there are no updates on topics you follow in our website, we will send you articles on other topics that we think you might be interested in. You are able to change your preferences at any time through your account or by contacting customer services. We also personalize our communications for strategic purposes. Recruitment – If you apply for a role via one of our Sites, we will process your information in order to facilitate the application process.
Who we share your personal information with
We disclose personal information to facilitate the running of our business or to provide specific services you have requested. Commonly, we will disclose information to:
Service providers – We engage service providers who help to support our business and improve our products. These service providers include, for example, fulfilment providers for delivery of our digital content and marketing; customer service agencies; hosts, organisers and sponsors of our events; organisations that host our Sites or databases; and providers of online surveys.
Recruiters – Job application service When you apply for jobs through our web site, your job application is forwarded directly to the manager of the job that you are applying for. Applications that are made through Recruiters’ sites, or other external websites, will be subject to their privacy policies. Social media providers – Information will be shared with social media platforms where you log in to our Sites via a social media account or use components on our Sites provided by social media platforms (e.g. the “Facebook Recommend” function).
Other users – Our Sites are publicly accessible and anyone around the world who accesses our Sites will be able to see anything you post, such as comments about an article. We encourage you to use a pseudonym when commenting on our Sites if you do not wish to be identifiable to other readers.
Intrasoft Technologies group of companies – We share your information within the Intrasoft Technologies group of companies to provide our services and to better understand the relationship between our products. More information about Intrasoft Technologies group is on our “About us” website. For example, Intrasoft Technologies, may send exclusive invitations to their customers if an event may be of particular interest to that individual.
Legal processes and successors in title – We may also disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, court orders or other valid legal processes, and to enforce or apply our terms of use, any subscription agreement, or any of our other rights. We may transfer or disclose your personal information to any entity which takes over or acquires the relevant Intrasoft Technologies business. We also share aggregated, non-identifiable information with third parties. Before sharing this information, we ensure that it cannot identify you as an individual. For example, we regularly release information about the size and growth of our audiences.
How long we retain your personal information
We retain the majority of your personal information for as long as your account is active and therefore open; this allows you to continue accessing our content, products, and services. If you become inactive and are not a customer, we may delete elements of the information associated with your account. We will normally warn you if your access is going to be withdrawn and give you the opportunity to retain your account.
Where we don’t need to keep all of your information in full, we will obfuscate or aggregate it, for example, web activity logs and survey responses. This is to ensure that we do not retain your information for any longer than is necessary.
It is sometimes necessary for us to keep your personal information for longer periods of time, for example: If there is a statutory requirement to retain it;
If we require the information for legal reasons or there is a legitimate business need for us to retain it; To ensure we do not contact you if you have asked us not to.
How we keep your personal information secure
We have appropriate technical and administrative security measures in place to help ensure that our customers’ information is protected against unauthorized or accidental access, use, alteration, or loss. We operate a global business, so your (relevant for EU based businesses) personal information may be processed and stored outside the European Economic Area (EEA). For example, our global customer services team need to access information about you in order to respond to your queries. We put in place safeguards, such as EU standard contractual clauses, to protect information that is transferred in this way.
Your rights
Under data protection laws, you have rights as an individual in relation to the personal data we hold about you. These rights include:
- The right to object to direct marketing – your preferences, including in relation to direct marketing, can be found in your account;
- The right to access the personal data that we process about you;
- The right to request the deletion of your personal data;
- The right to request the rectification of your personal data – you can manage some of this information in your customer support account.
- You can exercise these rights through your account or by contacting customer services.
- You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). In the Republic of Ireland it is the Data Protection Commissioner.
Where this Privacy Policy applies
Personal information is collected by Intrasoft Technologies group of companies and its trading entities. Our Sites are not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not intentionally collect or use any information from children.
Our Sites may contain links to third party websites which are not subject to this privacy policy. We are not responsible for their content, use of personal information, or security practices.
If you have a query in regard to the processing of your personal information, please contact our Chief Executive Officer directly to zayyad@intrasofttechnologies.com or write to:
Intrasoft Technologies Limited
2nd Floor, Ruman Plaza,
St. Bernard Road, off. Archbishop Makarios Road
P. O. Box 84418 – 80100,
Mombasa, Kenya.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This policy is effective from 01/01/2019.
Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.
~ Last updated 29th June 2022