Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how [Company legal name] ("BuyerKraze", "we", "us") handles personal data when you use this website (https://buyerkraze.com), the entry point to the BuyerKraze reverse marketplace, and its articles, events and country site directory. Each country BuyerKraze site may have its own privacy policy, which applies on that site.

1. Who is responsible

The data controller is [Company legal name], [registered address]. Contact: [contact email]. Data protection contact: [name / DPO email, if any].

2. Data we collect

• Account data: username, email address and a hashed password when you register.
• Content you create: articles and related images, and your author details shown with them.
• Event subscriptions: name, email address, phone number and any details you submit.
• Messages: information you send us when you contact us.
• Technical data: IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, referring page, timestamps and session identifiers.
• Approximate location: your country, derived from your IP address, used to suggest your local BuyerKraze site. We do not determine precise location.
• Error and performance logs: diagnostic data used to find and fix faults.

3. How and why we use it

• To provide the site, create and secure accounts, and publish content (contract / legitimate interests).
• To redirect you to your country site (legitimate interests).
• To manage event subscriptions and send related communications (consent / contract).
• To monitor activity, prevent fraud and abuse, and keep the site secure (legitimate interests, legal obligation).
• To measure and improve performance (legitimate interests).
• To comply with legal obligations.

We do not sell your personal data.

4. Cookies and similar technologies

We use essential cookies for sessions, login and security (such as CSRF protection). [If you add analytics or advertising cookies, list them here and add a consent banner where required.] You can block cookies in your browser settings, but parts of the site may stop working.

5. Third parties

• Infrastructure and hosting: [hosting provider].
• Content delivery: we load fonts, icons and styling libraries from Google Fonts, cdnjs and the Tailwind CDN. Their servers receive your IP address and browser details when you load a page.
• Email delivery: [email provider].
• Country sites: when you follow a link to a country BuyerKraze site, that site's operator and policy apply.
• Authorities: where required by law or to protect rights and safety.

6. International transfers

Your data may be processed in countries other than your own. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.

7. Retention

We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purposes above: account data while your account is active and for [period] afterwards; session and technical logs for [period]; event subscription data for [period] after the event; and longer where law requires.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the EU/UK GDPR, the Uganda Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, or other local laws) you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing of your data, to data portability, to withdraw consent at any time, and to complain to your data protection authority. Contact [contact email] to exercise these rights. We will respond within the period required by law.

9. Security

We use measures such as HTTPS, hashed passwords and access controls. No system is perfectly secure; please use a strong, unique password.

10. Children

BuyerKraze is not directed at children under [18 / 16]. We do not knowingly collect their data. Contact us if you believe a child has provided data.

11. Changes

We may update this policy. Material changes will be posted here with a new date.

12. Contact

[Company legal name], [registered address], [contact email].