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Thank you for visiting the Buganda Land Board Website and reviewing our privacy policy. Our Website policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. This Website is owned by Buganda Land Board and is fully committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal information. When you visit our Website, we will not collect personal information unless you choose to use services that ask for personal information.

Your personal information will not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with your consent or as required by law. Personal information will be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes or as required by law. Buganda Kingdom will not send you unsolicited electronic messages, and we will not permit third parties, such as service providers under any form of contract, to do so, unless you choose. Below is how we handle information about your visit to our website:

Buganda Land Board Website Internet Security Policy

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our secure servers employ software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on our service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the available Computer Fraud and Abuse Acts and the International Information Infrastructure Protection Acts.

Our privacy policy describes Buganda Land Board’s Website's current policies and practices with regard to personal data collected by us. This privacy policy is independent from Buganda Land Board’s information you avail us while opening up a file. The term "personal information" refers to personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, birth date, e-mail address or mailing address, and any other information that is identified with you personally, excluding your individual health information.

Notification of Changes to This Policy

Buganda Land Board’s site is continually improving and adding new functionality and features to its website while and improving and adding to our existing products and services. Because of these on going changes, changes in the law, and the changing nature of technology, Buganda Land Board's data practices will change from time to time. If and when our data practices change, Buganda Land Board will reveal the changes on our website to notify you of the changes. We encourage you to check this page frequently.

Notification to Advertisers on Our Advertising Policy

Buganda Land Board is intermittently adding new features and functionalities to the website hence welcoming advertisers on this site. On the other hand, we will use our website to advertise our new services.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

In addition to the information you provide when you use our website, uses technology to collect anonymous information about the use of website. For example, we use technology to track how many visitors access our website, the date and time of their visit, the length of their stay, and which pages they view. We also use technology to determine which web browsers our visitors use and the address from which they accessed Buganda Land Board’s website (for example, if they connected to BLB’s website by clicking on one of our banner ads). This technology does not identify you personally.

It simply enables us to compile statistics about our visitors and their use of our sites. BLB and our affiliates use this anonymous data and share it with third parties to improve the content and functionality of our websites, to better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services. If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit, such as:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "abcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account or “mak.ac.ug if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;

2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;

3. The date and time you access our site;

4. The pages you visit; and

5. If you linked to Buganda Land Board website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors, to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Disclosure of Personal Data

Buganda Land Board will not share some or all of the personal data collected with our associates or affiliates, UNLESS the data is used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. BLB may share personal data collected through the website with relation to your file and for your own good.

In case there is a legal requirement, the procedure followed to access your physical file is the same which will be followed to access your personal data.

While no method of data transmission is guaranteed against unlawful third party interception or other misuse, BLB uses commercially reasonable efforts to ensure protection of your data including industry-standard encryption and offline security methods in our physical facilities (e.g., your data is protected onsite by our Information Assets Protection Policy).

Link to Other Sites

Our privacy policy applies only to Buganda Land Board. We operate our website for numerous purposes and in different countries where different laws may apply. Our website has links to the websites of many other individuals and organizations. In a few cases, we link to private organizations, with their permission. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Buganda Land Board’s website will contain hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by us. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of these third-party websites or any association with their operators. BLB does not control these websites and is not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or providing any personal data about yourself.

Governing Law

This privacy policy forms part of our website Terms and Conditions and as such shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Uganda.

Questions about Buganda Land Board Website Policy

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or concerns about the way Buganda Land Board processes your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Privacy Policy

Personal Data Collected Through Buganda Land Board Website Other than cookies, as described below, the only personal data Buganda Land Board currently collects through its websites is the information you voluntarily give us when you use the site. For example, you may use this site to contact Buganda Land Board Online with questions and comments. When you fill out a form on the website, you may provide your name and other contact information, including your company's name, your e-mail address, and your mailing address or the mailing address of your company or other personal information. If you do not wish to fill out all of the information on the form you are not required to do so. When you submit information to us through our Website, you will receive a confirmation if you enter valid information. We offer the search features as a service to you. Buganda Land Board does not collect or retain any identifying information about you when you use the search features.

Use of Personal Data Collected Through Buganda Land Board Website BLB’s website uses the personal data information you provide to answer your question or resolve your query. We use this information to help us improve the content and functionality of our website, to better understand our customers, and to improve our services. Buganda Land Board uses this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future communications. Similarly, we may provide "subscription" e-mail services, either directly or through affiliates, which enable you to receive current news about BLB’s services or related information from the Kingdom. For all such services, we will provide an opportunity to "opt-out" of, or cancel, the subscription.

Cookies This site does NOT use the cookies that some Web sites use to gather and store information about your visits to their sites. A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer and they cannot be used to discover the identity of a user. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not and whether you are required to accept the cookie to view certain content. BLB may use cookies to "persist" a user session — that is, to maintain connection with a user as he or she moves through an application or series of web pages. The purpose of cookies in this context is to remember user inputs. Personalization features also use cookies to identify groups of users and deliver appropriate content and services.