We collect certain data from you directly, like information you enter yourself, data about your consumption of content, and data from third-party platforms you connect with IMED Foundation. We also collect some data automatically, like information about your device and what parts of our Services you interact with or spend time using. All data listed in this section is subject to the following processing activities: collecting, recording, structuring, storing, altering, retrieving, encrypting, pseudonymizing, erasing, combining, and transmitting.

1.1 Data You Provide to Us

We may collect different data from or about you depending on how you use the Services. Below are some examples to help you better understand the data we collect. When you create an account and use the Services, including through a third-party platform, we collect any data you provide directly, including: The data listed above is stored by us and associated with your account.

1.2 Data We Collect through Automated Means

When you access the Services (including browsing content), we collect certain data by automated means, including:

We use tools like cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to gather the data listed above. Some of these tools offer you the ability to opt out of data collection.

2.1 Cookies and Data Collection Tools

We use cookies, which are small text files stored by your browser, to collect, store, and share data about your activities across websites, including on IMED Foundation. They allow us to remember things about your visits to IMED Foundation, like your preferred language, and to make the site easier to use.

IMED Foundation and service providers acting on our behalf use server log files and automated data collection tools like cookies, tags, scripts, customized links, device or browser fingerprints, and web beacons (together, “Data Collection Tools“) when you access and use the Services. These Data Collection Tools automatically track and collect certain System Data and Usage Data (as detailed in Section 1) when you use the Services. In some cases, we tie data gathered through those Data Collection Tools to other data that we collect as described in this Privacy Policy.

2.2 Why We Use Data Collection Tools

IMED Foundation uses the following types of Data Collection Tools for the purposes described:

• Essential: Enables access to the site, provides basic functionality, secures the site, protects against fraudulent logins, and detects and prevents abuse or unauthorized use of your account.
• Functional: Remembers data about your browser and preferences, provides additional site functionality, customizes content, and remembers settings affecting the Services' appearance and behavior.
• Performance: Measures and improves the Services by providing usage and performance data, visit counts, traffic sources, and where an application was downloaded from.
• Advertising: Delivers relevant ads based on user activity and system data, and information provided by ad service providers.
• Social Media: Enables social media functionality, tracks user activity across other sites, and builds a profile of user interests for targeted advertising.
• Users can set their web browser to alert them about cookie attempts, limit the types of cookies allowed, or refuse cookies.

2.3 Web Browser Controls for Cookies

• Alerts users about cookie attempts.
• Limits cookie types.
• Rejects cookies entirely.
• May affect Service features and functionality.

• Provide and administer Services: Facilitates participation in educational content, issue completion certificates, displays customized content, and facilitates communication with other users.
• Process requests and orders for educational content, products, specific services, information, or features: Account Data, Shared Content, Learning Data, System Data, Communications and Support.
• Communicate with users about their account: Responds to questions and concerns, sends administrative messages, and sends push notifications.
• Manage account preferences and personalize experience: Manages account and account preferences.
• Facilitate technical functioning of Services: Troubleshoots and resolves issues, secures Services, and prevents fraud and abuse.
• Solicit user feedback: Account Data; Communications and Support.
• Market products, services, surveys, and promotions: Account Data; Learning Data; Sweepstakes, Promotions, and Surveys; Usage Data; Cookie Data.
• Learn more about users: Linking data with additional data through third-party data providers and analytics service providers.
• Identify unique users across devices: Account Data; System Data; Cookie Data.
• Improve Services: Improve Services and develop new products, services, and features.
• Analyze trends and traffic: Track usage data.
• Advertise Services on third-party websites and applications: Account Data; Cookie Data.

• Instructors: Your data is shared with instructors or teaching assistants for educational content improvement.
• Other Students and Instructors: Your shared content and profile data may be publicly viewable.
• Service Providers, Contractors, and Agents: Your data is shared with third-party companies performing services on our behalf.
• IMED Foundation Affiliates: Your data may be shared within our corporate family of companies related by common ownership or control.
• Business Partners: Your data may be shared with other websites and platforms to distribute our Services and drive traffic to IMED Foundation.
• Analytics and Data Enrichment Services: We share certain contact information or deidentified data as part of our use of third-party analytics tools like Google Analytics and data enrichment services like ZoomInfo.
• To Power Social Media Features: Your interactions with these features are governed by the third-party company’s privacy policy.
• To Administer Promotions and Surveys: Your data may be shared as necessary to administer, market, or sponsor promotions and surveys you choose to participate in.
• For Advertising: If we decide to use an advertising-supported revenue model in the future, we may use and share certain System Data and Usage Data with third-party advertisers and networks to show general demographic and preference information among our users.
• For Security and Legal Compliance: We may disclose your data to third parties if we have a good faith belief that the disclosure is requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, reasonable necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and other legal agreements, required to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, misuse, potential violations of law, or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of IMED Foundation, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services.
• During a Change in Control: If IMED Foundation undergoes a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution, we may share, disclose, or transfer all of your data to the successor organization during such transition or in contemplation of a transition.
• After Aggregation/ DE-identification: We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified data for any purpose.

• Uses appropriate security based on data type and sensitivity.
• Protects against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of personal data.
• Measures vary based on data type and sensitivity.
• No system can be 100% secure, so communications cannot be free from unauthorized access.
• Password is an important part of the security system, and users should protect it.
• If password or account is compromised, change it immediately and contact the Support Team.

Opt-out of promotional emails, cookies, and third-party data collection. Account updates and termination within Services. Individual rights requests for personal data.

IMED Foundation updates this policy via email, in-product notice, or other legal mechanisms. Changes become effective the day they are posted. Users can contact IMED Foundation via email or postal mail for any questions, concerns, or disputes. Modifications to this policy may occur periodically, with notification via email or posted on the Services. Continued use of the Services after a change signifies acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined in this policy are defined in IMED Foundation's Terms of Use. Questions, concerns, or disputes can be addressed via postal mail (P.O.Box 35036) or to our email address info@imedfoundation.or.tz Located: Sam Nujoma Road,Opp Mlimani City, 8rd Floor,Mlimani tower.