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Privacy policy

A working draft

This policy describes what this website and our contributor accounts collect today, and why. It is being reviewed by an advocate, and the points we have still to confirm are marked as such. The contact form and member profiles collect personal data, which brings the site under the Data Protection Act, 2019.

Last updated 9 November 2026

Who we are

Developers Mania is a professional workgroup of developers and product designers fully remote, Kenya. We decide how the personal data described here is used, and we are responsible for it.

You can reach us about your data at hello@developersmania.com.

To be confirmedOur registered name and postal address, once the LLP's registration is confirmed.

What we collect

When you send an enquiry: Your name and email, and if you add them, your phone number and organisation. Also the project type, budget, timeline, the developer you asked about, your message, how you heard about us, and your agreement to this policy.
When you create a contributor account: Your sign-in email, your official names, and if you add them, a WhatsApp number and a professional email. We record when you agreed to this policy. If you sign in with Google or GitHub, they share your email and name with us.
When you build your profile: What you enter: your public name, profile address, role, bio, photo, projects, skills, tools and links. We record when you submit it and when you agree to its publication.
When your profile is reviewed: The reviewer's decision and any note, who reviewed it and when, and a copy of the profile as it was reviewed.
When you ask to join a capstone project: Your request and any note you add, and the decision, with who made it and when.
If you are given a role: Your role (reviewer or admin), and who gave it and when.
When an email is checked: The log-in and sign-up pages check the email you type against our contributor list as you type it. The check is not stored. Your IP address is used briefly to limit how many checks one visitor can make.
Cookies and analytics: This site uses no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and its fonts come from our own site. If you sign in, your browser keeps your sign-in in its local storage so you stay signed in. Logging out removes it.

Why we collect it

To reply to your enquiry.
To run your contributor account and let you sign in.
To build and review your profile, and with your agreement, publish it in the talent directory.
To consider your requests to join capstone projects.
To keep the service secure: limiting repeated email checks, and stopping automated sign-ups.

What is public

Nothing you enter is public until a reviewer approves your profile and you have agreed to its publication. Then the profile shows your public name, profile address, role, bio, photo, projects, skills, tools and links, and the tier the reviewer gives you.

We never publish your official names, sign-in email, WhatsApp number, professional email, review notes or role.

One thing is visible to anyone: the log-in page says whether an email it is given belongs to a contributor. It does this so contributors know straight away whether to log in or register.

Legal basis

We rely on your consent. You give it when you send an enquiry, when you create your account, and again each time you submit your profile for publication. You can withdraw it at any time, as described under Your rights. Withdrawing it does not undo what we did with your data before.

To be confirmedThe basis for the security checks, as the advocate's review advises.

Who we share it with

We do not sell your data or share it for advertising. These services handle it for us:

Supabase runs sign-in, sends sign-in links, and holds our database: accounts, profiles, reviews and project requests.
Cloudinary stores and serves profile photos.
Google and GitHub are involved only if you choose to sign in with them.
Cloudflare Turnstile checks that a visitor to the log-in and sign-up pages is a person. Cloudflare receives technical details about your browser and your IP address to do it.
Our reviewers and admins are Developers Mania members given that role. Reviewers see submitted profiles, with the account's names and contact details, and requests to join projects. Admins also see contributors' names and sign-in emails when giving out roles.

To be confirmedThe host for this website, and the service that will deliver the contact form, once each is chosen.

Transfers outside Kenya

Some of these services keep data outside Kenya. Our database and sign-in records are with Supabase in Ireland, in the European Union. Cloudinary, Google, GitHub and Cloudflare operate internationally.

To be confirmedWhere Cloudinary stores photos, and the safeguards in place for each transfer.

How long we keep it

Your account: Kept, with your profile, reviews and project requests, until you ask us to delete it. They are deleted together.
A published profile: Stays in the directory until you ask us to take it down. It comes off with the next site update.
A photo you remove or replace: Leaves your profile at once. The stored file is deleted when you ask us; we are working on deleting it automatically.
Email checks: Not kept.

To be confirmedHow long enquiries are kept, and anything kept after an account is deleted.

Your rights

You can ask to see the data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to how we use it. You can also withdraw your consent, for example to take your profile out of the directory.

You can correct your own profile at any time from your dashboard. For anything else, email hello@developersmania.com from the address you sign in with, so we know the request is yours.

To be confirmedHow quickly we reply to a request.

Contact and complaints

Questions about this policy or your data go to hello@developersmania.com.

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) at www.odpc.go.ke.

Changes

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date it was last updated, shown at the top.