Privacy Policy

Afribit Africa is a grassroots Bitcoin organisation based in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. We build financial access for underserved communities through Bitcoin education, merchant networks, and the Lightning Network. You can reach us at connect@afribit.africa.

When you submit a form, we collect the details needed to handle it:

• Name and email address when you submit our contact form
• Phone number if you choose to include it in the contact form
• Message content you send us
• Email address and optional name when you subscribe to the newsletter

Administrator sign-in uses functional session cookies.

Information you submit is used solely to:

• Respond to your inquiry or message
• Follow up on partnership or volunteer requests
• Send updates you explicitly request

The Afribit team handles contact messages using our database and email services. Newsletter subscription details are used for updates you request.

Contact submissions are stored in our database and sent to the team by email. Newsletter subscriptions are stored separately. To ask about stored information or request its removal, email connect@afribit.africa.

The site uses services to operate and links to community platforms:

• Hosting, database, and email services used to handle site operations and submissions
• Google (administrator sign-in)
• hCaptcha (form abuse prevention) - verification is subject to hCaptcha's privacy policy
• Fedi (community messaging) — governed by Fedi's own privacy policy
• Blink (Lightning donation payments)
• BTC Map — an open-source community project
• Social platforms (X, Instagram, Telegram, YouTube)

We are not responsible for the data practices of any external service. Review their policies before sharing personal information with them.

Under Kenya's Data Protection Act 2019, you have the right to access, correct, or delete any personal information we hold about you. To exercise these rights, contact us at connect@afribit.africa.

We may update this policy as our website evolves. Changes will be reflected with a new "Last updated" date. Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated policy.