Your privacy, in plain language.
This is the short, honest version of how Yibuka handles your information. A full policy reviewed under Kenya's Data Protection Act is being finalised and will replace this page.
What we collect
- Your name, email and whether you join as a student or parent, collected when you create an account.
- Your age range, county and school or work status, if you complete your profile, so guidance fits where you are.
- Your assessment answers and results, so you can come back to them.
- The M-Pesa number you enter at checkout, used only to process that payment.
How we use it
- To save your results and progress to your account.
- To tailor career guidance, study routes and opportunities to you.
- To process report payments and unlock what you've paid for.
- We do not sell your personal information.
Where it lives
Your account and results are stored securely with Google Firebase, the cloud platform Yibuka runs on. Payment confirmation happens through Safaricom's M-Pesa service; Yibuka never sees or stores your M-Pesa PIN.
Your choices
You can stop using Yibuka at any time. Account deletion and a full data-rights process (access, correction and erasure requests) are part of the complete policy being finalised, and will be available before wide launch. Yibuka is designed for 16- to 26-year-olds and the parents and guardians who support them.
If you are under 18
Accounts are open from age 16. If you are under 18, we ask for a parent or guardian's name, relationship and phone number, and give you a link to share with them. Nothing personal is saved — no assessment answers, no results — until they open that link and confirm. Career guides and lessons stay open to you in the meantime, and need no account at all. A parent or guardian can withdraw that permission, or ask us to delete everything we hold, at any time.