ZATS – Zanzibar Technology Specialists
Privacy Policy
How ZATS collects, uses, protects and keeps member information.
1. What we collect
- Account and profile: your name, contact details, location, professional information, specializations, education, certifications, experience, projects and preferences.
- Verification documents: your photograph, identity document and certificates.
- Activity: sign-in times, notifications, community posts, messages and event registrations.
- Verification scans: when someone checks a ZATS ID we record the time and whether the QR code was valid – not who scanned it.
2. Why we use it
To run your membership, verify your professional status, issue your digital ID, show your profile to the audience you choose, connect you with the community and opportunities, and keep the platform safe.
3. Who can see what
- You choose whether your profile is public, visible to members only or private, and whether your email, phone and WhatsApp number are shown.
- Your date of birth, address, identity documents and certificate numbers are never shown publicly. Only authorised ZATS reviewers can open your documents.
- The public verification page shows only your membership status, name, category and approved public information.
4. How we protect it
Documents are stored in private storage, never in a public folder, and are opened only through authorised access. Your address is encrypted. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes. Reviewer actions are recorded in an audit log.
5. How long we keep it
We keep your information while you are a member. If you ask us to close your account, we remove your profile and documents within 30 days, except records we must keep for legal reasons or to prevent your reference number being reused.
6. Your choices
From your dashboard you can update your profile, change who sees it, download a copy of your data and ask for your account to be deleted.
7. Contact
Questions about your information? Contact the ZATS team through the contact page.
Last updated 7 November 2026
