Privacy Policy

with Habesha is a community business directory. We collect only what the directory needs to run: the business listings you submit, a language preference, and items you save on your own device. We run no third-party analytics or advertising trackers, and we never sell personal data.

Listing submissions: when you submit a business through our Add a Listing form, we store the business name, your name, and your email address (required), plus any optional details you add such as phone number, address, city, postal code, website, category, and specialties. Submissions are kept as pending requests so our team can review and publish them.

Admin sign-in: administrators sign in with an email address and a one-time sign-in link. We store the admin email address and session records needed to keep the dashboard secure.

Saved businesses: when you tap the save button on a listing, the listing's ID is stored in your browser's local storage on your own device. This never leaves your device and is never sent to our servers.

Language preference: we remember your language choice (English, Amharic, or Tigrinya) in a cookie and in your browser's local storage so the site appears in your language on your next visit.

If you use our mobile app and allow notifications, the app registers a push token with Firebase Cloud Messaging (a Google service) so we can deliver community updates to your device. The token identifies your device for delivery purposes only. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not share it with advertisers.

You can stop push delivery at any time by turning off notifications for the app in your device settings. You can also ask us to delete your token by emailing contact@torcreatives.com.

We use a small number of cookies, all first-party:

• withhabesha_session — keeps administrators signed in to the dashboard. It is HttpOnly (not readable by page scripts) and expires after 30 days.

We do not use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.

We use the information we collect to operate the directory: reviewing and publishing listing submissions, responding to the people who submitted them, keeping administrator accounts secure, and remembering your language and saved items.

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with advertisers or data brokers. Two external services process data on our behalf: our transactional email provider, which delivers admin sign-in links, and Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google), which delivers push notifications to the mobile app. Neither receives your data for advertising. Business information you submit for publication (business name, address, phone, website, and similar) is published publicly in the directory once approved — that is the purpose of the directory.

Listing submissions are kept while under review and for as long as the published listing remains in the directory. Admin session records expire automatically. If you would like a submission corrected or removed, contact us at the address below.

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information you have provided to us. Email contact@torcreatives.com and we will respond to reasonable requests.

We take reasonable measures to protect your information, including HttpOnly session cookies, rate limiting on sign-in endpoints, and review of submissions before publication. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we will update the date below and highlight the change here.