Privacy

This site is static HTML. There is no account to create, no newsletter that requires your name, and no advertising.

This site uses Google Analytics. It records which pages are read, roughly where in the world readers are, and which links they follow. That is used for one thing: working out which guides are worth writing and which are failing people. Google receives this data and applies its own privacy policy to it.

This site uses Microsoft Clarity. It counts visits and records how people move through a page — scrolling, clicking, where attention stalls — and can replay an anonymised session. That is used to find guides where readers visibly get stuck. Microsoft receives this data under its own privacy statement.

The calculators are masked from that recording. Every calculator on this site is marked so Clarity cannot capture what is typed into it. Your salary, your rent and your household budget are not in any session replay.

You can opt out with any tracker blocker, or with Clarity’s opt-out. None of the site’s content or calculators depends on analytics, so blocking it costs you nothing.

The calculators never send your data anywhere. Every calculator on /tools runs entirely in your browser. What you type is not transmitted, logged or stored on a server. The budget planner remembers your figures in your own browser’s storage, and nowhere else. You can confirm this by opening your browser’s network tools and watching — the only outbound requests are the analytics ones described above, and they carry no figure you typed.

The live radio player connects you to the station, and only when you press play. On /radio each stream comes straight from that station’s own streaming server, not through this site, so the station or its streaming provider sees your IP address and that you are listening - as it would on the station’s own website. Nothing is requested from any station until you press play, and stopping a station closes the connection.

A few things are remembered on your own device using browser storage:

  • which items you have ticked on a checklist, so you do not lose your place when you reload the page in a queue
  • the exchange rate you set for currency conversions
  • the radio station you last played, and its volume

You can clear all of them by clearing site data in your browser. None is ever sent to us.

The search index is downloaded once and searched on your device, so what you search for stays on your phone.

The newsletter

Nothing on this site requires an email address. Every issue of the newsletter is published here as a web page and carried in the feed, so you can read all of it without subscribing to anything.

If you do subscribe, this is the whole of it:

  • Your email address is held by the email service that runs the list, and is used to send you the monthly newsletter. Nothing else.
  • It is never sold, rented, published, or passed to anyone for their own use.
  • Every issue carries a way to unsubscribe, and unsubscribing removes you.
  • We do not need and do not ask for your name, your phone number or anything else. An email address is enough to send an email.

If you would rather read it without being on a list at all, that is what the archive and the feed are for.

Accuracy and liability

Everything here is provided in good faith and without warranty.

Kenyan fees, procedures and legal requirements change, sometimes without announcement, and they vary between offices. The figures on this site carry verification dates and expire on a schedule, which is the best a written guide can do — but the counter is the authority, not this page.

Nothing here is legal, tax, immigration or financial advice. Statutes are cited so you know what to look up and what to point at. Do not rely on this site alone for a decision that matters. If the consequences are serious, pay a professional.

We are not liable for losses arising from anything on this site, including errors, omissions, or figures that were correct when written and are not correct now.

Independence

All About Nairobi is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for the Government of Kenya, Nairobi City County or any of their agencies — including KRA, NSSF, the Social Health Authority, NTSA, the Directorate of Immigration Services or the Business Registration Service.

Agency names and abbreviations are used descriptively, because those are the names on the buildings.

Guides and glossary entries on this site may be quoted and shared with attribution and a link. Statutes, official forms and government publications referenced here remain the property of their publishers.