Privacy policy

Who is responsible for your data

This website, and the enquiries that come through it, are the responsibility of Coral & Teak, Nungwi, Zanzibar. Questions about your personal data go to the same WhatsApp chat you write to us in.

What this website does not collect

This site describes our construction work in Zanzibar. Its one purpose is to let you start a conversation with us on WhatsApp.

Static pages make up the whole site. There are no contact forms, no user accounts, no newsletter sign-up and no comment boxes, so nothing here asks for your name, email address or phone number.

No advertising runs on the site, and no advertising cookies are placed in your browser. You will not see pop-up windows or chat windows from other companies either.

What the server may record

A server hosts this site, and it may keep a technical log of each visit. A log of this kind can hold:

• The IP address the request came from.
• The date and time of the request.
• The page that was opened.
• The browser used to open it.

Such logs exist to keep the site running and to find faults or misuse. We do not use them to identify visitors or to build profiles. How long they are kept depends on the hosting service; once that service is chosen, this page will say so.

Visit and click counting

At the time of writing, the site has no visitor statistics tool and no counter on its buttons. If we add one, for example to see which pages lead to WhatsApp messages, this page will name it and say what it records before it is switched on.

What happens when you press a WhatsApp button

Every WhatsApp button on the site is a plain link to our number. It opens a chat in WhatsApp with a ready message that names a service and the address of the page you came from. You can change or remove that text, and nothing reaches us until you press send.

Pressing the button opens WhatsApp outside this site. From then on, WhatsApp handles your messages under its own terms and privacy policy, not this one.

What reaches us when you write

Once you send a message, we see:

• Your phone number.
• The name on your WhatsApp profile.
• The text you write, including the opening line from the button.
• Any photos, drawings or other files you attach.

How we use your messages

We use these details to answer your enquiry: to ask about the job, agree a site visit, prepare an estimate and, if work goes ahead, keep you informed. Your number is not added to any mailing list, and neither your number nor your messages are passed to advertisers. If someone outside our company needs to see your drawings or photos for your job, we ask you in the chat first.

How long we keep your messages

A chat stays with us only as long as needed to answer your enquiry. If the work goes ahead, we keep it for as long as the job and its records need it.

Seeing, correcting or deleting your data

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete our chat with you. Write to us on WhatsApp at the number on our contact page and say what you would like.

We reply in the same chat to confirm what we will do before anything is deleted. If a job in progress still needs part of the chat, we tell you which part and why. Should you no longer want to hear from us, say so and we stop writing to you.

Changes to this policy

This policy was written on 13 November 2026. If the way the site works changes, we update this page first and give it a new date. How you may use the content of this site is set out in our terms of use.