Terms of use

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The directory

Independent professionals (designers, lawyers, psychologists and others) are listed only after we have checked their identity and, for licensed professions, their professional licence, and only while that check is current. A Verified mark means we checked who the person is and, where shown, their licence on the date given. We do not vouch for the quality of their work or advice, and we are not a party to any agreement between a professional and a client.

Listings marked unverified are compiled from public sources and have not been confirmed by the business. They are provided as is. Check details with the business before relying on them.

Your account

You must have the right to the business you claim and to the content you publish. We may suspend a listing or site that is false, misleading or unlawful.

Corrections and removal

The owner of a listed business may ask for it to be corrected or removed at support@digitalethiopia.info.

No scraping or automated harvesting

Everything on this platform — business listings, professional profiles, phone numbers, addresses, text, images and website designs — belongs to us or to its owners. The following is forbidden without our written permission:

• collecting, copying or downloading content in bulk with a bot, crawler, script or any other automated tool
• copying our content to build, sell or republish your own database, directory or dataset
• harvesting phone numbers or emails for spam, direct marketing or fraud
• guessing passwords, entering someone else’s account, getting around rate limits or bot protection, or overloading the platform
• uploading another person’s photo, document or business details without their permission

What is allowed: search engines indexing our public pages, and AI assistants reading a public page to answer one person’s question and linking back to us. Being technically able to fetch a page is not a licence to copy it in bulk.

What happens if you break this: we will block you, close your accounts, claim damages, and report the matter to the Ethiopian authorities. Ethiopian law provides prison sentences and fines for these acts, including the Computer Crime Proclamation No. 958/2016 (unauthorised access to computer systems or data, and damaging data), the Personal Data Protection Proclamation No. 1321/2024 (collecting or passing on people’s personal data without a lawful basis), the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Proclamation No. 410/2004, and the Criminal Code. Do not rely on this summary as legal advice; ask a lawyer before taking a risk.

Respecting other people’s privacy

We respect your privacy and expect you to respect everyone else’s. Personal data of other people that you get from the platform (names, phone numbers, emails, addresses, documents) may not be used, shared or sold for any purpose beyond the one it was made available for. If you see a use you think is unlawful, tell us at support@digitalethiopia.info.

Activity records

Activity tracking happens only with your permission, as described in our Privacy page. We may keep administrative records of actions taken on accounts, such as suspensions.