last updated March 2026
Dubinoes (Private) Limited (trading as Dubinoes) is a Zimbabwean digital marketplace that offers a buying and selling process. To provide you with the full range of Dubinoes products and services, we need to collect and process certain information about you.
This Notice and our Cookies Policy apply to all visitors to and users of:
In this Notice, references to the Website include the Apps, where applicable.
It also applies to anyone contacting us by phone, SMS, email, in letters and other correspondence, in person and via social media
“Data Protection Legislation” means all applicable data protection and privacy legislation in force from time-to-time in Zimbabwe
If you are a dealer contracted with us, please see the privacy notice that is available via the Portal for information regarding the personal information we hold and use in order to provide your dealership with requested products and services.
Our website address is: https://www.dubinoes.com
For the purposes of this Notice, the data controller is Dubinoes (Private) Limited (registered in Zimbabwe) and whose registered office address is at Dubinoes (Private) Limited, No.5 Bridgeways, 19 Aberdeen Road, Avondale, Harare.
Dubinoes is part of the “Dubinoes Group”, which includes MotorMag (Private) Limited (trading as MotorMag) and CompuSale (Private) Limited (trading as CompuSale & E-Spider Web).
References in this Policy to “Dubinoes” also apply to its sister channels on this Website.
If you have any questions regarding the use of your personal data, please contact us at: dataprotection@dubinoes.com
or
Data Protection,
Dubinoes (Private) Limited,
No.5 Bridgeways,
19 Aberdeen Road,
Avondale,
HARARE.
To create an account, we will collect your email address and your chosen password and (if you choose to provide it) full name and telephone number. Once you have registered you can update your personal details in your account at any time and you can view your adverts, payment history and subscriptions with us. If you later provide your full name and telephone number, at the time of an online order on the Website, this personal information will be saved in your account. Where you log in via Facebook or another social media account, we may be provided with limited personal details (including your account ID and email address) to verify you are logged in.
Legal basis:
We use your name and email address to register your account and send you service communications about how to access and manage your account (available within the “My Account“ section of the Website). Where you have provided a telephone number, we may also use this to contact you about your account. You can access the “My Account“ area at any time to update your details and can also change your options regarding marketing communications from Dubinoes and/ or third-parties that you have selected in this area.
Where you make (or start) an online order on the Website, we may contact you regarding your online order, as described in the ‘Online Orders‘ section below.
If you log-in via Facebook or another social media account, those sites may automatically give us access to your limited personal details (including your account ID and email address) in order to verify if you are logged in with their site. Once you are logged-in to our Website your data will be handled by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy. We are not responsible for any use of your personal data by Facebook or any other social media site and you should review their privacy policies.
As part of the advert placement process on the Website, we collect your name, telephone number, email address and physical address, as well as details of the product/ service you wish to sell (including the registration/ serial number) and device ID and IP address.
Legal basis:
We use your name and email address to register your account and your advert, confirm that your advert has been published and send you service communications about how to access and manage your account (available within the “My Account“ section of the Website) and your advert. You can access the “My Account“ area at any time to update your details and can also change your options regarding marketing communications from Dubinoes and/ or third-parties that you have selected in this area.
We use your physical address to provide a positioning of the product/ service you advertise within our database; this allows potential buyers to locate products/ services for sale within a set radius of their chosen location. Your physical address is not disclosed in your advert.
Registration/ Serial Numbers are required to place an advert on the Website for regulatory and security purposes. We will not disclose the Registration/ Serial Number within the text of your advert. However, if the Registration/ Serial Number is displayed in photographs within your advert then these details will be visible to Website visitors who may use them without your authorisation.
We may share the Registration/ Serial Number with prospective buyers, and other third-parties, in order to provide our services, such as where a prospective buyer requests a Product Provenance Check or a quote for insurance.
We have reciprocal data sharing agreements with certain finance providers, which allows us to identify products being advertised on our site that have an existing finance agreement with one of those finance providers. We may confirm to the relevant finance provider where the data they have provided (i.e. the Vehicle Registration Number, the make and model) matches a vehicle advertised on our site and the date it was advertised, in order to allow the finance provider to identify potentially fraudulent sales.
We will not share the Registration/ Serial Number unless we have an appropriate legal basis.
If your advert expires, we will contact you via phone or email to give you the option to re-book your advert.
We may also use the information you provide for internal business records and purposes, including to analyse and develop our products and services and the Website.
We use certain features in our advert placement process to protect the privacy of our customers when they are communicating with potential buyers via phone or email.
For customers placing a Private advert, we apply a Protect Your Number facility as a default on all adverts when customers provide their phone number. Protect Your Number enables you to keep your telephone number private by providing you with a substitute telephone number to use in your advert. You will need to contact our Customer Service team if you wish to remove this facility. Please be aware that if you opt out of using this facility, your telephone number will be visible within your advert.
For customers placing Private adverts, we also provide a customer-to-customer email service that allows Website visitors and potential buyers who view your advert to contact you via a link displayed on your advert, without disclosing your email address. We use this to disable any potential harmful links that may expose you to fraudulent activity. The use of the customer-to-customer email service is mandatory for us to maintain security of our Website. We reserve the right to monitor and retain all communications via the email service for security monitoring purposes.
You will also be required to supply payment card details to place your advert. We use third-party payment providers to manage online card payment transactions. Payment card information is collected over a secure online payment gateway provided by:
All payment transactions processed are encrypted. Your payment card information is used solely to process payment for your advert. We retain no record of your payment card details.
Where you are given the option to try and sell your product/ service at auction and you take up this offer, we will pass your details onto our partner, Dealer Auction, who will process your personal data in accordance with their privacy notice. We will save your advert details and use your email address to keep in contact with you during the auction process, including to contact you, if the auction is unsuccessful, in order to help you continue to list your product/ service on our Website.
When you communicate with us, you may provide personal data to us such as your name, address, contact details, organisation details, dietary requirements. We will use this in order to deal with your communication.
Legal basis:
You may provide your personal data to us for one of the following reasons:
When using services on Dubinoes you will need to provide certain personal information such as name, email address, telephone number and physical address and details regarding your product (including registration/ serial number, mileage, make and model) to enable us or a third-party to provide you with the services requested. Depending on the service, this information may be passed to a third-party.
Legal basis:
Valuation – You will need to provide details regarding your product/ service in order to obtain a valuation. This may be the registration/ serial number and mileage and/ or other details regarding your product such as the make and model.
Vehicle Search facility – You will need to supply your physical address in order to use our product/ service search facility. We will use this to present adverts matching your search criteria within the specified distance from your selected location (or which are available for delivery to your location).
Making an online enquiry about a product/ service – If you make an online enquiry about a product/ service through the Website you will need to provide your name, email address, physical and/ or postal address and telephone number which will be passed to the relevant dealer or other third-party (such as the manufacturer). By submitting your request, you are giving authorisation for your details to be passed to the relevant dealer or other party (such as the manufacturer) for them to contact you and action your request. The relevant dealer or other party (such as the manufacturer) will act as a data controller in their own right and will process your personal data in accordance with their own privacy notice. Please ask them for details.
See the relevant section below for information related to Deals and Reservations.
Product Provence Check
If you are performing a Product Check, you will first need to register for a Dubinoes account. To complete a Product Check, we will need to process the Registration/ Serial Mark for the product
You may also be required to supply payment card details to perform a Product Check. We may use third-party payment providers to manage online card payment transactions. Payment card information is collected over a secure online payment gateway provided by:
All payment transactions processed are encrypted. Your payment card information is used solely to process payment for your Product Check. We retain no record of your payment card details.
To submit a Product Check Data Guarantee claim, we may ask you to provide some additional information to help us investigate your claim.
If you are performing a Product Check, you will first need to register for a Dubinoes account. To complete a Product Check, we will need to process the Registration/ Serial Mark for the product.
Legal basis:
Chat Service – If you use the chat service, available on some dealer adverts, to communicate with dealers (“Chat Service”), you may disclose your name, email address and other personal information to a dealer while using the service. The Chat service is provided by Live Person Automotive or other third-party provider chosen by the retailer, who may also have access to the content of your live chat messages (including any personal data contained in them). Please refer to the relevant Chat Service provider’s privacy policy for information about how they process your personal data.
All conversations and email exchanges are recorded. Any personal information that you disclose during a live chat or via an online form will be accessible to and processed by the relevant Chat Service provider, the dealer with whom you communicate, and will be made available to Dubinoes. Additionally, the Chat Service provider may use computer infrastructure which is situated outside of Zimbabwe. By using the Chat Service, you acknowledge and agree that any personal data disclosed by you while using the Chat Service may be processed and stored by the Chat Service provider on its systems outside Zimbabwe and will be protected by adequate safeguards
Request a quote for insurance – We have partnered with a third-party to provide you with insurance comparison services.
If you request an insurance quote, we will pass you to their website. We will share the registration/ serial number with them, so that they can provide an insurance quote to you.
In addition, where you give us consent to use cookies and similar technologies for analytics purposes, we will add some extra information to the URL in order to pass information to them (including, without limitation, a referral ID, information about which platform you are using (app/ web) and the condition of the product (new/ used)) for analytics purposes.
Please refer to their privacy notice for further information about how they process your information.
If you choose to download or use our Mobile Applications, or access one of our mobile optimised sites, we may receive information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device. We may use this information to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising, search results, and other personalised content.
Legal basis:
Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable location services within the mobile device’s settings. If you have questions about how to disable your device’s location services, we recommend you contact your mobile service carrier or the manufacturer of your device.
To administer, maintain, develop and improve our Website and services, we use your contact details and details of your activity on the Website, visitor ID, use of our Services and interactions with us such as name, telephone number, email address and physical address, details of adverts you have published, details within the My Account section of the Website, your interactions with us and, where applicable, details relating to your finance application and the decision of the lender or broker (as applicable).
Legal basis:
We will use your contact details such as name, telephone number, email address and physical address, details of adverts you have published, details with the My Account section of the Website and details of your activity on the Website and your interactions with us in order to:
We may profile your activity on our Website and Apps to help us:
We do not make automated decisions which will have a legal or similar effect on you.
You can always object to profiling by emailing us at dataprotection@dubinoes.com
Any profiling data that we hold about you will only be kept for as long as is necessary to meet the above objectives.
We may receive personal data about you from various third-parties, including (without limitation) the following:
Legal basis:
Where you make an application to lease on https://www.motormag.com, which belongs to our group company MotorMag, your personal data will be stored on the shared Dubinoes Group infrastructure and we may use the personal data in order to assist MotorMag in providing the products and services to you and/ or where there is a legitimate interest to help us work together to improve our products and services across the Dubinoes Group. Dubinoes and MotorMag act as joint data controllers in respect of their processing of your personal data for the purpose of progressing your leasing application.
If you make a purchase that has been advertised on our Website, the dealer or manufacturer who sold the product/ service to you may send us information about the sale. This may include the date of the sale, the product registration/ serial number and your physical address. This allows us to track sales and make improvements to our Website and services.
For details about the information that we receive from credit reference agencies, please see the ‘Finance Application Services’ section above.
We offer the ability for individuals to leave reviews of dealers on the Website. Some of our dealers use direct emails to consumers, the data received is processed in accordance with their privacy policy. They share the reviews with us (including any personal data disclosed by the reviewer as part of the review), which we publish on our Website. They also share the reviewer’s name, age and location, where the reviewer has consented to this information being shared with us. If the reviewer does not give their consent, only the reviewer’s first name and surname initial, which will appear with the review on the Website.
Some dealers use different third-party providers to collect reviews on their behalf, and they share such reviews with us. Please refer to the relevant review provider’s privacy policy for information about how they process your personal data.
Some third-party companies (including manufacturers, finance service providers and insurance companies), who we partner with, provide us with registration/ serial number data. We do not, and are not able to, link the registration/ serial number to any other data in order to identify the registered owner of a product. However, notwithstanding this, we treat the data with the same protections as if it is personal data.
Under data protection laws, we are required to have a legal basis to process your personal information. We have set out below the legal bases we rely on:
Where consent is required for us or a dealer to process certain types of your personal data, it must be clearly given. You may give us your consent to receive our marketing communications and/ or when you use the Website to request services provided by dealers.
Where you have given consent for Dubinoes to process your personal data, you may withdraw consent at any time by emailing dataprotection@dubinoes.com. We will cease processing your data based on that consent, but this does not affect any processing we have undertaken at any time before withdrawal.
If you have given consent for your details to be passed to a dealer or other third-party, your data may already have been used by them to respond to your request before we can action your consent withdrawal. In this event, you will need to contact them to withdraw your consent to their use of your personal data.
Dubinoes will not pass on your personal data to third-parties except as set out in this Notice or with your consent. We may disclose your personal information to third-parties for the following purpose(s) and in the following circumstances as part of our processing activities:
We are not responsible for any use of your personal data by these parties except where they act as our processor.
Dubinoes will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy. All information you provide to us is stored securely within Zimbabwe, and not transferred outside Zimbabwe unless specifically detailed in this Policy.
Payment card information details you provide when requesting dealer or other third-party services through the Website and information you provide when using the Chat Service is handled in accordance with the relevant service providers’ privacy policies and may be transferred and stored or processed by them outside of Zimbabwe in accordance with their privacy policies.
Where we transfer your data outside of Zimbabwe, we will ensure that safeguards are in place to provide a similar degree of protection is available to protect it. This may include contractual protections in place with our service providers or transferring your data to countries or parties which are recognised as providing suitable protection by Zimbabwe.
Certain parties to whom we disclose your personal data may transfer your data outside of Zimbabwe after we disclose it to them as their business and administration activities (see above, Disclosure of your information). We are not responsible for any use of your personal data by these parties except where they act as our processor. If you have queries or require more information on how these third-parties use your information, including such transfers outside of Zimbabwe and please read their privacy policies or contact them.
Dubinoes uses strict procedures and security features designed to prevent any unauthorised access to your data that we hold.
Dubinoes will process personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose we collected it for, including the purpose of legal, accounting and reporting requirements, and for as long as necessary for the prevention and detection of criminal activity.
The period for which we process and store the personal data varies depending on the use you make of the Website and the products and/ or services we offer. Where you register an account or place an advert we will retain your data for as long as your account and/ or advert is live and a period after your account is closed or advert ends to enable us to satisfy our legal, accounting and reporting requirements.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Right to be forgotten below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Under data protection law, you have the following rights:
Some of these rights may not always apply. You can read more about your rights below.
You may be able to exercise the following rights:
Please email dataprotection@dubinoes.com if you have any queries regarding your rights. You can exercise your rights as set out above by emailing dataprotection@dubinoes.com All of the above requests will be forwarded on should there be a third-party involved (as set out in this Privacy Policy) in the processing of your personal data.
If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Dubinoes (or third-parties as described above), or how your complaint has been handled, in the first instance please email your concerns to dataprotection@dubinoes.com
You also have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the Zimbabwe supervisory authority which is the Information Commissioner’s Office