"If we can’t touch the farmer, we don’t touch the coffee"

In Business to Change Lives

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Who we are

Jamii (Jah-Mee) means Community in Swahili. We are based in Portland, Oregon specializing in importing coffee from Kenya. Our journey started with a simple promise, “if we can’t touch the farmer, we don’t touch the coffee”. We have created and continue to innovate our sourcing approach to be extremely Farmer-Centric. Our mission is to ensure that the farmer is empowered to produce exemplary quality coffee and offering a relationship coffee from Kenya that is difficult to replicate at fairly traded prices.

Our vision is to build coffee relationships that have mutual benefits to all our partners. We use our social capital, diversity in skills and experience to ensure this is a reality. With over 60 years of combined experience in the Kenyan coffee industry, our expertise extends from Seedling to Cup. Leveraging our sourcing approach, expertise, social capital, and our passion to improve lives, we developed our Empowerment Coffee Commitment. The commitment goes beyond providing high quality coffee, it ensures that there are mutual benefits, unique relationships and experiences and the opportunity to touch lives beyond the trade of coffee.

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Our Philosophy

Jamii Coffee Philosophy

  • Protect and preserve honor by respecting one’s self, our partners, and our environment.
  • Ensure community-interest is more important than self-interest by building equitable relationships across our local, regional, and global communities.
  • Perpetuate equality through a belief that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
  • Promote happiness by encouraging confident expression of oneself, views, and desires.
  • Believe in the reward of hard work to persevere through all challenges while keeping in line with our mission.

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Our Commitment

Empowerment Coffee Commitment Pillars

Quality

Our pride is in the quality of coffee we offer. Our team’s expertise is from Seedling to Cup. This ensures that quality is maintained along the entire supply value chain. We have boots-on-the-ground all year round and we are constantly engaging farmers and Wet Mills throughout the season. We provide farmers with advice on optimal crop management techniques and best production practices in wet milling and drying. We constantly improve and explore new production processes to provide consistent exemplary quality coffee.

Traceability

As a grass-root organization, we have constant engagement with the Farmers and Wet Mills. This unique set-up enables us to develop our supply chain around the farmer. Our traceability system is based on the out-turn number. This system has ability to trace the coffee from Farm to Roastery. The coffee is identified by Wet mill or individual farmer, the miller, coffee milling week, coffee year, the sequence the coffee was received at the mill and the number of bags per grade. Look for the out-turn number printed on the bag and the stamped on a tag sewn on each individual bag of coffee. Decode the out-turn number.

Transparency, Integrity and Credibility

We understand that transparency, integrity and credibility of coffee has intangible value to both the Farmer and the Roaster. Our more than 60 years of combined experience in the Kenya coffee industry have provided us with deep understanding of Kenyan coffee Laws and Regulations. We use this knowledge to develop systems that have intrinsic value to both the farmer and the Roaster. We encourage visits to Kenya, this offers the Roasters and the Farmers an opportunity to engage and discuss to create a common understanding of expectations. We are constantly innovating to “let the coffee speak for itself”.

Empowerment

Our success is measured by how many lives we positively impact and touch through business. With approximately 30% of the Kenyan population employed in the coffee industry, trade in coffee provides a huge opportunity for socio-economic empowerment. Our pricing guidelines are designed to ensure that 50-60% of the price the roaster pays goes directly to the farmer. We commit our social capital and the team's diverse expertise to provide exemplary quality traceable specialty coffee to roasters. Our aspiration is that the investment of our expertise not only provides coffee quality but also improves the quality of life in the communities we interact with.

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Terms of Service

1. Terms

By accessing the website at https://www.jamiispecialtycoffee.com, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms of service, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

2. Use License

  1. Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on Jamii Coffee Importers' website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
    1. modify or copy the materials;
    2. use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
    3. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Jamii Coffee Importers' website;
    4. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
    5. transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.
  2. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Jamii Coffee Importers at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

3. Disclaimer

  1. The materials on Jamii Coffee Importers' website are provided on an 'as is' basis. Jamii Coffee Importers makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights.
  2. Further, Jamii Coffee Importers does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its website or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.

4. Limitations

In no event shall Jamii Coffee Importers or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on Jamii Coffee Importers' website, even if Jamii Coffee Importers or a Jamii Coffee Importers authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

5. Accuracy of materials

The materials appearing on Jamii Coffee Importers website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Jamii Coffee Importers does not warrant that any of the materials on its website are accurate, complete or current. Jamii Coffee Importers may make changes to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. However Jamii Coffee Importers does not make any commitment to update the materials.

6. Links

Jamii Coffee Importers has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Jamii Coffee Importers of the site. Use of any such linked website is at the user's own risk.

7. Modifications

Jamii Coffee Importers may revise these terms of service for its website at any time without notice. By using this website you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these terms of service.

8. Governing Law

These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Oregon and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that State or location.

 

Privacy policy

1.      Introduction

1.1   We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors.

1.2   This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

1.3   We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

1.4   In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Jamii Coffee, LLC. For more information about us, see Section 12.]

2.      Credit

2.1   This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).

3.      How we use your personal data

3.1   In this Section 3 we have set out:

(a)   the general categories of personal data that we may process;

(b)   the purposes for which we may process personal data; and

(c)    the legal bases of the processing.

3.2   We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

3.3   We may process your account data ("account data"). The account data may include your name, company name, phone number and email address. The source of the account data is you. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is consent OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.

3.4   We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services ("enquiry data"). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

3.5   We may process information relating to our customer relationships, including customer contact information ("customer relationship data"). The customer relationship data may include your name, your employer, your job title or role, your contact details, and information contained in communications between us and you or your employer. The source of the customer relationship data is you or your employer. The customer relationship data may be processed for the purposes of managing our relationships with customers, communicating with customers, keeping records of those communications and promoting our products and services to customers. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

3.6   We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters ("notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.

3.7   We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us ("correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.

3.8   In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

3.9   Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.

4.      Providing your personal data to others

4.1   We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

4.2   We may disclose your enquiry data to one or more of those selected third party suppliers of goods and services identified on our website for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant goods and/or services. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the enquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party will supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party's use of your personal data.

4.3   In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

5.      Retaining and deleting personal data

5.1   This Section 5 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

5.2   Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

5.3   Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

6.      Amendments

6.1   We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

6.2   You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

6.3   We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email.

7.      Your rights

7.1   In this Section 7, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

7.2   Your principal rights under data protection law are:

(a)   the right to access;

(b)   the right to rectification;

(c)    the right to erasure;

(d)   the right to restrict processing;

(e)   the right to object to processing;

(f)    the right to data portability;

(g)   the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and

(h)   the right to withdraw consent.

7.3   You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.

7.4   You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

7.5   In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

7.6   In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

7.7   You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

7.8   You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.

7.9   You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

7.10 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:

(a)   consent; or

(b)   that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,

        and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

7.11 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

7.12 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

7.13 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data [by written notice to us.

8.      About cookies

8.1   A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

8.2   Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

8.3   Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

9.      Cookies that we use

9.1   We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a)   necessary – Necessary cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website.  The website cannot function properly without these cookies: cfduid (html5maker.com)

(b)   analysis - Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.: Google Analytics

(c)    marketing - Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.: Google Analytics

10.    Cookies used by our service providers

10.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

10.2 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.[ The relevant cookies are: [identify cookies].]

11.    Managing cookies

11.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a)   https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b)   https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c)    http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d)   https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e)   https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f)    https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

11.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

11.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

12.    Our details

12.1 This website is owned and operated by Jamii Coffee, LLC.

12.2 We are registered in Oregon in the United States of America under registration number 1194470-92, and our registered office is at 840 SE PARKS DR., DUNDEE, OR 97115.

12.3 Our principal place of business is at 840 SE PARKS DR., DUNDEE, OR 97115.

12.4 You can contact us:

(a)   by mail, to the postal address given above;

(b)   using our website contact form;

(c)    by email, using the email address published on our website.