AfRika Privacy Policy
We at AfRika are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to our website, af-rika.com. This Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing and usage practices. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. By using the website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Website.
We periodically update this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice sets out how we may use, process and store your personal identifiable information (PII). We may get that information from you or our partners, through contracts or other legal arrangements you have with us or our partners on behalf of us, in order to deliver contractual/legal obligations. In other cases, we will get that information from you with your permission and consent, or we may receive your personal information from third parties who you have given consent to pass this information on to us.
AfRika may collect information from you because we have a legal reason (allowed by law or under contract) to collect the information, or because you have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose.
The high-level Privacy Policy Statement can be viewed on the AfRika website at https://af-rika.com/privacy-policy/
Information Provided
You may give us information about you with your consent, for example:
- By registering your details and creating an account on the Website
- By filling in a form or sending us an e-mail
- Marketing responses
This information may be personal, financial or business. You may give us information for personalization of your experience on the website.
Information we collect about you
If you visit our website or member communities, we may automatically collect information about you, for example:
- Personal information that identifies you such as your name, gender, age, location
- Technical information
- IP addresses
- Information about what type of device you use to connect to our website
- How you interact with our website.
Every message you transmit through AfRika which includes the website and the chat bots is protected by an end to end encryption protocol. Your message is delivered securely to the intended destination.
Information we receive from other sources
We work with third parties and may receive information about you from them so as to contact you about our Website as well as other Products and Services.
How We Use Information We Collect
Compliance with our Privacy Policy
We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy. People who subscribe to our Website are obligated through our agreements with them to comply with this Privacy Policy.
We never sell personal information
We will never sell your Personal Information to any third party.
Use of personal information
In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use your Personal Information to:
- improve your browsing experience by personalising the Websites and to improve the Collaboration Service;
- send information to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means
- send you marketing communications relating to our Website or the activities of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, we do not transfer your unique Personal Information to the third party.
In addition, we may share data with trusted partners to contact you based on your request to receive such communications, help us perform statistical analysis, or provide support. Such third parties are prohibited from using your Personal Information except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. If you do not want us to share your personal information with these companies, contact us at [email protected]
We use the information collected through our Website by our users for the following purposes:
- to provide the Social Networking Service (which may include the detection, prevention and resolution of security and technical issues);
- to respond to support requests; and
- otherwise to fulfil the obligations under the Website Terms of Service.
User testimonials and comments
We post testimonials and comments on our Websites from Users, which may contain Personal Information. We obtain each user’s consent prior to posting the user’s name and testimonial.
Use of credit card information
If you give us credit card information, we use it solely to check your financial qualifications and collect payment from you. We use a third-party service provider to manage credit card processing. This service provider is not permitted to store, retain, or use information you provide except for the sole purpose of credit card processing on our behalf.
Security of your personal information
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We secure the Personal Information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When sensitive Personal Information (such as a credit card number and/or geo-location data) is collected on our Websites and/or transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If you have any questions about the security of your Personal Information, you can contact us at [email protected]
Social media features
Our Websites include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on our sites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our sites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy and other policies of the companies providing them.
External websites
Our Websites provide links to other websites including health websites that provide linkage to products or services. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other websites. Our provision of such links does not constitute our endorsement of these other websites, their content, their owners, or their practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have.
Public forums
We offer publicly accessible message boards, blogs, and community forums. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose any information through our public message boards, blogs, or forums, this information may be collected and used by others. We will correct or delete any information you have posted on the Websites if you so request, as described in “Opting Out and Unsubscribing” below.
Retention of personal information
We retain personal information that you provide us as long as we consider it potentially useful in contacting you about the Social Networking Service or our other services, or as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements, and then we securely delete the information. We will delete this information from the servers at an earlier date if you so request
Compelled disclosure
We reserve the right to use or disclose your personal information if required by law or if we reasonably believe that use or disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or comply with a law, court order, or legal process.
Navigational Information
Cookies
AfRika uses cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize pages on our Websites, or register for the Social Network Service, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to the same Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the customized features.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the AfRika Website you visit. AfRika keeps track of the Websites and pages you visit within AfRika, in order to determine what portion of the AfRika Website is the most popular or most used. This data is used to deliver customized content and promotions within the AfRika Website to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Log files
We may collect demographic information, such as your post code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites using log files that are not associated with your name or other personal information.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by us. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, internet service provider (ISP), the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, clickstream data, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by AfRika to maintain the quality of the Subscription Service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the AfRika Website. For these purposes, we do link this automatically-collected data to Personal Information such as name, email address, address, and phone number.
Information We Collect
When you visit our website
You are free to explore the Websites without providing any Personal Information about yourself. When you visit the Websites or register for the email Subscription Service, we request that you provide Personal Information about yourself.
“Personal Information”
This refers to any information that you voluntarily submit to us and that identifies you personally, including contact information, such as your name, e-mail address, company name, address, phone number, and other information about yourself or your business. Personal Information can also include information about any transactions, both free and paid, that you enter into on the Websites, and information about you that is available on the internet, such as from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google, or publicly available information that we acquire from service providers.
“Navigational information”
This refers to information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and pages viewed.
Payment information
We collect and process payment information from you when you subscribe to or purchase any of our services, including credit cards numbers and billing information, using third party PCI-compliant service providers. Except for this, we do not collect Sensitive Information from you.
Information about children
The Websites are not intended for or targeted at children under 10, and we do not knowingly or intentionally collect information about children under 10. If you believe that we have collected information about a child under 10, please contact us at [email protected], so that we may delete the information.
Your Rights
AfRika will respect individual’s legal rights to their data. These cover;
The right to be informed – AfRika is publishing this Privacy Notice to keep you informed as to what we do with your personal information. We strive to be transparent about how we use PII.
The right to access – the right to access your information. Contact AfRika if you wish to access the personal information held about you.
The right to rectification – if the information AfRika holds about you is inaccurate or not complete, you have the right to ask us to rectify it. If that data has been passed to a third party with your consent or for legal reasons, then we must also ask them to rectify the data.
The right to erasure – sometimes referred to as ‘the right to be forgotten’. If you want AfRika to erase all your personal data and we do not have a legal reason to continue to process and hold it, please contact us.
The right to restrict processing – you have the right to ask AfRika to restrict how we process your data. This means we are permitted to store the data but not further process it. We keep just enough data to make sure we respect your request in the future.
The right to data portability – AfRika must allow you to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across services in a safe and secure way without this effecting the usability of your data. The data must be held by us by consent or for the performance of a contract.
The right to object – Data Subjects have the right to object to AfRika processing their data even if it is based on our legitimate interests.
The right to withdraw consent – If you have given us your consent to process your data but change your mind later, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and AfRika must stop processing your data.
Opting Out and Unsubscribing
To unsubscribe from our communications
You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our e-mails, or by sending us email us at [email protected]. Users cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails related to their account with us or our services.
Links to Other Websites
From time to time, our website may contain links to and from websites of our partner networks, advertisers, social media sites etc. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites may have their own privacy notices and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for any such notices. Please check these notices, where available, before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version online. You should check this page occasionally to review any changes. If we make any material changes we will notify you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on our Websites and, if you have subscribed to our email communications, providing notice through the email address used when creating your subscription. This helps you to always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, it is disclosed. Your continued use of the Website and/or continued provision of Personal Information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please write to us by email at [email protected].
