AfroGist Media Terms and Condition and the Privacy Rights of Its Community
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AfroGist Media Inc and its subsidiaries and Affiliates serves the community of Afro Diaspora with information, inspiration, entertainment, and operate other online digital media and marketing services. AfroGist Media subsidiaries and Affiliates include AfroMarketen.com and US African Business Directory, and may collectively be referred to as “AfroGist Media, Inc.,” “we”, “us,” or “our” in this Terms and Conditions which contains the Privacy Policy section below.
This Privacy Policy details the Terms and Condition of Use of AfroGist Media websites and other spaces we use. It explains the information we collect and how we use them. More importantly, it provides details on your rights If you disagree with the Terms and Condition of Use as detailed in this Privacy Policy, you must discontinue using the Websites and all services and features therein. By using the Websites, you acknowledge you have read and understand this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies whenever and however you access or use our Websites, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or other devices “Websites” includes all subdomains of Websites and any content, code, data, services, features or functionality made available from or through the Websites. It also applies to your engagement with us whether in person or over the phone.
1. Disclaimer of Liability AfroGist Media Inc. has taken all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information contained in its web site is accurate; however, all information, and all products sold on this website or by any of its affiliates are provided “as is” without any express or implied warranties, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL US African Immigrants Gist Inc. BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY USE OR PERFORMANCE OF OR CONTENT ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE INFORMATION, EVEN IF NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR SUCH DAMAGES.
3. Links AfroGist Media Inc.’s web site may contain links to third party web sites, including unaffiliated websites that advertise with us. AfroGist Media. does not control the content of these web sites and makes no warranties or representations about their content. Unless specifically stated on this web site to the contrary, AfroGist Media is not affiliated with these third parties and does not endorse or sponsor their web sites, products or services.
4. Privacy Our privacy practices are designed to provide a high level of protection for your personal data.
5. Governing Law By accessing this web site, you agree that the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflict of laws and principles thereof, will apply to all matters relating to use of this web site. You
also submit to the personal jurisdiction of New York and the venue of the state and federal Courts of New York.
6. Patents One or more patents may apply to this Web site, which patents, together with all of the protections afforded them by applicable law, whether pending, registered, or granted, shall apply at all times. Patented materials, products, processes, or any other patented information or object, including software code, may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, nor reverse-engineered or otherwise used in the slightest degree, absent the express written permission of AfroGist Media Inc..
7. Submission Policy (1) Your submissions and their contents will automatically become the property of AfroGist Media Inc., without any compensation to you; (2) by making any submission to our website or any website on our domain, you grant us a universal, irrevocable, freely-transferable license to use, sell, modify, or delete such submissions; (3) we have no obligation to review the submission; and (4) there is no obligation to keep any submission confidential.
To the extent a submission is made under terms inconsistent with the terms and conditions of this policy, the terms and conditions of this policy govern.
Privacy Policy Table of Contents
What Information We Collect Automated Online Information Collection
Tracking technologies and how we use them Cookies Ad Networks Social Media Website Analytics Google Analytics Advertising Features Mobile Website and App Data Collection
Other Tech Resources Third Party Websites “Do Not Track” Technologies
How the Information We Collect is Used How the Information We Collect is Shared How We Protect the Information We Collect The Choices Regarding the Information You Collect Changes to This Privacy Policy Children Right to Removal of Posted Information – California Minors Your California Privacy Rights
Contacting Us This privacy policy applies to www.afrogistmedia.com and other technology resources owned
and operated by AfroGist Media Inc., (“AfroGist Media, Inc.”, “we”, “us”, “our”) which may include AfroGist Media website, AfroMarketen.com, US African Business Directory, online store, mobile applications, social platforms, chat rooms, and the like (“Tech Resources”). It also applies to your engagement with us when you visit our stores or otherwise communicate or interact with AfroGist Media Inc., outside online or Tech Resources.
This privacy policy describes how AfroGist Media Inc. collects and uses the information you provide, and the information that we otherwise collect. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our collection and use of your information, and how you can access and update this information.
If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us via email: info@afrogistmedia.com
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT When you visit AfroGistMedia.com and its subsidiary websites, make use of use of its Tech Resources or visit us, whether at our retail locations, at trade shows or elsewhere, or otherwise contact us through phone or email, you may be asked to provide us with information in order for us to provide you with the products or services that you have requested. This information may include:
● Name
● Username
● Password
● Shipping and billing addresses
● Year of birth
● Gender
● Email address
● Phone number
● Credit card number or other payment-related information
If you subscribe to our newsletters or send an inquiry to one of our customer service representatives, we will also store a record of your request along with your email address. When you order a giftcard or eGiftCard you are given the opportunity to include the name and a message for the recipient. We record this information, along with the shipping information.
We may enhance your customer profile and combine information you send us with other generally or publicly available information from third party vendors and data brokers to help us identify your preferences and interests and to help us complete and verify your contact and demographic information.
In addition, If you share us with photos, video or audio; sign up to participate in our sweepstakes, contest or other promotion activities and campaigns; participate in our polling or survey; make a purchase our products or receive our services, sign up to receive text messages of updates from us; receive push notifications; download or use our mobile app, provide us with contents, posts or comments such as photos, video, audio; and connect with services that permit us to access authorized information about you on social networking sites.
Automated Online Information Collection For each visitor to our Tech Resources, our web server automatically recognizes where possible the website or email (and associated email address) referring you to our Tech Resource. In order
to monitor and improve our Tech Resources as well as personalize your experience with AfroGist Media Inc. through direct online advertising, our web servers track various other technical details about your visit, such as your computer’s Internet protocol (IP) address, browser information, device type, internet service provider (ISP), date/time stamp, clickstream data and which pages you visit. This information is collected and stored using a variety of common technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags and log files. We use this data to gather analytics and to participate in ad networks. Learn more about our automated online information collection, tracking technologies and how to manage them.
TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND HOW WE USE THEM
COOKIES A cookie is a block of text placed in a file on the user’s hard drive by a website you’ve visited. These types of cookies cannot identify an individual user specifically, such as by name or address. We use both first party cookies, and as set forth below in more detail, third party cookies.
AfroGist Media Inc. uses first party cookies to observe visitor’s navigation throughout our web sites. We also have the ability to tie cookies to an individual through online registration and purchase information. This helps us identify ways to improve the community engagement experience, personalize our website, and collect information to provide direct online advertising.
AfroGist Media Inc. also uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are only used to track your browsing session, while persistent cookies are used to identify you when you come back to the Tech Resource in a different browsing session. For example, our shopping cart cookie is a persistent cookie, saved for a designated period of time in case the users’ session expires and they return to complete a purchase within that time frame.
If you do not want to use cookies, this will not prevent you from accessing the AfroGist Media Tech Resource. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers may provide information on how your browser may be configured so that cookies can be accepted with your permission or completely blocked. You may be able to change your browser settings so that they do not allow cookies to be accepted or saved at any time. You can also delete cookies that have already been saved at any time. Kindly note, however, that if you decline cookies, some functions on the website may be limited or unavailable.
AD NETWORKS We may use third party ad networks (called third-party ad servers or network advertisers) including Google and various social media platforms (as discussed below) to deliver ads to you on our behalf. These third party ad networks may place their cookies, web beacons, pixel tags or other technology on the Website or the Application or in your browser to collect non-personal information about you when you visit this Website or use this Application (such as browser type, time and date, browsing or transaction activity, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, or a platform-provided identifier during your visits to this and other websites) to enable those third party ad networks to deliver to you advertisements on third party websites and mobile applications for our products or services or those of third parties that are likely to be of greater interest to you. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis.
Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our website or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity also use HTML to collect and store
information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML.
We encourage you to view the privacy policy of advertisers and ad services to learn more about their cookies and other technologies. If you do not want to receive those kinds of advertisements, look for the “Ad Choices” icon in the advertisements, which will contain a link to the privacy policy of the ad network that will provide you with information on how to opt-out of receiving such targeted advertising.
You can also visit the website http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to learn more about interest-based advertising and third party ad networks and to opt-out of receiving ads from ad networks. Please remember that changing your settings with certain browsers and ad networks will not carry your privacy choices across browsers and other ad networks.
SOCIAL MEDIA Our Tech Resources may allow you to connect and share information with various social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. These features may require us to implement cookies, plug-ins and/or APIs provided by such social media platforms to facilitate the communications and features. We may share information that you provide us or that we may collect about your use of the Tech Resources with these platforms, which information becomes subject to their privacy and data policies. We encourage you to visit the privacy policies of these platforms for further information:
Facebook’s Data Policy at https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy Instagram’s Privacy Policy at https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/ Twitter’s Privacy Policy at https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en Pinterest’s Privacy Policy at https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
In addition, by choosing to use any third party social media platform or choosing to share content or communications with any social media platform, you allow us to share information with the designated social media platform. We cannot control any policies or terms of such third party platform. As a result, we cannot be responsible for any use of your information or content by a third party platform, which you use at your own risk.
We may also use the advertising services and networks offered by these social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter to deliver ad content. Use of these services requires the social media platform to implement cookies and/or pixels to deliver ads to you while online with such platforms.
If you are a member of one of these networks but do not wish the operator to collect data relating to you via our Tech Resources, you can take the following steps:
Always log out completely from the network in questions before visiting other websites, and delete any related cookies, as the plug-in providers have represented to us that your personal details such as your IP address are only collected and processed when members are logged in to the social network;
Hide the plug-ins using an ad blocker; or
The platform may allow you to disable such interest based advertising, which you would need to investigate with the particular platform provider. For example, you may opt out of interest-based
advertising on Twitter by notifying Twitter through one of the methods they describe online:https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170405
WEBSITE ANALYTICS Like many websites, we use a number of analytics and optimization vendors. These vendors, such as Google Analytics, Webtrends and Yahoo Analytics, collect information that your web browser automatically sends, such as the web address of the page that you visit and your IP address. These vendors may also set cookies or read preexisting cookies. This information is stored on the vendor’s servers and the vendor uses this information to provide us with reports about traffic to our website and your visit to our website (such as the domain from which you access the internet, the web address of the website from which you linked to our site, the time and date of your visit to the web pages that you view and click through). We will use this data to improve our website structure and content.
Google may also use this data in accordance with their Privacy Policy, which can be found athttp://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. For more detailed information on how Google uses your data through our Site, please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS ADVERTISING FEATURES We have also enabled the following Google Analytics Advertising Features: Google Display Network Impression Reporting, Remarketing with Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. The Google Display Network Impression Reporting uses the Google Analytics cookie to track our ad impressions and your interactions with those impressions, including the effectiveness of those ads, which generates reports for us to help us analyze our advertisements. Remarketing with Google Analytics uses the Google Analytics cookie to serve advertisements to you across the Internet based on your visit to our Website. Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting uses a third party cookie to collect information about our website traffic by tracking users across websites and across time, which generates a report for us to better understand our website users.
For the Google Analytics Advertising Features, you may also opt-out of our use of Google Analytics as described below. Please remember that changing your settings with certain browsers and ad networks will not carry your privacy choices across browsers and other ad networks.
MOBILE WEBSITE AND APP DATA COLLECTION If you access our mobile website or have downloaded our mobile app, we may also automatically collect information about the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device identifier, your mobile operating system, pages you visit on our mobile site, search terms, the type of mobile internet browsers you use and information about the way you use our mobile website and app. We use this information to obtain data about your visits to our stores, your general shopping habits, how you use our mobile platforms and how we might improve them.
If you choose to share your location with us, we use a service provider to approximate your position based on one or more of the following, as available: network location (cell tower triangulation) technology, GPS, wi-fi signals and/or Bluetooth signals. In addition, we may also send you push notifications based on your location if you activate your location settings on your device. IF YOU DO NOT WANT US TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR LOCATION, YOU MAY CHANGE YOUR LOCATION SETTINGS AS PERMITTED BY YOUR MOBILE DEVICE. SUREARMS.COM HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR THE FUNCTION OF THE LOCATION SETTINGS FEATURE WITHIN ANY MOBILE DEVICE.
Once you allow location based tracking through a mobile application or mobile website, you are agreeing that we can collect and use your location data and can continue to do so until you turn off your location settings and/or opt out of that usage, as may be permitted by your mobile device. We use this location based data to track your general shopping patterns and stores that you visit and we also aggregate this data to help understand general consumer patterns and trends.
OTHER TECH RESOURCES On certain portions of our Tech Resources, we provide entry forms for contests, sweepstakes and promotions. There are also mobile applications and other functions that are geared towards user mobility features such as status updates, check-in, and bragging rights, some which have geo-tagging features. It is important to understand that when you participate in these enhanced Tech Resources, much of the information you choose to provide is considered “public knowledge” and it is your responsibility to protect your own privacy. If you register to use any of these features, contests, promotions or sweepstakes, we will keep your information in accordance with this privacy policy and any additional terms and conditions applicable to or posted in connection with the contest, promotion or sweepstakes rules. These enhanced Tech Resources are provided without any warranty and you use them at your own risk. US African Immigrants Gist Inc. reserves the right to approve or reject content uploaded by you.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES Our Tech Resources include links to other web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of US African Immigrants Gist Inc.. If you visit any third party sites or submit information to any of those web sites, your information is governed by their privacy policy. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any web site you visit.
“DO NOT TRACK” TECHNOLOGY As you may be aware, there are on-going discussions regarding “Do Not Track” technology. “Do Not Track” technology allows a user to choose in each separate browser environment (i.e. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) whether he or she wants his or her browsing to be tracked across websites. However, industry efforts to standardize “Do Not Track” technology and policies are ongoing. Since “Do Not Track” technology has not been fully standardized, we currently do not honor “Do Not Track” requests at this time. We will continue to monitor “Do Not Track” developments so that we can work towards honoring the preferences of our customers as efficiently as possible.
HOW THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT IS USED The information we collect is used to provide the products and services that you have requested and may be used to provide you information that we think you might have an interest in through marketing outreach to you directly or indirectly. It is also used to improve the content of our Tech Resources and to notify you about your order status. If you provide us with your postal address, you may receive periodic catalogs from us or others containing information about new products and services or upcoming events.
We may request your telephone number or facsimile (FAX) number, and if you provide it, you may receive telephone or FAX contact from us with information regarding your orders, requests for information or in reference to valuable offers from us. We do not sell or rent phone numbers.
If you provide us with a cell phone number and provide us your prior express written consent by opting-in, we will send you text messages to your mobile device. To opt out of a specific mobile messaging campaign at any time, reply “stop” to 247365. Your carrier’s data and messaging rates
may apply.
How we use the information we collect We use the information that we collect mainly for the following purposes:
❏ For the exact reason why you provided the information. ❏ To update you about our new contents, products, services, of the Services, community
events, and other special offers that you might like. ❏ To respond to your inquiries, and offer you superior user expereince and customer
service. ❏ To generate and review data about our user base and how they use our platforms. ❏ To conduct analytics and research aimed at improving the relevance of our content,
products, and the effectiveness of the services we render to you and our community at large. ❏ To send you offers and advertisements through various communication channels in
collaboration with our screened and carefully selected marketing partners with whom we may have chosen to partner with. ❏ To allow us to customize our advertising and promotional campaigns in ways that
resonate, and are useful to you. ❏ To comply with the law. ❏ To send you information about community resources you may find useful.
HOW THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT IS SHARED We will share your information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy.
In order to operate our Tech Resources and in order to provide you with the products and services you have requested, we occasionally need to share information with third parties. We may transmit your information to service providers who may assist us with services such as processing orders, shipping products to you and processing your payment information. In addition, service providers help us with the services described in greater detail below. Their only role is to help us conduct our business. They are not permitted to use your information for any secondary purpose. We have agreements with these service providers and strive to ensure protection of your information by such service providers consistent with this Policy. Some of those organizations may have their own Privacy Policies which may give you additional protections, so you are encouraged to read those policies when presented to you.
We use software tools and service providers to help us gather and analyze information about our customers on our website. By reporting and tracking ads served on our Tech Resources and providing additional information about our customers, these service providers help us conduct our business, optimize our ad campaigns, and deliver the most relevant products and services.
If AfroGist Media Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, customer information will likely be shared for evaluation purposes and included among the transferred assets. We may share any data within our databases and may transfer title to that data as part of any such transaction. Any successor in interest will remain bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy as it relates to your information.
If required by law, we may provide any and all information we have about you to law enforcement or other government agencies, pursuant to a subpoena, bankruptcy proceedings, warrant, or other order by a court of competent jurisdiction or when we believe in good faith that
disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request. In all cases, we will require written documentation of the request, proof of the identity of the law enforcement official making the request, and we will take steps to authenticate the validity of the request. Any law enforcement or government agency request submitted with less than a court-issued order will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis according to the need and urgency, as well as the particular law enforcement agency making the request.
If you complete the form to receive our investor package or sign up for SEC alerts via email your information is provided to a third party specifically for those services and will not be used in any other manner.
THE CHOICES REGARDING THE INFORMATION YOU COLLECT If you do not want to receive email from us, please let us know by calling, sending us an email, opting out by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email you received from us or by writing to us at the above postal address and telling us that you do not want to receive email from our company. If you are a registered member at US African Immigrants Gist Inc., you may change your preferences in the My Account Section.
If you do not wish to receive postal mailings from AfroGist Media Inc., its subsidiaries, or third-party organizations, please let us know by calling, sending us an email, subject to our terms and conditions, or writing to us at the postal address found on the “Contact Us” page. Please provide us with your exact name and postal address and state which lists you wish to be removed from so that we can be sure your information is removed from future mailing lists.
When you download a mobile application from us, we have the ability to use a service provider to provide you with push notifications containing marketing messages to your mobile device. Your device may allow you to opt out of these push notifications by accessing your device’s application or notification settings for the AfroGist Media app. We have no control over the application permission notifications that may be provided to you on download from a third party app store or the ability of your device to opt-out of these push notifications.
You may opt-out of our use of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page and installing the Google Analytics browser add-on, currently made available by Google athttps://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
You may opt out of Yahoo’s collection of analytics information outside of the Yahoo distribution network, by clicking on the following link: http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html.
To opt out of remarketing advertising provided through Google, visit Google’s Ad Preferences Manager(http://www.google.com/safetycenter/tools/#manage-your-ads-preferences) to customize your ad preferences and tell Google which interest-based ads you’d prefer to see. If you do not want to receive those kinds of advertisements more generally, look for the “Ad Choices” icon in the advertisements, which will contain a link to the privacy policy of the ad network that will provide you with information on how to opt-out of receiving such targeted advertising.
If you choose to opt-out out of our use of your information for direct marketing purposes, this does not remove your information from our data database entirely. We will retain your information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
In addition, if you include your email in an order, you will continue to receive transactional messaging about your order status.
If you are a registered user of the web site, you can manage many aspects of your registration information. If your information changes, you may correct or update the information by making the changes on our member information page. For security reasons, however, some parts of your information may not be changed online and may require you to call or write to us in order to verify your identity before such changes can be made. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. To request that we no longer use your information to provide our services, the removal of your testimonial, or the removal of your information from a blog or public forum, please contact us via email.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time without prior notice, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, you will see the update here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective.
CHILDREN Our website and other Tech Resources are not directed at children. In accordance with federal law, we do not solicit or knowingly collect information from children under age 13 without the verifiable permission of a parent or guardian. If US African Immigrants Gist Inc. learns that a child under the age of 13 has submitted information online without parental consent, it will not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required or allowed by law) and will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from its databases by identifying such information for a purge process. If you become aware of any information we have collected from children under 13, please contact us as provided below.
RIGHT TO REMOVAL OF POSTED INFORMATION – CALIFORNIA MINORS If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with US African Immigrants Gist Inc., you have the right to request removal of unwanted information that you publicly post on the Tech Resources. To request removal of such information, you can contact US African Immigrants Gist Inc. as provided below. Upon receiving such a request, US African Immigrants Gist Inc. will make sure that the information is not publicly available on the Tech Resources, but the information may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems and databases.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS This Privacy Policy describes how we may share your information for marketing purposes. You may contact us with any questions and, to the extent applicable, to request a list of third parties to whom we may disclose information for marketing purposes and the categories of information we may disclose.
CONTACTING US If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, and AfroGist Media Inc, policies and practices with respect to personal information, please contact us via email:info@afrogistmedia.com