In AfricaAlumni.com (Website) you have a choice as to what information you provide and what you want others to view about you on your profile. By submitting Personal Information through our Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy. Your Personal Information may be processed by AfricaAlumni.com in the country where it was collected including other countries where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less strict than the laws in your country.
What type of information do we collect?
We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily choose to submit to us through our Website. During registration/signup for the AfricaAlumni.com membership, we will collect information that you might deem private such as your email address, name, city, country, phone numbers, your gender, date of birth and other information that you might deem private. This information is collected the minute you begin the registration process under the member registration/signup page when you click the “Continue” button. This information is saved to your profile. You may update your profile any time by login in and going to Edit My Profile page. We will also collect any information that you enter in your profile and anywhere else on the Website. If and when you enter Personal Information throughout our Website using any of our available features and applications, we will collect any such information you enter. We will collect your e-mail addresses and any information contained in the e-mail you send us. Once you register with AfricaAlumni.com and log in to our Website, you are not anonymous to us. We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under the age of 13.
What do we do with the information?
Information viewable by others is the profile default information and the information you choose to display on your profile. You have a choice on exactly what you want others to see on your profile. Our Website does not require any member to display some Personal Information such as Street Address. Visitors of the AfricaAlumni.com website that are not registered members may view some of you profile information that you have uploaded to the AfricaAlumni.com website unless you choose on your profile settings to disallow this.
To provide you with some of the features and services that AfricaAlumni.com offers to its members, we may use Personal Information that is stored in your profile, for example we may recommend other members to contact you for mentoring or networking opportunities if we think there is a possible common ground. We may also use your Personal Information such as email address when we send emails and general newsletters to members of the AfricaAlumni.com network. On AfricaAlumni.com website other members may see that you have viewed their profiles but you may disable this feature by navigating to Settings, Privacy Options, and check or deselect “Show Profile Views”. Note: If you choose to display users who viewed your profile, other users will be able to track whether you viewed their profile. If you do not want other users to know you viewed their profile, do not enable this feature.
If you decide to use certain features of the AfricaAlumni.com network, some of the Personal Information on your profile including Personal Information, that you enter using one of these features, might be used and displayed. AfricaAlumni.com members can use the search feature to search for other members by different criteria, like occupation or gender. The Personal Information that AfricaAlumni.com members enter into the AfricaAlumni.com profile will be used for these searches. AfricaAlumni.com maintains the right to analyze any collected information for its own internal purposes and in creating and implementing marketing strategies. In addition, AfricaAlumni.com may remove personally identifying information from collected information including resumes / CVs to render it anonymous. AfricaAlumni.com may use Anonymous Information for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
AfricaAlumni.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
Your Personal Information may available to BlueHost.com staff. This is so as to enable AfricaAlumni.com to provide some of the services and features of our Website and to help us communicate with AfricaAlumni.com members. However, third parties do not have any independent right to share this information nor do they have the right to contact you directly. AfricaAlumni.com owns the information that you provide voluntarily to us throughout our Website. Please be aware that the handling of your Personal Information by our partners or the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the AfricaAlumni.com service, such as service and general announcements, administrative messages and the AfricaAlumni.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your AfricaAlumni.com account. You may opt out of some of these communications.
We will disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may disclose information, if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of AfricaAlumni.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
Information Stored Automatically
By default, all web server log files capture Internet Provider (IP) addresses. We may use your IP address internally to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our website and to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or cause damage.
A cookie is a small amount of information sent from a web server to your computer. We use cookies when someone logs onto our website to maintain that login, to retain login information (if requested) and for the maintenance of our shopping cart or ecommerce service. Any activity you engage in while you are at the AfricaAlumni.com website may be tracked. We may or may not use cookies to track your Internet activity before you enter or after you leave our website.
Other third parties may place advertisements and cookies on webpages within the AfricaAlumni.com network. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.
Data Security
AfricaAlumni.com may contract third parties to maintain the website, membership application and database. These third parties take necessary precaution to protect your information against threats by implementing firewalls, SSL encryption, password protection, session management, etc. Website Administrator(s) and contracted third party support staff have access to user data. Your AfricaAlumni.com account information is also protected by a password that you select. However, no company, including AfricaAlumni.com, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.
While we will make reasonable efforts to store any personal information held in a secure server or in secure files, and to keep this information accurate and up-to-date, the Internet is not a secure medium for the transmission of information. AfricaAlumni.com cannot accept responsibility for the security of information you send to or receive from us over the Internet or for any unauthorized access to or use of that information.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information to or change information on our website are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. AfricaAlumni.com is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of these other websites. Should you choose to follow a link to another website, you are subject to its privacy policy.
Contact Us
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please Contact us here.
Variation
AfricaAlumni.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to visit our website regularly to stay updated of these changes.