Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 25, 2007

We adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:

  • We will never rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes

  • We will never share your contact information with another user, without your consent.

  • Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology

Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the African Studies Repository after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices

Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:

  1. What personally identifiable information of yours is collected by the African Studies Repository.

  2. How the information is used.

  3. With whom the information may be shared.

  4. How you can access and change your Account information.

  5. What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected by African Studies Repository.

  6. How to contact us.

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact the African Studies Repository administrators by email at info@africanstudiesrepository.org.

Information Collection

Registration:
All content that has been made publicly available will be open to any member of the public. In order to upload content or to add comments or tags, you must first create an account on this web site. To create an account you are required to provide a username and choose a password.

Profile Information:
Once a user, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your affiliation, skills, professional experiences, and any other personal details. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify your interests and areas of specialization and to find new contacts in the African Studies Repository.

Information about your Contacts
All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your own personally identifiable information.

Cookies & Log Files:
Like most web sites, the African Studies Repository uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows the African Studies Repository to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you may not be able to use our website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site.

One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your African Studies Repository account. The next time you visit the African Studies Repository web site, the persistent cookie may allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to log in before using the service. In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card number), however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the African Studies Repository site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the African Studies Repository site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the African Studies Repository web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave the African Studies Repository. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the African Studies Repository. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Children:
Parents are responsible for their children’s Internet use. Children are therefore permitted to view all public material on the site but the African Studies Repository takes no responsibility for any harm or perceived harms that may result. To create an account you must be aged over 18. Agreeing to this Terms of Use indicts compliance with this requirement.

Information Use

The African Studies Repository is an online service dedicated to helping everyone involved in African Studies to store and publishes their work and connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by the African Studies Repository from the site (such as, by way of example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by the African Studies Repository. This information can be utilized by the African Studies Repository in such manner as the African Studies Repository, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

Communications:
The African Studies Repository may communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. These include may series of up to five welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from the African Studies Repository related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another user in your network sends you an opportunity.

Customized Content:
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we will display the screen names of new users who have recently joined your network and new articles and tags that have recently added to the site.

Information Sharing

Sharing Information With Third Parties:
The African Studies Repository will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes.

The African Studies Repository allows users to publish selected portions of their African Studies Repository profile and/ or articles to the public Internet or to selected contacts. Users may opt-out of this feature, however the African Studies Repository does not warrant how third-party search engines will update their cache.

Communications Between Users:
Internal emails you initiate will provide your username and internal email address, but will not include any other information you have not chose to make public.

Legal Disclaimer:
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information

You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your African Studies Repository account, at any time by logging in to your account on the African Studies Repository website and editing the information on your Profile page. You can also close your account through the African Studies Repository website. If you close your African Studies Repository account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the African Studies Repository Privacy Policy that you have previously agree to. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the African Studies Repository, please send your request to info@africanstudiesrepository.org.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The African Studies Repository may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

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