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| Protecting privacy
is always an AfriChoice.com priority. To underscore our
fundamental commitment to privacy and our vision that good
privacy is good business, we have adopted an online privacy
policy for our website and visitors. This policy reflects
and implements "in an online setting" our corporate
privacy principles and fair information practice principles
relating to notice, choice, access, security, and accountability.
Your information is safe with us within the following specified
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| Personally-Identifiable
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This site only collects personally-identifiable
information from you if you choose to provide this
information to us. Personally-identifiable information
collected with your consent may include, for example,
name, e-mail address, contact information, or any
inquires you may make through our Web site. AfriChoice.com
does and will not provide personally-identifiable
information to
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in its normal course of business. However, we will provide
such information when required by law or in the good faith
belief that such action is necessary in order to comply
with the law or legal process. |
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| Browser
Settings & 'Cookies' |
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| "Cookies"
are small pieces of information that are stored by your
browser on your computer's hard drive. This site uses third
party cookies, however personally identifiable information
is not collected through the use of cookies. Cookies are
used to determine whether a visitor is unique or whether
the visitor has viewed our site before. Cookies are optional
and do not affect the operability of our site. While most
browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set
yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting
them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing
the default setting for your specific browser. |
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| Non-Personally-Identifiable
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| This site also collects
non-personally-identifiable information. For example, as
you browse this Web site we may collect information about
your visit, but not about you personally. Via web server
logs, for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the
number of people that visit our site, which page(s) are
visited on our site, from which domain our visitors come
(e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people
use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft
Internet Explorer, etc.). Our Web site uses an outsourcing
program to assist us in analyzing this data to better tailor
our Web site. |
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| Retention
Of Your Information |
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| We reserve the right
to retain personally-identifiable information collected
through this site for the length of our business relationship
with you. In some cases, we will retain the information
for a longer period if required to do so by law, regulation,
or the Individual Reference Services Group Industry Principles. |
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| Information
Use and Consumer Choice |
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| The information collected
by this Web site is used only for responding to your inquiries
and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions
you request, maintaining your account (if you have one),
and for the administration, review and/or the improvement
the content of our Web sites. We may contact you in response
to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance
of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to
complete a transaction that you requested. If you decide
that you do not want to receive further e-mails regarding
your inquiry from AfriChoice.com, you can reply to the e-mail
with a request that we not continue to e-mail you. We do
not use outside data sources to enrich marketing data obtained
online. |
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| Onward
Transfer of Information |
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| We may disclose information
you provide to us to third parties in order to complete
a transaction that you requested. We may also outsource
some tasks, including the operation of certain Web site
functions, that require access to information you supply
online. In such cases, however, we require that the companies
acting on our behalf abide by our privacy policy and institute
safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your information.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information
when required by law or in the good faith belief that such
action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal
process. |
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| Access
& Correction of Information |
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| As an information company,
we know the importance of accurate data. Therefore, we strive
to maintain the accuracy of the information collected through
this Web site. Furthermore, we believe that the individual
is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and accurate.
We will provide you with access to personally-identifiable
information you provide through our Web site for as long
as we maintain that information in a readily accessible
format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct
inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through
our Web site. You may correct your infomation by Contacting
Us. |
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| Information
Security |
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| We take steps to protect
against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of
personally-identifiable information collected through this
Web site. We recognize the importance of security for all
personally-identifiable information collected by our Web
site. Once we receive personally-identifiable information,
we take steps to protect its security on our systems. In
the event we request or transmit sensitive information,
such as credit card information, we use industry standard,
secure socket layer ("SSL") encryption. We strictly
limit access to personally-identifiable information to those
employees who need access in order to carry out their job
responsibilities. All employees are prohibited from "browsing"
through our files and databases. We train our employees
in the application of our need-to-know standard. We periodically
audit for compliance with this standard. See
Our User Agreement / Copyright Pages |
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