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USAfrica Privacy Notice

The site you are in, USAfricaonline.com, is one of the USAfrica MultiMedia Networks general audience web sites. We respect your privacy, and it is important to us as we serve our communities. Accordingly, we provide and publish this privacy poliicy to underscore and explain the USAfricaonline.com online information practices and choices.

Access
Access to all sections of USAfricaonline.com remain FREE, and we do not sell or market any such information as our institutional/corporate policies which respect our readers' privacy interests. This covers the name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number of any recipient of the USAfricaonline.com NewsAlerts

Cookies
We do not use or deploy internet "cookies."

Survey Requests
The privacy also covers the fact that in rare and future circumstances, you may provide information about yourself to fulfill your own requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you in any e-commerce and online newsletter related requests/transactions.

We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.

We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.

The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.

If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a "letter to our editors"), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us.

We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.

We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

Agents and Contractors
Agents and contractors of USAfricaonline.com who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with the USAfrica Privacy Notice. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.

In the best interest of our readers, USAfrica sites covered by this Privacy Notice will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to your educational or e-commerce requests

Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
Some USAfrica web sites may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors/readers should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

USAfricaonline.com and its related web sites covered by this Privacy Notice sometimes may offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) sponsored by or cobranded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. In such cases, USAfricaonline.com has no control over these third parties' use of this information.

Commitment to Security
Through our technical services and relationships, USAfricaonline.com have adequate and appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

For Kids and Parents
USAfricaonline.com has been voted as "family-friendly" and pro-kids; therefore, we continue and will maintain our corporate standards in not participating or advertising any anti-family-friendly, pornographic or anti-kids products, events or banners.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the USAfrica online policy for this site, concerns or its implementation, please contact Publisher@USAfricaonline.com