Last Updated on 1^st June 2023

USER PRIVACY POLICY

Please read this Privacy Policy ("Policy") carefully before using AfricaVotes website, application or any other AfricaVotes services. Protecting the privacy of your personal information is important to AfricaVotes. To ensure that your personal information is maintained securely and privately, we have developed the following Privacy Policy.

This Policy applies to the use of any AfricaVotes site, including AfricaVotes.com, AfricaVotes.org, AfricaVotes.net, AfricaVotes.online, AfricaVotes.co.za, acevote.org (the “Website”), and to any AfricaVotes products, services, features, content, or applications where this Privacy Policy appears in the footer or a link to this Policy is provided, collectively referred to herein as "AfricaVotes Services."

Africavotes is the ultimate online voting platform that offers security, convenience, and ease of use. With our platform, organizers from around the world can easily conduct fan voting for their events, knowing that the results are accurate, transparent, and fully secure. Whether you're organizing a small-scale event or a large international pageant,

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect personal information you provide when you create a session using your social account to use AfricaVotes services, such as your email address only. We also collect information about your use of the service, including your voting choices.

HOW AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE WE USE AND SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the personal information you provide to verify your identity, provide you with access to AfricaVotes services, and to facilitate the voting process. We may also use your personal information for research and development purposes to improve AfricaVotes services. We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party without your express consent.

OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTED; COOKIES CONSENT

Technical Information & Cookies. When you use AfricaVotes services, including the Website, we use software tools, including but not limited to “Cookies” (small amounts of data which include a unique string of characters sent to your browser or application from a website's computers and stored on your computer's or device's storage), web beacons (technology used to track activity, also known as pixel tags) and similar technologies, to collect a variety of information, for example, the IP address of the computer or device used to access an AfricaVotes service, the type of internet browser or operating system used to access an AfricaVotes service, the date and duration of a website visitor the Internet Protocol address used to access the website. We use such technical information for internal purposes, for example, to study and improve the response times of our AfricaVotes services, understand how certain features of our AfricaVotes services are used, identify the geographic region our visitors are contacting us from, and determine how many people visit our AfricaVotes services at any given time. AfricaVotes.com may also utilize The Adobe Flash Player (“Flash”), and Flash “cookies”, during your use of the Website. Flash is an application and web tool that allows for rapid development of dynamic content. Flash uses technology to remember settings, preferences, and usages similar to cookies but are managed through an interface different than the one provided by your web browser.

We may associate technical information with personal information you provide to us as described in the Personal Information We Collect section above, in which case we will treat such associated information as personal information. Please be advised that associating technical information with personal information may be required for us, our Service Providers, and on behalf of our Event Host clients, to recognize you and your communications with us.

Social Networking. When using AfricaVotes services or when using certain third-party social networking services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google +) (each a "Social Network"), you may have the option to connect your AfricaVotes services information and activity with your Social Network information and activity. If you authorize such a connection, you permit us to share or publish information about your AfricaVotes services activity with that Social Network and its users, and to access certain of your Social Network information, as disclosed to you at the time you consent to their terms of use

DATA RETENTION AND SECURITY

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as permitted or required by law. We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no data transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so you use the Company Services at your own risk.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

The Company Services may contain links to third-party websites, services or other resources on the Internet, and other third-party resources that may be of interest to you. When you access third-party websites, services or other resources, you do so at your own risk. These other websites, services, and resources are not under our control and are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those third parties to understand how they collect and use information about you.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The Company does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the Company Services. The Company Services and their content are not directed at children under the age of 16. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 16 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at [email protected]

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon posting on the Company Services. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. If we make any material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Company Services or sending you an email, and we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of such changes before they become effective