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We know that you care how information about you is used and
shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.
This Privacy Notice describes how Afrikonet.sl and its affiliates (collectively
"Afrikonet") collect and process your personal information through
Afrikonet websites, devices, products, services, online and physical stores,
and applications that reference this Privacy Notice (together "Afrikonet
Services"). By using Afrikonet Services, you are consenting to the
practices described in this Privacy Notice.
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What Personal Information About Customers Does Afrikonet Collect?
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For What Purposes Does Afrikonet Use Your Personal Information?
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What About Cookies and Other Identifiers?
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Does Afrikonet Share Your Personal Information?
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How Secure Is Information About Me?
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What About Advertising?
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What Information Can I Access?
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What Choices Do I Have?
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Are Children Allowed to Use Afrikonet Services?
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Sierra Leone Consumer Privacy Act
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Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
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Related Practices and Information
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Examples of Information Collected
What Personal
Information About Customers Does Afrikonet Collect?
We collect your personal
information in order to provide and continually improve our products and
services.
Here are the types
of personal information we collect:
· Information You
Give Us: We receive and store any information you provide in
relation to Afrikonet Services. Scroll down to see examples of what we collect.
You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be
able to take advantage of many of our Afrikonet Services.
· Automatic
Information: We automatically collect and store certain types of
information about your use of Afrikonet Services, including information about
your interaction with content and services available through Afrikonet
Services. Like many websites, we use "cookies" and other unique
identifiers, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser
or device accesses Afrikonet Services and other content served by or on behalf
of Afrikonet on other websites. Scroll down to see examples of what we collect.
· Information from
Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources,
such as updated delivery and address information from our carriers, which we
use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase more easily.
Click Scroll down to see additional examples of the information we
receive.
For What Purposes
Does Afrikonet Use Your Personal Information?
We use your
personal information to operate, provide, develop, and improve the products and
services that we offer our customers. These purposes include:
· Purchase and
delivery of products and services. We use your personal
information to take and handle orders, deliver products and services, process
payments, and communicate with you about orders, products and services, and
promotional offers.
· Provide,
troubleshoot, and improve Afrikonet Services. We use your personal
information to provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors, and
improve the usability and effectiveness of the Afrikonet Services.
· Recommendations and
personalization. We use your personal information to recommend features,
products, and services that might be of interest to you, identify your
preferences, and personalize your experience with Afrikonet Services.
· Provide voice,
image and camera services. When you use our voice, image
and camera services, we may use your voice input, images, videos, and other
personal information to respond to your requests, provide the requested service
to you, and improve our services.
· Comply with legal
obligations. In certain cases, we collect and use your personal
information to comply with laws. For instance, we collect from vendor
information regarding proof of business registration, place of establishment
and bank account information for identity verification and other purposes.
· Communicate with
you. We use your personal information to communicate with you
in relation to Afrikonet Services via different channels (e.g., by phone,
email, chat).
· Advertising. We use your
personal information to display interest-based ads for features, products, and
services that might be of interest to you. We do not use information that
personally identifies you to display interest-based ads.
· Fraud Prevention
and Credit Risks. We use personal information to prevent and detect fraud
and abuse in order to protect the security of our customers, Afrikonet, and
others. We may also use scoring methods to assess and manage credit risks.
Examples of
Information Collected
Information You
Give Us When You Use Afrikonet Services
You provide
information to us when you:
· search or shop for
products or services in our stores;
· add or remove an
item from your cart, or place an order through or use Afrikonet Services;
· provide information
in Your
Account (and you might have more than one if you have used more
than one email address or mobile number when shopping with us) or Your Profile ;
· upload your
contacts;
· provide information
in your Account , or any
other account we make available that allows you to offer goods, or services to
Afrikonet customers;
· offer your products
or services on or through Afrikonet Services;
· communicate with us
by phone, email, or otherwise;
· complete a
questionnaire, a support ticket, or a contest entry form;
· upload or stream
images, videos or other files to Afrikonet Drive, or other Afrikonet Services.
· compile
Watchlists, Wish Lists or other gift
registries:
· participate in
Discussion Boards or other community features;
· provide and rate
reviews
· specify a Special
Occasion Reminder; or
· employ Product
Alerts , such as Available to Order Notifications.
As a result of
those actions, you might supply us with such information as:
· identifying
information such as your name, address, and phone numbers;
· payment
information;
· your age;
· your location
information;
· your IP address;
· content of reviews
and emails to us;
· personal
description and photograph in Your
Profile;
· images and videos collected
or stored in connection with Afrikonet Services;
· information and
documents regarding identity, and driver's license numbers
· business
registration and financial information;
· credit history
information; and
Automatic
Information
Examples of the
information we collect and analyze include:
· the internet
protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet;
· login, email
address, and password;
· the location of
your device or computer;
· purchase and
content use history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from
other customers to create features like Top
Sellers;
· the full Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our websites,
including date and time; products and content you viewed or searched for; page
response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, and page
interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs);
· phone numbers used
to call our customer service number; and
· images or videos
when you shop in Afrikonet.sl Services.
We may also to
collect browsing, usage, or other technical information.
Information from
Other Sources
Examples of
information we receive from other sources include:
· updated delivery
and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use
to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more
easily;
· account
information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view information from
some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we
provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services;
· information about
your interactions with products and services offered by our subsidiaries;
· search results and
links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links);
· credit history
information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud
and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.
Information You Can
Access
Examples of
information you can access through Afrikonet Services include:
· status of recent
orders
· your complete order
history;
· personally
identifiable information (including name, email, password);
· payment settings
(including payment card information, promotional certificate and gift card
balances, and 1-Click settings);
· email notification
settings (including Product Availability Alerts, Delivers, Special Occasion
Reminders and newsletters);
· recommendations and
the products you recently viewed that are the basis for recommendations
(including Recommended for You and Improve Your Recommendations);
· shopping lists and
gift registries (including Wish Lists and Registries);
· content that you
recently viewed;
· Your Profile
(including your product Reviews, Recommendations, Reminders and personal
profile);
· If you are a vendor, you can access your account and other information, and adjust your communications preferences.
