Who we are
Our website address is: https://africasimplified.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Reviews
we collect reviews from users , either with or without accounts, in order to give our clients ability to see and be ensured that our services are of highest and best standard’s by letting the clients hear from clients. information we collect it used for such purposes and any other purposes reserved by the company.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
All contact forms on this website are for serving users in one way or the either, either by subscribing to our newsletters or to contact us for something specific. we run antispam measures to ensure these forms remain safe. Information collected on this pages are used according to company requirements and some are shared with third parties in order to improve our services to our clients.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Section will be updated soon.
Who we share your data with
We share and store users data that are collected from our subscription form with MailChimp for ease use for marketing purposes. More information on how they store your data, privacy policy and more can be found on their website www.mailchimp.com. Furthermore more information on GDPR can be found under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance: Get GDPR Consent for Marketing (mailchimp.com).
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. we retain inactive user accounts data for up to a specified period of time and then the information and the profiles are automatically deleted.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. The current system used in the website is reCAPTCHA. The website runs on woo commerce and in such some of your information is stored with them when making purchases.
Your contact information
Your contact information is stored on Woo commerce and Africa simplified database operated by Strato, a German hosting company. All Africa Simplified workers have access to your contact information in order to facilitate communication of any kind from company side. The company reserve the right to share your information upon requested for any reason that sounds reasonable and appeal to the company to do so.
Additional information
Your data is safely stored with us and under no circumstances without a compelling reason is shared, except for the services that we are using to bring or contact you with news of any kind.
How we protect your data
We use only the services that are full compatible with all the European standards when it comes to data protection. Our website is currently running an SSL certificate with 256 bit of encryption between the client and our website. All of this is to make sure you as a client you are completely stress free from any leakage of information. we do not request any kind of additional information by email. This is done in order to avoid SCAM emails which are most common.
What data breach procedures we have in place
we constantly scan our site for any kind of attacks and data breaches and constantly updating to make sure we have the best and most current security for our clients. reCAPTCHA is constantly scanning contacts forms for any kind of breach, being human or machine initiated (SPAMS) for all our contact forms. Our website is encrypted and so its safe to use and we collect payment by means of direct bank transfer to ensure 100% user control with your funds. No third parties involved.
This Privacy Policy page is incomplete, more information will be provided that is currently missing, to do any kind of business, usage, exchange of services with us, you automatically agree to the remaining part that is currently not published in our website yet. Our Team will update the missing part as soon as possible. Thank you for trusting us.
What third parties we receive data from
YouTube, PayPal, Mailchimp stripe are currently running on our website for supplying of video, marketing purposes and to make payment easier through different methods of payments. At the moment most of the services are paused. we will update the page when they are resumed.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Currently all users decisions are made by users but in the near future we will update this area.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
we are required by law to dispose what we are selling on the site and what kind of services we provide, all this information can be found under packages information. The company reserve the right to change any agreement without exceeding terms and condition as stated in this website under Terms and Conditions.
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What we collect and store
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of basket contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
What we share with others
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example Mailchip for marketing purposes and sending out bulk emails with new offers and promotions.
Payments
We accept payments through Direct bank Transfer, PayPal and stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to such services, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the Stripe, your own bank, PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
We use stripe as a mean to collect payments. By using this extension, you may be storing personal data or sharing data with an external service. Learn more about how this works, including what you may want to include in your privacy policy.
Google Web Fonts (default) or playing videos or sounds via YouTube or Vimeo in Slider:
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Vimeo
Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.
If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.
For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
SoundCloud
On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site.
When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the “Like” or “Share” buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.
If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account.
Disclaimer
The Company reserved the right to change, improve, add or redact any part of terms and conditions and Privacy Policy without prior notifications. All rights are reserved by the company from any information that is processed or stored by the company and its third parties.
We are – at all times – entitled to change the way we collect, transmit and process personal information and such other information as we may deem necessary and at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time in order to reflect the latest amendments. As soon as this page is updated the changes become effective. Please review this privacy policy periodically.