PRIVACY POLICY

Website Terms and Conditions of Use

  1. Terms

By accessing the website “www.journalafrica.org” or any if is sub domains, you are agreeing to be bound by these website Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

 

Use License

  1. Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on the website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not:
  2. Modify or copy the materials;
  3. Use the materials for any commercial purpose or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
  4. Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Journal Africa website;
  5. Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
  6. Transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.
  7. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by journalafrica.org at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

 

The “Feedback”

The “Feedback” means the message board, or e-mail function offered as part of this Site. If you participate in the Feedback, you must not:

  1. Defame, abuse, harass or threaten others
  2. Make any bigoted, hateful, or racially offensive statements
  3. Infringe human rights
  4. Advocate illegal activity or discuss illegal activities with the intent to commit them
  5. Post or distribute any material that infringes and/or violates any right of a third party or any law
  6. Post or distribute any vulgar, obscene, discourteous, or indecent language or images
  7. Infringe authors’ right
  8. Advertise or sell to or solicit others
  9. Use the Feedback for commercial purposes of any kind
  10. Post or distribute any software or other materials that contain a virus or other harmful component
  11. Post material or make statements that do not generally pertain to the designated topic or theme of any chat room or bulletin board

 

We reserve the right to remove or edit content from the Forum at any time and for any reason.

 

Disclaimer

  1. The materials on Journal Africa website are provided “as is”. Journal Africa makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, Journal Africa does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet website or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.

 

Limitations

  1. In no event shall Journal Africa or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on the Journal Africa Internet site, even if Journal Africa or a Journal Africa authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

 

  1. Journal Africa suggests watching over children when they use the website. Africanews is not responsible for the consequences of children’s access to the website.

 

 

Revisions and Errata

  1. The materials appearing on the Journal Africa website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Journal Africa does not warrant that any of the materials on its website are accurate, complete, or current. Journal Africa may make changes to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. Journal Africa does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

 

Links

Journal Africa has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Journal Africa of the site. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s own risk.

 

 

Site Terms of Use Modifications

  1. Journal Africa may revise these terms of use for its website at any time without notice. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

 

  1. Your access to the Site may be terminated immediately without notice from us if in our sole discretion, you fail to comply with any term or provision of these terms. Upon termination, you must cease use of the Site and destroy all materials obtained from such site and all copies thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise.

 

Governing Law

Any claim relating to the Journal Africa website shall be governed by the laws of Nigeria without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

 

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate disclose, and make use of personal information.

 

This privacy policy applies to anyone who uses any services of Journal Africa available online including the Journal Africa website, program, and/or software applications that allow you to access watch, and/or listen to Journal Africa content on your device (hereinafter referred as “Journal Africa Online Services”).

 

Please carefully review this Privacy Policy and more generally our Terms of Use relating to our services. Your use of the Journal Africa website signifies your consent to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

 

 

Personal data

When you use Journal Africa Online Services we may receive or collect personal information about you.

 

1.1 Personal information you provide to us and we collect

The personal information you provide to us: Indeed, by using Journal Africa Online Services you may provide us with voluntary registration information such as your email address. In particular, when you sign up to Journal Africa Community which enables you to receive a newsletter according to your own choice, you provide your email address. Or, you may provide your e-mail address to participate in our interactive program. Besides, when you use Journal Africa applications you may agree to give us geolocation data to benefit from the functioning of a News map.

 

Personal information we collect: In addition, we collect, by default, standard data such as your IP address or additional data like anonymous labels, through labels, and information provided by OS to understand how Journal Africa Online Services are being used or to benefit from push notification.

 

1.2 How we use your personal information

 

We use your personal information notably to:

 

  1. Allow you to benefit from Journal Africa Online Services ;
  2. Ensure easier browsing on our website ;
  3. Provide you target ad-serving services (for further information refer to our cookie policy) ;
  4. Send push notifications on your Journal Africa apps ;
  5. enable the operation of our analysis tool.

Indeed, this analysis tool enables us to measure and analyze information about your use of our Journal Africa Online Services. We can then put this information in favor of better efficiency of our Journal Africa Online Services and accordingly increase the quality of our services.

 

1.3 The measures to protect your personal information

We will keep your information confidential except when disclosure is required by law or for technical purposes. Indeed, your personal information can be transmitted to suppliers of technology and services to ensure the optimum operation of Journal Africa Online Services. For example, this is effectively the case when you share an article via a third-party application like Facebook or Twitter.

 

We hold your personal information for as long as it appears necessary to ensure the effective operation of our Journal Africa Online Services.

 

Journal Africa only processes your data for the purposes described below, it does not divulge them for other purposes. Our main objective is to collect and use only the information we believe is necessary for the performance of Journal Africa Online Services to better understand your interests and improve your experience of using our website.

 

  1. Content that you send to us

 

2.1 On our platforms, you may be asked to participate by sending (by various means) content that you wish to share with us, such as a video or photo (hereinafter referred to as the “Content”) so that it can be used by the Journal Africa (hereinafter referred to as the “Media”).

 

2.2 You declare and guarantee that you have (and will continue to have during use by the Media) all of the rights, licenses, approvals, and authorizations required to allow the Media to use your Content to offer their services, and more generally under the conditions specified by the present Terms. Consequently, you must not share videos that you have not created, or use content in your videos that is protected by copyright, such as music, extracts from protected programs, or videos created by third parties, if you do not have the required authorizations.

 

2.3 You undertake not to submit to the Media any Content for which the rights are held by third parties (including the right of ownership, right to privacy, and right of personal portrayal) unless you have obtained from the third party concerned formal authorization to distribute the data concerned and grant to the Media the rights specified in Article 2.2 above.

 

2.4 You retain all of the intellectual property rights for your Content, but you must grant limited rights to the Media. When you submit Content to Journal Africa, you grant the Media a non-exclusive right, that is transferable (including the right to sublicense), free of charge, for the whole world and throughout the copyright protection, to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works, represent and perform the Content in connection with the Media’s activity, and in particular for the promotion and redistribution of all or part of the service (and of the resulting derivative works) without limitation, in all formats, on all media, and via all media channels;

 

2.5 In this connection you may be required to give us your data such as your photograph and first name/surname. You expressly authorize us to reproduce them in context with the Content sent.