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Privacy policy

Tech Afrique Privacy Policy

This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

Topics:

  • What data do we collect?

  • How do we collect your data?

  • How will we use your data?

  • How do we store your data?

  • Marketing

  • What are your data protection rights?

  • What are cookies?

  • How do we use cookies?

  • What types of cookies do we use?

  • How to manage your cookies

  • Privacy policies of other websites

  • Changes to our privacy policy

  • How to contact us

  • How to contact the appropriate authorities

  • What data do we collect?

Tech Afrique collects the following data:

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Tech Afrique with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

●  Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.

●  Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message

boards or via email.

●  Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

●  Subscribe to our mailing list/ newsletter

Tech Afrique may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

How will we use your data?

Tech Afrique collects your data so that we can:

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

●  Process your order and manage your account.

●  Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.

●  To provide and operate the Services;

●  To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related

notices and promotional messages;

●  To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal

Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our

respective services;

●  To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

When Tech Afrique processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

How do we store your data?

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. 

Marketing

Tech Afrique would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies.

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Tech Afrique from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of the Tech Afrique Group.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please unsubscribe from our mailing list using the link located at the footer of each of our emails.

What are your data protection rights?

Tech Afrique would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Tech Afrique for copies of your personal data that is hosted on Tech Afrique’s site. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Tech Afrique correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Tech Afrique to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Tech Afrique erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Tech Afrique restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Tech Afrique’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

How do you communicate with your site visitors?

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology

 

For further information, visit all aboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies?

Tech Afrique uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • ●  Keeping you signed in

  • ●  Understanding how you use our website

    What types of cookies do we use?

    There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

  • ●  Functionality – Tech Afrique uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

  • ●  Advertising – Tech Afrique uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Tech Afrique sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How to manage cookies:

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Tech Afrique website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

 

Changes to our privacy policy

Tech Afrique keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 28 September 2023.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Tech Afrique’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: techafriqueny@gmail.com

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Tech Afrique has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact 

Email: techafriqueny@gmail.com

Tech Afrique commits to this Privacy Policy and will continue to improve its standards at the highest level possible.

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