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The purpose of this Online Privacy
Statement is to inform you about the types of information
we gather online about you when you visit AfricanTrade.com
("our Site"), how we may use that information, whether we
disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding
our use of, and your ability to correct, that information.
This Online Privacy Statement may
change
from time to time, so please check back periodically.
This Statement will explain the
following regarding the treatment of data collected on our
Site:
1. Sites
covered by this Statement
2. What
information we collect
3. Why
we collect your information
4. How
we use your information
5. Sharing
your information
6. Your
choices
7. Accessing
and changing your information
8. Use
of cookies on this site
9. Use
of third-party media and research companies
10.
Use of Web beacons on this site
11.
Protecting your information
12.
Links to other Web sites
13.
Children's privacy
14.
Changes to this statement
15.
Contact us
This Online Privacy Statement covers
the collection and use of data on the AfricanTrade.com Web
site.
The information we collect on our
Site generally falls into the following two categories:
Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally
Identifiable Information.
Personally Identifiable Information:
This refers to information that lets us know the specifics
of who you are. The Personally Identifiable Information we
collect when you use our Site may include your name,
mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, employer,
credit card number, expiration date, shipping address, id
numbers, login names, passwords, public postings, prospect
email address, and job title. We request Personally
Identifiable Information when you order a product or
service, participate in certain promotional activities,
fill out surveys, and correspond with us. We also collect
Personally Identifiable Information when you ask that we
send products or information directly to other people; in
these cases, we will collect the information you submit
about the recipient. It will be clear when you are on a
part of our Site that requires personal information,
because we will ask you for it and you will have a
choice
about how we use that information.
Non-Personally Identifiable
Information: This refers to information that does not by
itself identify a specific individual. The non-personally
identifiable data we collect when you visit our Site may
include the Uniform Resource Locator ("URL")(1)
of the Web site that you came from before visiting our
Site, which pages you visit on our Site, which URL you
next go to, which browser you used to come to our Site,
your Internet Protocol ("IP")(2)
address, and any search terms entered on our Site. This
Statement also contains more information about how we use
cookies
and
other technology to collect this data.
We do not connect the Personally
Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable
Information we collect on our Site.
Our primary goals in collecting
information are to provide customers with superior service
and to provide all visitors a smooth, efficient, and
personalized experience while using our Site. For example,
if you purchase products or request information on our
Site, we use your Personally Identifiable Information to
fill your order or provide the requested information. We
use Non-Personally Identifiable Information on an
aggregated basis to analyze customer behavior to help us
understand how visitors use our Site and to measure
interest in the various pages. We use this information to
improve the content of our Site, to make our Site easier
to use, and to customize our advertising.
We gather and use information in a
number of ways, including the following:
Surfing: We collect certain
Non-Personally Identifiable Information when you visit our
Site or click on banner ads for AGM
Enterprise, Inc. products and
services. We collect this information to help run our Site
more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information,
to monitor the level of activity on our Site, and to
evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising. Learn more
about how we use
cookies
and
other technology to collect this information.
Ordering: We collect Personally
Identifiable Information when you purchase products and
services. We collect this information to deliver your
order, to obtain payment, and to communicate with you
about the status of your order.
Online surveys and polling: We
collect Personally Identifiable Information from customers
who volunteer to complete surveys or participate in polls.
We use this information to improve our products and
services.
Promotional activities: We collect
Personally Identifiable Information from you when you
enter a promotional program or activity. We use this
information to administer the program or activity, to send
you promotional e-mails, notify winners, and make the
winners' list publicly available pursuant to certain
states' laws.
Newsletters and promotional e-mails:
We collect Personally Identifiable Information when you
ask to receive newsletters, promotional e-mails, and other
information. We use this information to provide you the
information you request.
Contact information: If you contact
us, we may keep a record of your correspondence or
comments, including Personally Identifiable Information,
in a file specific to you. We use this information to help
us provide better service in the event you contact us
again.
Gifts: If you order a gift to be
delivered to someone else, we will use the person's
information that you provide to ship the product and
confirm delivery.
We do not sell, trade, or rent to
others the Personally Identifiable Information we collect
online. Unless we have your permission, we will share the
Personally Identifiable Information you provide online
only with other AGM Enterprise, Inc. entities and/or businesses that
provide services to AGM Enterprise, Inc. and only for the purposes
described
above.
Where AGM Enterprise, Inc. engages third parties to perform services on
our behalf, we will require them to observe the intent of
this Online Privacy Statement.
From time to time, we may be
required to provide Personally Identifiable Information in
response to a court order, subpoena, or government
investigation. We also reserve the right to report to law
enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith
believe to be unlawful. We may release certain Personally
Identifiable Information when we believe that such release
is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms and
Conditions or to protect the rights, property, and safety
of others and ourselves.
AGM Enterprise,
Inc. or its related entities could
merge with or be acquired by another business entity or
their respective assets could be acquired. Should such a
combination or acquisition occur, you should expect that
AGM Enterprise, Inc. would share some or all of your Personally
Identifiable Information to continue serving you and other
users of our Site.
AGM Enterprise,
Inc. will not use or share the
Personally Identifiable Information collected on our Site
in ways unrelated to the purpose for which you provided
the information, including those described
above,
without providing you a choice whether to permit any such
unrelated uses. At the time you provide your information,
we will offer you a choice as to whether you want to
receive further communications about special offers,
product information or other marketing messages. If you
choose not to receive these communications, we will not
use the information you provide for this purpose.
You can opt out at any time. All e-mail communications
from us, such as newsletters, tell you how to stop
receiving them.
You can access, review and/or
correct all your personally identifiable information that
we collect online and maintain by following the procedures
described above]. We use this procedure to better
safeguard your information. You can correct factual errors
in your personally identifiable information by sending us
a request that credibly shows error. To protect your
privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps
to verify your identity before granting access or making
corrections.
AGM Enterprise,
Inc. seeks to ensure that your
information and preferences are accurate and complete. If
you have purchased from AGM Enterprise,
Inc., you may access and change your information by
visiting the site where it was submitted.
A "cookie" is a small data file
transferred by a Web site to your computer's hard drive.
We send cookies when you surf our Site, make purchases,
respond to online surveys or polls, or request
information. Accepting the cookies used on our Site does
not give us access to your Personally Identifiable
Information, but we can use the cookies to identify your
computer. The aggregate information collected permits us
to analyze traffic patterns on our Site. This can enable
us over time to provide you with a better experience on
our Site by improving the content and making it easier to
use. For example, cookies can keep track of what you have
selected to purchase as you continue to shop and allow you
to enter your password only once on pages where a logon is
required.
Most browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually refuse cookies, or
selectively accept certain cookies, by adjusting the
preferences in your browser. If you turn off cookies,
though, there may be some features of our Site that will
not be available to you and some Web pages may not display
properly. You can find information on popular browsers and
how you can adjust them to control cookies at the
following Web sites:
Microsoft Internet Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm
Netscape Navigator:
http://www.netscape.com/legal_notices/cookies.html.
AGM Enterprise,
Inc. does not run third-party ads
on our Site. AGM Enterprise, Inc. may use third-party media and research
companies to place ads for us on other parties' Web sites.
When users view Web pages where AGM
Enterprise, Inc. ads appear, our
online media and research companies may place
cookies
on the user's computer. These cookies allow the companies
to recognize the computer when it is used to return to
that site. In this way, our online media and research
companies may compile information about ads viewed and the
general content of the pages where the ads appear. Over
time, this information permits these companies to deliver
ads that they believe will be of most interest to the user
and to minimize the repetition of ads you see. The cookies
placed by these companies do not access or collect any
Personally Identifiable Information or enable individual
users to be identified. The data is collected exclusively
for use in AGM Enterprise, Inc.'s marketing and research.
AGM Enterprise, Inc. does
not have access to the cookies that may be placed by the
online media and research companies. If you want to
prevent these companies from sending and reading cookies
on your computer, you will need to visit each company's
Web site and request that you be removed from its system.
Some pages on our Site contain
electronic images known as Web beacons, or single-pixel
GIFs, placed by our third-party media and research
companies. Web beacons, which use
cookie
technology, permit these companies to compile aggregated
statistics for AGM Enterprise, Inc. about how visitors use our Site and
to gauge the effectiveness of our ads. No Personally
Identifiable Information is collected or shared through
the Web beacons used on our Site, and the information
collected does not permit us to identify users of our
Site. The data is collected exclusively for use in
AGM Enterprise, Inc.'s marketing and research. If you would like to
prevent our online media and research companies from
collecting this information, you will need to visit each
company's Web site and request that you be removed from
its system.
AGM Enterprise,
Inc. acknowledges your trust and
is committed to protecting the information you provide us.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain accuracy, and
ensure proper use of information, we have employed
physical, electronic, and managerial processes to
safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
When you make a purchase from our
Site, we use Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") encryption
technology to safeguard your credit card and other
sensitive information while it is being sent to us. The
SSL encryption is designed to make the information
unreadable by anyone but us. This security measure is
working when you see either the symbol of an unbroken key
or closed lock (depending on your browser) on the bottom
of your browser window.
Parts of our Site contain links to
third-party Web sites for your convenience and
information. If you use these links, you will leave the
AfricanTrade.com Web site. When you access a non-AfricanTrade.com Web
site, even one that may contain the AGM
Enterprise, Inc. logo, please
understand that we do not control the content and are not
responsible for the privacy practices of that site. We
suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of
each site you visit. This Online Privacy Statement does
not cover the information practices of those Web sites
linked to our Site. These other sites may send their own
cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal
information.
AGM Enterprise,
Inc. believes that protecting
children's privacy online is extremely important, and we
encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in
their children's use of the Internet and to spend time
online with their children. AGM
Enterprise, Inc. respects national and
international laws, including the Children's On-line
Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), which applies in the
United States. Accordingly, at our Site we do not collect
personal information from children under 13 without
parental consent. In the event we develop areas of our
Site directed at children under age 13, we will implement
a special children's privacy statement that complies with
the requirements of COPPA and other relevant laws.
If there are changes or additions to
the terms of this Online Privacy Statement, we will post
those changes here so that you will always know what
information we collect online, how we use it, and what
choices you have. Please be sure to check this page before
proceeding to use our Site. Regardless of any changes we
make to our Online Privacy Statement, we will always use
your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance
with the version of the Statement in place at the time you
provided your information, unless you give your express
consent for us to do otherwise.
If you have any questions or
concerns about AGM Enterprise, Inc.'s use of your information or about
this Online Privacy Statement, please send an e-mail to
info@AfricanTrade.com.
Notes:
1 A URL is the global address of documents and other
resources on the World Wide Web. For example, http://www.AfricanTrade.com
is the URL for AGM Enterprise, Inc.'s U.S. home page.
2 An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device
on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
("TCP/IP") network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks
use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the
IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP
address is a number that is automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web
servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers
require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on
the Internet, browse and shop.
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