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What  Data we Collect and Store, and Why

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Contact forms

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

4. 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.

Personal Data we May Collect, and Why

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.

While you visit our site, we may track the following:

• Products you viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
• Location, IP address and browser type: we may use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
• Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance,  to estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart 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 example for the  purposes stated below:

• 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  2 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.

Terms and Conditions

Your use of this website, including any of its index pages, constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

1. Disclaimer of Liability

US African Immigrants Gist Inc. has taken all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information contained in its web site is accurate; however, all information, and all products sold on this website or by any of its affiliates are provided “as is” without any express or implied warranties, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL US African Immigrants Gist Inc. BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY USE OR PERFORMANCE OF OR CONTENT ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE INFORMATION, EVEN IF NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR SUCH DAMAGES.

2. Copyright and Trademark Notice

Copyright notice for all pages on this web site: ©2018, US African Immigrants Gist Inc. (USAIG), All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction of these pages for commercial purposes or for distribution to other persons is a violation of United States Copyright law and may subject you to civil and criminal penalties. You may not modify, publish, transmit, create derivative works or in any other way exploit any of US African Immigrants Gist Inc.’s original or licensed works, whether or not copyrighted, trademarked, or otherwise registered with the United States Patent & Trademark Office or any other state, federal, or international body governing the disposition of original works, without first obtaining the express written permission of US African Immigrants Gist Inc.. You may not view, reproduce, print or otherwise use any of the content of this web site for anything other than your personal, informational, noncommercial use. Any authorized reproduction must include the copyright notice set forth above, whether or not explicitly stated in such authorization.

All product names, trademarks, service marks or other images in this web site are either the property of, or used with permission by, US African Immigrants Gist Inc., and the use thereof without the express written consent of the owner(s) thereof is strictly prohibited. All other product names contained on this web site may be trademarks or service marks of other persons, and may not be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of their original creators, or of any person expressly licensed to authorize such reproduction.

3. Links

US African Immigrants Gist Inc.’s web site contains links to third party web sites, including unaffiliated websites that advertise with us. US African Immigrants Gist Inc. does not control the content of these web sites and makes no warranties or representations about their content. Unless specifically stated on this web site to the contrary, US African Immigrants Gist Inc. is not affiliated with these third parties and does not endorse or sponsor their web sites, products or services.

4. Privacy

Our privacy practices are designed to provide a high level of protection for your personal data. To learn more, you can read our Internet Privacy Policy Statement .

5. Governing Law

By accessing this web site, you agree that the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflict of laws and principles thereof, will apply to all matters relating to use of this web site.  You also submit to the personal jurisdiction of New York and the venue of the state and federal Courts of New York.

6. Patents

One or more patents may apply to this Web site, which patents, together with all of the protections afforded them by applicable law, whether pending, registered, or granted, shall apply at all times. Patented materials, products, processes, or any other patented information or object, including software code, may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, nor reverse-engineered or otherwise used in the slightest degree, absent the express written permission of US African Immigrants Gist Inc..

7. Submission Policy

(1) Your submissions and their contents will automatically become the property of US African Immigrants Gist Inc., without any compensation to you; (2) by making any submission to our website or any website on the US African Immigrants Gist Inc. domain, you grant US African Immigrants Gist Inc. a universal, irrevocable, freely-transferrable license to use, sell, modify, or delete such submissions; (3) US African Immigrants Gist Inc. has no obligation to review the submission; and (4) there is no obligation to keep any submission confidential.

To the extent a submission is made under terms inconsistent with the terms and conditions of this policy, the terms and conditions of this policy govern.