Privacy Policy

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CGAfrica is committed to maintaining the security, confidentiality and privacy of your personal information. This document describes our general privacy policies.

Scope of Policy

This policy applies to personal information about individuals and does not apply to the information collected, used or disclosed with respect to corporate or commercial entities. This policy does not impose any limits on our collection, use or disclosure of the information exempted under applicable privacy legislation, including business contact information and certain publicly available information. This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy: (a) "Account” means a unique account created by You for the purposes of accessing the Service; (b) "Company" (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to CGAfrica. (c) "Cookies" are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses. (d) "Personal Data, is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. (e) "Service" refers to the Website, the mobile application, and any other services offered by CGAfrica. (f) "User" refers to any person who uses the Service. (g) "You" refers to the User. (h) "Service Provider" means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. (i) "Third-party Social Media Service" refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service. (j) "Usage Data" refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). (k) "Website" refers to CGAfrica, accessible from www.cgafrica.com

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: (a) Email address (b) First name and last name (c) Phone number (d) Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City, Country (e) Usage Data (f) Other information relevant to Your particular situation.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

The Company allows You to create an account and log in to use the Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services: (a) Facebook (b) Google (c) Twitter (d) Instagram (e) LinkedIn (f) Pinterest If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Services account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with that account. You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Services account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes: (a) To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service. (b) To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user. (c) For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service. (d) To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile applications push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation. (e) To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information. (f) To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us. (g) For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred. (h) For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience. (i) "Third-party Social Media Service" refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service. (j) "Usage Data" refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). (k) "Website" refers to CGAfrica, accessible from www.cgafrica.com We may share Your personal information in the following situations: (a) With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You. (b) For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company. (c) With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy with the same confidentiality and security standards applied to Your information. (d) With Business partners: We may share Your information with our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions. (e) With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile. (f) For legal reasons: We may disclose Your personal information if we are required to do so by law or in response to a request by a law enforcement agency. (g) With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Companys operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer. The Company will take steps to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Changes

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company; (c) prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service; or (d) protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public. (e) Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers. If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Accountability

We have designated a Privacy Officer who is accountable for our compliance with this policy. The Privacy Officer’s contact information is below

Purposes

When collecting personal information, we will state the purpose of collection and will provide, on request, contact information for the Privacy Officer who can answer questions about the collection. We may collect various information from you, including your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, photograph, credit card details, preferred means of communication, your interaction with our website, social media sites and mobile applications (including information such as IP addresses, browser type, language, access times, referring website, etc.) and other information you provide to us. We collect, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes: to allow us to communicate with you (including through the use of commercial electronic messages), to customize the advertising and content that is presented to you on our website, to contact you regarding any orders you place through our website, and to help process, deliver and take payment for those orders, to verify your personal information to operate, customize and improve our website, social media sites, mobile applications, advertisements, products and services; to allow you to use portions of our website such as our forums; to allow you to participate in our contests, and to administer those contests; to monitor your compliance with any of your agreements with us; to administer our provision of, and your payment for, products or services you request from us; to provide newsletters, electronic messages and information you request from us; to provide other information to you regarding our products and services or third party products and services, unless you opt out of receiving that information; to manage or transfer our assets or liabilities, for example in the case of an acquisition, disposition or merger; to protect us, yourself and others from fraud and error and to safeguard our business interests; to collect debts owed to us; to comply with legal and regulatory requirements; and for other purposes we may inform you about from time-to-time. We may transfer your personal information across provincial or national borders to fulfil any of the above purposes (including both the necessary and the optional purposes), including to service providers located in the United States and other jurisdictions outside of Canada who may be subject to applicable disclosure laws in those jurisdictions. You may contact our Privacy Officer (whose contact information is provided below) to obtain information about our policies and practices regarding our use of service providers outside of Canada, or to ask questions about the collection, use, disclosure or storage of personal information by our off-shore service providers. When your personal information is to be used for a purpose not previously identified, the new purpose will be disclosed to you prior to such use, and your consent will be sought unless the use is authorized or required by law. We may work with other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as website hosting services, payment processing services and product delivery services. Those service providers will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service in question, and they will be required to maintain the confidentiality of that information.

Deletion of Personal Data

Deleting your account/user deletion will remove everything associated with your account, including but not limited to Artworks, Comments, Projects, Competitions, and items in your Library. To delete you account, click on your Avatar Menu -> Edit profile -> Account/Notification tab, and at the bottom of the Account Setting page, there is a button to delete your account. Note that when you terminate or delete your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information as required by law in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us at: By visiting this page on our website: https://www.cgafrica.com/privacy-policy