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.
By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, subject to Your acceptance of the cookies consent popup on Our website.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words which have the initial letter 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:
- Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this policy) refers to Saide, 14th Floor, 19 Ameshoff Street, Braamfontein 2001, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 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.
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone, or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data or Information is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the website and digital materials or platforms relating to the website
- Usage (Data) refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to OER Africa, accessible from https://www.oerafrica.org/
- You or Your means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
It is the policy of Saide’s OER Africa initiative to respect Your privacy regarding any information We may collect while operating Our websites. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.oerafrica.org (hereinafter, "Us", "We", or “https://www.oerafrica.org"). We are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide to Us through the website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on Our website, how We use this information, and under what circumstances We may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information We collect through the website and does not apply to Our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on Our website, set forth the general rules and policies governing Your use of Our website. Depending on Your activities when visiting Our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, OER Africa collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. OER Africa's purpose in collecting non-personally-identifying information is to understand better how OER Africa's visitors use its website. From time to time, OER Africa may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
OER Africa also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for downloads of resources. OER Africa only discloses IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below. Google analytics tracks page views, pages viewed and the duration of those views.
Security
The security of Your Personal Information 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 Information, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
OER Africa discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on OER Africa's behalf or to provide services available at OER Africa's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of Your home country. By using OER Africa's website you consent to the transfer of such information to them. OER Africa will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, OER Africa discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when OER Africa believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of OER Africa, third parties or the public at large.
If you have supplied Your email address to Saide or OER Africa, OER Africa may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit Your feedback, or keep you up to date with what's going on with the initiative. We will not share your email address with anyone other than OER Africa employees. If you send Us a request (for example via a support email or via one of Our feedback mechanisms), We reserve the right to publish it in order to help Us clarify or respond to Your request or to help Us support other users. OER Africa takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
OER Africa may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website and may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, OER Africa does not disclose Your personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect Your online experience, OER Africa uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store Your preferences on Your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. OER Africa uses cookies to help Us to identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.oerafrica.org and their website access preferences. OER Africa visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should either set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the website, or click the Reject button on the cookies consent popup, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate Our website without changing Your cookie settings, or by clicking on the Accept button on the cookies consent popup, you hereby acknowledge and agree to OER Africa's use of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, OER Africa may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in OER Africa's sole discretion. OER Africa encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute Your acceptance of such change.
Credit
This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the www.termsandconditionstemplate.com.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Us via email : info@saide.org.za
Disclaimer
We will try to respond to any user requests for refinements or correction of errors in the OER Africa website, its software or its content. However, the content, software and services on the website are provided ‘as is’, and users should not expect Us to ensure fitness for a particular purpose.
- We cannot guarantee that the website and services will be uninterrupted or error-free.
- We will do Our best to manage the accuracy and usefulness of the OER Africa website content. However, the website, content, publications and documents may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors.
- We will do Our best to offer support to OER Africa website users through a help service. However, We will not be liable for damages resulting from the use of, or inability to use the website or website content.
- We may change or discontinue any aspect of Our website at any time without prior notice.
- We may change or revise these terms and conditions of use. We will notify users of these changes on the website home pages.
Indemnification
We are not liable for any damage, loss, cost or expense related to Your use of OER Africa website content, services, or publications, or Your violation of any rights of another.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact Us by email: info@saide.org.za