Privacy Policy
The africanstarters.com Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services. African Starters Platform is a service offering of Africa Venture Lab LLC, and references in this document to “us,” “our,” and “we” refer to Africa venture Lab, LLC.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse the site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you purchase Afrikisa Platform products and services, register for forum support, or register for email newsletters and alerts.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
2. Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial websites, this site utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server logs to collect information about how this site is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at this site, and the websites visited just before and just after our site. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.
We also collect theme usage data through our automatic update mechanism, which checks to ensure you have the latest version of the theme you’ve purchased. This process is necessary in order to provide you with a painless and consistent upgrade experience. You can opt out of receiving automatic updates to the latest version of your theme by disabling updates in your Theme Settings.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to this website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in each such email.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access or control over those cookies.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you use this website, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting this site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve this site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
The information we collect is used to improve the content of this site and the quality of our service, and is not shared with or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes. That being said, your information could be shared under the following circumstances:
- We use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, these third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with those business activities.
- As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions.
- We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.
- If it becomes necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to this website, new services, and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in each such email.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on this site may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Websites Linked to This Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our site. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our site to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including sites which have a link on our site, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using this site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
With a simple request, you can access to your personal information, to correct or erase them in case of mistake.
Charges and Customer Service
All credit card charges will appear as:
Africa Venture Lab LLC
8003 Arapahoe Ridge Ln, Tx, 77459
You may contact us via email at
or by phone
832-997-6205
Money-Back Guarantee and Refund Policy
We at African Starters (a division of Africa Venture Lab LLC) want you to be completely happy with your purchase. If you have any questions, concerns, or problems, please log into your site dashboard and submit a support request: just click on the “Email Us” button under the Help tab in the Admin Toolbar.
In the event, however, that you decide your purchase was not the right decision, we want to make things right. Within 30 days of any purchase, Africa Venture Lab will refund the full price you paid upon request. Simply submit a support requested as described above, choose the “I need help with my account” option, and let us know you’d like a refund. No refunds are provided after more than 30 days following purchase.
Refunds, Cancellations, and Other Legal Stuff
Refunds
Truth be told, what we provide is a lot of intellectual content via emails, videos, and other online content and as such, taking a return isn’t exactly possible. Let’s face it, It’s not often that you take a book home, read it and if you didn’t like it, return it to the store. That’s what libraries are for, right?
All that said, if you feel like you didn’t get what was promised, we will do everything we can to make it right. We are nice folks and we also feel like it’s fairly reasonable for you to let us know within 30 Days of a purchase that you aren’t happy with what you purchased in order for us to provide any sort of refund.
That said, we respond really well to polite, reasonable requests and want you to find our products useful. So, drop us a call and we’ll work it out.
Cancellation Policy
If you are dissatisfied with any of our courses subscription based products, please contact us and let us know. You can cancel any of your subscriptions at any time with no issue and you will continue to have access until your purchased time expires.
We’re offering subscription packages, and these may change from time to time. Whatever you choose now, that’s what you get. In the future, we may offer stuff for groups, special bells and whistles for a few more moneys, etc. You’ll never get less than we promised, but you may have an opportunity to change your subscription and get more when we invent something really nifty and useful (at least we hope we will.) We won’t increase your membership fee in any given term, but when your current membership expires, don’t be too put out if it may get more expensive if we need to up the fee to cover the bills. Server space is not free, nor are the lovely people trying to make sure these are great products and worth every penny. We’ll let you know a way in advance. We don’t like surprises and we assume you don’t either.
You agree that you’ll pay the subscription fee and any required taxes in order to get access to the good stuff. If you have a subscription account, we’re going to take the money from your credit card, PayPal account or however you decided to pay us once a month as we agreed. If you want to switch accounts, let us know. If your card “bounces” then we’ll contact you and possibly suspend your account until you pay us- that’s only fair. We can’t give you your money back after you’ve paid for that month. If you do have a problem and need to cancel your membership, it may take us up to two weeks to get all our ducks in a row and make sure we do all the paperwork. If you’re accidentally charged again in the meantime, we’ll refund your money and apologize for being slow, but not everything is automated here- We’re part of Owner Media Group and while it sounds big, humans are involved and sometimes we may screw up, despite our best efforts not to. We’ll do our best to make it right, and we really appreciate your patience. We’re sorry you’re cancelling your membership, but we understand we can’t be a perfect fit for everyone, but we hope you’ll get the best service we can give you and at least that will make you happy.
We’d love to monitor everything, but we can’t. Folks live all over the world, and we need our sleep. Coffee isn’t always a solution- sleep is still necessary. We will have folks in our communities, monitoring the chat, and so forth. We might edit out stuff that’s particularly unpleasant and not let you know before we do so. Trust us, it wasn’t that interesting, anyways. We’d share the joke if it was good enough.
Your real remedy, if you don’t like the site or aren’t finding it useful, is to cancel your account. You pretty much can’t sue us for anything else, and besides that, who really wants to sue people who are just trying to help, offer advice and useful information and be friends?
Delivery/Shipping Policy
Most of our products are online in nature and are delivered via electronic download, email, participation in online forums and links to hosted videos and other premium content. If ever there is a time when you don’t receive your product, just contact us and we’ll make sure you get what you need.
Email us at support at hello@africanstarters.com
Data and security
Everything is done to avoid any slowdown or unexpected downtime of the services, but it is not possible to guarantee these slowdowns or to foresee any downtime. No network or server problem or any other breakdown can be covered under any warranty. No repayment can be considered for any break or stop of the services, damage or data loss except under extreme circumstances where any such outage lasts beyond seven (7) consecutive days, in which case, a prorata refund may be offered at the sole discretion of Owner Media Group. Several systems have been set up to ensure a security of the content.
Use of your personal data
By using our sites and subscription based products, you consent that the site uses the personal data which concerns you and that you have willingly and voluntarily transmitted. This data is necessary so we can contact you about upcoming events, newsletters, additional site benefits, maintain your account and other mutually agreed upon reasons. By signing up for courses, our forums and associated benefits, you agree and specifically allow us to contact you in this manner unless otherwise specifically notified in writing.
We promise to not sell, rent or otherwise transmit your personal data to third parties without your express prior permission. If you believe your personal information has been transmitted by us or another user to a third party in violation of this agreement, please notify us immediately and we will take action to resolve the matter in a timely fashion. Owner Media Group and its associated companies, agents, and officers are not responsible for any personal data you have willingly provided in the open forums to others that may or may not be subsequently misused.
We reserve the right to share non-personal, disaggregated information in collective form with third parties, for legitimate statistical, demographic, business white paper, business, research or other purposes only.
When we do appeal to third parties in the processing of your personal information, we ensure that they respect our rules of Confidentiality as well as any appropriated confidentiality or security measures.
We might transmit information to third parties in precise circumstances, in particular among others, requests from public authorities, in order to prevent fraud or imminent damages, but also to ensure the security of our network and services.
You can also refuse to provide us personal information and / or refuse the cookies in your browser. However, this might disrupt the functioning of some services or features.
