Privacy Policy
Who we are
CongoYes is the very first Congolese social media network, created by Melki Groupe SAS – a sustainable infrastructure development company in the DRC. The network brings together Congolese entrepreneurs, professionals, students, and investors in the DRC and around the world in one large virtual community where people exchange, interact, and pragmatically develop ideas to move the DRC forward. Our website address is: https://congoyes.com.
At Congo Yes!, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Congo Yes! and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors of our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Congo Yes!. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number. When you use any of our contact forms, an Account is created automatically for you and associated with the data you chose to share with us.
Community and Account
Our community is a vital part of our website when you register for an Account, whether by explicitly registering or using one of our contact forms, you understand that a public online profile will be automatically created within our community hosted on CongoYes.com and that it is inseparable. You have the right to remove your account at any given time. Removal of your account automatically removes all of the data associated with the account with the exception of necessary billing information related to any purchases that we are required to store by law. Contact us if you wish to have the account removed or if you have additional questions.
Marketing
Congo Yes! reserves the right to include images of your Congo Yes!’s header graphic or overview summary page on the Congo Yes! website or in other marketing materials for demonstration and promotional purposes. We may also display additional images, such as an image of your member profile including your photograph. Care will be taken to present images in a professional manner and without compromising the character of the CongoYes-powered community. You can update your account information and preferences at any time.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- You might be contacted via our community by other community members
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
Congo Yes! follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Congo Yes! uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Congo Yes!’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Third Party Accounts
We may share general information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Congo Yes! under confidentiality agreements. General information may be used to help Congo Yes! communicate offers to you from Congo Yes! and our marketing partners. Our partners do not have any independent right to share this general information and any offers will include a URL and email address that you can use to unsubscribe from future mailings.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Congo Yes! does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Disclaimers
All the information on this website – https://CongoYes.com – including but not limited to Congo Yes! Community is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. Congo Yes! does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (Congo Yes!), is strictly at your own risk. Congo Yes! will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.
Congo Yes! does not accept liability whatsoever for content created by its Users or for the activities of its Users. These cannot be attributed to Congo Yes!, nor do they represent Congo Yes!’s opinion.
From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these sites. These links to other websites do not imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link which may have gone ‘bad’.
Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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://congoyes.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
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 visit our login page, 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.
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.
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.
Changes
Congo Yes! may periodically update this policy. This policy is subject to change at any time, without prior notice. You are responsible for reviewing this policy on a regular basis.
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