At Africaw.com, the privacy of our visitors is of great importance to us and we do our best to protect the privacy of our visitors all the time.

Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit africaw.com, and how we safeguard your information. Once again, your privacy is of great importance to us and we never sell your personal information to third parties.

As with most other websites including the giant google, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL, Verizon, etc), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer , netscape, Firefox, chrome), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Like many websites online today including the giant Google, We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as our global issues discussion forum.

Sometimes we also use third party advertisements on africaw.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers including Google may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (showing African real estate ads to someone in Africa, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing Unicef.org to someone who frequents charity websites).

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites including google, bing, yahoo. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.