Privacy Statement & Security
African Spice Safaris Safaris, Inc. (referred to
in this Privacy Statement as "African Spice Safaris")
respects your privacy and is committed to protect
the personal information that you share with us. Below
is our privacy policy that applies to www.African
Spice Safaris.com and/or any Web site (referred to
in this Privacy Statement as the "Site")
owned, operated, licensed or controlled by African
Spice Safaris. This Site is intended for use by persons
who are residents of North or South America and who
are over 18 years of age. By using this Site or communicating
via telephone or otherwise with African Spice Safaris,
you are accepting the practices described in this
Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
When you browse the Site and have not registered
for any online service from African Spice Safaris,
you browse anonymously. Personal Information ("Personal
Information" is defined as any information that
identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or
locate the person to whom such information pertains
including, but not limited to, a first and last name,
E-mail address, a home, postal or other physical address,
or other contact information) is not collected as
you browse. African Spice Safaris does, however, use
"cookies," "client variables"
and "session variables" to collect information
about how the Site and server are used and to recognize
you as an African Spice Safaris online service user
when you re-enter our Site. Information, such as the
server your computer is logged onto, your browser
type, and whether you entered the Site via a Web site
or E-mail hyperlink, is collected and tracked in aggregate.
This information is used for the purpose of measuring
response rates to Web page and E-mail hyperlinks as
well as overall Site activity and performance. When
you register for or request any Site service, you
may be asked to provide us with Personal Information
which is used to enhance your Site experience, expedite
communications, allow you to receive electronic/postal
mailings from African Spice Safaris, or to be contacted
as requested. Additionally, we may request your upcoming
travel plans and the next destination you plan to
visit which allows us to further personalize your
Site and E-mail messages you may receive to meet your
specific needs, as well as make African Spice Safaris
product improvements. We may also use this Personal
Information in aggregate to generate market research
reports.
IP ADDRESSES
African Spice Safaris collects the IP addresses used
to access our Site and the dates and times of access.
This information is used to analyze trends, administer
the Site, track user's movement, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses
are not personally linked to identifiable information.
REGISTRATION FOR ONLINE PRODUCTS & SERVICES
In order to provide you with a particular Site product
or service, we may request that you voluntarily supply
us with Personal Information for purposes such as
correspondence, Site registration, submitting an application
or booking request, placing an order, requesting product
descriptions, or participating in Site surveys and/or
contests. If you are known to us as a registered user
of a African Spice Safaris Site, we may combine information
about your use of Site products or
services with certain other online and offline information
we have about you as an African Spice Safaris customer
as well as information available from external sources
in order to customize your Site experience and present
you with relevant online and offline communications.
INFORMATION USE
We may use Personal Information you have given us with any of our group of companies, including our parent companies and any of our subsidiaries or commonly-owned companies, to for example, provide a service, ensure proper booking, measure consumer interest in our various products and services and inform you about products and services. If you have provided your E-mail address to us or to a company we've partnered with to make their products and services available to you, we may send you E-mail. These E-mails may be based on Personal Information you provided in your initial transaction with us, in surveys both online and offline, from information that may indicate purchasing preferences and lifestyle, as well as available from external sources. These E-mails come directly from African Spice Safaris. You can opt-out from receiving E-mail from African Spice Safaris as described below in the section, "Declining E-mail." When we send you E-mail, we may use your E-mail address to identify information about your receipt of the E-mail, including whether the communication was opened, how many times it was viewed and whether you clicked on an embedded hyperlink to reach a particular product or service. This information is used to measure response rates to E-mail communications as well as enhance your Site experience.
African Spice Safaris does not provide your Personal
Information to our business partners. However, we
may send you offers on behalf of our business partners.
If you take advantage of an offer from a African Spice
Safaris business partner and become their customer,
they may independently wish to send E-Mails to you.
In this case, you will need to inform them separately
if you wish to decline receiving future E-mails from
them. We may share Personal Information with law enforcement
agencies in the event of a criminal investigation
or suspected illegal activity.
CONTESTS
When you enter a contest or other promotional feature
on the Site, we may ask for your Personal Information
so that we can administer the contest and notify winners.
Participation in these contests is completely voluntary
and you therefore have a choice whether or not to
disclose the required information.
ONLINE SURVEYS
We value opinions and comments from African Spice
Safaris customers, and you may have the opportunity
to give us your feedback through Site surveys. In
conducting these surveys, we may ask for your Personal
Information so that we can appropriately identify
you. Survey and Personal Information collected will
be aggregated and used to make improvements to the
Site and improve African Spice Safaris products and
services. Participation in these surveys is completely
voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether
or not to disclose the required information.
MESSAGE BOARDS
Users of Site Message Boards agree not to post any
material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory,
inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene,
profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive
of any individual's privacy or otherwise in violation
of any law. Users agree not to post any copyrighted
material unless they are the owners of the copyright.
Users remain solely responsible for the content of
their messages, and agree to indemnify and hold African
Spice Safaris harmless with respect to any claim based
upon the transmission of their message(s). As a user
of a Message Board, in the event of a complaint or
legal action arising from any posted message, African
Spice Safaris reserves the right to reveal your identity
(or any other information about you in our hands).
African Spice Safaris does not vouch for or warrant
the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message,
and is not responsible for the contents of any message.
The messages posted express the views of the author
of the message and not necessarily the views of African
Spice Safaris. As a user of a Message Board: (a) you
automatically grant to African Spice Safaris (or warrant
that the owner thereof has granted to African Spice
Safaris), a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to
use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly
display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create
derivative works of, transfer or sell any such content,
for any purpose whatsoever, including, without limitation,
a commercial purpose, without any compensation to
you; and (b) you agree that you will not publish,
submit, or display such content to or on any other
commercial travel-related web-site or on-line service
without African Spice Safaris's prior written consent,
which consent may be withheld by African Spice Safaris
in its discretion. African Spice Safaris reserves
the right to edit or delete messages prior to their
appearance on the Site. Any user who feels that a
posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact
African Spice Safaris immediately by E-mail at inquiries@African
Spice Safaris.com.
DECLINING E-MAIL
African Spice Safaris provides customers with a means
to decline receiving E-mail. At any time, you may
request to discontinue receiving E-mail from African
Spice Safaris by following the opt-out instructions
included within any African Spice Safaris E-mail and
informing us of your preference.
CHILDREN
This Site is not used to knowingly solicit Personal
Information from or market to children under the age
of 13. This Site is intended for use by persons who
are over 18 years of age.
CUSTOMER INFORMATION
If you would like information about your account,
you believe that African Spice Safaris has not complied
with this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal
Information, or you have other related inquiries or
concerns, you may write to: African Spice Safaris
Safaris., attention: Marketing, 15 West 26th Street,
New York, NY 10010, USA. In your letter, please describe
in as much detail as possible the nature of your inquiry
or the ways in which you believe that the African
Spice Safaris Privacy Policy has not been complied
with. African Spice Safaris will investigate your
inquiry or concern promptly.
LINKED INTERNET SITES
You should be aware that other Internet sites to which you link to from this Site may contain privacy provisions that differ from the provisions of our Privacy Statement. African Spice Safaris is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other such sites. We encourage Site users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this Site.
