TAMB Directory Privacy Policy
Effective Date: March 13, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how The African Music Business (TAMB) Directory (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you use our website, https://tamb.directory (the “Site”).
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://tamb.directory.
Information We Collect
- Comments: When you leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
- Gravatar: 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://support.gravatar.com/account/data-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 Site, 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: We use cookies to enhance your experience on the Site. These cookies may store your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. You can opt-in or out of these cookies at any time.
- Log In: If you log in to the Site, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. These cookies have varying expiration times.
- Content Creation: If you edit or publish content on the Site, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.
- Embedded Content: Articles on the Site may include embedded content from other websites. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Improve the user experience on the Site
- Respond to your comments and inquiries
- Provide customer support
- Send you information about relevant services and updates
- Detect and prevent spam
Sharing Your Information
We may share your information with:
- Third-party service providers who help us operate the Site
- Law enforcement or other government officials, as required by law
Data Retention
We will retain your comments and their metadata indefinitely. This allows for automatic comment approval instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For registered users, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no website or internet transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee the security of your information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Your continued use of the Site after we post any changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: [email protected]
Additional Information
- We take the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell or share your personal information with third parties without your consent.
- We use a variety of security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
- We are committed to complying with all applicable data privacy laws and regulations.