Effective: September 24, 2024
Welcome!
M O A F R I C A is a flagship program of Good Morning Mr. President Foundation, a nonprofit organization that host and operate the platform; with no affiliation to any other media group (or political party or religious organization. The platform and the foundation are funded mainly through donations and advertising.
Good Morning Mr. President project is found on a simple mission, but powerful principle: Committed to building a knowledge society in Africa; and with a mandate is to create online media platforms, spaces & products that enable the free communication and sharing of knowledge in Africa.
M O A F R I C A – Africa’s’ Knowledge being(is) Power Conversations, is a dynamic platform that champions the power of meaningful conversations. We see conversation as art, we believe that it is one of those uniquely human experiences that distills so much complexity and exhibits such infinite variety that it verges on the indefinable. On Africa’s being, knowledge, concepts, arts, complexities, history, and its contemporary present-day issues, M O A F R I C A, creates a safe and open space to have conversations, to have meaningful interactions in hearing each other’s experiences and knowledges.
It is created to promote and to showcase the depth of Africa’s knowledge systems and concepts. Through awe-inspiring storytelling, writings, conversations, poetry, photography, music and videos, people are able to recollect and articulate Africa’s knowledge systems.
The platform has distinguished itself in the investigative and analytical storytelling to carry the struggle for the inclusivity of African ideas, concepts, and knowledge in the universal world of ideas, knowledge and being.
With its question-style-format-articles, the platform has taken an investigative-forensic character, questioning of society’s assumptions with regard to humanity; and in asking the right tough questions we make sense of these realities and thereby engaging the reader to part of the conversation.
This Privacy Policy explains how Good Morning Mr. President, the nonprofit organization that operates MOAFRICA , collects, uses and share information we receive from you through your use of the service. It is essential to understand that, by using any of the services, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use for your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This means that reading this policy carefully is important.
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“Good Morning Mr. President”/ “the foundation” /
“mopresident” / “we” /”us” /”our” |
Good Morning Mr. President, the nonprofit organization
that operates MOAFRICA web application site. |
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“MOAFRICA ” / “our services” |
MOAFRICA is a web application that offers publishing
services, including its APIs, emails and notifications. |
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“you” / “your” / “me”
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You, regardless of whether you are an individual, group,
or organization, and regardless of whether you are using the MOAFRICA site or
our services on behalf of yourself or someone. |
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“this Policy” / “this Privacy Policy” |
This document, entitled “MOAFRICA Privacy Policy”. |
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“contributions” / “posts” |
Content you add or changes you make to add to MOAFRICA
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“personal information” |
Information you provide us or information we collect from
you that could be used personally identify you. To be clear, while we do not
necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at
least the following to be “personal information” if it is otherwise nonpublic
and can be used to identify you: (a) You real name, address, phone number,
email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, user-agent information, (b) When associated with one of the items
in subsection (a), any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual
orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medication
conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion; and (c) any of the items in subsections (a)
or (b) when associated with your user account. |
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“third party” / “third parties” |
Individual, entities, website, services, products, and
applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by Good Morning
Mr. President. This includes other MOAFRICA users and independent
organizations or groups who help promote MOAFRICA. |
Privacy Policy Summary
We believe you should know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. We want to empower you to make the best decisions about the information that you share with us.
That’s the basic purpose of this Privacy Policy.
We would like you to read this policy in full, but here are a few key highlights you take away from it:
· MOAFRICA is an open public media platform and posted stories are immediately viewable and searchable by anyone around the world. We give you non-public ways to share stories on MOAFRICA too, through protected posts and Direct Messages. You can also use MOAFRICA under a pseudonym if you prefer not to use your real name.
· When you use MOAFRICA, even if you’re just browsing posts or reading posts, we receive some personal information from you like the type of device you’re using and your IP address. You can choose to share additional information with us like your email address and a public profile. We use this information for things like keeping your account secure and showing you more relevant posts, writers to follow, and interesting talk shows to join.
· We give you control through your settings to limit the data we collect from you and how we use it, and to control things like account security and marketing preferences. You can also download the information you have shared on MOAFRICA.
· In addition to information, you share with us, we use your posts, content you’ve read, liked, or shared and other information to determine what topics you’re interested in, your age, the languages you speak, and other signals to show you more relevant content to engage. We give you transparency into that information, and you can modify or correct it at any time.
· If you have questions about this policy, how we collect or process your personal data, or anything else related to our privacy practices, we want to hear from you. You can contact us at any time by sending an email at [email protected].
Information You Share with Us
We require certain information to provide our services to you. For example, you must have an account in order to upload, publish or share content on MOAFRICA. When you choose to share the information with us, we collect and use it to operate our services.
Basic Account Information
You don’t have to create an account to use some of our service features, such as browsing, reading and viewing posts on MOAFRICA. If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. On MOAFRICA this includes a display name (for example, “Amandla Black”), a username (email address), and a password. Your display name is always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym.
Public Information
Most activity on MOAFRICA is public, including your profile information, your time zone and language, when you created your account, and your posts and certain information about your Posts like the date and time. You also may choose to publish your location in your posts or your profile. The Posts you create, people you follow and who follow you, and posts you like are also public.
You are responsible for your posts and other information you provide through our services, and you should think carefully about what you make public, especially if it is sensitive information. If you update your public information on MOAFRICA, such as by deleting a Posts or deactivating your account, we will reflect your updated content on moafrica.africa.
Contact Information
We use your contact information, such as your email address, to authenticate your account and keep it - and our services - secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. You can use your settings for email notifications to control notifications you receive from MOAFRICA. You can also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification.
If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email address, and your contact information to respond to your request.
Direct Messages, protected posts and Non-Public Communications
We provide certain features that let you communicate more privately or control who sees your content. For example, you can use Direct Messages and Protected Posts to have non-public conversations on MOAFRICA , protect your conversations. When you communicate with others by sending or receiving Direct Messages and Protected Posts, we will store and process your communications and information related to them.
We share the content of your Direct Messages and Protected Posts with the people you’ve sent them to; we do not use them to serve you advertorials. Note that if you interact in a way that would ordinarily be public with MOAFRICA content shared with you via Direct Message, Protected Posts, for instance by liking a Posts, those interactions will be public. When you use features like Direct Messages Protected Posts to communicate, remember that recipients have their own copy of your communications on MOAFRICA - even if you delete your copy of those messages from your account - which they may duplicate, store, or re-share.
Additional Information We Receive About You
We receive certain information when you use our services. Like the information you share with us, we use the data below to operate our services.
Location Information
We require information about your registration, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our services to you.
Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional information about your location - such as your current precise position or places where you’ve previously used MOAFRICA - to operate or personalize our services including with more relevant content like local stories and advertorials.
Links
In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in the content that appear on the platform.
If you click on an external link or advertorial (paid content) on our services, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you came from MOAFRICA, along with other information associated with the advertorial you clicked such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach. They may also collect other personal data from you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our services such as searching and reading stories. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies.
When your browser or device allows it, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our services such as by providing account security, personalizing the content we show you including advertorials, and remembering your language preferences. We do not support the Do Not Track browser option.
Log Data
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, which we refer to as “Log Data,” even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our website, log into our services, interact with our email notifications, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information.
We use information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log Data and data from third parties, to make inferences like what topics you may be interested in, how old you are, and what languages you speak. This helps us better design our services for you and personalize the content we show you, including advertorials.
Advertisers and Other Ad Partners
As non-profit organization we include advertorial revenue in the funding model to support and host MOAFRICA platform. We allow advertising in the form of advertorial (paid content or promoted content) for content marketing ONLY. Advertising that does not explicitly promote a rand but id intended to stimulate interest in its products and services. Brands that are able to provide truly relevant and useful content to you.
Advertising revenue allows us to support, maintain and improve our services. We use the information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertorials more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to help recognize your devices to serve you advertorials on MOAFRICA. Our ad partners and affiliates share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app.
MOAFRICA adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (also referred to as “interest-based advertising”) and respects the DAA’s consumer choice tool for you to opt out of interest-based advertising. In addition, our advertorials policies prohibit advertisers from targeting advertorials based on categories that we consider sensitive or are prohibited by law, such as race, religion, politics, sex life, or health.
Personalizing Across Your Devices
When you log into MOAFRICA on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to log into MOAFRICA (or associate your logged-out device or browser with other browsers or devices). We do this to operate and personalize our services.
How You Control Additional Information We Receive
Your MOAFRICA Personalization and data settings let you decide:
· Whether we show you interest-based advertorials on MOAFRICA
· How we personalize your experience across devices
· Whether we collect and use your precise location
· Whether we personalize your experience based on where you’ve been
· Whether we keep track of the websites where you see MOAFRICA content
Information We Share and Disclose
As noted in the beginning of the document, MOAFRICA is designed to broadly and instantly disseminate information and knowledge you share publicly through our services. In the limited circumstances where we disclose your private personal data, we do so subject to your control, because it’s necessary to operate our services, or because it’s required by law.
Service Providers
We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us from varies countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help operate our services, such as hosting our platform, and to help us understand the use of our services, such as Google Analytics.
We may share your private personal data with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions.
Law, Harm, and the Public Interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
Affiliates and Change of Ownership
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, your personal data may be transferred as part of the exercise. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new organization. We may also disclose personal data about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help operate our services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery of advertorials.
Non-Personal Information
We share or disclose non-personal data, such as aggregated information like the total number of times people engaged with a story, the number of people who clicked on a particular link or Amanda a story (even if only one did), or reports to advertisers about how many people saw or clicked on their advertorials.
Managing Your Personal Information With Us
You control the personal data you share with us. You can access or rectify this data at any time. You can also deactivate your account. We also provide you tools to object, restrict, or withdraw consent where applicable for the use of data you have provided to MOAFRICA. And we make the data you shared through our services portable and provide easy ways for you to contact us.
Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data
If you have registered an account on MOAFRICA, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account.
Deletion
We keep Log Data for a maximum of 12 months. Your account will be deactivated and then deleted. When deactivated, your MOAFRICA account, including your display name, username, and public profile, will no longer be viewable on moafrica.africa.
For up to 30 days after deactivation it is still possible to restore your MOAFRICA account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your profile information and public Posts, even after you have deleted the information from our services or deactivated your account.
Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent
When you are logged into your MOAFRICA account, you can manage your privacy settings and other account features at any time.
Additional Information or Assistance
Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting us here or writing to us at the address below.
Good Morning Mr. President
Pegasus Building
210 Amarand Avenue, Waterkloof Glen ext. 2
Pretoria, South Africa 0181
Email: privacy@mopresident.org
(for content on MOAFRICA )
Children and Our Services
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 16. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at https://moafrica.africa/privacy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an MOAFRICA update services or email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under the Privacy Policy, please email us at [email protected] or contact us directly.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you also may have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority competent for your country or region.
Effective: September 24, 2024