Terms of Use
These terms and conditions of use (these “Terms of Use”) govern your use of the African Celebs website.
Your agreement and compliance with these Terms of Use is a condition to your use of our Site. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU MAY NOT USE OUR SITES.
Please also consult our Privacy Policy for a description of our privacy policy, to which you are also deemed to consent by using this Site. THE TERMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME, EFFECTIVE UPON NOTICE TO YOU
1. OWNERSHIP OF THE SITES
All pages within the Sites and any material made available for viewing, use or download through our Site, are the property of African Celebs.
The contents of the Sites, including without limitation African Celebs’s name, logos, designs, slogans, and any files, documents, text, photographs, images, audio, and video, and any other materials accessed through or made available for viewing, listening, use or download through the Sites (including advertisements and sponsored links, collectively, the “Content”) may not be copied, distributed, modified, reproduced, published, used or re-used, in whole or in part, except for the purposes specifically permitted herein or that have been authorized or approved in writing by African Celebs prior to any such use.
You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose, or deep link to, any Content or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, and forms) without African Celebs’s express prior written consent.
All other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans and other materials on the Sites that are not trademarks or copyrighted material of African Celebs are the trademarks or copyrighted material of their respective owners.
2. SITE SECURITY
You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of our Site, including, without limitation, (i) accessing data not intended for you or logging onto a server or an account that you are not authorized to access; (ii) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; or (c) accessing or using the Sites or any portion thereof without authorization, in violation of these Terms of Use or in violation of applicable law. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.
African Celebs will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Sites or any activity being conducted on the Sites.
3. ACCURACY AND INTEGRITY OF INFORMATION
Although African Celebs attempts to ensure the integrity and accurateness of our website, African Celebs makes no representations, warranties or guarantees whatsoever as to the correctness or accuracy of the Site and Content thereon. It is possible that the Site could include typographical errors, inaccuracies or other errors, and that unauthorized additions, deletions and alterations (collectively the “Anomalies”) could be made to the Sites by third parties.
In the event you believe that there is an Anomaly on the Sites, please contact us as soon as practicable, so that African Celebs can take commercially reasonable measures to correct or remedy such Anomaly. Information contained on the Sites may be changed or updated without notice to you.
Additionally, African Celebs shall have no responsibility or liability for information or Content posted to the Sites from any party. All statements and/or opinions expressed in the Content, other than the Content provided by African Celebs are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing such statements or opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of African Celebs.
4. EXPORT POLICY AND GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS
African Celebs does not authorize the downloading or exportation of the Content or any software or technical data from the Site to any jurisdiction that prohibits the downloading or exportation of such content, software or data, or to any jurisdiction prohibited by United Kingdom export control laws. You shall indemnify and hold harmless African Celebs from all claims, demands, damages, costs, fines, penalties, attorneys’ fees and all other expenses arising from your failure to comply with this provision and/or applicable law.
African Celebs is based in the United Kingdom.
5. ACCESS TO SITE; INDEMNIFICATION
In the event access to the Sites or a portion thereof is limited requiring a user ID and password (“Protected Areas”), you agree to access Protected Areas using only your user ID and password. You agree to protect the confidentiality of your user ID and password, and not to share or disclose your user ID or password to any third party. You agree that you are fully responsible for all activity occurring under your user ID.
Your access to the Sites may be revoked by African Celebs at any time with or without cause. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold African Celebs harmless from and against all third party claims, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) against or incurred by African Celebs arising out of your breach of these Terms of Use or violation of applicable law, your use of or access to the Sites, or access by anyone accessing the Sites using your user ID and password whether with or without your consent.
6. LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Links from the Sites to other websites and resources provided by third parties are provided for your convenience only. African Celebs makes no representations whatsoever about any other website that you may access through the Sites.
When you access a non-African Celebs site, please understand that it is independent from African Celebs, and that African Celebs has no control over the Content on that external website.
In addition, a link to a non-African Celebs website does not mean that African Celebs endorses or accepts any responsibility for the Content thereon, or for your use, of the linked site. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use or download is free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other items of a destructive nature. You acknowledge that if you decide to access any of third party websites linked to the Sites, you do this entirely at your own risk.
7. SUBMISSIONS, REVIEWS, FEEDBACK AND OTHER POSTINGS TO THE SITE
If you submit, upload or post any comments, ideas, suggestions, information, files, images or other materials to us or our Site (collectively, your “Submissions”), you agree not to provide any Submissions that: (a) are defamatory, abusive, libelous, unlawful, obscene, threatening, harassing, fraudulent, deceptive, pornographic, or harmful, or that could encourage criminal or unethical behavior, (b) violate or infringe the privacy, copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secrets or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, (c) contain or transmit a virus or any other harmful component, (d) impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or entity, (5) involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or advertising, and (6) give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by African Celebs or any other person or entity if this is not in fact the case. You agree not to contact other users of the Sites through unsolicited e-mails, telephone calls, mailings or any other method of communication.
By making a Submission to the Sites, you hereby grant to African Celebs a fully paid up, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, transferable right and license to use the Submissions however African Celebs desires, including without limitation, to copy, modify, delete in their entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, compile and/or sell and/or distribute such Submissions and/or incorporate such Submissions into any form, medium or technology throughout the world. African Celebs is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Submissions in confidence; (2) to pay to you any compensation for any Submissions; or (3) to acknowledge or respond to any Submissions.
African Celebs does not regularly review posted Submissions, but does reserve the right (but not the obligation) to monitor and edit or remove any Submissions submitted to the Sites. In conjunction with African Celebs’s monitoring rights hereunder, African Celebs may, in its sole discretion:
(i) refuse to post any Submissions for any reason or no reason;
(ii) take any action with respect to a Submission that we deem necessary or appropriate, including if we believe that any Submission violates these Terms of Use, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Site or the public or could create liability for the Company;
(iii) disclose your identity or other information that we may have about you to any third party that claims that your Submission violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their rights to privacy;
(iv) take all appropriate legal action, including without limitation referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Sites, and
(v) terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Sites.
Without limiting the foregoing, African Celebs has the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone making a Submission on or through the Sites.
YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS AFRICAN CELEBS, FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY AFRICAN CELEBS DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY AFRICAN CELEBS OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we do not undertake to review all Submissions before posted to the Sites, and cannot guaranty immediate removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction with regard to Submissions.
You grant African Celebs the right to use the names, including any screen names that you submit in connection with any Submissions. You agree not to use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any Submissions.
You are and shall remain solely responsible for the content of any Submissions you make. African Celebs takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Submissions submitted by you or any third party.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold African Celebs harmless from and against all third party claims, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) against or incurred by African Celebs arising out of any Submissions you post, or cause or allow to be posted to the Sites.
You represent and warrant that:
(i) you own or control all rights in and to the Submissions and have the right to grant the license granted above to African Celebs and to our affiliates and service providers, and each of their and our respective licensees, successors and assigns; and
(ii) all of your Submissions will comply in all respects with these Terms of Use.
8. PROHIBITED USES
You may use the Sites only for lawful purpose and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree not to use the Site:
(i) in any way that violates apply applicable federal, state, local or international law or regulation;
(ii) for the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information or otherwise;
(iii) to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material that does not comply with the content standards set forth in these Terms of Use;
(iv) to transmit or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material including any “junk mail,” “chain letter,” or “spam” or any other similar solicitation,
(v) to impersonate or attempt to impersonate African Celebs, a African Celebs employee, another user or any other person or entity, including, without limitation by using email addresses or screen-names associated with the foregoing,
(vi) to engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Sites, or which, as determined by African Celebs, may harm African Celebs or users of the Sites or expose them to liability;
(vii) in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage or impair the Sites;
(viii) by means of any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the Sites for any purpose, including monitoring, scraping or copying any Content;
(viv) by means of any manual process to monitor or copy any of the Content;
(x) by means of any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Sites;
(xi) to introduce any virus, Trojan horse, worm, logic bombs or other materials that are malicious in nature or technologically harmful
(xii) in such a manner as to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of the Sites, the server on which the Sites are stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Sites;
(xiii) in the manner of an attack such as a denial of service attack or a distributed denial of service attack, or otherwise so as to attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Sites.
9. LINKING TO THE SITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES
You may link to the Sites, provided you do so in a way that is fair, compliant with applicable law, and does not damage African Celebs’s reputation or take advantage of it, but you may not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part without our prior written consent.
The Sites may provide certain social media features that enable you to (1) link from your own or third-party websites to certain Content on the Sites, (2) send emails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain Content on the Sites, or (3) cause limited portions of Content on the Sites to be displayed or to appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites. You may use these features solely as they are provided by us, and solely with respect to Content they are displayed with, and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features. We may disable all or any social media features (if any) and any links at any time without notice to you in our sole discretion.
10. CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
We disclaim any responsibility or liability for copyrighted materials posted on our site. If we share materials floating online. We do not modify, remove your name/url or crop those images, we share them AS IS. It’s really hard to track who owns it when it is floating online so please give us the benefit of the doubt. If we posted something here that you think you have a copyright on, we can either credit you or unpublish it.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow the procedures set forth below.
African Celebs respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), we will respond promptly to notices of alleged infringement that are reported to African Celebs’s Designated Copyright Agent, identified below.
Notices of Alleged Infringement for Content Made Available Through the African Celebs Sites
If you are a copyright owner, authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through our Sites by sending us a notice (“Notice”) complying with the following requirements:
(i) you must identify the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringe;
(ii) you must identify the material or link you claim is infringing (or the subject of infringing activity) and that access to which is to be disabled, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the specific Site(s) where such material may be found; and
(iii) you must provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice: “I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use). I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”
Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.
Deliver this Notice, with all items completed, to our Copyright Agent:
Our Copyright Agent form. ( when they click this it should have the form eg same as the contact us details)
ALL NOTICES AND COUNTER NOTICE HEREUNDER SHOULD BE DELIVERED TO THE FOLLOWING DESIGNATED COPYRIGHT AGENT OF AFRICAN CELEBS VIA: [email protected]
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: AFRICAN CELEBS PROVIDES THE AFRICAN CELEBS SERVICE ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND GRANTS NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, IN ANY COMMUNICATION WITH AFRICAN CELEBS OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES, OR OTHERWISE WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE. AFRICAN CELEBS specifically DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. AFRICAN CELEBS does not warrant that your use of the AFRICAN CELEBS service will be secure, uninterrupted, always available, or error-free, or will meet your requirements, or that any defects in the Service will be corrected. AFRICAN CELEBS DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR, AND NO WARRANTY IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO, CONNECTIVITY AND AVAILABILITY.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: IN NO EVENT WILL AFRICAN CELEBS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF PROGRAMS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE African CelebsSERVICE, EVEN IF African CelebsOR ITS AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES KNOW OR HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN YOU.
13. REVISIONS; GENERAL
African Celebs reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or part of the Sites, with or without cause, and with or without notice. In the event that any of the Terms of Use are held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provisions shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that these Terms of Use shall otherwise remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between African Celebs and you pertaining to the subject matter hereof. In its sole discretion, African Celebs may from time-to-time revise these Terms of Use by updating this posting. You should, therefore, periodically visit this page to review the current Terms of Use, so you are aware of any such revisions to which you are bound. Certain provisions of these Terms of Use may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages within this Site.
Your data privacy and security are important to us here at AC . To ensure you have the best possible experience with us today and the years to come, please see below the upcoming changes to EU data protection law.
What is the GDPR? (General Data Protection Regulation)
The GDPR is a comprehensive EU data privacy law that states that everyone has a right to protection of their personal data. This applies not only to EU companies, but to all companies who process data for EU residents.
Today we are simply announcing enhancements to the Privacy Policy which clarify and provide additional information about:
- Your privacy rights and how to exercise them;
- How we collect, use, share and protect your personal data
Please read the Privacy Policy which will be effective from May 25, 2018.
We hope you’ll find these updates improve your AC experience and reinforce our commitment to your data privacy and security. If you have any questions or comments, just reply to this email and we are happy to answer any of your questions.
COMPLAINTS: To resolve a complaint regarding the African Celebs service, you should first contact African Celebs Customer Support by clicking on the “Contact Us” button or via email to [email protected]