Important Note to Children under 13: Children under 13 are NOT allowed to use any of our chat rooms or allowed to participate in any way, shape, or form on this website Personal Information We are committed to protecting all your personal data and your privacy. Similar to when you visit and interact with other websites and services available via the Internet, when you visit our website we gather certain information and store it within log files. This information may include but is not limited to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, system configuration information, URLs of referring pages, and locale and language preferences. In general, this website does not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted, in order to participate. You are always welcome to participate in our chat rooms as a guest user. However, certain areas of the site such as our forums or registering a personal username for the chat rooms does collect certain information that you voluntarily provide us such as an email address. Furthermore, our access logs or stored information may reveal your Internet Service Provider, your IP address and the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail and signs up for our message forums or chat rooms. All communication from emails to us by users known or identified as being under the age of 13 are deleted immediately. We do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes. Please note that IP address logs are only stored for a limited period of time and may or may not be available at the time of request. Any formal requests should be done sooner rather than later. This website will never sell, share, rent, or disclose your personal information to anyone except as necessary to provide our services or as otherwise described in this privacy policy. This site utilizes chat rooms, audio, mobile apps, and forums which can potentially result in the disclosure of personal information publicly. If we become aware of this (regardless of the users age), we will delete any personal information including, but not limited to, email addresses, phone numbers, names, and home addresses immediately. Please note that we DO NOT store logs of chat conversations greater than one full day. It is the responsibility of the user to not disclose any personal information to those they come in contact with via our chat rooms. When you register for a user account on any of our chat rooms or forums, we collect your email address. This information is required to identify you as an end user and permit you to access your account. By voluntarily providing us with such information, you represent that you are the owner of such personal data or otherwise have the requisite consent to provide it to us. The web site server logs WILL store the IP address of individual accessing this web site. The IP address, through your ISP, can identify the household where the user accessed this website. This specific information is not accessible by our website or our staff, but we may report unlawful activity to your ISP in order to identify you for possible legal action. The IP address or any other personal data collected will never be shared or revealed unless under the following circumstances: How do we protect personal information? Our website is scanned on a regular basis for virus', security holes, malware and known vulnerabilities. All information is stored behind secured networks and is only accessible by a very limited number of persons having special access rights to such items. They are required to keep information confidential. All information supplied is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Do we use cookies? In some areas of the website, we do. Cookies are small files that a website or service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser, if you allow it to. This enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain specific information. For example, we use cookies to remember your username and settings in some of our chat rooms. Through your browser settings, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off cookies altogether. GDPR Specific Guidelines If you are a resident of Europe, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact us page. If you are a European resident, any personal information or data stored would be in order to fulfill your participation in our chat rooms, forums and other areas of the website. Please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including, but not limited to, datacenter's in Canada and the United States of America. When you provide us with personal information through the website, we will maintain this information in our records for a limited time frame or until you ask us to delete this information and are a EU resident. For Parents: Children's Privacy Our website is not directed at, or intended for use by, children under the age of 13. This website is a general audience website but we have blocked out users under 13 on the kids chat area of our site that may be misunderstood by some as being directed for users under 13. We do not knowingly allow anyone to provide any personal identifying information on our website. Everyone must take caution before sending personal information over the Internet and through chatrooms. If you have discovered that your child (who is under 13) has registered for a message forum account, please contact us with your child's message forum username and we will have that account and any message postings he/she has made, removed immediately. Your use of the service is subject our Privacy Policy.
This policy applies only to information gathered through the Service, including the download and use of Materials through the Service, but not to other offline transactions with afghanonline.com, nor to transactions with any third party not owned or controlled by afghanonline.com . By using the Service you agree to accept the practices and terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Data Collection
Data is collected when you use the service (e.g. create an account, make a purchase, send messages, create a ticket or send afghanonline.com an email). The following data may be collected:
• Accounts (including payment details but not financial data) :
• afghanonline.com group information:
• Preferences:
• Messages sent on the service:
• Log files of interactions with the service and servers (including IP addresses) :
• Tickets and E-mails
You may provide personally identifiable information in order to use certain Services and to obtain support from afghanonline.com. If you do not want to provide afghanonline.com with any personally identifiable information, you should not use the Services that require such information. Other Users may also provide afghanonline.com with your personally identifiable information. :
Afghanonline.com does not collect or have access to your financial data (e.g. bank account or payment card details). If you make a purchase on the service, this will be handled by an external payment provider and you should refer to their privacy policy for any transaction you are party to. :
Data Use
Afghanonline.com only uses this data, which may include potentially personal data, when it is lawful for afghanonline.com to do so (e.g. to provide the service you have requested, for our legitimate interests in managing and improving the service and to comply with legal or regulatory obligations). Any potentially personal data that is collected is only used for the purposes for which it was originally collected.
To deliver you the Service and send you notices related to the Service, your Account and necessary updates. This includes fulfilling your requests for products and services and delivering content to you that is sent by other Users. To deliver your content to other Users (we will share your User name with Users to whom you send content). If you do not want to share this information, you should limit the content that you share and the Users that you share it with.
To manage your Account and Account access, provide you with Software and Materials, purchase confirmations, support and customer service and to keep track of support and customer service requests.
To determine the technical capabilities of your device and the appropriate content to deliver to you. afghanonline.com may disclose personally identifiable information to its partners in order to provide the Service, resolve service problems and correct errors in the Service (including customer inquiries, billing and credit corrections), to communicate with you about the Service, and to enhance your experience on the Service.
Your personally identifiable information may be provided to a third party if afghanonline.com files for bankruptcy, or there is a transfer of the assets or ownership of afghanonline.com . afghanonline.com may also disclose personally identifiable information in order to respond to a subpoena, court order or other such request, or to otherwise establish or exercise our rights, or defend against legal claims. Afghanonline.com may also provide such personally identifiable information order to investigate, prevent and take action regarding fraud or misuse of the Service, to comply with law or in response to a law enforcement agency's request, to enforce our Privacy Policy and end user agreements, and to protect the rights, property and safety of the Service, Users and others.
In addition to other Users that you designate, afghanonline.com , its partners, and each of their contractors and employees may view the content that you upload to the Service in order to provide the Service and otherwise perform the tasks set forth in this Privacy Policy.
If any data is transferred to a third party for this will only be done in accordance with the privacy policy and terms of service. It will be used for the purposes related to the service and not for their own interests and only if Afghanonline.com is confident that it will be retained and processed in accordance with the law. Afghanonline.com does not rent or sell personally identifiable information, such as your name or e-mail address, to third parties including advertisers.
Your data may be transferred to a different legal jurisdiction and this will only be done where adequate level of data protection is available. For example, in the case of the USA; an approved contract and Privacy Shield registration.
Data Retention
Potentially personal data is only retained for as long as necessary. The duration the data is retained varies; considering the quantity of data, the type of data, the risk of harm should the data be accessed without authorization. In addition, there are regulatory, security, tax, law enforcement and legal requirements that may require data to be retained for a longer period of time. Where it is practical the retained data is encrypted and/or anonymized.
In some circumstances, you may request your potentially personal data and/or its deletion e.g. where there is no good reason for afghanonline.com to retain or process it. The will likely require afghanonline.com to confirm your identity to ensure that data is neither made available to an unauthorized third party or incorrectly deleted. Alternatively, you can use the self service tools to delete your account or group.
Cookies
When you visit any web site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. This service stores data (e.g. HTTP Cookies, HTML5 Local Storage) in your browser to deliver the service.
Strictly Necessary
These are needed for the service to function and cannot be switched off in our systems (e.g. setting your privacy preferences, Cloudflare security functionality). You can set your browser to block or alert you about these, but some parts of the site cannot work work without them. They do not store any personally identifiable information.
Third party: Cloudflare
Functionality
They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services e.g. creating an account, setting your preferences on the service.
Performance
These are used to monitor the service for the purposes of management and development of the service. They do not store any personally identifiable information.
Third party: Google Analytics
Children
afghanonline.com does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. afghanonline.com requests that children under the age of 13 not use the Service nor submit any personal information to the Service. Since information regarding children under the age of 13 is not collected, afghanonline.com does not knowingly use or distribute personal information regarding children under the age of 13. If afghanonline.com obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personal information about a child under the age of 13, that information will be immediately deleted from our database.
Security
Afghanonline.com takes appropriate steps to help ensure data privacy and security including through various hardware and software methodologies. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet, Afghanonline.com cannot guarantee that communications between you and the Service, and the Service and you, will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Users of the Service do so at their own risk. Afghanonline.com cannot guarantee the security of any information that is disclosed online.
Third Party Websites and Services
The service may contain links to third party websites/content. Afghanonline.com is not responsible for the privacy policies of websites and services to which the Service links, or of which the Service is a part. If you provide any information to such third parties different rules regarding the collection and use of your personal information may apply. Afghanonline.com strongly suggest you review such third party's privacy policies before providing any data to them.
Reasonable Efforts
Afghanonline.com will use reasonable efforts to comply with this Privacy Policy and will take prompt corrective action when afghanonline.com learn of any failure to comply with our Privacy Policy. afghanonline.com sometimes release beta versions of our products and services, which are further refined before the release of the final version. Because these products and services are still in a test phase, afghanonline.com may not always catch an unintended privacy issue, despite our efforts to do so. As such, afghanonline.com welcome User feedback on any privacy concerns you may have. In light of the above and because of the complex and constantly changing nature of our technology and business, and the security risks associated with using the Internet, afghanonline.com does not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. To the extent permissible under law, afghanonline.com shall not be liable for any incidental, consequential or punitive damages relating to this Privacy Policy.
Modifications of the Privacy Policy
Afghanonline.com reserves the rights to modify its Privacy Policy at any time. Such modifications will become effective on the day they are posted. Afghanonline.com encourages you to frequently review the Privacy Policy for any modifications.
Contact, Corrections and Updates
If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please contact https://www.afghanonline.com/chats/contact_us.php
Date: January, 25, 2020
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