privacy
Afro Renaissance Privacy Policy
Introduction
This Privacy Policy outlines Afro Renaissance Consortium (Afro RC) ("we", "our" or "the Company") practices with respect to information collected from users who access our website at www.theafrorc.org ("Site"), or otherwise share personal information with us (collectively: "Users").
Responsible authority within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR & POPIA):
Cookies are harmless text files that web servers can store on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a website. They allow the server to recognise you when you revisit.
There are two main types:
Transient (or per-session) cookies
These only exist for the duration of your site visit and are deleted on exit. They recognise you as you move between pages, for example recording the items you add to an online shopping basket. These cookies also help maintain security.
Persistent (or permanent) cookies
These stay on your machine until they expire or are deleted. Many are built with automatic deletion dates to help ensure your hard drive doesn’t get overloaded. These cookies often store and re-enter your login information, so you don’t need to remember membership details.
We use both types of cookies
Additionally, cookies can be first- or third-party cookies. First-party cookies are owned and created by the website you’re viewing. Third-party cookies are owned and created by an independent company, usually a company providing a service to the owners of the website.
What we use cookies for
Internet cookies are common and do not harm your system – they just store or gather site information. They help you do things online, like remembering login details so you don’t have to re-enter them when revisiting a site.
We use cookies to:
Gather customer journey information on our public site only.
Evaluate our sites’ advertising and promotional effectiveness (we own the anonymous data collected and don’t share it with anyone) using Google
Analytics
We don’t use cookies to track people’s Internet usage after leaving our sites and we don’t store personal information in them that others could read and understand. We will not sell or distribute cookie information without your prior consent.
Changing your cookies settings
To enable or disable cookies, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the ‘Help’, ‘Tools’ or ‘Edit’ facility). Alternatively, an external resource is available at All about cookies providing specific information about cookies and how to manage them.
Cookies
We and our trusted partners use cookies and other technologies in our related services, including when you visit our Site or access our services.
A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a website assign to your device while you are viewing a website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various different purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests and to compile statistical data on your use of our Services.
The Site uses the following types of cookies:
a. 'session cookies'
which are stored only temporarily during a browsing session in order to allow normal use of the system and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed;
b. 'persistent cookies' which are read only by the Site, saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used where we need to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to allow us to store your preferences for the next sign-in;
c. 'third party cookies'
which are set by other online services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third party analytics companies who monitor and analyze our web access.
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but Personal Information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You may remove the cookies by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited.
We use a tool which is based on the Snowplow Analytics technology to collect information about your use of the Site. The tool collects information such as how often users access the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, etc. the tool does not collect any Personal Information and is only used by our Site hosting and operating service provider to improve their Site and services.
The Afro Renaissance Consortium (Afro RC) is the first Black global accelerator to launch in South Africa, Afro RC is a social impact-driven program helping startups from around the world cross borders - from the world into Black South Africa and from Black South Africa into the world. Founded, driven, and lead in equity by Black womxn.