Afrikeye

Introduction
Privacy Policy
Legal

Introduction

Afrikeye came into being as a website in 1999. Alex Barrett, the founder and editor had first travelled to Southern Africa in 1998 and fell in love with the landscape people and environment. His interest in conservation and the protection of endangered species which had remained pretty well dormant, except for a fascination with wildlife documentaries, since childhood was revived with vigour and he determined to share his experience and newly acquired knowledge as widely as possible.

Editorial input is now received from a variety of different sources. Because of the need to maintain journalistic integrity unsolicited submissions are always thoroughly checked before being added to the site. Contributions from visitors and readers are always welcome (please use the feedback page to make contact), however, as Afrikeye is a non-profit publication we can only offer token payments for published articles and pictures.

Much of the information contained in these pages relates to wildlife conservation projects in Zambia. This is because Alex has spent a large proportion of his time in Africa in that country and come to know a number of people actively working on conservation projects in the area.

Research is undertaken on behalf of readers who have specific enquiries on a cost only basis, simple queries are dealt with for free particularly for students and other non-profit organisations.

Afrikeye also acts as a liaison between reputable conservation organisations working in the field actively protecting endangered species and habitats and support services who can provide technical expertise and or funding. Conservation organisations seeking such support may expect to be checked so as to verify that the work that they are carrying out is in line with Afrikeye policies and vision. It is unlikely that Afrikeye will offer any grants in the foreseeable future.

Privacy

Afrikeye very much values feedback from our visitors and readers. Although we are exempt from registration under the Data Protection Act 1998 we are subject to and strictly follow the rules of the act.

We will not use personal information supplied by anyone (including email addresses) for any purpose other than sending an occasional newsletter to update readers about changes or developments on the site.
Any reader who wishes to be removed from our mailing list may request to do so by sending a request through the feedback page at any time.
All personal information other than correspondents names and email addresses is destroyed after its immediate use is fulfilled (i.e. building statistical information or answering specific queries).
No personal information of any kind will be forwarded to third parties unless specifically requested by the correspondent or deemed as the most appropriate response, such as forwarding a query to a conservation team or tourist lodge and so forth.

Official Privacy Statement

This privacy statement applies to the website of:

Afrikeye
Postnet Box 524
P/Bag E891
Lusaka
Zambia

Data controller: Alex Barrett

We respect your privacy. This is why we have taken the time to disclose our information collection practices and our privacy policy. Please take the time to review this document.

Collecting information provides specific benefits to our website visitors:

Collecting your information allows us to contact you with information on updates to the website and let you know of any developments in conservation projects featured on the site.

We collect information for the following purposes:

• Research and development
• Build records of individual visitors
• Research, analysis, reporting
• Contacting our visitors (except via telephone) for promotion of the site or products

Who has access to the information we collect?

• Ourselves

Of the information we do collect, we allow our visitors the following access to the information:

No access to collected information is given.

If you believe that our website has collected incorrect information or if you would like to dispute any information, please contact us through the feedback page or by post using the address above.

Legal

All of the text and images published on the web pages of Afrikeye are protected under the Copyright and Design Patents Acts of 1988 and 2002 in England and Wales and under the 2003 statute on copyright in Scotland.

These acts together with the 1998 Statutory Instrument 989 confer copyright protection on works originating within the United Nations, its Specialised Agencies or the Organisation of American States which would otherwise not enjoy copyright.

The data held on these pages is stored on servers provided by bCentral Hosting services, a division of Microsoft Corporation, under contract. bCentral act only as data repository and name server and have no legal rights or liabilities in relation to the information contained within this website

Pictures from the gallery pages may only be used for the purpose of academic studies as allowed under the above regulations and legal statutes.

Afrikeye is aware of the threat of viruses that may be distributed throughout the web and all incoming and outgoing messages are scanned using software updated as soon as information is received from Symantec®, Microsoft®, Telewest Broadband, Iway and all other providers through which Afrikeye has connections to the Internet. Afrikeye will not accept responsibility for any interference with any and all computer systems or automated processes, instruments or persons influenced by or interactive with this site or emails emanating from any address related to the domain "Afrikeye.net". It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that their own computer system is protected in case a message is corrupted or incorrectly attributed in transit.

Afrikeye will now only place links to other web sites in our interest area and referred to in Afrikeye pages. If you wish to use material from these pages please contact us through the feedback page for permission. On occasion Afrikeye has given permission for the use of limited material on commercial or other interest web sites. Such limited permission may be requested via a request and will be considered upon reasonable terms.

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