About AfroMinds.com
AfroMinds.com is an online service that allows members to set up personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. AfroMinds members can view each others' profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. AfroMinds members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.

AfroMinds.com cares deeply about online privacy If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at admin@afrominds.com.

Information Collection and Use by AfroMinds.com
AfroMinds.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the AfroMinds.com service. AfroMinds.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

AfroMinds.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes

User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the AfroMinds.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join AfroMinds, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network Users within a personal network communicate on AfroMinds.com with each other through the AfroMinds.com service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, AfroMinds.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings"

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
AfroMinds members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. AfroMinds.com stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations AfroMinds.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations from AfroMinds.com may contact AfroMinds.com to request the removal of their information from our database.

AfroMinds members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal AfroMinds address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.

Cookies
AfroMinds.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from AfroMinds.com in order to use most functions on the site Please note that AfroMinds allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the AfroMinds Privacy Policy.

Links
AfroMinds.com contains links to sites. AfroMinds.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on AfroMinds.com.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
AfroMinds.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.

Third Party Advertising
 Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by AfroMinds.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security
AfroMinds.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords AfroMinds.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information.