Welcome to My Ancestors Heart, a public online family history and genealogy portal operated by Agalachi Empire, where registered user(s) can create and share family profiles with their loved ones. It bridges the generational divide between the young, the old and their ancestors who have passed beyond................and most inportantly, a legacy for generations yet unborn.
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The privacy of your personal information is important to Agalachi Empire (referred to in this policy as "we", "us", and similar terms). This Privacy Policy is intended to be a general statement that describe how we collect, use,and process personal information you provide on our website or Internet applications (reffered to as "site").We strive to collect, use, and disclose personal information in a manner consistent with the laws of the countries in which personal information is collected. This Privacy Policy applies to this site, which is owned and operated by Agalachi Empire.
You can visit our site without providing any personal information. When personal information is requested, we adhere to the following privacy principles regarding how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information.
PRIVACY PRACTICES
A. INFORMATION COLLECTION. When you create an account with MyAncestorsHeart or register an account on our site, add profile information, or take other similar actions, we may collect from you, your PIN (given to you at your request)information including, but not limited to, your name(s), address, e-mail address, phone number, photo, contact or profile preferences.
We may also collect information your Internet device or web browser sends whenever you visit our site, including an Internet Protocol address.
B. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.We may use the personal information you provide to (a) allow us to contact you, (b) fulfill request you make, (c) seek your voluntary feedback on website features or content, or (d) help fulfill our mission.
We may also use your personal information for internal purposes, including auditing, data analysis, system trouble shooting and research.In addition, we may use both the personal information you provide and the information your web browser sends, in order to detect users who appear to be causing harm to our site or in order to personalize user experiences on our site.
If your information will be used for any purpose besides those outlined above, we will specifically inform you and obtain your consent, if legally required.
From time to time, we may also make you aware of options to opt out or opt in to use certain features.
C. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION.When you become a registered user, your general user information(e.g; name(s), address, and phone number) and other optional information you may choose to provide (e.g; e-mail address, photo,etc) may be shared with other related registered user with your prior consent if your consent is legally required. Some of your information may also be viewable on a limited and restricted basis on our site.You may opt out of sharing information or limit the optional information you share by modifying your profile preferences.
In addition your user information, including your personal contacts, may be disclosed to some dedicated staff for internal purposes.
D. CONTENT SUBMISSIONS.On our site, you may provide your own content and comments in selected areas. Some of your submissions are intended to be private and not viewable by others (e.g; personal online notes, journaling, or similar features). However, other content submissions may be intended to be publically available and viewable by others (e.g; written testimonials or online comments in selected areas of our site).
In instances where your content submission will be made publically available or shared with other third parties, we will ask for your express agreement at the time you submit or upload content (e.g; video clips or genealoy information). We recommend that you use caution when providing publically viewable content and you aviod posting information that could cause harm or injury, or risk of harm or injury, to yourself or others.
All types of content submissions you provide will be stored on our systems. While industry standards are used to safeguard your submissions from unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification, we cannot guarantee complete privacy and we may, in some instances, choose or be legally required to disclose such information to third parties.
Though we are under no obligation to monitor your content submissions, we reserve the right to do so at our sole discretion. We also reserve the right to block or remove any content we deem inappropriate, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, defamatory, libelous, tortious, illegal, threatening, or otherwise objectionable, regardless of wether it was intended to be private or public. Since we do not view all content submitted through every feature on every site, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to take protective measures in the event you provide content disclosing information about a person who is a victim of harm or abuse or is at risk of becoming a victim of harm or abuse.
When we become aware of content that we consider to be offensive or that could compromise the privacy of your personal or confidential information or that of another person, we will make a good faith effort to block or remove such content.
E. RETENTION.We retain collected personal information and submissions for a reasonable period of time to fulfill the collection purpose and then delete it from our records, with the exception of limited historical profile information, general genealogy records and registered user information retained as part of a permanent genealogical record.
F. ACCESS.We endeavor to maintain the accuracy of personal information and rely on you to ensure your personal infromation is complete and accurate. You may verify, correct, or remove your personal information through your website specific registration, through your profile or through your MyAncestorHeart account, where applicable.
When you become a registered user, some of your personal information may be updated only by making changes to your registeration records. Such changes must be mabe by contacting us and requesting the change. If you experience problems with modifying or updating your personal information, you can contact us by sending an e-mail. Upon receiving your request, we will do all we can to provide you with a response within 15 working days. If we cannot honor your request within this period or cannot provide you access to the requested information, we will explain why.
G.INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE: We regard your personal information as confidential and do not sell it to anyone. We do not share your personal information with other parties except in the following circumstances (or other instances where we specifically inform you and obtain your prior consent).
- 1. Third-Party Provider: We may provide personal information to third parties for their use in performing internal functions on our behalf(e.g; payment processing, maintenance, security, data analysis, hosting, etc). In such instances, the providers will be contractually required to protect personal information from additional use (including for marketing purposes) or transfer in accordance with this Privacy Policy and industry standards.
- 2. Legal Requirements. We may access and disclose your personal information, posts, journal entries, online charts, personal notes, content, or other submissions to any website if we have a good-faith belief that doing so is required by a subpoena or other judicial or administrtative order or otherwise required by law. Additionally, we may disclose your personal information and other information where we, in good faith, deem it appropriate or necessary to prevent a violation of our other agreements, to take precaution against liability, to protect the rights, property, or safety of the site, of any individual, or of the general public, to maintain and protect the security and integrity or our services or infrastructure, to protect ourselves and services from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses, to investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or allegations, or to assist government law enforcement agencies.
H. PROTECTION OF INFORMATION: We use technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information we receive against loss, misuse, and unauthorized alteration and to protect its confidentiality. We regularly review our security procedures and consider appropriate new security technology and methods. However, because we cannot guarantee the complete security of these technologies, please use caution when providing or submiting personal information online.
I. THIRD-PARTY DATA: Where local tradition or laws permits, you may submit, including contact information of an individual(s) other than you(i.e; third party) to allow us make contact with that person, make a delivery, or otherwise meet your request.We advise that you obtain the consent of an individaul or legal consent before using such information.
J. ABOUT COOKIES: Sometimes our website and FTP servers collect this general information with the help of cookies (a cookie is small bit of data used to transfer information to either your computer's hard drive or your web browser for record keeping purposes. We collect this imformation to better understand how to serve you .
K. THIRD-PARTY LINKS: We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any third-party sites. For your own protection, you should review the policies of other sites to ensure they meet your personal privacy expectations.
For futher assistance or information regarding MyAncestorsHeart site and materials contained in this site, you may contact
Agalachi Empire.
EFFECTIVE DATE.
This condition of use becomes effective from 1st of January 2013
This site is owned and operated by Agalachi Empire (hereinafter "we" or "us") and is dedicated to family history and genealogical works.
By using this site,you agree to all of the terms and conditions in this document (the "Agreement"). If you do not agree to all of these terms and conditions, you may not use this site.
OWNERSHIP OF MATERIALS AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE. All materials on the MyAncestorsHeart site ( including text, images, databases and other information ) is owned by us. You may view and print material from this site only for your personal, noncommercial use unless we specifically indicate that other users are permitted. You may not use this site or information found at this site ( including the names and addresses of those who submit information ) for selling or promoting products or services, soliciting clients, or any other commercial purpose, unless otherwise specifically indicated.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to deny, revoke or limit use of this site to any person for any or no reason. We are not responsible for any use that you make of materials from this site and you agree to fully idemnify us for any claims against us that may arise from your actions. Limited access is permitted only to specific registered and authorized user (s).
REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS. In consideration to use of this site, you represent that you have read and agreed to the terms of this Agreement and that you are legally able to register to use this site (if required). If you submit personal information to this site you agree to (A) provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself (as indicated during registration process) and (B) maintain and keep current and accurate this information about yourself, should it ever change. If you provide false, inaccurate, inappropriate, or libelous information or images, we may suspend or terminate your account. During the registration process, you will be asked to create a username and password. You agree that you are responsible for all activities that occur using this username and password. If someone else uses your username and password in such a way as to breach the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you remain responsible for his/her actions, and use of your username and password may be suspended or terminated, or until otherwise resolved.
LICENSE TO USE. In exchange for your use of MyAncestorsHeart site and storage of the data you submit, you give us permission to use any genealogical data relating to deceased persons that you submit, you give us permission to use any genealogical data relating to deceased persons and any discussions regarding those persons that you submit and to copy and distribute it throughout the world by any means we deem appropriate, electronic or otherwise, including the Internet, without compensation to you of any kind. You grant us unrestricted, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to any copyright, author's right, database right, or similar right that you may hold in your contributed data, and you also grant us the right to creat derivative works by combining your data with that of other contributors, unless otherwise indicated.
COLLABORATION WITH OTHERS. You acknowledge that a primary purpose of this site is to enable collaboration between users of MyAncestorsHeart site who wish to expand their knowledge of their own ancestral lines. You acknowledge that we may utilize genealogical data that you submit relating to deceased persons and discussions pertaining to deceased persons for the purpose of collaborating with other individuals and organizations in other to create a global common pedigree for the purpose of increasing participation in family history and preserving the record of the world. You acknowledge that collaboration between multiple individuals and organizations allows us to obtain additional data that may be provided freely to all registered users of this site, thus allowing everyone to extend their ancestral lines.
This site includes a discussion feature where individuals can comment regarding a particular deceased individual and provide details regarding that individual. We reserve the right to reuse the discussion information and publish it to others in an effort to help resolve open issues posed or to help educate others. We request you be selective in the information you include in your online discussions, communicating instead through email or other sources where personal contact or other information is being provided. You acknowledge that any items that you submit through the discussion feature will be viewable by anyone able to access the site. The discussion feature is intended to help collaboration efforts, to coordinate the correction of errors and to facilitate additional research with other interested users. The discussion feature may not be used for reasons irrelevant to the deceased individual being discussed; to include information that might harm or embarass living relatives; or that includes offensive or abusive language or content. Disagreements regarding facts pertaining to the individual are likely to occur, and such disagreements should be set out in clear terms based on the facts and citing sources where possible without resorting to abrupt, insulting or unkind language or comments. The discussion feature may not be used to provide links to external Web pages with inappropriate content (although links to related information regarding the deceased individual is appropriate) or in order to solicit business or research services. We reserve the right to delete or edit content provided in the discussion feature in our sole and absolute discretion and to deny users access to this feature for any or no reason.
RIGHT TO SUBMIT. Whenever you submit data to this site, you are affirming that you have the legal right to contribute that data to this site and grant us the rights set out in this Agreement. You accept legal responsibility for our using your contributed data based on your information. You are solely responsible for all content that you contribute, submit and post to this site.
CODE OF CONDUCT. You agree you will not individually, or as part of any collective effort, submit or post information to this site (either at registration, as genealogical submissions, discussions, or any other feature where content can be provided) that could be deemed harmful or offensive to other users, nor will you impersonate another user in other to hide your identity or to implicate another in such actions, nor will you mine, collect or use any information from this site with the intent to harm, discredit or prejudice any person or entity. You agree to do nothing that might disrupt the flow of data to and from this site, impact the service or performance of this site, or circumvent any of the controls or usage rules that we have implemented or will in future implement. You understand that the result of harmful or offensive actions may include revocation of your right to use this site and legal action against you.
CARE OF SUBMISSIONS. We intend to use reasonable efforts to preserve the integrity of your genealogical data contributions and to avoid errors or omissions in the content of this site. However, you agree that we shall be neither responsible nor liable for errors or omissions in any content you may find on this site, nor for loss, damage, or corruption of genealogical data that you submit or post.
LEGAL STATUS AND JURISDICTION. You understand that this Agreement is governed by the laws of Abia State of Federal Repubic of Nigeria without regard to its principles on conflict of laws. You agree that any legal action you bring against us shall be brought in either the state or federal courts located in Aba, Abia State of Federal Republic of Nigeria, and you hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. You agree to this regardless of your location or any inconvenience to you.
SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable in whole or in part, the remaining provisions shall be unaffected, unless we determine that the invalid or unenforceable provision is an essential term of this Agreement, in which case we may at our sole discretion amend this Agreement.
DATA PROTECTION. If you are located outside the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you consent to the processing in the Federal Repubic of Nigeria of any personal data that you submit or as otherwise as we may choose. You also agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of data to or from the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the country in which you reside.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Neither shall we be liable for direct, indirect, punitive, special, consequential or other damages resulting from your use of, or your inability to use, this site, the materials in this site, or any Web linked to from this site, including, but not limited to, lost profits, business interruption, and loss of programs or data on your information handling system. To the extent that the above limits are found not to be enforceable , in no event shall our total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site or any linked Web site.
DISCLAIMERS. The materials at this site are provided "AS IS" and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, and warranties of non-infringement. We do not warrant that the functions contained at this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the servers that make it avialable are free of viruses or other harmful components.
For futher assistance or information regarding MyAncestorsHeart site and materials contained in this site, you maycontact
Agalachi Empire.
# 1 Uphill Estate/Okpu-umuobo Rd;
Phone: +234-803-787-0941
e-mail: empire@myancestorsheart.com
EFFECTIVE DATE.
This condition of use becomes effective from 1st of January 2013