Privacy Policy

Effective date: [1st January, 2024]

Welcome to PastQuestionsAndAnswers.com. Your privacy is of paramount importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you use our website and the choices you have associated with that data.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.

Personal Data: While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). This may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data: We may also collect information on how the website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”).

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. You have the option to accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

Use of Data

PastQuestionsAndAnswers.com uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our service
To notify you about changes to our service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our service
To monitor the usage of our service
To detect, prevent, and address technical issues

Sale of Materials

We offer educational materials for sale on our website. When you purchase materials, we collect information necessary to complete the transaction, including your billing information, contact information, and any other information you choose to provide us in connection with your purchase.

Our website uses Google AdSense to display ads. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

Disclosure Of Data

We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of PastQuestionsAndAnswers.com
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
Protect against legal liability

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our website (“Service Providers”), to provide the website on our behalf, to perform website-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our website is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: hello@siliconafrica.org
By visiting this page on our website: https://silioconafrica.org/contact-us