MISTOWA Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

This page explains how the Network of Regional Market Information Systems and Traders' Organizations of West Africa (MISTOWA) project handles information you provide when you visit our website.

When you visit our website, we collect the following information about you: the domain name from which you access the Internet; the date and time you access our website, the Internet address of the website from which you accessed our website; and the information you view while you visit our web website. We use this information to keep a record of the number of visitors to the different sections of our website, find out the most viewed information, and to help make our website more useful to visitors. In the case of suspected unauthorized activity, the information can be used for law enforcement and possible criminal prosecution.

You may identify yourself by sending us a comment using our contact page or an E-mail. You may also decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message asking a question or providing us with a comment or suggestion. We use personally-identifying information to respond to your comment or suggestion, and to count the number of people sending us comments. In certain instances, your comment or suggestion may be forwarded to other departments and/or organizations that work directly with MISTOWA if they are in the best position to respond to your message.

We do not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our website, unless you choose to provide such information to us. We maintain the information we collect in accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, where applicable.

Cookies and other information stored on your computer

In general, this website does NOT use "cookies" to gather and store information about you. Cookies are tokens of information, such as preferences and passwords, which some Web servers collect from you when you access them. That data is stored on your hard drive-not on the website's server. Whenever you visit a "cookie" enabled website, the server looks for its cookie on your hard drive and, if found, then reads the information it stored there. Cookies generally are stored in your browser's directory or folder in a file named cookie.txt (MagicCookie on a Macintosh).

Further, some of the links on the MISTOWA website point to non-MISTOWA websites which may place cookies on your computer. If you want to avoid such cookies, we encourage you to set your browser to notify you when cookies are being set and allow you to reject them. Your system's help files will explain how to do this.

Security Notice

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

We generally will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our website, unless you choose to provide such information to us.

If monitoring reveals evidence of possible criminal activity, such evidence may be provided to law enforcement personnel.

General Disclaimer

Information presented on this website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied freely unless identified as being subject to copyright protection. In return, we request only that MISTOWA be cited as the source of any information, photos, and images copied from this website and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer or author. We strongly recommend that MISTOWA data be acquired directly from MISTOWA websites and not through other sources that may change the information in some way or exclude material crucial to the understanding of that information. While we make every effort to provide accurate and complete information, some information may change between website updates. Substantive changes may be noted when content is next updated.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

The documents posted on this website may contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided for visitors' convenience. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any linked information. Further, the inclusion of links or pointers to Web websites other than a MISTOWA-managed Web website is not intended to assign importance to those websites and the information contained therein, nor is it intended to endorse, recommend, or favor any views expressed, or commercial products or services offered on these outside websites, or the organizations sponsoring the websites, by trade name, trademark, manufacture, or otherwise. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the website's visitor's, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by MISTOWA.

The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of MISTOWA or MISTOWA's partner organizations, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Disclaimer of Liability

Every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information. However, with the thousands of documents available, often uploaded within short deadlines, we cannot guarantee that there will be no errors. We make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaim liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website. With respect to the content of this website, neither MISTOWA nor their employees and contractors make any warranty, expressed or implied or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, and the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to content available from this MISTOWA website or other Internet resources linked from it. Additionally MISTOWA does not assume any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product, or process disclosed herein nor freedom from computer virus, and do not represent that use of such information, product, or process would not infringe on privately owned rights.

Links to this Website or Its Contents

You may freely link to this website or any of its content. We ask only that you identify that the link is to an Internet resource.

Links to Other Websites

Our Web website has links to other websites that we believe are relevant to our organization's mission. Once you link to another website, you are subject to the disclaimers and security and privacy policies of the new website.

Copyright Notice

Unless a copyright is indicated, information on this website is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published or otherwise used without MISTOWA's permission. We request that MISTOWA be cited as the source of the information and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer or author or MISTOWA, as appropriate. If a copyright is indicated on a photo, graphic, or any other material, permission to copy these materials must be obtained from the original source.

This copyright notice does not pertain to information at websites other than this website.

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on this website is strictly prohibited and is subject to prosecution under Title 18 U.S.C., Sections 1001 and 1030.

Website Management

MISTOWA manages the overall information content, design, and, organization of this website.

For More Information

If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please contact MISTOWA at info@mistowa.org.