African Storybook

Terms and Conditions of Use

Use of stories

The stories on the African Storybook Project (ASb) website are openly licensed.

An open licence means that you can read, download, print, copy, adapt and translate the stories

  • without asking for permission, and
  • without paying a fee.

But you must acknowledge the writers, illustrators, translators of the stories and the people who hold the copyright. This means that you must list these people and their contribution on the story itself when you adapt, translate or copy/print the story for use. You must also acknowledge the source of the stories, i.e. African Storybook.

Some people who contribute stories don’t want other people to make money out of their work. So they ask for a non-commercial restriction when their stories are published.When you use stories with a non-commercial restriction, you must acknowledge the source of the story, as well as the writers, illustrators, translators of the stories and the people who hold the copyright (i.e. list them when you copy, adapt or translate the story). But, in addition, you agree that you will not make a profit out of the sale of the stories.

Write comments on the stories

We’d love you to give us your views on the stories by writing comments on story web page. We would also like to know how you have used the stories.

But please do not write comments that are harmful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, vulgar, obscene or against the law. You are responsible for any content that you put on the website and you will be liable to any third party for your comments.

Creation and translation of stories

If you want to create, adapt or translate a story, you will need to register and state that you agree to all the terms and conditions. You need to be 18 years or older to register on the site.

When you agree to the terms and conditions you:

  1. agree that your story or version/translation will be openly licensed for others to use without permission or payment;
  2. guarantee that the content you post to the ASb website is your own work or that you have permission from another person or organisation to use their content in the stories or comments that you publish on the ASb website;
  3. agree to make use of the guidelines on the ASb website for appropriate and acceptable stories for early reading;
  4. agree not to submit a story or other content that is unlawful or unacceptable (harmful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, vulgar or obscene);
  5. agree that you are responsible for any content that you put on the website and you will be liable to any third party for your content;
  6. state that you are 18 years or older, or that you have your parents’ or guardian’s permission to use this site.

Policy for take-down (removal) of content from the ASb website

Please contact us at africanstorybook@saide.org.za if you think that a story or any other content is unlawful or unacceptable (i.e. harmful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, vulgar, obscene or against the law):

  1. Let us know the details of the content that, in your view, is unlawful or unacceptable.
  2. Include the following statement: “I have made this request for the take-down of the content in good faith and state that the information in this notification is to the best of my knowledge accurate”.
  3. Give us your contact details and your signature.

We have the right to take down (remove) any content if there is any take-down request, or if the content that is unlawful or unacceptable or violates the rights of others.

Privacy policy

African Storybook privacy policy is guided by the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), which is the South African equivalent of the EU GDPR.

It is the policy of Saide’s African Storybook to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website and mobile apps. This Privacy Policy applies to https://.www.africanstorybook.org (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://www.African Storybook.org.za/"). We are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the website and mobile apps. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our website and mobile apps, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the website and mobile apps and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on our website and mobile apps, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our website and mobile apps. Depending on your activities when visiting our website and mobile apps, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, African Storybook collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. African Storybook's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to understand better how African Storybook's visitors use its website. From time to time, African Storybook may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

African Storybook also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on storybooks published on the African Storybook website. African Storybook only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to African Storybook's website and mobile apps choose to interact with African Storybook in ways that require African Storybook to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that African Storybook gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who register on https://www.African Storybook.org.za/ to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

African Storybook discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on African Storybook's behalf or to provide services available at African Storybook's website and mobile apps, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using African Storybook's website and mobile apps, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. African Storybook will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, African Storybook discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when African Storybook believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of African Storybook, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://www.African Storybook.org.za/ and have supplied your email address, African Storybook may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with African Storybook and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. African Storybook takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

African Storybook may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website and mobile apps. African Storybook may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, African Storybook does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, African Storybook uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. African Storybook uses cookies to help African Storybook identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.AfricanStorybook.org.za/, and their website access preferences. African Storybook visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using African Storybook's websites, with the drawback that certain features of African Storybook's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to African Storybook's use of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, African Storybook may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in African Storybook's sole discretion. African Storybook encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Credit

This privacy policy was created at termsandconditionstemplate.com.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email africanstorybook@saide.org.za.

Disclaimer

We will try to respond to any user requests for refinements or correction of errors in the ASb website, its software or its content. However,  the content, software and services on the website are provided ‘as is’, and users should not expect us to ensure fitness for a particular purpose.

We cannot guarantee that the website and services will be uninterrupted or error-free.

We will do our best to manage the accuracy and usefulness of the ASb website content. However, the website, content, publications and documents may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors.

We will do our best to offer support to ASb website users through a help service and user guides. However, we will not be liable for damages resulting from the use of, or inability to use the website or website content.

We may change or discontinue any aspect of our website at any time without prior notice.

We may change or revise these terms and conditions of use. We will notify users of these changes on the website home pages.

Indemnification

We are not liable for any damage, loss, cost or expense related to your use of ASb website content, services, or publications, or your violation of any rights of another.