In opening and using the African Art Archive (“AAA”) website (“Site”), you agree to the following Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms"). These terms apply to and govern your use of the Site’s configuration, selection, layout, and "graphical user interface” and design of the AAA Site and any applications, newsletters, products, services, and other digital offerings provided by or registered with AAA through this Site ("Services"). In these Terms, the terms "we" or "us" also refer to African Art Archive. By visiting AAA's Site or using the Services, you accept these Terms and AAA's Privacy Policy, incorporated in and a part of these Terms. Also, If you become a client of AAA, and you register or sign up for a specific Service, any related terms that you agree to is also incorporated into and a part of these Terms. If you disagree with these Terms and the Privacy Policy, do not use the Site, request, or register for any Service. AAA reserves the right to modify or amend these Terms without notice. Your continued use of AAA's Site or Services directly after making changes to these Terms will mean you accept those changes.

1  LICENSE TO USE THE SITE AND SERVICES
African Art Archive permits you a non-preferential, non-transferable, finite right to access, use, and display the Site and Services, including the images, photographs, articles, graphics, illustrations,  graphs, reports, video, and other materials (“Content”) for your personal and group educative use, provided that you adhere entirely to these Terms. You may not imitate, create a by-product of works from, aid in the transfer or sale of, post on the internet, or in any way capitalize on the Site or Services or any section what so ever for any commercial use without the explicit written permission of AAA. You may download one copy of Content from the Site and Services for your non-commercial use only, provided that you maintain all copyright, acknowledgment, and other considerations contained in such Content, including, without limitation, trademarks and service marks of AAA and its partners or the copyright holder pinpointed in the specific content's copyright notice. You may not distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, license, rewrite, create a by-product of works from, transfer, or sell any Content contained on AAA's Site or Services without the explicit preceding consent of the copyright holder. None of the data provided on the Site or Services may be reverse-engineered, transcribed, broken down, stored in a recovery system, translated into any language, retransmitted in any form, including, without limitation, electronic, mechanical, photo reproduction, recordation or otherwise, without the prior written consent of AAA. All images of artworks on AAA's Site or Services are made available for use only in the context of this Site or Services and are susceptible to all of the limitations established in this Terms. AAA reserves all rights except explicitly granted. 

You may not obstruct or attempt to interfere with the administration of the Site or Services in any way whatsoever, software, routine, or device including, but not limited to, spamming, hacking, or uploading viruses, trojan horses, time bombs, spyware, cancelbots, Easter eggs, or the means explicitly forbidden by any prerequisite of these Terms. You may not use any robot, spider, devices, or manual process to monitor or copy AAA’s Site, Services, or any data contained on or for any other purpose without AAA’s prior express written permission. You may not take any measure that imposes an impossible or disproportionately large load on AAA’s infrastructure.

2  OWNERSHIP
The AAA Site, Services, and Content are all protected by the international intellectual property laws including, and without limitation to copyright, trademark, trade services, moral rights, privacy rights, and intellectual property rights. AAA own all Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Content, Site, and Services except expressly stated. You agree to acknowledge all copyright notices, information, or restrictions displayed on the Site and Services. 

You acknowledge that you do not earn any ownership rights under your permitted use of the Site, its Content, or any Services. You are liable for adhering to all applicable laws, rules, and regulations concerning your use of any Content. In the situation of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of Content from the Site and Services, you agree to make no changes to or deletion of author attribution, trademark, legend, or copyright notice. You can get more information on the copyrights, trademarks, and service marks of AAA and its partners and Content owners by viewing the copyright and trademark notices posted on the Site.

3  TERMINATION OR CHANGE TO SITE OR SERVICES
AAA has the right and sole discretion, to temporarily or permanently modify, discontinue, or terminate, all aspects of the Site or Services, including, but not limited to the Content, features, and work hours, without notice to you. AAA can also impose restrictions on specific services, and restrict your access to parts of or all of the Site or Services with or without notice or liability. You agree that AAA can terminate your use of this Site and Services, cancel your user registration, remove your account, and exercise any other solution available to it if AAA reasonably concludes that you have violated or performed inconsistently with the body of these Terms or violated the rights of AAA or its partners. You agree that AAA will not be held liable to you or any third party as a result from there on.

4  THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND WEBSITES
Third parties contribute some Content on the Site. Such Content does not automatically stand for the views or opinions of AAA. AAA does not accept any liability for third-party Content Communications posted on the Site or Services. AAA does not represent or assure the reliability, integrity, or accuracy of any such Content. Any dependence In content published on the Site or Services by third parties is at your own risk. 

The Site and Services may contain links and references to third-party sites, resources, and sponsors. Links to and from the Site or Services to third-party sites do not comprise of approval by AAA or any of its holdings and affiliates of any third party, its website, resources, or content. AAA cannot guarantee, represent, or warrant that the data contained in these sites is true, accurate, lawful, and inoffensive. AAA has no control over these sites or the content within them. AAA does not guarantee that any third-party site will be free of viruses, or that they will not negatively impact your computer. You should refer any concerns regarding any external link to its site administrator or webmaster.