Terms of use

The rules for using Africlaunch. By using the site or creating an account, you accept them.

Last updated: 25 October 2026

In short

Africlaunch is a site where makers present their tech products for Africa, and where the community votes and comments.
What you publish remains yours; you allow us to show it and to promote it.
Launches are published without prior review. Content that breaks the rules can be hidden or removed.
Paid publishing and sponsorship are paid in advance, at the price shown before payment.
Any member can create communities and start discussions; a private community is visible only to its members.

1. The service

Africlaunch (africlaunch.com) is published by ECLIPSCO LLC. Makers present their tech products and launches; the community votes, comments and reviews; a ranking highlights the most-voted launches. The site also offers paid sponsored placements.

The site is in pre-launch: its pages and features open in stages. Some may be reserved for part of the members, change or be closed for a while.

Public content can be read without an account. You need an account to vote, comment, follow, save, publish or sponsor.

2. Your account

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
The information you give must be accurate. Your name and username must not suggest that you are someone else.
You are responsible for your account and its password. Let us know if you think someone else has used it.
One account is for one person. Creating several accounts to vote several times is forbidden.
Some actions, such as using a free publishing right, topping up a wallet or rating a product, require a confirmed email address.
You can delete your account at any time, from your settings or by writing to us. What is erased and what remains is described in the privacy policy.

3. Publishing a product and a launch

You can publish a product that belongs to you, or to an organization you are a member of. Africlaunch is for makers in Africa and the diaspora, for products that serve people in Africa; each product states the countries or markets it targets.
A product is a permanent page. A launch is a dated event attached to a product (new product, update, new feature). Votes and comments belong to the launch.
A product stays a draft until it is published. Your first product, in your own name, is free for life, and free spots may also be offered, for example while the site is launching. Other products are paid, at the price shown before payment. Deleting a product does not give back a free right already used.
Launches are published without prior review, on the day you choose. The number of launches per day or per week may be limited; a full day can no longer be chosen.
You must have the right to publish what you upload: texts, logos, images and videos.

4. Community rules

On Africlaunch, it is forbidden to:

post spam, disguised advertising or repeated messages;
post offensive, hateful, harassing or violent content;
impersonate another person, another company or another product;
post illegal content or content that infringes the rights of others;
manipulate the ranking: multiple accounts, vote swapping or buying, automated votes;
try to disrupt the site, get around its limits or access other people's data.

5. Reports and moderation

Any member can report a launch, a post, a comment, a review, a discussion, a product, a profile or an organization.
Once five different people have reported a launch, a post, a comment, a review or a discussion, it is hidden until the team has reviewed it.
The team can hide, remove or restore content, and suspend an account that does not follow these terms. A hidden launch stays visible to its author, with the “hidden” label.
To dispute a decision, write to the team.

6. Communities and discussions

Any member can start a discussion or a question, open or in a community they belong to, and create a community, public or private. The team sets the minimum age of an account for doing so and the number of creations per day.
A public community, its discussions and its replies can be read without an account and can be picked up by search engines. A private community is invisible to anyone who is not a member: people join with an invitation link, and anyone who has that link can join.
The person who creates a community is its owner and can appoint moderators. Moderators can hide or restore a discussion or a reply, pin or lock a discussion, remove a member, write the community's rules and change its links with the site; only the owner changes its name and visibility. Moderators are members: they are not Africlaunch employees.
The rules above also apply in communities; each community can add its own, written by its moderators. A member removed from a community can no longer take part in it.
The author of a discussion can edit or delete it. If it has replies, its text is erased but the thread stays readable.
The Africlaunch team can suspend a community, which then becomes invisible to everyone along with its discussions, and can review reported content, including in a private community.
Your reputation points (the votes you receive and your accepted answers) and your badges (founder, moderator, contributor) are calculated by the site and shown on your discussions. They have no value outside the site.

7. Your content

What you publish remains yours.
By publishing it, you allow Africlaunch to show, reproduce and share it free of charge, on the site and to promote it (for example in shareable images, platform emails or on social networks), for as long as it is online.
You remain responsible for what you publish and for the accuracy of the information about your products.
Votes, comments and reviews are those of the members: Africlaunch is not bound by them.

8. Paid publishing, sponsorship and payments

Prices (publishing a product, price per click) are set by the team and shown before payment. They may change; a campaign keeps the click price it had when it was created.
Sponsorship is paid in advance: you top up a wallet, in a single currency, with no conversion between currencies. The credit is added once the payment provider has confirmed the payment.
A campaign takes the click price for each counted click (one click per visitor per 24-hour period), within its budget, its daily cap and your credit.
Only a product published on the site can be sponsored. Sponsored placements are always labeled “Sponsored” and do not affect the ranking.
Payments are processed by our providers (Stripe, SaSPay), under their own terms.
For a question about a payment or a refund request, write to us with the date and the amount: the team reviews each request.

9. The products presented

The products presented on Africlaunch belong to their creators. Africlaunch does not sell them, does not test them and guarantees neither how they work nor the information given by their creators. Before using or buying a product, check with its creator.

10. Listings created by the team

To make African tech products known, the team may create the listing of a product that its creator has not published, from public information. Such a listing carries the notice “Listing not validated by its creator” and shows no owner, reviews, comments or sponsored placements.

The company can claim the listing or have it deleted at any time. Its silence never counts as agreement. The full process is described on a dedicated page.

read “Listings created by the team”

11. Availability of the site

We do our best to keep the site working well, but it may be interrupted, for example for maintenance, and its features may change.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms as the site evolves. The date at the top shows the latest version. For an important change, we let you know by email or with an announcement on the site. Continuing to use Africlaunch afterwards means you accept the new terms.

13. Contact us

For any question about these terms, write to contact@africlaunch.com or use the contact page.

write to the team

ECLIPSCO LLC, 1209 Mountain Road PL NE, STE R, Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA.