Our policy complies with the Protection of Personal
Information Act 2013.
The aim of our privacy policy is to inform you of your
rights and how we collect and process any information of you, whether collected
or if you have provided.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and except in
the circumstances below, we do not share, sell, or disclose to a third party,
any information collected through our website or otherwise.
As defined in the Act we may collect, use, store and
transfer personal information that you. This can include the following:
Information about your identity, contact information, technical information. Any consent to receiving marketing material.
Included is also information for research and statistical
purposes.
We do not collect any special personal information about
you, however if in certain circumstance there is a lawful basis to do so we
will collect this information.
In circumstances where you refuse to provide us with
information that is required by us to perform the service or provide the
product to you for purposes of the contract, we will have to terminate our
services, and notify you.
For purposes of concluding the contract that you have agreed
to by accepting our terms and conditions we will verify your identity for
security purposes, sell products to you, provide you with our services.
By virtue of our contractual relationship, we will also
provide you with suggestions and advice on products, services and how to obtain
the most from using our website.
All information that you provide to us in course of the contract will continue to be processed by us, until the contract terminates, or if you have consented to receiving further information from us until unsubscribed.
Through certain actions when otherwise there is no
contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask
us to provide you more information about our business, including [job
opportunities and] our products and services, you provide your consent to us to
process information that may be personal information.
Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to
process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of
cookies.
If you have given us explicit permission to do so, we may
from time to time, pass your name and contact information to selected
associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find
useful.
We continue to process your information on this basis until
you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no
longer exists.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us
[at email address or webpage]. However, if you do so, you may not be able to
use our website or our services further.
We can process information that we have a lawful interest to
process. However, we consider the safety of processing of the information to
you or otherwise. Administrative reasons, protecting and asserting the legal
rights of any party, insuring against, or obtaining professional advice that is
required to manage risk. Or when there is a cause for protecting your
interests.
It remains your responsibility to ensure that the
information you share on our website may be shared. This specifically relates
to comments, tags, reviews etc.
Information shared in this fashion may be used by our company and processed.
Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that
operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose
services we use.
We use cookies in the following ways:
to track how you use our website.
to keep you signed-in on our website.
To generally gather website user behaviour
Browsing activity
Geographical information
You hereby consent to our company using third parties to
re-market services by allowing us to provide advertisements of our products or
services.
Our company policy allows for third parties to market on our website from time to time. You hereby indemnify and hold us harmless in the event that a third party company uses your information in contradiction to Act.
Our websites may be hosted in a country other than South Africa. We may also use outsourced services in countries outside South Africa from time to time and your information may be processed outside South Africa.
At any time, you may review or update personal information
by either amending your details in your account or contacting us.
Any request for the removal or amendment of information may
be directed to our information officer who will ensure that your information is
removed or updated on our database.
It however, remains your responsibility to inform us of any information that must be updated or removed.
Our products or services are not for sale for children or
minors under the age of 18.
We however collect information of all users of our website and cannot guarantee that the information of a minor will not be collected in terms of this privacy policy.
We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.
Any complaints that you may have about how your information
has been processed by our company must be directed to our information officer.
All complaints will be attended to within a reasonable time.
Should any complaint not be resolved it may be referred for mediation.
Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we
keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:
To provide you with the services you have requested.
To comply with other law, including for the period demanded
by our tax authorities.
To support a claim or defence in court.
This policy may be updated and amended from time to time. The latest version will be available on our website for you to view.