PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION ACT (POPI ACT)
Respecting and protecting your Personal Information (please refer to the definition of Personal Information at the end of this policy statement) is very important to us. It is also a Constitutional right, legal, and good business practice requirement, which we take very seriously.
In line with the 8 Conditions in the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (the Act), we:
Accept joint responsibility and accountability with you to responsibly manage and protect your Personal Information when providing our services and solutions to you;
Undertake to receive, only from you, and process the Personal Information that is necessary for the purpose to assist you with your required solutions, conclude the necessarily related agreements and consider the legitimate legal interests of everyone
concerned, as required by the Act and to respect your right to withdraw your consent for the processing of your Personal Information;
Undertake to only use your Personal Information for the purpose required to assist you or provide solutions to you and not;
Undertake not to share or further process your Personal Information with anyone if not required for assisting you with your solutions or by the law;
Undertake to be open and transparent and notify you as and when required by law regarding why and how your Personal Information needs to be collected;
Undertake to safeguard and protect your Personal Information in our possession; Undertake to freely confirm what Personal Information we have, to update and correct the Personal Information, and to keep it for no longer than legally required.
We, or the companies who provide or assist with the solutions you required, need to collect, use, and keep your Personal Information as prescribed by relevant laws and regulations and for reasons such as:
To share with and provide relevant products or services to you, to carry out the
transaction you requested, and to maintain our relationship;
To respond to your queries;
To confirm and verify your identity or to verify that you are an authorised user for
security purposes;
For operational purposes required to assist you with the solutions you require;
For audit and record-keeping purposes;
In connection with possible requirements by the Information Regulator or other Government agencies allowed by law, legal proceedings, or court rulings.
How we Share Your information
We may need to share your Personal Information and/or utilise software or online platforms to enter and process your information for various purposes. This will only be done in strict adherence to the requirements of the Act. We and the companies providing the solutions to you may use “cookies” on our and their websites. They enable us and them to improve your future visits to our site as well as provide you with a more user-friendly experience
Please feel free to contact us to discuss any questions or concerns you may have:
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Protection of Personal Information
Your Personal Information is defined by the Protection of Personal Information Act (the Act)as:
“means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person, including, but not limited to— (a) information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the person; (b) information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person; (c) any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier or other particular assignment to the person; (d) the biometric information of the person; (e) the personal opinions, views or preferences of the person; (f) correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or
explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence; (g) the views or opinions of another individual about the person; and (h) the name of the person if it appears with other personal information relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the person”.
Collection of Personal Data
Where personal information (such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card information) is submitted to the site by the user, for example through sending an e-mail or filling in required fields, the following principles are observed in the handling of that information:a. This web site collects, processes and stores only such personal information regarding users as is necessary to provide the services offered. The specific purpose for which information is collected is apparent from the context in which it is requested.
This web site will not use the personal information submitted for any other purpose other than the efficient provision of services, including this web site and services offered through it by third parties, without obtaining the prior written approval of the user or unless required to do so by law.
This web site will keep records of all personal information collected and the specific purpose for which it was collected for a period of one year from the date on which it was last used.
This web site will not disclose any personal information regarding a user to any third party unless the prior written agreement of the user is obtained or the web site is required or permitted to do so by law.
If information is released with the user’s consent this web site will retain a record of the information released, the third party to which it was released, the reason for the release and the date of release, for a period of one year.
This web site will destroy or delete any personal information under its control which has become obsolete.
Information collected about users through their use of this web site is the property of the web site owner.
The web site owner will retain all ownership of and copyright in any database of users’ personal information.
No credit card information is retained or stored by the web site owner.
Note that, as permitted by the ECT Act, this web site may use personal information collected to compile profiles for statistical purposes and trade in these profiles. No information contained in the profiles or statistics will be able to be linked to any specific user.
Access to personal data
Where a user believes that personal data concerning them held by the web site owner is outdated or incorrect they may request that such personal data be corrected – please contact us .Any request for such a correction must specify both the incorrect data and the proposed correction and must give full reasons for the request.
Users can request access to any relevant personal data held by the web site owner as laid out in the Promotion of Access to Information Act No 2 of 2000 (“PAIA”) and where such access is necessary for them to exercise and/or protect any of their rights. A copy of PAIA can be obtained here .
Detailed information on PROATIA and the procedure to follow in making a request for access to personal data is available in the web site owner’s Promotion of Access to Information Manual and from the website of the Human Rights Commission – www.hrc.org.za .
Links to other web sites
We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party sites to which hyperlinks may have been provided and we strongly recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit before using it further.
Security
While reasonable measures are taken to ensure the security and integrity of information submitted to this site, this web site can not under any circumstances be held liable for any loss or other damage sustained by a user or users as a result of the intentional or accidental release of information by an employee of the web site owner or any third party.
Users and/or subscribers are prohibited from releasing their username and/or password to any other person.
Children’s privacy
We regard the safety and privacy of children using this web site extremely seriously but it remains the ultimate responsibility of the parents and other care-givers of children to ensure that they are not exposed to inappropriate content or behaviour.
Queries
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy:
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