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Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last Modified: 30-June-2021

OVERVIEW

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in South African, US and UK privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM THE PEOPLE THAT VISIT OUR BLOG, WEBSITE OR APP(S)?

When registering on our site or signing up to our mobile apps or bots, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, Passwords or other details to help you with your experience.

WHEN DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, order your transactional card, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, Use Live Chat, Open a Support Ticket or enter information on our site and lastly when you provide us with feedback on our products or services.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a transaction, redeem a voucher/coupon, purchase a voucher or making online purchases, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, make use of a referral code, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
  • To improve our website, mobile apps and bots in order to better serve you.
  • To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
  • To quickly process your transactions.
  • To ask for ratings and reviews of services or products
  • To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries)

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?

  • We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
  • We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers.
  • We use regular Malware Scanning.
  • Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems (Support Staff and Technical Support), and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
  • We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
  • All in-app or on-site transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

DO WE USE ‘COOKIES’?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

For instance, we use cookies to help us to help you remember where you last left off on our website or mobile apps, like in the registration process, when you exited our service and come back later to continue your registration.

They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services.

We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies further to:

  • Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
  • You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings.
  • Since browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies
  • If you turn cookies off, some features will be disabled. It won’t affect the user’s experience that make your site experience more efficient and may not function properly.

THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless users request this on their behalf. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

GOOGLE

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED THE FOLLOWING:

  • Remarketing with Google AdSense
  • Google Display Network Impression Reporting
  • Demographics and Interests Reporting

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

OPTING OUT:

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt-out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION ACT, 2013

The PoPI Act is the first state law in the nation to require commercial entities to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond South Africa to require any person or company in the Republic of South Africa (and conceivably the world) that operates its business(es) collecting Personally Identifiable Information from South African consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website(s) and communication platform(s) stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared.

See more at: http://www.justice.gov.za/inforeg/docs/InfoRegSA-POPIA-act2013-004.pdf

ACCORDING TO POPI, WE AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING:

  • Users can visit our site anonymously.
  • Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website
  • Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can be easily found on the page specified above.
  • You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes via email.

CAN CHANGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

  • By emailing us
  • By calling us
  • By logging in to your account
  • By chatting with us or by sending us a support ticket

HOW DOES OUR SITE HANDLE DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS?

We honour Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

DOES OUR SITE ALLOW THIRD-PARTY BEHAVIOURAL TRACKING?

It’s also important to note that we allow third-party behavioural tracking.

MARKETING & PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

Section 45 of the ECTA (Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002) provides that recipients of unsolicited communications are able to opt-out of future communications and may request information on where their contact details were obtained.

Section 11 of the CPA (Consumer Protection Act, 2008) follows in the footsteps of the ECTA by providing that you may refuse to accept, request the discontinuation of (opt-out) or pre-emptively block direct marketing communications, and that any opt-out or pre-emptive block must be respected by marketers, have their receipt confirmed in writing and that the exercise of these right must be performed free of charge.

Section 69 of the POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013) places significant limitations on the circumstances in which a party may engage in direct marketing by means of unsolicited communications by requiring individuals to have either consented to the use of their personal information (opt-in) or for there to be an existing relationship between the parties. An existing relationship between the parties is itself subject to additional limitations and does not result in a freedom to make repeated advances.

Notwithstanding the above, you will always be entitled to opt-out of future communications for the purpose of direct marketing.

WE COLLECT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN ORDER TO:

  • Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
  • Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
  • Send you additional information related to your product and/or service
  • Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ECTA, WE AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING:

  • Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
  • Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
  • Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
  • Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
  • Honour opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
  • Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at [email protected], or follow the instructions at the bottom of each email sent from us and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.

CONTACTING US

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

info@consumercentricsolutions

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