Privacy
Policy
Our Third Party Service takes
the privacy of all its users and customers very seriously, and
takes great care with user and customer information. This Privacy
Statement outlines how your personal information is treated and
forms part of the Terms and Conditions of this site. We may occasionally
modify our Privacy Statement, and when this happens, we will notify
you via our homepage.
What
information do we collect?
In order to provide our users and customers with a range of services,
we may collect personal information from our websites, from e-mail
responses, from written information sent to us and from other
communications. We may for example, keep a record of your name,
mailing address, email address, telephone number and preferences.
Unless you have voluntarily given us the information, or we have
legally permitted reasons for processing it without your consent,
we will always ask for your explicit consent if we need to process
company data categorized as "sensitive" by the Data Protection
Act, 1998.
Information
defined under the Data protection Act, 1998 as "Sensitive
Personal Data" is as follows:
Information
as to the racial or ethnic origin of the data subject;
Their religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature;
Their political opinions;
Whether they are a member of a Trade Union;
Their physical or mental health or condition;
Their sexual life;
The commission or alleged commission by them ofany offense, or
any proceedings for any offense committed or alleged to have been
committed by them, the disposal of such proceedings or the sentence
of any court in such proceedings.
How
do we use your information?
Any personal data relating to you will be used and recorded by
us in accordance with current data protection legislation and
this Privacy Statement. We may use your personal information to
communicate with you, for record keeping purposes, and in aggregate
(and therefore anonymously) for market research purposes, to track
activity on our web sites, to publish trends or to improve usefulness
and content.
In
addition:
We would like to use the details you give us to inform you of
products and services in which you might be interested.
We may also share your personal information with companies approved
by us so that they may send you details of products and services
in which you may be interested.
Because the Internet is an Secure medium, these companies
may be both inside and outside the African Economic area.
We will endeavor to ensure there is adequate and appropriate
protection for any personal data transferred outside the African
Economic Area.
In the unlikely event that this website and the customer data
relating to it are sold to another data controller, we will endeavor
to ensure that your rights and freedoms in respect of the processing
of your personal data are adequately and appropriately protected.
We reserve the right to pass on your personal information to company
law enforcement agencies requesting it in connection with the
commission of any offense, once we are reasonably satisfied as
to the circumstances surrounding the request.
Security
Our websites may contain links to other websites,s and you should
be aware that we are clearly not responsible for the privacy practices
on other sites. We recommend that you individually check the privacy
statements of each and every other website that you visit.
Surveys and User Groups
We always aim to improve the services we offer. As a result we
occasionally canvass our customers using surveys. Participation
in surveys is voluntary, and you are under no obligation to reply
to any survey you might receive from us. Should you choose to
do so, we will treat the information you provide with the same
high standard of care as all other customer information.
From time to time, we ask customers whether they wish to participate
in User Groups, often to assist us in the development of new features,
services or sites. Participation in User Groups is voluntary,
and you are under no obligation to join any User Group. Should
you choose to join a User Group, however, we will treat the information
you provide with the same high standard of care as all other customer
information.
Contests
Your participation on our sites may mean that we occasionally
contact you with the opportunity to enter competitions. Entry
to competitions is voluntary, and you are under no obligation
to take up an invitation from us to enter. Should you choose to
enter a competition, we will treat the information you provide
with the same high standard of care as all other customer information,
and use the information provided strictly within the entry terms
of the competition and this Privacy Statement.