Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd respects
your privacy and is
committed to protect
the personal
information that you
share with us.
Generally, you can
browse through our
website without
giving us any
information about
yourself. When we do
need your personal
information to
provide services
that you request or
when you choose to
provide us with your
personal
information, this
policy describes how
we collect and use
your personal
information.
Information
Collection.
Personal information
means any
information that may
be used to identify
an individual,
including, but not
limited to, a first
and last name, email
address, a home,
postal or other
physical address,
other contact
information, title,
birth date, gender,
occupation,
industry, personal
interests, and other
information when
needed to provide a
service you
requested.
When you browse our
website, you do so
anonymously, unless
you have previously
indicated that you
wish Affinity Data
Vault (Pty) Ltd to
remember your login
and password. We
don’t automatically
collect personal
information,
including your email
address. We do log
your IP address (the
Internet address of
your computer) to
give us an idea of
which part of our
website you visit
and how long you
spend there. But we
do not link your IP
address to any
personal information
unless you have
logged in to our
website. Like many
other commercial
websites, the
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd website
may use a standard
technology called a
“cookie” to collect
information about
how you use the
site. Please go to
“Cookies and
Tracking
Information” below
for more
information.
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd collects
personal information
when you register
with Affinity Data
Vault (Pty) Ltd for
a Affinity Data
Vault (Pty) Ltd
account, when you
use certain Affinity
Data Vault (Pty) Ltd
services, when you
register to attend a
seminar or
participate in an
online survey, when
you ask to be
included in an email
or other mailing
list, or you submit
an entry for a
competition or other
promotions, or when
you submit your
personal information
to Affinity Data
Vault (Pty) Ltd for
any other reason.
From time to time,
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd receives
personal information
from business
partners and
vendors. Affinity
Data Vault (Pty) Ltd
only uses such
information if it
has been collected
in accordance with
acceptable privacy
practices consistent
with this Policy and
applicable laws.
Access to certain
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd web pages
requires a login and
a password. The use
of those web pages,
and the information
or programs
downloadable from
those sites, may be
governed by a
written agreement
between your
employer and
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd. Unless
you request deletion
of your personal
information as
specified below,
your personal
information may be
retained by Affinity
Data Vault (Pty) Ltd
to verify compliance
with the agreement,
log software
licenses granted, to
track software
downloaded from
those pages, or
track usage of other
applications
available on those
pages.
Notice
When personal
information is
collected, we will
inform you at the
point of collection
the purpose for the
collection. Affinity
Data Vault (Pty) Ltd
will not transfer
your personal
information to third
parties without your
consent, except
under the limited
conditions described
under the discussion
entitled
“Information Sharing
and Disclosure”
below.
If you choose to
provide us with your
personal
information, we may
only transfer that
information, within
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd or to
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd’s third
party service
providers with your
permission. Upon
receiving your
permission, we may
transfer your
information across
borders and from
your country or
jurisdiction to
other countries or
jurisdictions around
the world.
We will always give
you the opportunity
to “opt out” of
receiving direct
marketing or market
research
information. This
means we assume you
have given us your
consent to collect
and use your
information in
accordance with this
Policy unless you
take affirmative
action to indicate
that you do not
consent, for
instance by clicking
or checking the
appropriate option
or box at the point
of collection. In
some cases, when
applicable, we will
provide you with the
opportunity to “opt
in.” This means we
will require your
affirmative action
to indicate your
consent before we
use your information
for purposes other
than the purpose for
which it was
submitted.
Cookies and
Tracking Technology
A cookie is a small
data file that
certain Web sites
write to your hard
drive when you visit
them. A cookie file
can contain
information such as
a user ID that the
site uses to track
the pages you’ve
visited, but the
only personal
information a cookie
can contain is
information you
supply yourself. A
cookie can’t read
data off your hard
disk or read cookie
files created by
other sites. Some
parts of Affinity
Data Vault (Pty)
Ltd’s website use
cookies to track
user traffic
patterns. We do this
in order to
determine the
usefulness of our
website information
to our users and to
see how effective
our navigational
structure is in
helping users reach
that information.
If you prefer not to
receive cookies
while browsing our
website, you can set
your browser to warn
you before accepting
cookies and refuse
the cookie when your
browser alerts you
to its presence. You
can also refuse all
cookies by turning
them off in your
browser, although
you may not be able
to take full
advantage of
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd’s website
if you do so. In
particular, you may
be required to
accept cookies in
order to complete
certain actions on
our website. You do
not need to have
cookies turned on,
however, to
use/navigate through
many parts of our
website, except
access to certain of
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd’s web
pages may require a
login and password.
How We Use
Information
Collected
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd uses
information for
several general
purposes: to fulfill
your requests for
certain products and
services, to
personalize your
experience on our
website, to keep you
up to date on the
latest product
announcements,
updates, special
offers or other
information we think
you’d like to hear
about either from us
or from our business
partners, and to
better understand
your needs and
provide you with
better services. We
may also use your
information to send
you, or to have our
business partners
send you, direct
marketing
information or
contact you for
market research.
Information
Sharing and
Disclosure
Because Affinity
Data Vault (Pty) Ltd
is a national
company, your
personal information
may be shared with
other Affinity Data
Vault (Pty) Ltd
offices or
subsidiaries
anywhere in the
country. All such
entities are
governed by this
Privacy Policy or
are bound by the
appropriate
confidentiality and
data transfer
agreements.
Your personal
information is never
shared outside
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd without
your permission,
except under
conditions explained
below. Inside
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd, data is
stored in controlled
servers with limited
access. Your
information may be
stored and processed
in South Africa or
any other country
where Affinity Data
Vault (Pty) Ltd, its
subsidiaries,
affiliates or agents
are located.
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd may send
your personal
information to other
companies or people
under any of the
following
circumstances: when
we have your consent
to share the
information; we need
to share your
information to
provide the product
or service you have
requested; we need
to send the
information to
companies who work
on behalf of
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd to provide
a product or service
to you (we will only
provide those
companies the
information they
need to deliver the
service, and they
are prohibited from
using that
information for any
other purpose); or
we want to keep you
up to date on the
latest
announcements,
updates, special
offers or other
information we think
you’d like to hear
about either from us
or from our business
partners (unless you
have opted out of
these types of
communications). We
will also disclose
your personal
information if
required to do so by
law, to enforce our
Terms of Use, or in
urgent
circumstances, to
protect personal
safety, the public
or our websites.
Children and
Privacy
Our websites do not
target and are not
intended to attract
children under the
age of 13. Affinity
Data Vault (Pty) Ltd
does not knowingly
solicit personal
information from
children under the
age of 13 or send
them requests for
personal
information.
Third Party
Sites
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd’s website
contains links to
other sites.
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd does not
share your personal
information with
those websites and
is not responsible
for their privacy
practices. We
encourage you to
learn about the
privacy policies of
those companies.
Our website may
contain links to
websites operated by
other companies.
Some of these
third-party sites
may be co-branded
with a Affinity Data
Vault (Pty) Ltd
logo, even though
they are not
operated or
maintained by
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd. Although
we choose our
business partners
carefully, Affinity
Data Vault (Pty) Ltd
is not responsible
for the privacy
practices of web
sites operated by
third parties that
are linked to our
site. Once you have
left our website,
you should check the
applicable privacy
policy of the third
party website to
determine how they
will handle any
information they
collect from you.
Changes to
this Privacy Policy
Affinity Data Vault
(Pty) Ltd will amend
this policy from
time to time. If we
make any substantial
changes in the way
we use your personal
information we will
make that
information
available by posting
a notice on this
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