Privacy Policy

1. INTRODUCTION
 

Motshodi Consulting respects the privacy of the people subscribed to our services. This
Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information,
including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application
related or connected thereto. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree
with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access our services.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any
reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this
Privacy Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting
the updated Privacy Policy on our services, and you waive the right to receive specific
notice of each such change or modification.

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You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of
updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be
deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued
use of our services after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.

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2. COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

 

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may
collect includes:

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Personal Data
Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and telephone
number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, physical and postal
address and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you choose to participate in
various activities related to our services. You are under no obligation to provide us with
personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from
using certain features and services.

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Data from Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys

Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways
and/or responding to surveys.

 

 

3. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

 

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth,
efficient experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you to:

 

• Administer promotions, and contests.

• Assist law enforcement and respond to subpoena.

• Create and manage your account.

• Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and our services to you.

• Email you regarding your account or order.

• Enable user-to-user communications.

• Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions

• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience.

• Notify you of updates to our services.

• Offer new products, services, mobile applications, and/or recommendations to you.

• Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.

• Process payments and refunds.

• Request feedback and contact you about your use of our services.

• Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.

• Respond to product and customer service requests.

 

 

4. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

 

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your
information may be disclosed as follows:

 

By Law or to Protect Rights

If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to a legal
process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the
rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or
required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging
information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

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Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our
behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services,
customer service, and marketing assistance.

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Online Postings
When you post comments, contributions or other content your posts may be viewed by
all users and may be publicly distributed outside our services and our mobile application
in perpetuity.

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Affiliates
We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those
affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any
subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under
common control with us.

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Business Partners
We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products,
services or promotions.

 

Social Media Contacts
If you connect to our services through a social network, your contacts on the social
network will see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity.

 

Sale or Bankruptcy
If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired
by another entity, we may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out
of business or enter bankruptcy, your information would be an asset transferred or
acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the
transferee may decline honor commitments we made in this Privacy Policy.

 

We are not responsible for the actions of third parties with whom you share personal or
sensitive data, and we have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations.
If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails or other communications from
third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.

 

5. TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

 

Website Analytics
We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, to allow tracking technologies

and remarketing services on our services through the use of first party cookies and third-
party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of our services and

our mobile application, determine the popularity of certain content and better
understand online activity.

 

By accessing our services, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want
any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can inform the
third-party vendor.

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You should be aware that getting a new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading
an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may
also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.

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6. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

 

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your
personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal
information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security
measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be

guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed
online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we
cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

 

 

7. POLICY FOR CHILDREN

 

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18.
If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please
contact us using the contact information provided below.

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8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

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Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”)
feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data
about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology
standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.

 

As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online
tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that
practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy. Most web browsers and some mobile
operating systems may include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can
activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing
activities monitored and collected. If you set the DNT signal on your browser, we will
respond to such DNT browser signals.

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9. OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

 

Account Information

 

You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your
account by:

• Logging into your account settings and updating your account

• Contacting us using the contact information provided below

• Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retainedin our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.

 

Emails and Communications

If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from

us, you may opt-out by:

• Noting your preferences at the time you register your account with our services

• Logging into your account settings and updating your preferences.

• Contacting us using the contact information provided below

 

If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from
third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly, or use the unsubsribefeature on their website.

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10. COMPLIANCE WITH PERSONAL PROTECTION OF INFORMATION ACT
4 OF 2013

 

The Personal Protection of Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) came into effect on 01 July
2020. To ensure Compliance Motshodi Consultancy has put measures in place to comply
with the following:

 

• Accountability: Motshodi will ensure that the conditions of the Act are complied with at the time of determination of the Act. To this end, the company has appointed a compliance officer.

• Processing limitation: The processing of personal information must be limited to lawful processing in a reasonable manner that does not infringe the privacy of any person that uses our services.

• Purpose specification: When collecting information, it must be for a specific, defined and lawful purpose. Motshodi must inform you of the purpose of the required information.

• Further processing limitation: Motshodi will require your consent to put personal information to further use, e.g. passing on information to a third party.

• Information quality: Motshodi must take steps to ensure that the information collected is complete, accurate and continually updated where necessary.

• Openness: When requesting information, we must ensure that you are aware of the information collected, the source of the information, the name and address of the responsible party, the purpose for which the information is requested and what law if any, prescribes the disclosure of information. 

• Security Safeguards: Motshodi must take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information in its possession remains secure. We will do this through considering virus programs, back-ups and off-site storage. Should there be reasonable grounds to believe that information has been breached, we are obliged to notify the regulator and the affected persons.

• User participation: You have the right to know what information Motshodi has pertaining to you and may request the records or description of the information in our possession.