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Privacy Statement
Jeroen Seynhaeve 2023-02-20
In a nutshell – When you contact us, or order products or services from us, you may be sharing personal information about you and your company. When you do business with us, we need to collect and store this information for the day-to-day running of our business. Some of this information is shared voluntarily by you, whereas other information is collected by us in the course of managing services and products on your behalf. Without it, we cannot do business with you. While this information may be stored on access-controlled third-party platforms, we never use this information for purposes other than running our day-to-day business. We process all personal information in compliance with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”).
Information Officer If you have any requests or complaints relating to the information we process about you and your access to that information, you may contact our Information Officer Jeroen Seynhaeve (REF 2024-001764) at
email, subject to the conditions listed in our
PAIA / POPIA Manual
Newsletter subscriptions
What you consent to By subscribing to our mailing list, you accept that Online Brand Ambassadors may collect, store and use your personal data for the purpose of sending you direct marketing messages as per s69 of POPIA for as long as you don’t withdraw your consent. If strictly necessary, operators ito. S20 POPIA contracted by us may be given access to this data, subject to our authorisation and under condition of confidentiality. You may at any time withdraw your consent by using the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email we send out.
Section 18 POPIA notification
- (a) INFORMATION – We may need to collect and process information that identifies you, other people, or a juristic person, as part of our normal business operations, for purposes listed in (c) below. This information may include your name, surname, company and tax registration, contact details, and other personal identifiers you voluntarily share with us in the context of our commercial transactions with you;
- (b) RESPONSIBLE PARTY – The responsible party is Jeroen Seynhaeve T/A Online Brand Ambassadors and may be contacted here;
- (c) PURPOSE – We must process particular personal information about you to comply with company, tax, data protection and access to information legislation. We may need to process personal information about you to pursue and protect our and your legitimate interests, to communicate with you about queries, products or services you have requested, and to negotiate, perform or conclude our contracts and transactions with you. We may process personal information about you for the purpose of direct marketing, but only after you have consented and only for as long as you do not withdraw that consent. Where there is no obligation, legitimate interest or consent, we may ask you to consent to any further processing of your information, and you may refuse;
- (d) SUPPLY – We only request and process information about you that is adequate, relevant and proportionate to the purpose for which we collect it. To enable us to comply with our legal and contractual obligations to you, it may be mandatory for you to supply the information listed in (a) to us – without it, we simply cannot do business with you;
- (e) CONSEQUENCES – Should there be instances where particular information may be withheld by you, we will indicate the consequences of doing so on a case by case basis;
- (f) LAW – Company, tax, data protection and access to information law authorises or requires us to process the information listed in (a);
- (g) THIRD COUNTRIES – The servers we use to process information about you, are located in Germany, and managed by onlinebrandambassadors.com, xneelo.co.za and hetzner.de. Sections 3(1)(b)(i) and 72(1)(a) of the SA Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, and where applicable when we provide products or services to EU citizens, Chapter 5 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, apply;
- (h) RECIPIENTS – We do not share your personal information with third parties without your explicit consent, other than Online Brand Ambassadors staff and management, and Operators that are contracted by us to manage information on our behalf in terms of sections 20 and 21 POPIA. These Operators (may) include external accountants, auditors, attorneys, government institutions, and internet service providers.
Your Rights As prescribed in our
Data Access & Protection Manual, you have the right to request access to information we process about you, and the right to request amendments. If you have reasonable grounds related to your particular situation, you may also object to our processing of your personal information. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator at
inforegulator.org.za/complaints
Private correspondence
- Privacy The content of correspondence, including but not limited to email, fax, and text messages we send to you personally, is never intended for public access – it is intended for the addressee only, and may include protected personal information about us, you, other people or juristic persons. If you are not the intended recipient of such correspondence, do not forward, disseminate or publish its content – doing so may be a violation of data protection regulation. Please notify us and destroy the content. We apologise for any inconvenience, and guarantee to rectify the mistake with immediate effect.
- Security You accept that no correspondence can be guaranteed to be 100% secure or error free. We do not accept liability for any errors in its content, or for harm resulting from the unauthorised interception, access, use, publication, dissemination or destruction of its content.
Statement
- This Privacy Policy sets out the lawful terms on which we process any information we collect in the course of your website usage or information you provide to us voluntarily. If you do not agree with these terms, you must not access and use this website.
- Some information about your website usage may be collected automatically by accessing and using this website, and other information may be processed by us after you have voluntarily consented to share it with us.
- We are bound by conditions for the lawful processing of (personal) information as set out by the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”), and by conditions for accessing this information as set out in the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2 of 2000 (“PAIA”).
Personal Information
- Personal information is information by which you or a company may be identified.
- Information we collect with your consent – We may collect some information about how you interact with our website by means of cookies, to which you may consent or object in the [cookie_settings]. This information is shared with Google, and may include the (anonymised) IP address your device uses to connect to the Internet, device and browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, page interaction and navigation. More about cookies
- Information you share voluntarily – If you voluntarily share personal information with us, you consent to our collection and usage of that information for the purpose we or you indicated at the time of the collection or the sharing, under conditions set out in this Privacy Statement.
- If we want to use your personal information for any other purpose, or share it with third parties in- or outside of South Africa, we will ask you before we do, and you may refuse.
- You warrant that all personal information provided by you is accurate, complete and not misleading.
Personal information received from third parties
- Before you share personal information about other people with us, read this
- Before we agree to receive personal information from third parties, we require evidence of their compliance with the notification obligations in terms of Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and Section 12(b) of POPIA (for EU citizens) and in terms of Section 18 of POPIA (for all other citizens).
Forms and documents related to the protection of your personal information.
- Request Access to information
- Request for Deletion or Correction of Information
- Objection to Processing of Information
- Data Access & Protection Manual
Please note Contact information displayed on our website is personal information in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act, and may not be incorporated into any filing system for any purpose.