Policy

Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website and is served by Warten Weg (pty) Ltd and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website, and website owners.

Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores, and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all South African national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage.

The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored on your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links, or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved, or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form for the email submission process but advise users using the such form for email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to the email process

Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights regarding receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Email Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreements with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with South Africa Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2002. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and by the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies/people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates, and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based on their activity. In compliance with South Africa Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, 2002 subscribers are allowed to unsubscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will be detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk. This website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve. Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program that may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may, in turn, be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement, and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate in are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage with them with due care and caution concerning their privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email. This website may use social sharing buttons that help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons to do so at their discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses] Users are advised to take caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links. I hope you found this policy useful and any related links on the page.

– – – – – – – – – – – – Updated Policy May 2018

The new GDPR laws are designed to protect you, and require anyone who may store data on people to allow them access to it, and request it to be deleted, or provided to them on request. There is a lot of confusion amongst businesses about how best to approach this new law and comply with it. What it requires is for us, a business, to speak in clear, normal language about what we do with that data.

So I shall now do that. Literally. Our commitment to your privacy I’m committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. I’ll ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when you complete my contact form. This is only really so I know your name and can email you back. I ask for your phone number too, and the reason for this is so that I can call you to discuss a project. We can reassure you that Designers Up North only retains the absolute minimum information required in a professional business relationship.

I repeat, we do not use your information – or share your information – with anyone else. What we Collect (Information we Hold) I may collect and process the information you provide by completing forms on my website and the information you supply in email correspondence.

I may collect the following information: Name Email address Mobile number Your address (This is for the contract) What we do with this information This information from my contact form goes straight to my email. If we proceed, this data is then stored on my Mac and webmail. Both are password protected. If it’s a cold call from a salesperson I ignore it and it gets deleted.

Privacy & Individuals Rights The GDPR includes the following rights for individuals: The right to be informed The right of access A right to rectification The right to erasure Right to restrict processing The right to data portability A right to object The right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling. Lawful Processing of Data I only process data about inquiries and invoicing with clients. The processes and systems I have in place are designed with your privacy in mind.

Access Requests

If you would like to access the data I have on you, you can request this in writing via email. It won’t cost anything as it’s only your name, address, email and mobile number.

Consent

What ‘consent’ means with GDPR: GDPR definition: “any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her” Your name, address, email, and mobile number are only used for invoicing and contact when working on a project or inquiry. I do not sell it. I do not abuse it. Promotional emails & mailing lists I do not have mailing lists. I do not run promotional emails. If this changes, I will update that here. I will only email you about an inquiry, or a question you have asked me.

Precautions are taken on my website to ensure it is as secure as possible. This reduces the chance of data being robbed via hacking or malware. My computer is password protected and also is guarded by my dog 24 hours a day. This is excellent security. Any cloud backup services I have are also thoroughly protected, but I cannot vouch for the guard dog at their premises.

Our Details This business is owned and operated by Lindani Lucky Thango Our principal place of business is at 4768 33rd Avenue, Clermont, Pinetown, 3610, South Africa You can contact me by email at info@wartenweg.com

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