Privacy Policy – Cheetahs Rugby Trust

Privacy Policy

Protecting the individual’s privacy on the Internet is crucial to the future of Internet-based business and the move toward a true Internet economy. Cheetahs Rugby Trust has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate a firm commitment to the individual’s right to privacy. This policy outlines personal information handling practices for cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za.

This Privacy Policy covers cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za and other sites that reference this Privacy Policy. Some Cheetahs Rugby Trust entities, programs and/or sites may have their own, possibly different, privacy statements. Cheetahs Rugby Trust encourages you to read the privacy statements of each of the websites you visit and any program information you visit or review.

Global Privacy Fundamentals

Cheetahs Rugby Trust privacy practices reflect current global principles and standards on handling personal information. These principles include notice of data use, choice of data use, data access, data integrity, security, onward transfer and enforcement/oversight. Cheetahs Rugby Trust abides by the privacy laws in the countries where Cheetahs Rugby Trust do business.

Consent

By using cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za, you consent to the collection and use of the information as described here. If Cheetahs Rugby Trust decides to make changes to this Privacy Policy, Cheetahs Rugby Trust will post the changes on cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za so that you will always know what information Cheetahs Rugby Trust collect, and how Cheetahs Rugby Trust use it.

From time to time, as may be required by applicable law, Cheetahs Rugby Trust may also seek your explicit consent to process certain data and information collected on cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za or volunteered by you.

Collection and Processing of Your Personal Data

To serve you better and understand your needs and interests, Cheetahs Rugby Trust collects, exports and uses personal information with adequate notice and consent, along with required filings with data protection authorities, when applicable.

When you visit cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za, Cheetahs Rugby Trust may record your IP address and use cookies and other Internet technologies (referred to below as Automated Tools and Embedded Web Links) to gather general information about Cheetahs Rugby Trust’s visitors and their interests. The technologies used and the information collected are described in more detail below.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust may further collect and process any information and data that you volunteer to Cheetahs Rugby Trust, e.g. when you register for events, subscribe to newsletters, participate in online surveys, discussion groups or forums, or when you make purchases.

Use and Purpose of Collected Personal Data

The information cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za collects to understand your needs and interests helps Cheetahs Rugby Trust deliver a consistent and personalised experience. Cheetahs Rugby Trust will use such information only as described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the way Cheetahs Rugby Trust specify at the time of collection. Cheetahs Rugby Trust will not subsequently change the way your personal data is used without your consent, as required by applicable law. Unless stated otherwise at the time of collection, Cheetahs Rugby Trust will use your personal data only in the following ways:

To process your orders and deliver the products and services that you have ordered;
To keep you up to date on the latest product announcements, software updates, software upgrades, security patches, system enhancements, special offers and other information. This may occasionally include information from other technology companies or business partners about products and services that can add value to your products;
To tailor information about Cheetahs Rugby Trust’s products and services to your individual interests. For example, during a visit to cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za, it allows Cheetahs Rugby Trust to provide you with specific information on products and services that may be of interest;
To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content;
To conduct online “Click to Chat” and “Click to Call” sessions;
In order to ensure and control the quality of the information and experience you have during chat sessions with Cheetahs Rugby Trust by educating me to effectively answer your questions;
To provide the ability to contact you, and provide you with shipping and billing information, and to provide customer feedback and support;
To provide contests or other marketing or promotional activities on the cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za or affiliate websites. Personal data may be collected to administer those programs;
To conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better products and services to Cheetahs Rugby Trust’s customers and end users. Your completion of any questionnaires is voluntary;
To support recruitment inquiries; and

To meet contractual obligations.

Sharing Your Personal Data

Cheetahs Rugby Trust safeguards your privacy interests around the world by ensuring that cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za adheres to our data protection principles described in this policy.

Companies in the Cheetahs Rugby Trust Group may use the information internationally in connection with processing your inquiries and orders, to help improve our products and services and for processing and storage.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust may also share such information with business partners, service vendors, authorised third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction, including processing orders, processing credit card transactions, hosting websites, hosting event and seminar registration and providing customer support, or providing you with information on products and services that may be of interest to you.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust only provides these third parties with the minimum amount of personal data necessary to provide the services on our behalf, and the third parties are not permitted to use your personal data except for the limited purpose of completing the requested service or transaction.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust does not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes unless you have granted Cheetahs Rugby Trust permission to do so.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust may respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process by disclosing your personal data and other related information, if necessary. Cheetahs Rugby Trust also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, Cheetahs Rugby Trust decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganise businesses in some countries. Such a transaction may involve, in accordance with applicable law, the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or the receipt of it from sellers. It is my practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust may collect and possibly share personal data and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Cheetahs Rugby Trust’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

While visiting cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za, you may be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third-party supplier, not on cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za. Most often, this is done to host special events, such as contests or seminars. When information is collected on behalf of Cheetahs Rugby Trust exclusively, the appropriate Cheetahs Rugby Trust entity’s privacy statement will be referenced on the site and will govern how information is used. For other, non-Cheetahs Rugby Trust sites, the site’s owner’s privacy policy will be referenced. It is Cheetahs Rugby Trust’s practice to require such suppliers and business partners to handle information in a manner consistent with Cheetahs Rugby Trust’s Privacy Policy.

Security of Your Personal Data

Cheetahs Rugby Trust shall take all reasonable measures to protect the personal information of users and for the purpose of this Privacy Policy “personal information” shall be defined as detailed in the Promotion of Access to Information Act, Act 2 of 2000 (“PAIA”) and the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013 (“POPI”).

The PAIA and POPI Acts are available online at www.gov.za/documents/acts.

The amendments listed on www.acts.co.za may be viewed at

www.acts.co.za/prom_of_access_to_info/index.html

www.acts.co.za/protection-of-personal-information-act-2013/index.html

Data Retention

Cheetahs Rugby Trust will not retain your personal data longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

IP Addresses

cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za use IP addresses to help diagnose problems, to administer our website and to gather demographic information. Cheetahs Rugby Trust may also use IP addresses or other information, such as your cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za user information you have shared on this website or at any earlier occasion or a campaign code, to determine which pages on my sites are being visited and topics that may be of interest so Cheetahs Rugby Trust can provide you with information about relevant products and services. Cheetahs Rugby Trust will aggregate such data only in an anonymous way and will not tie it to a particular individual unless he or she has given consent.

cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za may also collect IP addresses (and other technical information such as browser type) during a Click-to-Chat or Click-to-Call sessions that you initiate. This information is collected when you connect to cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za so that we may identify your session, deliver content based on the technical capabilities of your browser, and for quality control purposes. Your IP address will not be used to identify you unless you provide your prior consent.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust will only gather information related to your visit to cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za. I do not track or collect personal information from your visits to companies or entities outside cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za

Automated Tools

In addition to the information you provide, Cheetahs Rugby Trust may also collect information during your visit to cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za through automated tools, which include Web beacons, cookies, embedded Web links and other commonly used information-gathering tools. These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za , such as your browser type and language, access times and the address of the website from which you arrived. Using these tools, cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za is also able to confirm receipt of e-mails that the recipient consented to receive and can track other information such as pages visited on cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za and whether or not the recipient registers for an event offered by Cheetahs Rugby Trust and certain other aggregate data that is not related to a particular individual.

Embedded Web Links

E-mails from cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za often use links designed to lead you to a relevant area on the Web, after redirection through Cheetahs Rugby Trust’s servers. The redirection system allows me to change the destination URL of these links, if necessary, and to determine the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives.

In e-mails, such links may also allow Cheetahs Rugby Trust to determine if you have clicked on a link in the e-mail, and the information about this interaction may be connected to your personal identity. If you do not want Cheetahs Rugby Trust to collect information about the links you clicked, you can simply choose not to click on the links in an e-mail that cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za sends you.

Cookies

Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

What are cookies?
‘Cookies’ are small text files that may be stored on your device when you visit our website. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about You may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from Cookies. For further information on how We use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.

We do not store sensitive personal information, such as mailing addresses, account passwords, etc. in the Cookies We use, Many websites use cookies and you can find out more about them here

Why do we use cookies?
Cookies serve a number of useful purposes for you, including:

Granting you access to restricted content and unique promotions.
Tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your location, device type and preferences.
Improving how our website performs.
Understanding who our audience is, so that we can provide content most relevant to you.
Allowing third parties to provide services to our website.
Helping us deliver interest-based advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.

Types of cookies used:
We use different types of cookies on our website. Some of these cookies are placed by us, while others are placed by our third-party plug-ins, suppliers or advertisers. These cookies may be deleted from your device at different times, such as at the end of your browsing session (when you leave the website) or after a pre-set amount time, or they may persist on your device until you delete them.

We use the following types of cookies on our website:
Persistent cookies – these are cookies that may remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser.

Session cookies – these are cookies that are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Functional cookies – these are cookies that remember who you are as a user of our website. We use them to remember any preferences you may have selected on our website, like saving your username and password, or settings.

Advertising cookies – these are cookies that matches your interests or web searches with applicable advertising campaigns on our website. We use them to provide you with advertising that we think you might find useful.

Social media cookies – these are cookies that integrate with social media platforms. We use them to help you share content from our website to your chosen social media platform.

Third party cookies – these are cookies that some of our business partners use on our website. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of these cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.
Removing cookies.

Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, however you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. Click here

Deleting or no longer accepting cookies may prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary, or cause the website to forget your preferences.

E-mail Addresses

If you choose to give Cheetahs Rugby Trust your e-mail address, Cheetahs Rugby Trust will communicate with you via e-mail. We do not share your e-mail address with others outside the Cheetahs Rugby Trust Group of companies. You can choose not to receive any more e-mail at any time.

Depending on how your e-mail application is set up, information about you may be transmitted automatically when you send e-mail to Cheetahs Rugby Trust.

If you choose to register for third-party services, Cheetahs Rugby Trust may need to send some information from your cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za registration to the service provider, possibly including your e-mail address.

Shopping or Event Registration

Our site includes order forms that you fill out to request information, products and services. These forms may collect your financial information, such as your bank details or credit card numbers. Cheetahs Rugby Trust promises to use any financial information that you submit solely for billing and payment purposes for that special transaction. This may include the transfer of your data to third parties involved in executing the transaction, such as banks, credit card companies and other financial and credit control institutions.

Links to Other Sites

cheetahsrugbytrust.co.za may contain links to other sites. Cheetahs Rugby Trust is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites outside the Cheetahs Rugby Trust Group of companies.

Choice/Opt-Out

Cheetahs Rugby Trust communicates with users who subscribe to our services on a regular basis via e-mail, and we may also communicate by phone to resolve customer complaints or investigate suspicious transactions. We may use your e-mail address to confirm your opening of an account, to send you notice of payments, to send you information about changes to our products and services, and to send notices and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, users cannot opt-out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional.

Cheetahs Rugby Trust provides you with the opportunity to exercise an opt-out choice if you do not want to receive other types of communication from us, such as e-mails or updates from us regarding new services and products offered on this website or if you do not want Cheetahs Rugby Trust to share your personal information with third parties.

Children’s Privacy

Cheetahs Rugby Trust does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected Personal Data on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that data from our systems.