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This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when using this website. It also informs you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to improve this website. By using this website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Definitions
When the initial letter of a word is capitalised, it has the following definitions in both singular or plural format.
Account is a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
Company (“the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Sean Simons Statements, West Beach, Bloubergstrand.
Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country refers to: South Africa.
Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service refers to the Website.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Website refers to Sean Simons Statements, accessible from https://seansimonsstatements.com.
You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Types of data collected
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our home page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. We’ll also set up several cookies to save your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will be valid for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Personal Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. This may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
How we collect Your Personal Information:
- You provide Personal Information to Us when creating an account with Us;
- You may provide Personal Information to Us when communicating with Us;
- You may provide Personal Information to Us when interacting with our Website;
- If you enter a competition or participate in a promotion, we will ask for relevant Personal Information.
What Personal Information do we collect?
- Contact Information and other identifiers, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and other information that enables Us to contact You;
- Payment Information, including your credit or debit card details, bank account information, and payment or other information required when you make a purchase;
- Communications, and any other information that you intentionally share, send, or receive using the services, including your e-mail, SMS, WhatsApp, requests made through feedback platforms, automated chatbots or similar technology, and any other information you choose to share with us — including your photos, videos, blog entries, interests, hobbies, lifestyle choices, and groups with which you are affiliated — and that you send or receive using the services;
- Device and Usage Information, including information about your computer or device and Internet or other electronic network activity information.
- You may choose not to provide certain Personal Information, but that may limit the services or products that You may wish to obtain from Us.
How we use your information. We may use Your Personal Information to:
- To meet Our contractual obligations with You;
- Send You Your orders and confirm that your orders have been received;
- Validate you as a customer when using our services and calling us;
- Prevent and detect criminal activity, fraud and misuse of or damage to our services or networks;
- Prosecute those responsible and to contact you to invite you to form part of our consumer panel or various research groups.
For how long do we keep your Personal Information?
The time periods which we keep your Personal Information may vary according to the use or purpose attached to the information. Unless there is a specific legal requirement requiring us to keep your information, we will not keep it for longer than necessary for the purpose for which the information was collected or for which it is to be processed.
Disclosing your information to third parties. Your Information, that is required by affiliates and subsidiaries to give effect to transactions that You choose to enter into, is shared with those entities. We provide relevant Personal Information to the following categories of third parties:
- Our e-commerce platform & certain payment service providers;
- Our inventory and order management platform provider;
- Our accounting platform provider;
- Our customer relationship management platform provider;
- Our transactional email platform provider;
- Our email marketing platform provider;
- Our data or third party data backup providers may include Google and Amazon Web Services.
- Our logistics platform providers and partners, required for the delivery of products that You order.
How to manage your personal information
If you would like us to stop processing or storing your Personal Information for any reason, please write to us at orders {at}seansimonsstatements.com allowing us 14 (fourteen) working days to complete your request. You may also write to Us to enquire about the Personal Information we currently hold of Yours.
Interception of communications
Without the use of encryption, the Internet is not a secure medium and privacy cannot be ensured. Internet e-mail is vulnerable to interception and forging.
We will not be responsible for any damages You or any third party may suffer as a result of the transmission of confidential or disclosed information You make to Us through the Internet, or that You expressly or implicitly authorise the Owners to make, or for any errors or any changes made to any transmitted information.
We have taken all reasonable precautions to secure the credit card processing that is carried out to receive payments for goods sold. We cannot be held liable for security breaches occurring on Your electronic device (personal computer or other electronic device used to access the Website), which may result because of a lack of adequate virus protection software or spyware that You may inadvertently have installed on Your device, or due to any other security breaches that occur notwithstanding the reasonable precautions we have taken.
Subject to the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (“RIC”), Act 70 of 2002, You agree that We may intercept, block, read, delete, disclose and use all communications sent or otherwise communicated to Us or Our agents. You agree that Your consent satisfied the requirements of ECTA and RIC for consent in “writing” as defined.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Service. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more information on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read “Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?”
Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be ‘Persistent’ or ‘Session’ Cookies. Persistent Cookies 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. You can learn more about cookies here: All About Cookies by TermsFeed.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies as per below:
Necessary/Essential Cookies Type: Session Cookies: These Cookies 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.
Acceptance Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children’s Privacy
Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post a prominent notice on Our Service prior to the change becoming effective. The ‘Last updated’ date at the top of this Privacy Policy will be changed. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when posted on this page. If you do not agree with the change, you must stop using this website or the changed terms will apply to you. You may not change these terms & conditions.