Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit www.fiafourie.co.za (the “Site”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally when you purchase a product or attempt to purchase a product through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, email address, telephone number and country of residence.We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
COMMENTS
When visitors comment on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the browser agent’s agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you use it. The privacy policy of Gravatar Service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been approved, your profile photo will be visible to the public in the context of your comments.
MEDIA
When uploading images to the Web site, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract all location data from images on the site.
Cookies
If you comment on our website, you can choose to store your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you make another comment. These cookies will last one year. If you visit our login 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.
When you sign in, we will also set several cookies to store your login information and your screen impressions. Login cookies last two days, and screen cookies last one year. If you select “Remember me”, your registration will take two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Contact Forms
What you fill in and direct on the website.
Embedded contact forms from other sites
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites acts in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other site.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, include 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 into that site.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use the Contact Form Information that we collect generally to:
- Communicate with you.
- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information relating to our products or services.
- We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@fiafourie.co.za