Privacy Policy and Notice (POPIA)
This is the privacy statement of Teamoting in this document, “we”, “us” or “our” refer to Kstene (Pty) Ltd T/A Teamoting.
We are company number CK2016/026955/07 registered in South Africa.
Our registered office is at St John Rd, Bedfordview, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, 2007.
This statement sets out our policy regarding the personal information we collect, use, and store when you visit our website and when you submit enquiries/quote requests through our website. It covers information that can identify you and information that does not.
Our approach to privacy
We take privacy and confidentiality seriously. We will only process personal information in a manner permitted by the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (“POPIA”), and only for purposes that we explain in this notice. If you believe our policy is not being followed, please contact us using the details in the “POPIA contact details” section below.
What information we collect
We collect the information you provide to us, and information collected automatically when you use our website.
Information you provide to us (quote/enquiry form)
When you submit an enquiry or request a quote through our website, we collect the personal information you enter, which may include:
Why we collect and use this information
We process this information for the following purposes:
We do not use your information for generic marketing. We may contact you about your enquiry/quote or the services you have requested.
Providing your information
Submitting the enquiry/quote form requires you to provide the requested details. If you do not provide this information, we may be unable to respond to your enquiry or provide a quote.
Information we do not share
We do not sell your personal information. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties except where disclosure is necessary for the purposes described above and/or where required by law.
Where we use service providers to support our website (for example, hosting, IT support, or analytics providers), they process information on our behalf under appropriate confidentiality and security measures. Where we do use analytics providers, we do so in accordance with this policy (see the “Cookies” section).
Your information is processed only by our personnel and our service providers that support our website and analytics, to the extent necessary to provide the services you request.
How and where your information is stored
Your information submitted via our website may be stored in the database connected to our website platform and plugins, including our WordPress/Elementor infrastructure. Access to this database is restricted using password protection and additional security measures such as 2FA.
We also use hosting and website support services that may process personal information as part of operating our website and services, including supporting the quote/enquiry functionality and analytics.
Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes stated in this notice. For quote/enquiry submissions, we retain personal information for 36 months, after which we will delete or de-identify the information where appropriate.
We may retain information for longer where:
Your personal information rights (POPIA)
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:
Security measures
We implement reasonable technical and organisational security measures to protect personal information against:
We identify reasonably foreseeable risks and implement and review safeguards to protect personal information.
International transfers
We may use service providers whose systems may process information outside South Africa (for example, website hosting, IT support, and analytics services). Where personal information is processed outside South Africa, we will ensure that POPIA transfer requirements are met.
Automated decision-making
We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing intended to have a legal or similarly significant effect on you.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or device by your web browser when you visit a website.
We use cookies and similar technologies to help our website work properly, to understand usage, and to improve performance.
Types of cookies we may use
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect and analyse website usage and traffic information (such as pages visited, time spent, and traffic sources). Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to help us measure and understand website performance.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. You may be able to block cookies, but doing so may affect site functionality.
Sending messages / communication
When you contact us through our website forms, we record the information you provide to allow us to respond to your enquiry and to keep records of requests and our responses.
Complaints and legal requirements
We may be required to disclose personal information if required by law or by proper legal process.
POPIA contact details
To exercise your rights or for any POPIA-related queries, contact:
Maria Jochelson
Email: maria@teamoting.co.za
Phone: +27636327055
Address: Bedfordview, Johannesburg, 2007
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The most current version will be posted on our website.
This is the privacy statement of Teamoting in this document, “we” or “us” refer to Kstene (PTY) LTD T/A Teamoting.
We are company number CK2016/026955/07 registered in South Africa.
Our registered office is at St John Rd, Bedfordview, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, 2007.
This is a statement to tell you our policy about all information that we record about you. It covers both information that could identify you and information that could not.
We are extremely concerned to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all users of our web site are quite rightly concerned to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy is both specific and strict. It complies with the South African law and with the laws of all jurisdictions of which we are aware. If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us.
We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our web site immediately.
Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at this site.Here is a list of the information we collect from you, either through our web site or because you give it to us in some other way, and why it is necessary to collect it:
This includes basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details and also includes all information given to us in the course of your business and ours, such as information you give us in your capacity as our client. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose. We expect you to reciprocate this policy.
To provide you with the services which you request.
For verifying your identity for security purposes.
For marketing our services and products.
Information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service.
We keep information, which forms part of our business record for a minimum of six years. That is because we may need it in some way to support a claim or defence in court. That is also the period within which our tax collecting authorities may demand to know it.
This information is recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded. We shall not under any circumstances, divulge your e-mail address to any person who is not an employee or contractor of ours and who does not need to know, either generally or specifically. This information is used:
To correspond with you or deal with you as you expect.
In a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the purpose of quality control and improvement of our site.
To send you news about the services to which you have signed up.
To tell you about other of our services or services of sister web sites.
Information you send to us by posting to a forum or blog or in your advertisement, is stored on our servers. We do not specifically use that information except to allow it to be read, but you will see in our terms and conditions that we reserve a right to use it in any way we decide.
We may use software embedded in our website (such as JavaScript) to collect information about pages you view and how you have reached them, what you do when you visit a page, the length of time you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you. We do not presently associate such information with an identifiable person.
This information is never taken by us either through our website or otherwise. At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page of PayFast, PayPal, BitPay or some other reputable payment service provider. That page may be dressed in our “livery”, but it is not controlled by us. Our staff and contractors never have access to it.
Many companies offer certification and an icon or other small graphic to prove to site visitors that the site is safe. Some certify to a high level of safety. Others are more concerned to take our money than to provide a useful service. We do not handle information about your credit card so do not subscribe to any such service.
To assist in combating fraud, we share information with credit reference agencies, so far as it relates to clients or customers who instruct their credit card issuer to cancel payment to us without having first provided an acceptable reason to us and given us the opportunity to refund their money.
Third parties may advertise on our web site. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects your IP address when they send an advertisement that appears on our site to your browser.
They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts. We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.
Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we do receive data which is indirectly made up from your personal information, from software services such as Google Analytics and others. No such information is identifiable to you.
If you provide information to us with a view to it being read, copied, downloaded or used by other people, we accept no responsibility for what that third party may do with it. It is up to you to satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might see your information. If it is available to all the World, you have no control whatever as to how it is used.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive through your web browser when you visit any web site. They are widely used to make web sites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Like all other users of cookies, we may request the return of information from your computer when your browser requests a web page from our server.
Cookies enable our web server to identify you to us, and to track your actions and the pages you visit while you use our website. The cookies we use may last for a single visit to our site (they are deleted from your computer when you close your browser), or may remain on your computer until you delete them or until a defined period of time has passed.
Although your browser software enables you to disable cookies, we recommend that you allow the use of cookies in order to take advantage of the features of our website that rely on their use. If you prevent their use, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website.
To record whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our web site. This is solely to comply with the law. If you have chosen not to accept cookies, we will not use cookies for your visit, but unfortunately, our site will not work well for you.
To allow essential parts of our web site to operate for you.
To operate our content management system.
To operate the online notification form – the form that you use to contact us for any reason. This cookie is set on your arrival at our web site and deleted when you close your browser.
To enhance security on our contact form. It is set for use only through the contact form. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.
To collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to improve your experience of our site and enable us to increase sales. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
To store your personal information so that you do not have to provide it afresh when you visit the site next time. This cookie will last for on our browser for the duration we provide the services.
To enable you to watch videos we have placed on YouTube. YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information when you use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.
When you send a message, we collect the data you have given to us in that message in order to obtain confirmation that you are entitled to receive the information and to provide to you the information you need. We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business / organisation. We do not keep any personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name or email address.
When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and, if we do, what that information is.
We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.
We may use re-marketing from time to time. This involves Google or some other supplier placing a tag or marker on your website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products / services when you visit some other website.
We do not market to children, nor do we sell products or services for purchase by children. We do sell products and services for end use by children, but for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use our site only with consent from a parent or guardian.
We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
This confidentiality policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your country, we should like to hear from you, but ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.
At any time you may review or update the personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by contacting us at the address below. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.
If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our web site, you may contact us at https://www.teamoting.co.za. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.
Our web sites are hosted in South Africa. We also use outsourced services in countries outside South Africa from time to time in other aspects of our business. Specifically, our technical centre is based in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Accordingly data obtained within South Africa may be “processed” outside South Africa and data obtained in any other country may be processed within or outside that country.