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Privacy Policy

SPATTER MEDIA (PTY) LTD

By using our website you agree to the following:

Spatter Media (Pty) Ltd takes the privacy of your information very seriously. This policy explains how and for what purposes we use the information collected about you via our website (referred to below as the “Site”).

Please read this privacy policy carefully. By using the Site and any services we offer via the Site, you are agreeing to be bound by this policy in respect of the information collected about you via this Site.

If you have any queries about the policy, please get in touch with us using the contact details set out below and we will do our best to answer your questions.

Spatter Media may amend this policy from time to time. Every time you wish to order from our site, you should check this policy. You are not able to proceed with an order on our Site unless you confirm that you agree with this policy. This policy was most recently updated in February 2016.

All information displayed on this website is thoroughly checked and regularly updated. However, there is no guarantee that it is complete, accurate and up-to-date. All information may be removed or changed at any time without prior notification.

Despite meticulous control of the content of our website, we do not assume liability for the content of external links. Spatter Media (Pty) Ltd is not responsible for the content of external websites which are linked to.

Collection, processing and use of personal information

You can visit our site without providing personal information. We will only store non-personal access information, such as the name of your Internet service provider, the page from which you are visiting, or the name of the requested file. This information is only analyzed for the purpose of improving our offering and cannot be traced back to you. We will also store your IP address for the purpose of carrying out an order. Once the order process is cancelled or the ordered product is delivered and paid, the IP address saved for this purpose will be deleted immediately.

Personal information is only collected if you voluntarily provide this information as part of your order when opening a new account or registering for our newsletter. We will use the information you supply without separate consent only to complete and process your order. When you register for the newsletter, with your consent your name and e-mail address will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter, which can be done at any time.

We reserve the right to store Customer print data electronically for one year. After that, we will move such data from electronic storage to tape storage; the print data will then be stored on such tape storage for 5 further years. The print data does not contain customer data or other personal data except for an order number (which is included in the name of the print file). On the basis that it is possible to identify the customer from the order number and therefore we treat the storage of such print data in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy and Data Protection Act. We store this print data for SARS record-keeping purposes, in particular in order to be able to demonstrate to the SARS that we have correctly identified the applicable VAT rate to the service provided.

Forwarding personal information

Your information will be passed on to the shipping company (The Carrier) commissioned with the delivery of your product, to the extent required for the shipment of the products; also, your payment information will be forwarded to the bank commissioned with the payment with respect to payment settlement. Information will not be forwarded to any other third parties. The processing of partner offers that are found on our web pages will be done directly by these partners.

Use of Cookies

To enable you to place orders in our Online Shop, a long-term cookie will be set when you access specific pages. These are small text files that remain on your computer. The file is only used to enable you to use certain applications, for example, our shopping cart system.

Most browsers will accept cookies by default. You can allow or prohibit temporary and stored cookies separately in your security settings. If you deactivate cookies you may lose access to some features on our site and some web pages may not be displayed correctly.

The information stored in our cookies will never be linked to your personal information (name, address etc.) without your express consent.

USE OF WEBSITE STATISTIC SERVICES

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, and which allow your use of the website to be analyzed. Information created by the cookie regarding your use of the website (including parts of your IP address) is forwarded to and stored on a Google server in the US. Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, prepare reports regarding website activities for website operators and to provide additional services related to website and Internet use. Where applicable, Google will also forward this information to third parties, insofar as this is statutorily prescribed or the third parties are processing this data at Google’s request. Respecting the Data Protection, we apply a procedure that excludes the website visitor’s identification. You can prevent the installation of cookies by changing the settings in your browser software; however, we advise that if you do so you may not be able to fully utilize all functions of this website. By using this website you agree to Google processing the data collected from you as described above for the aforementioned purposes.

Use of Facebook Social Plugins

This Internet page uses what is referred to as Social Plugins (“Plugins”) of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The Plugins are identified by a Facebook logo or the addition “Social Plug-in from Facebook” or “Facebook Social Plugin”. An overview of the Facebook Plugins and what they look like can be found at: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins When you call up a page of our website which contains a plugin such as this, your browser will create a direct link with the Facebook servers. The contents of the plugin will be passed from Facebook directly to your browser and incorporated into the web page. As a result of the incorporation of the plugin, Facebook is informed that your browser has called up the relevant page from our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account, or do not happen to be logged on to Facebook at the time. This information (including your IP address) will be passed from your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and saved and stored there. If you are logged on to Facebook, Facebook can allocate the visit to our web page directly to your Facebook account. When you interact with the plugins, for example by activating the “I like” button or providing a comment, the corresponding information will likewise be passed directly to a Facebook server and saved and stored there.

The information will also be published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. Facebook can use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research, and requirement-oriented design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook produces utilization, interest, and reference profiles, in order, for example, to assess your use of our website with regard to the publicity displays which are blended in when you are on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users of your activities on our website, and to provide further services associated with the use of Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to assign the data gathered via our website to your Facebook account, you will have to log off Facebook before visiting our site. To find out about the purpose and scope of the data acquisition and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as about your rights and customisation options in this respect, in order to protect your privacy, please refer to the Facebook data protection instructions: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Data Security

We secure our website and other systems against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution by unauthorised persons through technical and organisational measures. A customer account may only be accessed by entering the personal password of the customer, which is created by the customer. You should always keep your access information confidential, and close the browser window once communication with us has ended, especially if you are using a shared computer. On some pages, we will set up a “web bug” on your computer. This allows us to recognise your computer if it is used to access the site or use it to find out how advertising activities are received by users. This information is anonymous and not linked to personal information on the computer of the user, or with a database.

In the absence of your express consent, we will not use web bugs to undertake the following activities unnoticed:

  • collection of personal information about you
  • forwarding of such information to third party providers and marketing platforms

Changes to your details

We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the details you have supplied us with, please contact us, the customer may view and/or change their personal details in the customer area of our Website at any time. You also have the right to receive information free of charge about the data stored about your person, as well as a right to correct, block and delete this information if necessary.

Withdrawal of consent

You have provided the following consent, possibly as part of the ordering process. We would like to advise that you may withdraw your consent at any time, with immediate effect.

Opening a customer account

I hereby agree that inventory data (name, address, e-mail and telephone number), as well as usage data (user name and password), will be stored in a customer database when a new customer account is opened. This will enable me to log in using my user name and password and make future purchases without having to re-enter my information. I may withdraw this consent at any time with immediate effect.

Consent for e-mail advertising

You may consent to receive interesting offers from Spatter Media (Pty) Ltd by regular e-mail. Your e-mail address will not be forwarded to other companies. If you decide to discontinue receiving these services in the future, you can withdraw your consent at any time. To do this, please click “Unsubscribe” at the end of the newsletter, or send an e-mail to info@spattermedia.co.za, with “Unsubscribe from newsletter” in the subject line.

Payment Details

Spatter Media (Pty) Ltd uses a third-party payment service provider, namely Payfast, to process all payments. We, therefore, do not store any information pertaining to bank or card details. More information regarding Payfast, visit www.payfast.co.za.

Acceptance

By using this website, you accept the policies set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Registrations and authorisations

Spatter Media (Pty) Ltd is registered with CIPRO. You can find the online version of the registration at www.cipro.co.za. Company Registration Number: 2015/2548/07.

Contact details

You can contact Spatter Media (Pty) Ltd by email at info@spattermedia.com or via telephone at +27 21 012 5791.