PROTECTION OF EMAIL ADDRESSES
Your email address is only used for the purposes of replying to you unless you have given consent as detailed above.
GOVERNING LAW
The information contained in this Privacy Policy shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa and be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the South African courts.
OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTED DURING YOUR VISIT TO OUR WEBSITE
Whenever you browse our website, read pages, or download information, our computers automatically record certain information about your visit from the computer you use to access our website. This information does not identify you personally. It just tells us how many visitors come to our website and the types of computers they use. With this information, we can improve our website for all our visitors and make it more useful to you. The information includes the following:
1. The date and time you access our website.
2. How many and which pages you visit during a 'session' on our website and how long you were on the website.
3. Your Internet domain name (this might be your internet service provider such as aol.com or your place of work) and the 'IP' address (this is a number assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web) which allows you to access our website.
4. The Internet browser you use (e.g. Microsoft Explorer or Netscape) and your computer's operating system (e.g. Windows 98).
5. The site you were on before you linked to our website (e.g. Yahoo if you found us from a search engine).
COOKIE POLICY
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly - most major websites use cookies. Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come; the "lifetime" of the cookie; and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Two types of cookies are used on our website:
Session Cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
Persistent Cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). How cookies are used on this site and what information is collected.
Session Cookies are used:
To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
Within registration to allow you to access stored information.
Persistent Cookies are used:
To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (using a number, you cannot be identified personally) when you return to our website.
To allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.
To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.
Third Party Cookies
Third parties serve cookies via this website. These are used for the following purposes:
1. To serve advertisements on our website and track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users.
2. To control how often you are shown a particular advertisement.
3. To tailor content to your preferences.
4. To count the number of anonymous users of our website.
5. To provide security within shopping baskets or transactions.
Web Beacons
Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as Web Beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web Beacons collect only limited information which includes a cookie number; time and date of a page view; and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides. We may also carry Web Beacons placed by third party advertisers. These Beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign. Disabling and Enabling Cookies You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our website if cookies are disabled. Should you wish to be alerted before a cookie is accepted on your hard disk, you can follow the guideline instructions below
If you are using Netscape Navigator 3.0:
1. Go to the 'Options' menu
2. Click 'Network Preferences'
3. Click 'Protocols'
4. Tick the box that says 'Show an alert before accepting a cookie'
5. Go into your Netscape folder
6. Delete the file that is called 'cookies.txt', this will delete all the cookies
7. Under Windows 95, you should also use the 'Find' feature on the 'Start' menu to simply find the file called 'cookies.txt.'
In Internet Explorer 3.0:
1. Go to the 'View' menu
2. Click 'Options'
3. Click 'Advanced'
4. Tick the box that says 'Warn before accepting cookies'
5. Go to cookies directory * Delete all the files you have there, this will delete all cookies
6. Once you delete these files you will have no more cookies, and you will be prompted each time a website attempts to send a cookie to your system. At that time, you can choose to either 'Accept' or 'Cancel' a cookie.
If you are using Netscape 4.0+:
1. Go to 'Edit' in the menu bar
2. Click on 'Preferences'
3. Click 'Advanced'
4. Tick the box that says 'Warn before accepting cookies'
5. Now go to your 'Start' button
6. Click on 'Find'
7. Click on 'Files and Folders'
8. Type "cookies.txt" into the search box that appears
9. Click 'Find Now'
10. When the search results appear drag all files listed into the 'Recycle Bin', this will delete all cookies
11. Now shut down and restart Netscape
12. Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies, and you will be prompted each time a website attempts to send a cookie to your system. At that time, you can choose to either 'Accept' or 'Cancel' the cookie.
In Internet Explorer 5.0+:
1. Go to the 'Tools' menu
2. Click on 'Internet Options'
3. Click the 'Security' tab
4. Highlight the 'Internet' zone (selected by default)
5. Select security level 'High' for this zone
6. Click on 'OK'
7. Go into your cookies directory
8. Delete all the files you have there, this will delete all cookies
9. Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies and your browser will no longer send or receive new cookies.
If you are using Netscape 6.0+:
1. Go to 'Edit' in the menu bar
2. Click on 'Preferences'
3. Select the 'Cookies' field
4. Before Accepting a Cookie' or 'Disable Cookies'
5. Click on 'OK'
6. Go to your 'Start' button
7. Click on 'Files and Folders'
8. Type "cookies.txt" into the search box that appears
9. Click 'Find Now'
10. When the search results appear drag all files listed into the 'Recycle Bin', this will delete all cookies
11. Now shut down and restart Netscape
12. Depending on your earlier choice you will either be prompted by new cookies or no cookies will be set or received.
In Internet Explorer 6.0+:
1. Go to the 'Tools' menu
2. Click on 'Internet Options'
3. Click the 'Privacy' tab
4. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings
5. Click on 'OK'
6. Go into your cookies directory
7. Delete all the files you have there, this will delete all cookies
8. Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies and your browser will no longer send or receive new cookies.
If you are using Netscape 7.0+:
1. Go to 'Edit' in the menu bar
2. Click on 'Preferences'
3. Click on ' Privacy & Security'
4. Select the 'Cookies' field
5. Choose your preferred settings
6. Go to your 'Start' button
7. Click on 'Find'
8. Click on 'Files and Folders'
9. Type "cookies.txt" into the search box that appears
10. Click 'Find Now'
11. When the search results appear drag all files listed into the 'Recycle Bin', this will delete all cookies Now shut down and restart Netscape
12. Depending on your earlier choice you will either be prompted by new cookies or no cookies will be set or received.
Deleting cookies
You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. For example, if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:
1. Open 'Windows Explorer'
2. Click on the 'Search' button on the tool bar
3. Type "cookie" into the search box for 'Folders and Files'
4. Select 'My Computer' in the 'Look In' box
5. Click 'Search Now' * Double click on the folders that are found
6. 'Select' any cookie file
7. Hit the 'Delete' button on your keyboard
8. If you are not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should select "cookies" in the "Help" function for information on where to find your cookie folder.
DATA PROTECTION ON PIXEL TAGS
We may use "pixel tags," which are small graphic files that allow us to monitor the use of our websites. A pixel tag can collect information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the tag appears; the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the pixel tag appears; the time the page containing the pixel tag was viewed; the type of browser that fetched the pixel tag; and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, we may use "format sensing" technology, which allows pixel tags to let us know whether you received and opened our e-mail.