Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 01 May 2024

Introduction

Welcome to CheckDat! (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website http://checkdat.co.za, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”).

By accessing or using the Site, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Comments

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 anonymized 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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

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 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 log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and 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 persist for 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 saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Information We Collect

Personal Data

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Site, subscribe to our newsletter, or otherwise contact us. This may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Mailing address

Non-Personal Information

We may also collect non-personal information automatically when you visit our Site, including:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Operating system
• Referring website
• Pages you view
• The dates/times you access our Site
• Other diagnostic data

Use of Information

Personal Information

We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our Site
• To improve, personalize, and expand our Site
• To understand and analyze how you use our Site
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Site, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• To process your transactions and manage your orders
• To find and prevent fraud
• To display advertisements to you

Non-Personal Information

We use non-personal information to:

• Understand how our Site is used
• Improve our Site’s content and functionality
• Personalize your experience
• Display relevant advertisements

Advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use non-personal information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services that may interest you. This information is collected through technologies such as cookies and web beacons.

Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site or other websites on the internet. You may opt-out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: Google Ads Settings.

Cookies

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies to:

• Remember your preferences and settings
• Understand how you interact with our Site
• Deliver relevant advertisements

You can choose to disable cookies through your browser settings, but doing so may affect the functionality of our Site.

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.

Who we share your data with

We may share your information with third parties in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, and marketing and advertising.
• For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
• For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or 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 your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: info@checkdat.co.za