Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy operates in
conjunction with the Website Terms and Conditions and Terms and Conditions of
Sale.
1.
Personal Information
1.1
We collect the following types of information about
you when you use this Website:
1.1.1
information
provided by you. We collect personal information (that is information about you
that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address, phone
number and other unique information such as user IDs and passwords, billing
and transaction information, product and service preferences and contact
preferences that are not otherwise publicly available), we verify your name and
email address, when you complete the registration process;
and
1.1.2
information that
is collected automatically. Inglot SA receives and stores information which is
transmitted automatically from your computer when you browse the internet. This
information includes information from cookies (which are described in clause
12.2
below), your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, web
beacons, embedded web links, and other commonly used information-gathering
tools. Your IP address is the unique address of your computer which is
automatically provided to other computers when your web browser or email
application requests a web page or email from those computers on the internet.
1.2
Cookies are a common internet technology. Many
websites use cookies to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are
small files that are written or downloaded to your computer’s hard drive when
you access a site. They allow us to store and quickly retrieve login information
on your computer and provide data that we can use to improve the quality of our
service. Most internet browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you
prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able
to take full advantage of the Website if you do so.
1.3
Inglot SA may link information stored in cookies
such as (in the case of natural persons) your age, gender and country with your
personally identifiable information and we may use such information to gather
statistics about the number of people who visit the Website and to customize our
content, layout and services for delivery to you.
1.4
Our advertising partners may set and access cookies
or use other technologies such as web beacons (which are electronic files that
allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain
cookies) in order to personalise advertising content. Use by these advertising
partners of their own cookies and any other tracking technologies are subject to
their privacy policies. Inglot SA uses its reasonable efforts to ensure that its
advertising partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with
our own privacy standards as set out in herein.
1.5
Use and Disclosure of information
1.5.1
Inglot SA may use your information to, amongst
other things:
1.5.1.1
assist you in completing a transaction or Order;
1.5.1.2
communicate with you about products and services;
1.5.1.3
provide service and support;
1.5.1.4
update you on new services and benefits;
1.5.1.5
provide personalized promotional offers;
1.5.1.6
select content to be communicated to
you;
1.5.1.7
allow you to participate in contests and surveys;
1.5.1.8
contact you for market research regarding products
or services.
1.5.2
Inglot SA will display your personal information
contained in your profile.
1.5.3
Inglot SA will use your email address to contact
you from time to time and may also use it for security reasons to confirm that
you are who you say you are.
1.5.4
Inglot SA may use the information collected
automatically, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to
gather statistics about the number of people who visit the Website and to
customize our website content, layout and services. We may share this
information with third parties to help us improve and better serve our
users.
1.5.5
Advertisements may be delivered to you by our
advertising partners. Inglot SA may however transfer information about your use
of the Website, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to
our advertising partners and other third parties. This information may be used
to provide advertising, promotions and other products and services that may be
of particular interest to you.
1.5.6
Inglot SA’s advertising and promotions partners
have no access to your name or personal contact information stored by us unless
you choose to share it with them. We will not provide your name or personal
contact information to an advertising partner when you interact with or view a
targeted advertisement.
1.5.7
Inglot SA may provide your personally identifiable
information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to
the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing
our products to you. Such vendors and service agencies will be obligated to use
your personally identifiable information solely to provide the products to us.
1.5.8
Inglot SA will disclose your personally
identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by
law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights and
property of Inglot SA, its affiliates or the public. Inglot SA may also
co-operate with law enforcement in any official investigation and we may
disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency or
authority in doing so.
1.5.9
Inglot SA reserves the right to transfer your
personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership, such as
acquisition by, or merger with, another entity. If any acquiring entity should
plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you
beforehand.
1.6
Access to and accuracy of your
information
1.6.1
Inglot SA strives to keep your personal information
accurately recorded. We have implemented technology, management processes and
policies to help maintain data accuracy. Inglot SA provides individuals with the
reasonable ability to review and correct it or ask for anonymization, blockage,
or deletion, as applicable.
1.6.2
To protect your privacy and security, we will also
take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and
user ID, before granting access to your data. To view and change the personal
information that you directly provided to Inglot SA you can utilize the order
status function on the Website.
1.6.3
You are entitled to request access
to any relevant personal data held by
Inglot SA as laid out in the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of
2000 (“PAIA”) and where such access is necessary for you to exercise and/or
protect any of your rights.
Detailed information on PAIA and the procedure to follow in making a
request for access to relevant personal data is available in the Inglot SA’s
Promotion of Access to Information Manual.