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The Companies & Intellectual Property Commission
("CIPC") is committed to protecting the privacy of our customer's
personal information. This Policy explains how we gather and use the
information that we collect from our Web site, located at CIPCIPONLINE.gov.za.
This policy may change over time. Amendments to this statement will be posted
at this URL and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of this site
following the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute
your acceptance thereof.
Information Collected
As you navigate within our
Web site, we will be collecting and tracking personal information, either
by asking you to tell us something about yourself (such as your name,
address or e-mail address) or by using data-tracking software which
records your IP address and tells us what parts of the Web Site you have
browsed.
Use of Information
This information is used to enhance your site
experience, or to apply special benefits. Your personal information will not be
sold to third parties for e-mail marketing or telemarketing campaigns.
The information may be used by CIPC or designated
site partners to send you information that we think will be useful to you.
Due to the technology behind the CIPC site, your
personal information may also be shared with designated site partners in order
to reduce the number of registrations you need to make on the CIPC site. This
is an effort to make use of the CIPCIPONLINE.gov.za site more convenient for
you.
You may opt-out of receiving future mailings from
CIPC and other entities by following the instructions set forth in the opt-out
section below.
Personal information about
you, whether obtained through collection or tracking, may be used to
contact you again either by online electronic communication (such as
e-mail), or by regular mail or telephone. We will also be collecting and
tracking information about activities in our Web site on an aggregate
(i.e., group basis). We will not know or keep track of precisely who you
are as you use the site. The data is used to track what areas of the site
are most frequently used to help us improve the site in the future. When
we share such information with other companies, it is not traceable to any
particular user and will not be used to contact you again.
Non-personal demographic and profile data is used to tailor your
experience at our site, showing you content we think you might be interested
in. This information may also be shared with advertisers on an aggregate non-personal basis.
We may share your information (as described above)
with our business partners to provide you with products or services that you
have requested or to provide you with promotional offers that we believe will
be of interest to you. Our business partners include all of our affiliated
companies as well as other selected businesses with which we have a
relationship and which have agreed to adhere to our strict standards for
providing quality products and services, responding to your needs, and
protecting customer information. We may also employ other companies and
individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling
orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing
repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing
assistance (including direct and targeted marketing), processing credit card
payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal
information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other
purposes.
In certain circumstances,
we may share your customer information with trusted service providers that
need access to your information to provide operational or other support
services. We also may provide information to regulatory authorities and
law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we
otherwise believe in good faith that the law requires it. In the event of
a sale of all or part of one of our businesses, we may share customer
information related to that business as part of the transaction.
Use of IP Address
We may use your IP Address to help diagnose problems
with our server, and to administer our Web site.
Use of Cookies
When you view our Web site we might store some
information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a
"cookie" or similar file. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on
your hard drive, not on our site. Cookies do not spy on you or otherwise invade
your privacy, and they cannot invade your hard drive and steal information.
Rather, they help you navigate a Web site as easily as possible. We use cookies
for remembering user names, to identify users and their preferences, tracking
click streams and for load balancing. Because of our use of cookies, we can
deliver faster service, consistent, updated results and a more personalized
site experience. You have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies.
However, doing this will hinder performance and negatively impact your
experience on our site.
Children
We do not specifically collect online contact
information from children nor do we target or sell products for purchase by
children.
Security
This Web site has industry standard security measures
in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under
our control. While there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the
Internet, we will take reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal
information.
Other Web Sites' Links
This Web site contains links to other Web sites. CIPC
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
If you want to know the privacy policies of the other Web sites, please refer
to the organization sponsoring such Web site.
Consent
By visiting the CIPCIPONLINE site,
you expressly consent to the collection and use by CIPC of personally
identifiable information according to this Privacy Policy.
Choice; Opt Out
You may opt-out of receiving communications from CIPC
or our site partners by sending an e-mail to
webmaster@CIPCiponline.gov.za.
Correct; Update
CIPC allows its users the
ability to correct or update online information previously provided by the
users. Unfortunately, to the extent that such information is also stored
in other databases, we cannot always ensure that such corrections or
deletions will reach the other databases. We will use all reasonable
efforts to ensure that your information is removed from or corrected in
our records.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy,
the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can
contact us at webmaster@CIPCiponline.gov.za.
Please also send all your technical queries to
webmaster@CIPCiponline.gov.za.
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