Who we are
This notice explains how we obtain, use, and disclose your personal information, in accordance with the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
At SidebySide (https://sidebysidegenderjustice.org/) we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is collected and used properly, lawfully, and transparently.
The information we collect
We collect and process your personal information mainly to contact you for meeting the organization’s objectives. For this purpose, we will collect contact details including your name and organization.
We collect information directly from you and you provide us with your personal details. Where possible, we will inform you what information you are required to provide to us and what information is optional.
Website usage information may be collected using “cookies” which allows us to collect standard internet visitor usage information.
How we use your information
We will use your personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and agreed with you. In addition, where necessary your information may be retained for legal or research purposes. For example:
- To gather contact information.
- To provide information, communication, and services according to our core objectives.
- To conduct market or customer satisfaction research or for statistical analysis.
- For audit and record-keeping purposes.
- In connection with legal proceedings.
Disclosure of information
We may disclose your personal information to our service providers who are involved in the delivery of products or services to you. We have agreements in place to ensure that they comply with the privacy requirements as required by the Protection of Personal Information Act.
We may also disclose your information:
- Where we have a duty or a right to disclose in terms of law or industry codes.
- Where we believe it is necessary to protect our rights.
Information Security
We are legally obliged to provide adequate protection for the personal information we hold and to stop unauthorized access and use of personal information. We will, on an ongoing basis, continue to review our security controls and related processes to ensure that your personal information remains secure.
When we contract with third parties, we impose appropriate security, privacy, and confidentiality obligations on them to ensure that personal information that we remain responsible for, is kept secure.
We will ensure that anyone to whom we pass your personal information agrees to treat your information with the same level of protection as we are obliged to.
Security Measures
We constantly back up and scan our website for malicious code and malware. We use third-party tools like Cloudflare and Quic.Cloud to distribute our website to more locations as well as to secure our content.
Third-party tools
We use google analytics to collect user information and interaction on our website. The data is strictly for in-house use. We use this information to better understand the nature of our audience and to provide our users with the best experience on our website.
Your Rights: Access to information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. To do this, simply contact us at info@sidebysidegenderjustice.org and specify what information you require. We will need a copy of your ID document to confirm your identity before providing details of your personal information.
Please note that any such access request may be subject to payment of a legally allowable fee.
Correction of your information
You have the right to ask us to update, correct or delete your personal information. We will require a copy of your ID document to confirm your identity before making changes to the personal information we may hold about you. We would appreciate it if you would keep your personal information accurate, to date and use a secure username and password where applicable.
Definition of personal information
According to the Act ‘‘personal information means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person. Further to the POPI Act, Side By Side also includes the following items as personal information: all addresses including residential, postal, and email addresses.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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
All media and logos are copyrighted to the owner. Duplication or copying of personal images is forbidden. Furthermore, if you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
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.
We only collect cookies for email sign up, or contact forms as well as for analytics purposes to make our website perform better for our users.
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.
Abuse
For any abuse infringements please contact info@timswebworx.co.za