PRIVACY POLICY
USIZO provides this privacy policy (“Policy”) to explain how we collect, use and protect your personal information as you interact with us online through the website and per email. USIZO recognizes the importance of protecting personally identifiable information provided by users of the site, as well as for persons included in our subscriber mailing lists. The following privacy policy grows from our fundamental respect for our users’ right to privacy and will serve to guide our relationships with our users and subscribers.
To help us have a clear start, here are our Privacy Policy for you to accept.
Privacy Policy
We at USIZO respect your integrity.
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") is applicable to the processing of your personal data that you submit to us through this website in order to receive information and materials from us. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide users of this website (jointly referred to as "users" or "you") with information on how USIZO processes the personal data you share with us when using our contact forms on this website.
Please note that this website may contain links to non-USIZO websites. The USIZO is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such websites.
Use and Management of Cookies
When you visit our USIZO website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies and other related technologies that will allow our website to remember you and how you've used the sites every time you come back. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mainly used to give you a more personalised web experience, to improve site performance, to track the effectiveness and relevance of marketing and communication materials shared with you and to analyse the number of people looking at our webpages. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it is recommended for a more bespoke web experience. We respect your right to privacy, therefore you have the option to accept or decline the use of cookies when visiting our USIZO website for the first time. Declining cookies will not deny you access to any of the information on our sites, but it may have an impact on your user experience. At any point in time, you also have the right to disable any cookie information stored on your devices as per the standard guidelines associated with the browser you utilise.
Responsibility for the processing of personal data
USIZO is responsible to ensure processing is compliant with applicable laws in relation to personal data.
Categories of personal data
The following information will be processed when request information from us.
Contact information: e-mail, name, company, country and your message to us.
Browsing Information: IP-number
The purpose and lawful basis for the processing
USIZO is processing the personal data you provide to us or that is a result of your use of the webpage as described below:
To fulfill your information request to receive information or materials from us, such as brochures or report.
We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to complete your request or for as long as is required by law
We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to complete your request or for as long as is required by law
Who do we share your personal data with?
Service Providers and Subcontractors: Your personal data will be processed by our service providers and/or subcontractors (including but not limited to data storage service providers, production development agencies, customer research and operations management companies, technical support and maintenance of the service) on instruction from USIZO. All service providers and subcontractors act as USIZO personal data processors and are under contractual arrangements only allowed to process data for the purposes as set out above. Furthermore, the personal data processor (service provider or subcontractor) and those acting under instructions of the processor will not access more personal data than is required for the performance of the service covered by the agreement with USIZO.
USIZO: Your personal data may be processed by companies within USIZO that provide services in relation to your request such as product development, support and administration. In such case, USIZO act as personal data processor or joint controller. The personal data processor or join controller may only process personal data in accordance with the purposes or instructions provided by USIZO for the processing. Furthermore, the personal data processor (USIZO) and those acting under instructions of the processor will not access more personal data than is required for the performance of the service covered by the agreement with USIZO.
Government agencies: USIZO may share your personal data with government agencies (such as the police, the tax authority or other authorities) if we are required by law to do so, or if you have agreed that we do so. We may also share your personal data with government agencies when we believe in good faith that it is necessary to protect our rights, protect your security or the safety of others, investigate crimes, or respond to a government request. Government agencies that receive your personal data will be the data controller for such processing, which means that it is not USIZO who governs how your personal data, if shared with an authority, is processed. Thus, if your personal data is shared with authorities, this Privacy Policy will not cover that processing.
Other third parties: USIZO will not sell, trade or in other ways forward your personal data to third parties outside the USIZO unless you have given a separate consent.
Where we are processing your personal data
USIZO: We may share your personal data to our subsidiaries or affiliated companies for the purpose of that the relevant subsidiary or affiliated company will process your personal data to respond to your request. Consequently, we will only transfer your personal data to the subsidiary or affiliated company that needs to receive your personal data in order to provide you with the information you have requested. By submitting the request form you consent to our transfer of your personal data to our subsidiaries or affiliated companies.
How we protect your data
USIZO takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data and USIZO is constantly working to protect your personal data from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or unauthorized access to the personal data transferred, stored or otherwise processed by USIZO.
Your rights
We respect you integrity and your rights under legislation related to the processing of personal data. The rights you have mean that you can request a copy of the personal data we process about you, you can request incorrect information about you to be corrected and even under certain conditions you can request erasure of information. You may also in some cases have the right to object to USIZO processing of your personal data and to exercise your right to data portability.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by announcing the updated version of the Privacy Policy online on this page.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 10, 2021.
Complaints and Contact information
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, this Privacy Policy or otherwise have comments on USIZO processing of your personal data, please contact our privacy team on:
Gauteng
Phone +27(11) 365 7800
Fax (011) 362 2091
Email sasecure@corpdial.co.za
Head Office
1 Cornish Road,
New Township,
Springs,
Gauteng,
1590
South Africa
You also always have the right to lodge complaints to the Data Protection Authority if you have objections in relation to our processing of your personal data.
Privacy Policy - Effective: 01 April, 2021
