Privacy policy

1) Introduction

 

(i)

This Privacy Policy applies to every person ('User'), including yourself, who accesses this website known as www.avintageleo.co.za (the 'Website'), owned and operated by AVINTAGELEO (PTY) LTD ("AVINTAGELEO", "AVL", "We", "Us").

 

(ii)

We respect your privacy and are careful to protect your Personal Information to the fullest extent required by the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013 ('POPI Act') and the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, Act 25 of 2002 ('ECT Act'). Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit your statutory rights in any way.

 

(iii)

This Privacy Policy sets out how, why and when We collect, store, process, and use your Personal Information.

 

(iv)

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with our terms and conditions ("T's and C's") which is incorporated herein by reference. Every definition in our T's and C's will have the same meaning in this Privacy Policy.

 

2) Age Requirements

 

(i)

If you are below the age of 18 (eighteen) years:

a) You may not use this Website without permission and supervision from your parent or legal guardian, and

 

b) You may not provide us with access to your Personal Information without permission and supervision from your parent or legal guardian.

 

If you are under 18 (eighteen) years old and using this Website without your permission and supervision from your parent or legal guardian, you must stop using this Website immediately until you are under their supervision.

 

(ii)

We may ask you to provide us with verification of your age and/or verification that your parent or legal guardian has consented to your use of the Website, and/or we may ask you for the contact details of your parent or legal guardian so that We can contact them to verify their identity and whether they have consented to and supervised your use of the Website.

(iii)

We may contact you or your parent or legal guardian to request you to cease from using the Website if we can not verify your age and/or if we can not determine whether your parent or legal guardian has consented to your use of the Website.

 

3) Collection and Processing

 

(i)

We will only collect the following Personal Information from you:

a) your online identity;

b) your full name;

c) your email address;

d) your physical address;

e) your phone number;

f) your date of birth;

g) your gender;

h) your identification number.

 

(ii)

We will only collect your Personal Information in a manner that is reasonable, adequate, relevant, purpose-specific, non-excessive, and non-intrusive.

 

(iii)

We will collect your Personal Information to identify you, verify your identity, ascertain your contact details, verify your contact information, enter into a contract with you, transact with you, and/or determe your designated address for the purposes of delivery, collection and/or serving legal notices on your domicilum citandi et executandi.

 

(iv)

You warrant that any Personal Information which you provide to AVINTAGELEO is true, accurate, current and complete.

 

(v)

You warrant that you are authorised to provide whatever Personal Information you provide to us and that you are not fraudulently impersonating someone else and/or falsely misrepresenting the Personal Information of yourself or another person.

4) Consent

(i)

By accessing and/or using this Website, you permit AVINTAGELEO to store your Personal Information only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.

(ii)

You must immediately cease from using the Website should your parent or legal guardian withdraw their consent for you to use this Website without their permission or supervision, and/or should We be unable to determine whether they have consented to your use of the Website.

 

5) Duration of Consent to Store your Personal Information

 

(i)

We will only store your Personal Information for as long as necessary to uphold any contract entered into between AVINTAGELEO and yourself, or until We are notified of your intention to withdraw your consent for AVINTAGELEO to store your information, or for the duration of any other timeframe as would be required by the law - whichever of these periods expire last.

 

6) Accessibility

 

(i)

We will not sell any records of your Personal Information to any third party for our pecuniary benefit.

 

(ii)

We may provide access to our records of your Personal Information to:

a) AVINTAGELEO's employees and/or third-party independent contractors who provide services strictly useful to fulfilling the contractual obligations between yourself and AVINTAGELEO (i.e. delivery services, communication services, and payment services, etc);

b) law enforcement, government officials, fraud detection agencies and/or other third-parties when it is necessary or appropriate to disclosure our records of your Personal Information for the purposes of assisting with the investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or any other illegal activity or activity which a reasonable person would expect might otherewise expose AVINTAGELEO to legal liability or pecuniary loss; and/or

c) third-party successors-in-title of AVINTAGELEO in the event of the completion of a sale, transfer, distribution, merger, amalgamation, consolation, re-organisation, joint-venture and/or take-over of AVINTAGELEO involving such third-party. 

 

7) Pricacy Rights

 

(i)

If you provide us with adequate proof for us to verify your identity, you have rights:

a) to view, change, edit, amend, rectify and/or overwrite any of our records of your Personal Information and/or a description thereof, at any time;

b) to request that we destroy and/or delete any of our records of your Personal Information;

c) to be informed by AVINTAGELEO, if reasonably practicable, whenever We change, amend, and/or rectify our record of your Personal Information in a manner that has a substantial impact on your relationship to Us;

d) to be notified by AVINTAGELEO if We become aware of any reasonable suspicion of unauthorised access to your Personal Information;

e) to be provided with reasonable evidence and an explanation of our compliance with our obligations under this Privacy Policy and the POPI Act upon reasonable notice and reasonable request; and -

f) to submit a complaint against us to the Information Regulator (see below for guidance).

 

8) Complaints

 

(i)

If you have any complaints concerning this Privacy Policy and/or our compliance with this Privacy Policy and/or the POPI Act, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator.

(ii)

The contact details of the Information Regulator are available on its website at: https://justice.gov.za/inforeg/

 

9) Changes to this Policy

 

(i)

The currenty version of this Privacy Policy overwrites any previous privacy policy or likewise provisions on our Website.

 

(ii)

We may from time to time change, edit, amend, rectify, and/or overwrite this Privacy Policy.

 

X) Applicability

(i)

The applicable version of the Privacy Policy will be determined by the current version of the Privacy Policy when you access this Website.