Privacy policy

1. Introduction

At Paramatic (Pty) Ltd , d/b/a ParaMatic ("us", "we", "our" or the "Company") we value your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your data. This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes our privacy practices for the activities set out below. As per your rights, we inform you how we collect, store, access, and otherwise process information relating to individuals. In this Policy, personal data ("Personal Data") refers to any information that on its own, or in combination with other available information, can identify an individual.

We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the highest level of privacy regulation. As such, we follow the obligations under the below regulations:

• Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the applicable provincial legislations
• Quebec Law 25
• the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Brazil’s Data Protection Legislation (LGPD)
• California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
• Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)
• Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)
• Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)
• Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
• Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA)
• Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA)
• Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act
• Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act
• Nebraska Data Privacy Law
• New Hampshire Data Privacy Act
• New Jersey Data Privacy Act
• Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act
• Maryland Online Consumer Protection Act
• Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA)
• Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA)
• The Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RIDTPPA)
• Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (INCDPA)
• Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA)
• South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)

Scope

This policy applies to the Paramatic (Pty) Ltd websites, domains, applications, services, and products.

This Policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services or platforms that may be accessed through (non-Paramatic (Pty) Ltd) links that we may provide to you. These sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any Personal Data that you provide to these websites will be governed by the third-party’s own privacy policy. We cannot accept liability for the actions or policies of these independent sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.

Processing Activities

This Policy applies when you interact with us by doing any of the following:

• Make use of our application and services as an authorized user
• Visit any of our websites that link to this Privacy Statement

This privacy policy was generated by Enzuzo, our consent management vendor, using information and details specific to our business.

2. Personal Data We Collect

What Personal Data We Collect

When you make a purchase, or attempt to make a purchase, we collect the following types of Personal Data:

This includes:

• Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
• Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method

When you use our products and/or features, we collect the following types of Personal Data:

• Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
• Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method

How We Collect Your Personal Data

We collect Personal Data from the following sources:

From You. You may give us your Account Information, Payment Information, Financial Information, Demographic Data, Purchase Information, Content, Feedback, Product Information, by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide, for example, when you:

• Create an account or purchase products on our website;
• Use our products or services;
• Create content through our products or services;
• Express interest in our products or services;
• Downloading software and/or our mobile application;
• Subscribe to our newsletter;
• Complete a voluntary market research survey;
• Contact us with an inquiry or to report a problem (by phone, email, social media, or messaging service);
• When you log in to our website via social media;

Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect the following types of data (all as described above): Device Data about your equipment, Usage Data about your browsing actions and patterns, and Contact Data where tasks carried out via our website remain uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie section (below) for further details.

Third parties: We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties, including:

• Account Information and Payment Information from another individual when they purchase a gift for you on our website;
• Device and Usage Data from third parties, including analytics providers such as Google;
• Account Information and Payment Data from social media platforms when you log in to our website using such social media platforms;
• Content from communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to access your data on such third-party services or networks;
• Account Information and Payment Data from third parties, including organizations (such as law enforcement agencies), associations and groups, who share data for the purposes of fraud prevention and detection and credit risk reduction; and
• Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.

If you provide us, or our service providers, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Policy. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the "Contact us" section below.

Device and Usage Data

When you visit a Paramatic (Pty) Ltd website, we automatically collect and store information about your visit using browser cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer), or similar technology. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Data we collect from third parties

We may receive your Personal Data from third parties such as companies subscribing to Paramatic (Pty) Ltd services, partners and other sources. This Personal Data is not collected by us but by a third party and is subject to the relevant third party’s own separate privacy and data collection policies. We do not have any control or input on how your Personal Data is handled by third parties. As always, you have the right to review and rectify this information. If you have any questions you should first contact the relevant third party for further information about your Personal Data. Where that third party is unresponsive to your rights, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at Paramatic (Pty) Ltd (contact details below).

Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of such other services, or of social media networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices.

Purpose and Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data

We collect and use your Personal Data with your consent to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.

Where we process your Personal Data to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations. All of the above processing is necessary in our legitimate interests to provide products and services and to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business for example against fraud. Consent will be required to initiate services with you. New consent will be required if any changes are made to the type of data collected. Within our contract, if you fail to provide consent, some services may not be available to you.

International Data Transfer and Storage

Where possible, we store and process data on servers within the general geographical region where you reside (note: this may not be within the country in which you reside). Your Personal Data may also be transferred to, and maintained on, servers residing outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy as well as applicable data protection law. More information about these clauses can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D0914

Sharing and Disclosure

We will share your Personal Data with third parties only in the ways set out in this Policy or set out at the point when the Personal Data is collected.

Legal Requirement

We may use or disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with a legal obligation, in connection with a request from a public or government authority, or in connection with court or tribunal proceedings, to prevent loss of life or injury, or to protect our rights or property. Where possible and practical to do so, we will tell you in advance of such disclosure.

Service Providers and Other Third Parties

We may use a third party service provider, independent contractors, agencies, or consultants to deliver and help us improve our products and services. We may share your Personal Data with marketing agencies, database service providers, backup and disaster recovery service providers, email service providers and others but only to maintain and improve our products and services. For further information on the recipients of your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the "Contacting us" section below.

3. Cookies

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file with information that your browser stores on your device. Information in this file is typically shared with the owner of the site in addition to potential partners and third parties to that business. The collection of this information may be used in the function of the site and/or to improve your experience.

We do not use cookies.

4. Retention & Deletion

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that data was collected and to the extent required by applicable law. When we no longer need Personal Data, we will remove it from our systems and/or take steps to anonymize it.

5. Merger or Acquisition

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

6. How We Keep Your Data Safe

We have appropriate organizational safeguards and security measures in place to protect your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

The communication between your browser and our website uses a secure encrypted connection wherever your Personal Data is involved.

We require any third party who is contracted to process your Personal Data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law.

In the unfortunate event of a Personal Data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.

7. Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16 Years

8. Your Rights for Your Personal Data

Depending on your geographical location and citizenship, your rights are subject to local data privacy regulations. These rights may include:

Right to Access (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 15, CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA, LGPD, POPIA)

You have the right to learn whether we are processing your Personal Data and to request a copy of the Personal Data we are processing about you.

Right to Rectification (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 16, CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, LGPD, POPIA)

You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data that we process about you rectified.

Right to be Forgotten (right to erasure) (GDPR Article 17, CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA, LGPD, POPIA)

You have the right to request that we delete Personal Data that we process about you, unless we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Right to Restriction of Processing (GDPR Article 18, LGPD)

You have the right to restrict our processing of your Personal Data under certain circumstances. In this case, we will not process your Data for any purpose other than storing it.

Right to Portability (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 20, LGPD)

You have the right to obtain Personal Data we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such Personal Data to another data controller, where this is (a) Personal Data which you have provided to us, and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you or the third party that subscribes to services.

Right to Opt Out (CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA)

You have the right to opt out of the processing of your Personal Data for purposes of: (1) Targeted advertising; (2) The sale of Personal Data; and/or (3) Profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. Under CPRA, you have the right to opt out of the sharing of your Personal Data to third parties and our use and disclosure of your Sensitive Personal Data to uses necessary to provide the products and services reasonably expected by you.

Right to Objection (GDPR Article 21, LGPD, POPIA)

Where the legal justification for our processing of your Personal Data is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the Personal Data for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.

Nondiscrimination and nonretaliation (CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA)

You have the right not to be denied service or have an altered experience for exercising your rights.

File an Appeal (CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA)

You have the right to file an appeal based on our response to you exercising any of these rights. In the event you disagree with how we resolved the appeal, you have the right to contact the attorney general located here:

• If you are based in Colorado, please visit this website to file a complaint.
• If you are based in Virginia, please visit this website to file a complaint.
• If you are based in Connecticut, please visit this website to file a complaint.

File a Complaint (GDPR Article 77, LGPD, POPIA)

You have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

If you are based in the EEA, please visit this website (https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en) for a list of local data protection authorities.

Withdrawing Consent

If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the information found at the bottom of this page.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Data by sending the request to our privacy team by using the form below.

For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.

9. Changes

We may modify this Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Policy then we will post an updated version of this Policy at this website. When using our services, you will be asked to review and accept our Privacy Policy. In this manner, we may record your acceptance and notify you of any future changes to this Policy.

10. Contact Us

To request a copy for your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request for your data to be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, we've made the process simple:

To contact us, please email info@paramatic.co.za

Write to us at:

Data Privacy Officer of ParaMatic

ParaMatic (Pty) Ltd Ground Floor, Building 10 Kildrummy Office Park Cnr Witkoppen & Umhlanga Ave Paulshof, Sandton, Gauteng, 2191

Call us at:

27877014935

Last Updated: 6/25/2024

POPI Act agreement declaration

All business is undertaken in terms of the Company’s Standard Trading Terms and Conditions. A copy of the Company’s Standard Trading Terms and Conditions is available on request.

You hereby declare and confirm that you, as the person/entity/body/individual/company whose is providing information and hereinafter collectively referred to as the “client”, do hereby irrevocably agree and understand that any/all information supplied or given to the service provider, is done so in terms of the below terms and conditions and in terms of this agreement and consent declaration

Interpretation

In this Agreement, unless inconsistent with or otherwise indicated by the context –

1.1.1. “This Agreement” means the Agreement contained in this document;

1.1.2. “The Company/Service provider” means ParaMatic (Pty) Ltd (“Company”) and includes its affiliated, holding and subsidiary companies;

• “Confidential information” includes, but is not limited to:

1.1.1. any information in respect of know-how, formulae, processes, systems, business methods, marketing methods, promotional plans, financial models, inventions, long-term plans and any other information of the client and the company in whatever form it may be;

1.1.2. all internal control systems of the client and the company;

1.1.3. details of the financial structure and any other financial, operational information of the client and the company; and

1.1.4. any arrangements between the client and the company and others with whom they have business arrangements of whatsoever nature, all of which the client and the company regards as secret and confidential.

• “Personal information” means personal information as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act adopted by the Republic of South Africa on 26 November 2013 and includes but is not limited to:

1.1.1. information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age,

physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the person;

1.1.2. information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person;

1.1.3. any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier or other particular assignment to the person;

1.1.4. the biometric information of the person;

1.1.5. the personal opinions, views or preferences of the person;

1.1.6. correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence;

1.1.7. the views or opinions of another individual about the person; and

1.1.8. the name of the person if it appears with other personal information relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the person.

• “The effective date” means the date of signature of this Agreement;
• “The parties” means the parties as described hereinabove;
• “Divulge” or “make use of” means to reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, make public, release, publicise, broadcast, communicate or correspond or any such other manners of divulging any information.
• ‘‘Processing’’ means any operation or activity or any set of operations, whether or not by automatic means, concerning personal or any information, including but not limited to:

1.1.1. the collection, receipt, recording, organisation, collation, storage, updating or modification, retrieval, alteration, consultation or use;

1.1.2. dissemination by means of transmission, distribution or making available in any other form; or

1.1.3. merging, linking, as well as restriction, degradation, erasure or destruction of information.

POPI” means the Protection of Personal Information Act adopted by the Republic of South Africa on 26 November 2013 and as amended from time to time.

WHEREAS IT IS AGREED THAT

All parties agree that they will comply with POPI regulations and process all the information and/or personal data in respect of the services being rendered in accordance with the said regulation and only for the purpose of providing the Services set out in the agreement to provide services. The Company, all the parties to this agreement, the Company’s employees and the Client’s employees and any subsequent party/parties to this agreement acknowledge and confirm that:

• One or more of the parties to this agreement, will possess and will continue to possess information that may be classified or maybe deemed as private, confidential or as personal information.
• Such information may be deemed as the private, confidential or as personal information in so far as it relates to any party to this agreement.
• Such information may also be deemed as or considered as private, confidential or as personal information of any third person who may be directly or indirectly associated with this agreement.
• Further it is acknowledged and agreed by all parties to this agreement, that such private, confidential or as personal information may have value and such information may or may not be in the public domain. For purposes of rendering services on behalf of the client, the service provider and any party associated with this agreement and/or any subsequent or prior agreement that may have been/will be entered into, irrevocably agree that “confidential information” shall also include inter alia and shall mean inter alia:
• all information of any party which may or may not be marked “confidential”, “restricted”, “proprietary” or with a similar designation;
• where applicable, any and all data and business information;
• where applicable the parties may have access to data and personal and business information regarding clients, employees, third parties and the like including personal information as defined in POPI regulations; and
• trade secrets, confidential knowledge, know-how, technical information, data or other proprietary information relating to the client/service provider or any third the party associated with this agreement and (including, without limitation, all products information, technical know-how, software programs, computer processing systems and techniques employed or used by either party to this agreement and/or their affiliates.

By signature hereunder, all parties irrevocably agree to abide by the terms and conditions as set out in this agreement as well as you irrevocably agree and acknowledge that all information provided, whether personal or otherwise, may be used and processed by the service provider and such use may include placing such information in the public domain.

Further, it is specifically agreed that the service provider will use its best endeavours and take all reasonable precautions to ensure that any information provided, is only used for the purposes it has been provided. It is agreed that such information may be placed in the public domain and by signature hereunder, all parties acknowledge that they have read all of the terms in this policy and that they understand and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions as set out in this agreement.

It is confirmed that by submitting information to the service provider, irrespective of how such information is submitted, you consent to the collection, collation, processing, and storing of such information and the use and disclosure of such information in accordance with this policy.