PriceCheck (Pty) Ltd, registration number: 2007/013797/07 (hereinafter referred to as "PriceCheck", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to ensuring the protection of the privacy of all of all visitors ("Visitors") to our website at www.pricecheck.co.za (the "Website") we well as all persons ("Customers") who have subscribed to any of the services we offer ("Services"), whether they be registered 'Users' or registered 'Merchants'.
We may amend this Policy at any time by posting a revised version on our Website. The revised version will apply to Visitors with effect from the time we post it. However we will provide Customers with at least 30 days' prior notice of any such revision by posting notice of the change on the Website and the revision will then apply to Customers with effect from the date indicated in such notice, provided that if a Customer is not happy with the revisions made, he/she/it shall be entitled to terminate the Services subscribed for.
additional information you may provide on a voluntary basis, such as demographic information or information related to your favourite social networking site (eg. the site name, address and description), or information relating to your participation in competitions, promotions, surveys, and/or additional services ("Optional Details").
Other tracking technology: When you access the Website or open one of our HTML emails, certain Usage Details may be automatically collected and recorded by us from your system by using different types of tracking technology.
Web Beacons: Our Website may contain electronic image requests (called a "single-pixel gif" or "web beacon" request) that allow us to count page views and to access cookies. Any electronic image viewed as part of a web page (including an ad banner) can act as a web beacon. Web beacons are typically 1-by-1 pixel files (so small that you would likely not realize that they are there), but their presence can usually be seen within a browser by clicking on "View" and then on "Source". We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted newsletters that we send to opt-in subscribers in order to count how many newsletters have been read. Our web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor or share any personally identifiable information. They are just the technique we use to compile anonymous information about the Website and Service usage.
We may use your Usage Details to (a) automatically provide you with the latest version of the Pricecheck application on your system; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Website or Platform; (c) monitor aggregate Website usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (d) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities in connection with your usage of the Website.
additional information you may provide on a voluntary basis, which could include demographic information or information related to your favourite website, activities, interests or your participation in competitions, promotions, surveys, and/or additional services ("Additional Details").
Your Personal Details and Contact Details will provided by you during your registration as a User and/or thereafter by your actively updating or supplementing such details in your User Account. Additional Details are provided by you on a voluntary basis either directly, or indirectly by means of you linking your User Account to your other social networking profiles, such as your Facebook profile.
We use your Contact Details to verify your identity and to inform you of facts relating to your use of the Services (eg. notifications regarding major updates or content you have posted or downloaded from the Website, customer service notifications, and to address copyright infringement or defamation issues) as well as to inform you, subject to obtaining your prior consent, of competitions, promotions and special offers form us and/or our partners and/or affiliates.
e-mail address, mobile number, and such other contact details as provided by you during your registration application ("Contact Details").
You provide the aforesaid information directly to us in the application form you submit to us during your registration as a Merchant and thereafter should you actively update or supplement such details in your Merchant Account.
we use your Contact Details to verify your identity and to inform you of facts relating to your use of the Services (eg. notifications regarding scheduled system maintenance or downtime, major updates, customer service notifications, and to address copyright infringement or defamation issues) as well as to inform you, subject to obtaining your prior consent, of competitions, promotions and special offers form us and/or our partners and/or affiliates.
We store and process the personal information of our registered Users, Merchants and Visitors on our computers in South Africa. We use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption, we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files, and we authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities.
Our holding company, Compare Guru (Pty) Ltd, and other divisions or companies within the group of companies to which we belong, being the Silvertree Internet Holdings (Pty) Ltd group of companies which includes companies registered in countries other than South Africa so as to provide joint content and services like registration, transactions and customer support, to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies, and to guide decisions about their products, services and communications. Members of our corporate family will only use this information to send you marketing communications if you have requested their services.
Our Merchants, but only in the event and to the extent that you, the User, have expressly authorised such disclosure beforehand, other than for purposes of sending you an invoice for any Goods purchased from such Merchant, which disclosed information will be limited to only what is necessary (refer to clause Merchants above).
Merchants sometimes request a User's details in order to follow up with such User as to his/her grievances regarding such Merchant's product/s. Should PriceCheck receive any such request from a Merchant in relation to a User, we will notify the User thereof via email and request his/her permission to such disclosure. Please note that Merchants have their own privacy policies, and PriceCheck will not be held responsible for their operations, including, but not limited to, their information practices, once a User’s personal information has been given to them, either by us with the User’s prior authorisation in accordance with this clause, or by the User directly when transacting with such Merchants. We similarly will not be liable in any way for the manner in which a User may use or disclose any Merchant-related information provided to him/her directly by such Merchant.
Service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations (fraud prevention, marketing, technology services). Our contracts dictate that these service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit.
PriceCheck will not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes and only shares your personal information with third parties as described in this Policy, unless we are compelled to do so by law. In particular, in the event of a fraudulent online payment, PriceCheck is entitled to disclose relevant personal information for criminal investigation purposes or in line with any other legal obligation for disclosure of the personal information which may be required of it.
You can review and edit any of your personal information at any time by signing in to your User Account or Merchant Account (as the case may be) and clicking the My Account menu in any of the PriceCheck pages.
By accepting this Policy, you consent to our collection, storage, processing and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy. Should you terminate your registration with us and close your User Account, you consent to our retention of the information we have already collected from you for record-keeping purposes only.