Privacy policy

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We are committed to treating your personal information shared with us in accordance with the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (Act No 4 of 2013). (POPI Act).  A copy of the POPI Act may be accessed at: 

https://www.gov.za/documents/protection-personal-information-act.

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This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, process and share your information when signing up for our newsletter or commenting / interacting with the forms provided on our website.  Our website refers to the domain:  www.pensionerspayless.co.za.

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We shall take reasonable steps to protect your personal information in accordance with the provisions of the POPI Act. 

 

We may electronically collect, store and use your personal information as indicated in this Privacy Policy.  If you do not consent to this then please do not subscribe to our newsletter or access our website or complete any of the forms provided for purposes of communication.

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Collection of personal information

 

We collect and receive information about you in the following ways:

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1. Information you give us:

• By filling in forms on our website;

• By subscribing to our newsletter;

• By posting comments or content on our website;

• When you contact us via email or telephone or by any other means and provide information directly to us.

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2.  Information we collect or receive when you use our website:

• We collect information when you use our website by using cookies (read how we use cookies here).

• We may receive information about the content you view or how you interact with our website.

• We may receive information about the device you use to access our website such as the type of device, your browser or operating system or your Internet Protocol (IP) address;

• Information collected using Google Analytics (our use of cookies and google analytics is explained here).

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3.  Information from third-party sources

• We may receive additional information about you that is publicly available or that you have consented to being shared with us.

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Use of information we collect or receive

 

We collect, store and use the personal information to:

1. Provide services to you such as the emailing of our newsletter;

2. Enable you to make use of our website by browsing for pensioner discounts in the areas or categories of your interest;

3. Communicate with you;

4. To provide effective advertising;

5. Compile and maintain our website and client database;

6. Compile non-personal statistical information about browsing habits, click patterns and access to our website;

7. Attract advertisers by showing anonymised  information about the database, for example demographics;

8. Participate in affiliate marketing relationships by tracking visitor origin through the use of cookies;

9. Track client database size and growth; and

10. To assess and handle complaints.

 

How we share the information we collect and receive

 

We may share information with:

• Companies / Businesses wanting to list their discounts on our website.  This involves the sharing of non-personally identifiable information.  In other words, not sharing information about you personally, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users such as user numbers.

• Advertising providers, which may help us to provide ads that are tailored to our users’ interests and understands how users respond to those ads.  Again, such information involves the sharing of information that cannot personally identify you as an individual (Such as the information gathered by Google Analytics).

 

We will not give, lend, rent or sell your personal information to third party telemarketers, market research organisations or email list building organisations that might on-sell it to other people or organisations.

 

Your rights / Your choices

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1. You have the option to accept or reject the use of cookies when interacting with our website.

2. You have the choice to unsubscribe to our newsletter by simply clicking on the link provided at the bottom of each newsletter.

3. Under the POPI Act, you have the right to email us at hello@pensionerspayless.co.za to request the deletion of all information connected to you.

4. Under the POPI Act, should you have any complaints about the manner in which we collect, store and use your personal information, such complaints should be directed at the Information Regulator contactable at:  www.inforegulator.co.za/complaints/

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Our commitment to securing your personal information

 

Although no one can guarantee the security of the information collected and received, we do our best to protect your personal information and to engage with your personal information within the parameters of the POPI Act and this Privacy Policy.

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Links to other websites

 

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.