Date of Last Review: 15 March 2004
For your protection this web site subscribes to and complies with the
voluntary privacy principles contained in the Electronic Communications
and Transactions Act 25 of 2002.
Definitions
“this web site” and “we” means www.sharingwater.net
“user” means any person accessing any part of the web site
1. This Privacy Policy forms part of the
Terms and Conditions
of Use of this web site.
Collection of personal data
2. Where personal information (such as your name, address, telephone
number, e-mail address and credit card information) is submitted to the
site by the user (e.g. through sending an e-mail) the following
principles are observed in the handling of that information:
a. This web site collects, processes and stores only such personal
information regarding users as is necessary to provide the services
offered. The specific purpose for which information is collected is
apparent from the context in which it is requested.
b. This web site will not use the personal information submitted for
any other purpose other than the efficient provision of services,
including this web site, without obtaining the prior written approval
of the user or unless required to do so by law.
c. This web site will keep records of all personal information
collected and the specific purpose for which it was collected for a
period of one year from the date on which it was last used.
d. This web site will not disclose any personal information regarding
a user to any third party unless the prior written agreement of the
user is obtained or the web site is required or permitted to do so by
law.
e. If information is released with the user’s consent this web site
will retain a record of the information released, the third party to
which it was released, the reason for the release and the date of
release, for a period of one year.
f. This web site will destroy or delete any personal information which
has become obsolete.
3. Note that, as permitted by the ECT Act, this web site may use
personal information collected to compile profiles for statistical
purposes and trade in these profiles. No information contained in the
profiles or statistics will be able to be linked to any specific user.
Collection of anonymous data
4. In order to provide the best possible service, this web site may use
standard technology to collect information about the use of this site.
This technology is not able to identify individual users but simply
allows this web site to collect statistics.
5. This web site may utilise temporary or session cookies that collect
the first level domain name of the user. This means that if your e-mail
address is user@email.com, the cookie will collect the "email.com" part
of the address.
Cookies are small pieces of information sent to the user's browser and
stored on the user's hard drive. Temporary or session cookies expire and
are deleted when your browser is closed.
Cookies by themselves cannot be used to personally identify users.
If necessary users can alter the manner in which their browser handles
cookies.
Links to other web sites
6. We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the privacy
practices of any third party sites to which hyperlinks may have been
provided and we strongly recommend that you review the privacy policy of
any site you visit before using it further.
Security
7. While reasonable measures are taken to ensure the security and
integrity of information submitted to this site, this web site can not
under any circumstances be held liable for any loss or other damage
sustained by a user or users as a result of the intentional or
accidental release of information by an employee of N-H-I or any third
party.
Queries
8. If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy please contact us
by mailing
dhitchcock@n-h-i.org
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