The Currency team (registered as Upstream Media (Pty) Ltd, company registration number: 2023/140168/07) take the protection of your privacy and personal data seriously. Our website address is: https://currencynews.co.za. Below is our policy about the ways that we collect, store, use and protect your personal data.
This policy complies with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia).
Audience
This policy applies to you if you are:
- a visitor to our website; or
- a customer who has registered for or uses the services that we provide.
Personal data
Personal data includes:
- certain information that we collect automatically when you visit our website;
- certain information collected on subscription
- certain information collected on submission; and
- optional information that you provide to us voluntarily;
but excludes:
- information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person;
- permanently de-identified information that does not relate or cannot be traced back to you specifically;
- non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us; and
- information that you have provided voluntarily in any open, public environment or forum, including comments sections, blogs, chat rooms, communities, classifieds or discussion boards (because the information has been disclosed in a public forum, it is no longer confidential and does not constitute personal data subject to protection under this policy).
Examples of data we may collect
Some examples of the types of personal data we may collect and process include your:
- identifying information – such as your name, date of birth, or identification number of any kind;
- contact information – such as your phone number or email address;
- address information – such as your physical address; or
- demographic information – such as your gender or marital status.
Sensitive personal data
Depending on the services that you require, we may also collect sensitive personal data, including your:
- financial information – such as your bank account details;
- sensitive demographic information – such as your race or ethnicity; and
- employment information – including your job title and the industry you work in.
Acceptance of Currency’s policy
Acceptance required
You must accept all the terms of this policy when you subscribe to, or use our website or any of our services. If you do not agree with anything in this policy, then you may not use the website or any of our services. Failure to accept this policy prohibits you from signing up for a subscription or using the website or any of our services.
Legal capacity
You may not subscribe or sign up for any services we provide if you are younger than 18 years old or do not have the legal capacity to conclude legally binding contracts.
Deemed acceptance
By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of its terms.
Your obligations
You may only send us your own personal data or the information of another data subject where you have their permission to do so. Our website may give you the option to post information in a way that is publicly accessible and may be collected by others (such as via comments on articles). You are responsible for any personal data that you post in this way.
You may only send us your own personal data or the information of another data subject where you have their permission to do so. Our website may give you the option to post information in a way that is publicly accessible and may be collected by others (such as via comments on articles). You are responsible for any personal data that you post in this way.
We have the right to moderate the comments as we see fit, and we reserve the right to remove any comments that violate our guidelines or applicable laws.
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us by email at info@currencynews.co.za or submit an enquiry using the contact form below.
Changes
We may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating this page. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website, or, if you are a subscriber to our news mailers or website, by sending you an email detailing the changes that we have made and indicating the date that they were last updated. If you do not agree with the changes, then you must stop using the website and our services. If you continue to use the website or our services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted those updated terms.
Collection of data
On registration
By signing up for a Currency subscription or any of our newsletters on our website, you will no longer remain anonymous. Certain personal data will be provided to us.
This personal data will include:
- your name and surname;
- your email address; and
- your username and password.
We will use this personal data to fulfil your account, and provide additional services and information to you as we reasonably think appropriate, and for any other purposes set out in this policy.
On order
When you subscribe to our website offering, you may be asked to provide us with additional information on a voluntary basis (service-related information). This information may include:
- your ID number;
- your postal address or street address; and
- your telephone number.
From browser
We automatically receive and record internet usage information on our server logs from your browser, such as your internet protocol address (IP address), browsing habits, click patterns, version of software installed, system type, plug-ins, cookie preferences, search engine keywords, the content and pages that you access on the website, and the dates and times that you visit the website, paths taken, and time spent on sites and pages within the website.
Other websites you visited before entering our website might place personal data within your URL during a visit to it, and we have no control over such websites. Accordingly, a subsequent website that collects URL information may log some personal data.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. We may place cookies (small text files) on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal data, but they do contain personal identifiers allowing us to associate your personal data with a certain device.
Many websites use cookies – we use different types of cookies on our website. Some of these cookies are placed by us, while others are placed by our third-party partners, suppliers or advertisers. These cookies may be deleted from your device at different times, such as at the end of your browsing session (when you leave the website) or after a set amount of time, or they may persist on your device until you delete them manually.
Deleting or no longer accepting cookies may prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary, or cause the website to forget your preferences.
Some of our third-party partners use their own cookies or widgets on our website. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.
Web beacons
Our website may contain electronic image requests (a single-pixel GIF or web beacon request) that allow us to count page views and access cookies. Any electronic image viewed as part of a web page, including an ad banner, can act as a web beacon. Our web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor or share any of your personal data. We merely use them to compile anonymous information about our website.
Other optional info
You may also provide additional information to us on a voluntary basis. This includes content or products downloaded from our website or when you enter competitions, take advantage of promotions, respond to surveys, order certain additional goods or services, or otherwise use the optional features and functionality of our website.
Recording calls
We may monitor and record any telephone calls that you make to us.
Purpose for collection of data
We may use or process any services information, or optional information that you provide to us for the purposes that you indicated when you agreed to provide it to us. Processing includes gathering your personal data, disclosing it, and combining it with other personal data. We generally collect and process your personal data for various purposes, including:
- services purposes – such as providing our services;
- marketing purposes – such as pursuing lawful related marketing activities, including business intelligence (including website activity and market research);
- business purposes – such as internal audit, accounting, business planning, joint ventures, disposals of business, or other proposed and actual transactions; and
- legal purposes – such as handling claims, complying with regulations, or pursuing good governance.
We may use your usage information for the purposes described above and to:
- remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the website;
- monitor website usage metrics such as the total number of visitors and pages accessed; and
- track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or competitions
Consent to collection of data
We will obtain your consent to collect personal data:
- in accordance with applicable law;
- when you provide us with any registration information or optional information.
Use of data
Our obligations
We may use your personal data to fulfil our obligations to you. This could include delivering Currency print publications to you, allowing you to access exclusive content on our website, billing you for our services, or improving our offerings.
Messages and updates
We may send administrative messages and email updates to you about the website. We may wish to provide you with information about new goods or services in which we think you may be interested. This means that in some cases, we may also send you primarily promotional messages. We will not send you promotional messages unless you have chosen to opt in to receive them. You can choose to opt out of receiving promotional messages.
Targeted content
While you are logged into the website, we may display targeted adverts and other relevant information based on your personal data. In a completely automated process, computers process personal data and match it to adverts or related information. We never share personal data with any advertiser, unless you specifically provide us with your consent to do so.
Advertisers receive a record of the total number of impressions and clicks for each advert. They do not receive any personal data. If you click on an advert, we may send a referring URL to the advertiser’s website identifying that a customer is visiting from the website. We do not send personal data to advertisers with the referring URL. Once you are on the advertiser’s website, however, the advertiser is able to collect your personal data.
Disclosure of data
Sharing
We may share your personal data with:
- parts of our company that provide 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 our products, services, and communications (they will only use this information to send you marketing communications if you have agreed to this);
- an affiliate, in which case we will seek to require the affiliates to honour this privacy policy;
- our goods suppliers or service providers under contract who help supply certain goods or help with parts of our business operations, including fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, and technology services (our contracts dictate that these goods suppliers or service providers only use your information in connection with the goods they supply to us or services they perform for us and not for their own benefit);
- credit bureaus to report account information, as permitted by law;
- banking partners as required by credit card association rules for inclusion on their list of terminated merchants (in the event that you utilise the services to receive payments and you meet their criteria);
- social media platforms when you use tools or functionality on our website provided by those platforms (such as “recommend” or “share” buttons); and
- other third parties who provide us with relevant services where appropriate.
Regulators
We may disclose your personal data as required by law or governmental audit.
Law enforcement
We may disclose personal data if required:
- by a subpoena or court order;
- to comply with any law;
- to protect the safety of any individual or the general public; and
- to prevent violation of our customer relationship terms.
No selling
We will not sell personal data. No personal data will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this privacy policy.
No linked websites
We do not share personal data with any websites linked to our site unless they are a party with whom we are allowed to share personal data, as indicated in this policy. Please check these websites’ own privacy policies before sharing your personal data with them.
Marketing purposes
We may disclose aggregate statistics (information about the customer population in general terms) about the personal data to advertisers or business partners.
Employees
We may need to disclose personal data to our employees who require the personal data to do their jobs. These include our management, human resources, accounting, audit, compliance and information technology teams. Our employees are expected to handle your personal data with discretion and not disclose this to anyone in an unlawful manner.
Change of ownership
If we undergo a change in ownership, or a merger with, acquisition by, or sale of assets to, another entity, we may assign our rights to the personal data we process to a purchaser or separate entity. We will disclose the transfer on the website. If you are concerned about your personal data migrating to a new owner, you may request us to delete your personal data.
Security
We take the security of personal data very seriously and always do our best to comply with applicable data protection laws. Our hosting company will host our website in a secure server environment that uses advanced security measures to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. We authorise access to personal data only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities. We implement disaster recovery procedures where appropriate.
Accurate and up-to-date
We will try to keep the personal data we collect as accurate and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes defined in this policy. From time to time we may request you to update your personal data on the website. You are able to review or update any personal data that we hold on you by accessing your account online or emailing us.
Please note that in order to better protect you and safeguard your personal data, we take steps to verify your identity when granting you access to your account or making any corrections to your personal data. Throughout your interaction with us, you retain the right to rectify personal data that is incorrect or inaccurate. This does not apply if we process your personal data in our capacity as an operator or processor on behalf of a responsible party or data controller.
Retention of data
We will only retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes explicitly set out in this policy, unless:
- retention of the record is required or authorised by law; or
- you have consented to the retention of the record.
Without limiting the above, we may store the following types of personal data for the following durations:
- account and subscription data – 5 years after the most recent transaction;
- business intelligence – 36 months;
- comments on articles – the lifetime of the article;
- site features and preferences – the lifetime of your account;
- customer service communications – 7 years.
During the period of retention, we will continue to abide by our non-disclosure obligations and will not share or sell your personal data.
We may retain your personal data in physical or electronic records at our discretion.
Transfer to another country
We may transmit or transfer personal data outside the country in which it was collected to a foreign country and process it in that country. Personal data may be stored on servers located outside the country in which it was collected in a foreign country whose laws protecting personal data may not be as stringent as the laws in the country in which it was collected. You consent to us processing your personal data in a foreign country whose laws regarding the processing of personal data may be less stringent.
Updating or removing
You may choose to correct or update the personal data you have submitted to us, by clicking the relevant menu on any of the pages on our website or contacting us by email.
You are entitled to a right to be forgotten. We will delete any personal data that you don’t want us to have. If you do this, we will remove your personal data from our system, but we may still retain certain personal data as required or allowed by law, including:
- where we can show legitimate grounds for processing your personal data that override your request; or
- where we process your personal data in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
You understand that if we delete your data from our system, we may be unable to continue providing some or all of our services to you.
If you are a data subject of one of our customers (who is the data controller), then you must submit your request to the relevant data controller who will then delete your personal data.
Restriction of processing
You may request that we restrict the use of your personal data. When we restrict your personal data we still have the right to store it but not use it. You can ask that we do this verbally or in writing (which writing may be in an electronic form) via the forums described in this policy. We will respond to the request within 30 days.
Data portability
If you should wish to transfer your data from us to another data controller, we will facilitate this transfer. We will pass on all of our personal data to the data controller.
If you are a data subject of one of our customers (who is the data controller), then you must submit your request for your personal data to the relevant data controller, who will then export your personal data as a Microsoft Excel or CSV file.
Data breaches
We will notify our customers of any confirmed data breaches that have occurred. It is our customers’ responsibility to notify relevant supervisory authorities and any affected data subjects of the data breach.
Limitation
We are not responsible for, give no warranties, nor make any representations in respect of the privacy policies or practices of any linked or third-party websites.
Enquiries
If you want to update or remove your personal data, restrict how we process it, or opt in or out of receiving newsletters or other promotional content, please contact us:
- Email: info@currencynews.co.za
Subscribed users can also edit their name and surname on the website itself or change their email newsletter preferences.
If you have any questions or concerns arising from this privacy policy or the way in which we handle personal data, please contact us at info@currencynews.co.za
Complaints
If you have any complaints about the way we handle your personal data, please contact our data protection officer as described above, so that we can resolve it. You may choose, however, to approach a supervisory authority – namely, the South African Information Regulator.