The privacy of our clients is important to
us.
We believe it is important to protect the privacy of
our customers. We know that you care about how your
personal information is collected, updated, used and
shared; and we want to help you make knowledgeable
choices about the information you provide to us.
The Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of
2013 promotes the protection of personal information
by public and private bodies, and this act applies
to , and binds all people and companies who interact
with our company.
This Privacy Policy explains and summarizes how
www.itworx.co.za:
• collects
• uses
• and protects your personal information as you
interact with us online and through our customer and
technical support services.
This Privacy Policy applies to www.itworx.co.za ,
the web site located at www.itworx.co.za operated
web sites. Our affiliates include entities owned or
controlled by us. In some cases, this Privacy Policy
may be tailored to account for variances in law in a
particular country. However, this policy is intended
to be global in nature. If you are visiting from
outside South Africa there may be special rules or
limitations on your use of this web site or other
our operated web sites. By using our web site, you
consent to the collection and use of your personal
information by www.itworx.co.za consistent with
applicable data protection law and this policy.
This policy explains:
• What information www.itworx.co.za gathers from
you.• How www.itworx.co.za uses the personal
information you share with us and that we learn
about you because of our relationship.• How
www.itworx.co.za uses “cookies” and “IP Addresses”.•
What personal information, if any, www.itworx.co.za
may share about you and the conditions we use to
protect your information if it must be shared.• What
kind of security measures www.itworx.co.za takes to
protect your information from accidental loss or
disclosure and how www.itworx.co.za will inform you
in the event of a security breach.• The
circumstances under which you can access personal
information you share with www.itworx.co.za and have
that information corrected, restrict
www.itworx.co.za’s use of that information or, even
have it removed from our records.• Other things you
should know about privacy and
www.itworx.co.za.COLLECTED INFORMATION AND USAGE
www.itworx.co.za collects and uses information you
provide to us including information obtained from
your use of this web site. We are not in the
business of selling information about you.
www.itworx.co.za does not share your personal
information with third parties for their direct
marketing purposes. We may use or share your
personal information (e.g., name, address, telephone
number and e-mail address) where it is necessary for
us to complete a transaction or do something that
you have asked us to do.• For example, we might need
to provide your name, address, phone number or email
to one of our vendors so that they can process and
fulfill your product return or replacement.
• We might also refer your personal information to
another manufacturer so that they can provide you
with technical assistance you request for their
product which you may be using in conjunction with
one of our products.
• www.itworx.co.za employees, agents and service
providers who need to access personal information
you have provided to fulfil their responsibilities
may do so consistent with www.itworx.co.za policies
that limit access to this type of
information.www.itworx.co.za’s vendors and suppliers
may process your personal data under the direction
and control of www.itworx.co.za. Whenever we may
need to share your personal information, we try to
provide you with the information you need to make
informed reasonable choices and we manage your
information consistent with applicable privacy
law.www.itworx.co.za collects and uses personal
information from you in several ways:
• Web Site Usage. www.itworx.co.za vendors and
suppliers, may observe your activities, preferences,
and transactional data (such as your IP address and
browser type) as well as pages you have viewed
during your use of this web site. While we may
collect or log this information, we do not identify
you or match this non-personal information with your
other personal information. We may use this
collected or logged information to diagnose web site
technical problems, or to facilitate your use of the
site. www.itworx.co.za, or one of our vendors or
suppliers, also may use this information to track
aggregate traffic patterns throughout this web site.
• E-Commerce. You may be asked to share personal
information such as your name, address and telephone
number in order to complete a transaction. When you
purchase a www.itworx.co.za product online you may
be asked for information needed to complete your
order, contact you to confirm the order and, provide
related customer service. This information is used,
for example, to effect your transactions, to create
and share aggregate reports about these
transactions, and to perform credit fraud screening
services for transactions between you and
www.itworx.co.za and/or our authorized service
providers. When you buy direct from www.itworx.co.za
these purchase transactions may be conducted through
www.itworx.co.za vendors and suppliers and any other
vendor or supplier engaged by www.itworx.co.za has
their use of your personal information limited by
this privacy policy, contractual restrictions and
applicable law. In such cases, these distributors
may be the merchant of record and the handling of
any personal information you may provide to them
shall also be subject to their privacy policy.
• Product Registration & Technical Support.
www.itworx.co.za allows all purchasers of its
products to register their products online. Personal
information or data provided via online product
registration forms is used to carry out the request,
service or agreement for which the information is
submitted. With your consent, we may also use the
information you provide in online registration forms
to notify you periodically about important changes
to the web site (such as a change to this privacy
policy or notice of a security breach), new
www.itworx.co.za products and services, and special
offers and contests that may be of interest to you.
When you register, we ask for, among other things,
your name, address, email, telephone number, type of
product purchased and serial number or other
product-identifying information, and date of
purchase.
You are also invited to share other personal
information about yourself through what is known as
a “record.” When you register your purchase with us
and create a record, you are given control over and
access to the personal information you provide in
your record. We contract with a vendor to manage
personal information you provide relating to product
registration. Your record enables you to control
what we know about you and lets you decide how and
when we can communicate with you. Our vendor only
processes your personal information as directed by
www.itworx.co.za.
• Optional Personal Information and Product
Registration. Some information or data you may place
in your record is not required to register your
products. Where completion of data fields in your
record is required, these fields will be marked with
an asterisk. Where you provide optional information,
such as information about your interests and
hobbies, www.itworx.co.za only uses this information
on an aggregate basis to enable us to better
understand our customers, develop new products, and
improve our products and services.
We limit the access to and use of your personal
information by our vendors and suppliers through the
use of administrative, managerial and technical
safeguards that are intended to enforce this privacy
policy and assure compliance with applicable data
protection law.
Failure to register your product may diminish the
rights you have under the product warranty.
• Cookies. To the extent web site usage information
is developed in connection with your IP address
through session cookies, we will only use this
information to facilitate your use of the
www.itworx.co.za web site. Cookies are data files
that are written onto your computer by a web site.
At the end of your visit, the session cookies are
removed.
www.itworx.co.za does not use cookies other than the
session cookies identified. However, our service
providers or vendors may use cookies in order to
personalize your experiences and adapt the web
site’s functionality to your preferences. If you are
visiting a URL other than www.itworx.co.za.com, or a
www.itworx.co.za web site, including those hosted by
our vendors or other non- www.itworx.co.za URL, you
should carefully review the cookie policy of these
web sites.
• You may set your browser to notify you when you
receive a cookie or to refuse receiving it, or,
other www.itworx.co.za vendor or service provider.
You should be aware that this may interfere with or
make you unable to use certain functionality on web
sites using cookies. For example, many web sites
will ask your permission to use a cookie that will
enable you to automatically log on to the web site.
Disabling or removing cookies may require you to
manually log on each time you wish to visit that web
site. You may also delete cookies from your computer
through your browser.
• Children. If under the relevant laws of the place
where you are visiting this web site you are
considered a minor (usually if you are under age
18), or otherwise would be required to have parent
or guardian consent to share information with
www.itworx.co.za, you should not send any
information about yourself to us. For example, if
you are a resident of South Africa you should not
submit information to www.itworx.co.za unless you
are at least 18 years old. If a person under 18
submits information through any part of the
www.itworx.co.za web site, and we learn the person
submitting the information is a child, we will
attempt to delete this information as soon as
possible. Because we do not knowingly collect any
personal information from persons under 18, we do
not use or disclose such information to third
parties.
• Public Areas. Any information disclosed in public
areas of the www.itworx.co.za web site will become
public information. We cannot control the use of
information disclosed in public forums, such as
bulletin boards, blogs and chat rooms. You should
exercise caution when disclosing information in
these public areas and should refrain from
disclosing your personal information. Content posted
in public areas of the www.itworx.co.za web site,
including advice and opinions, represents the views
and is the responsibility of those who post the
content. www.itworx.co.za does not necessarily
endorse, support, verify or agree with the content
posted. If you have any questions or comments about
any content on the www.itworx.co.za web site email:
webmaster@itworx.co.za.
WHEN WE MAY SHARE COLLECTED INFORMATION
As mentioned in the beginning of this policy,
www.itworx.co.za may share your personal information
within the www.itworx.co.za group to fulfill its
obligations to you and operate its business
consistent with this policy and applicable data
protection law. www.itworx.co.za may also share your
personal information with third parties in the
following situations.
• Vendors and Suppliers. www.itworx.co.za works with
vendors and suppliers to provide technical and
customer support, shipping, product fulfillment or
other services. We require these vendors and
suppliers to safeguard personal information you
provide to us. To the extent it is necessary for
these service providers to complete their
contractual obligations to us; these third parties
may have access to or process your personal
information. We limit their use of your personal
information to the purpose for which it was shared.
We may sometimes permit our authorized service
providers to have access to aggregate statistics
about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and
related site information. These transfers of
aggregate statistics do not involve personal data.
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Insolvency. If we should
ever file for bankruptcy or merge with another
company, or if our business should decide to buy,
sell or reorganize some part or all of its business,
the business may be required to disclose your
personal information, including information you have
allowed us to see or use in your record, to
prospective or actual purchasers or receive personal
information from sellers. It is our practice to seek
appropriate protection for information disclosed or
received in these types of transactions consistent
with applicable data protection law.
• As Required by Law and Other Extraordinary
Disclosures cc may be required to disclose your
personal information: (i) if it believes it is
reasonably necessary to comply with legal process
(such as a court order, subpoena, search warrant,
etc.) or other legal requirements of any
governmental authority, (ii) would potentially
mitigate our liability in an actual or potential
lawsuit, (iii) is otherwise necessary to protect our
rights or property, or (iv) is necessary to protect
the legal rights or property of others.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO INTERNATIONAL VISITORS AND
CUSTOMERS
Because we operate within South Africa but some of
our web site links offer products by other vendors
globally, where our visitors make use of links to
external website we accept no responsibility
regarding your privacy as this is beyond our
control.
If you are visiting from the European Union or other
regions with laws governing data collection and use
that may differ from South African law, including
those whose privacy laws may be more strict than
South African law, please note that you are
transferring your personal data to South Africa. By
providing your personal data you consent to that
transfer.
Parts of this privacy policy may not apply to
visitors from outside the South Africa because
certain services are not offered to those outside
South Africa. For example, we may rely upon
distributors to make products available online. In
such cases, these distributors may be the merchant
of record and the handling of any personal
information you may provide to them shall be subject
to their privacy policy. Customer and technical
support is available through this web site and via
telephone worldwide. These services are provided in
South Africa.
STORAGE AND PERIOD OF HOLDING FOR PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Unless otherwise requested by you, www.itworx.co.za
will continue to keep the personal information you
provided to us. If the reason for collecting your
personal information no longer exists, we will
delete the personal information at the appropriate
required time if legally required by relevant
applicable data protection law.
SECURITY
No data transmissions over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information you transmit to us and you do so at your
own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make
reasonable efforts to ensure security on our
systems.
If www.itworx.co.za learns of a security systems
breach we may attempt to notify you electronically
so that you can take appropriate protective steps.
By using this web site or providing personal
information to us you agree that we can communicate
with you electronically regarding security, privacy
and administrative issues relating to your use of
this site. www.itworx.co.za may post a notice on our
web site if a security breach occurs. If this
happens, you will need a web browser enabling you to
view the www.itworx.co.za.com web site.
www.itworx.co.za may also send an email to you at
the email address you have provided to us in these
circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may
have a legal right to receive notice of a security
breach in writing. To receive free written notice of
a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from
receiving electronic notice) you should notify us at
privacy@itworx.co.za.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES AND CO-BRANDED WEB SITES
This web site may contain links to third-party
sites, however, please be aware that
www.itworx.co.za is not responsible for and cannot
control the privacy practices of these other sites.
We encourage you to read the privacy policies for
these other sites, as they may differ from ours.
This web site also contains links to co-branded web
sites that may display www.itworx.co.za’s logo and
trademarks but which are maintained by third
parties. Such web sites may be identified by the
fact that they do not display a ” www.itworx.co.za.”
URL. Please read the privacy policy on the
co-branded site for the applicable privacy practices
relating to personal information collected via that
site, as it may differ from this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to personal
information collected by us.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY BY WWW.ITWORX.CO.ZA
If in the future we change the Privacy Policy, we
will post the new policy on this web site. If this
policy is somehow materially less restrictive or
protective of your privacy than the current policy,
we will not apply the less protective aspects of the
revised policy to information you have previously
provided to us without first obtaining your consent.
If we have a way of contacting you electronically,
we will do so in the way you have instructed us to
obtain your consent. We reserve the right to change
this policy in the future. Your continued use of
this web site following a change in the privacy
policy represents consent to the new policy to the
fullest extent permitted by law. We encourage you to
periodically review this Privacy Policy.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
When you provide www.itworx.co.za with personal
information, if you allow us, we may communicate
with you by the method you choose about topics of
your choosing. www.itworx.co.za seeks your consent
to receive marketing communications from us when you
provide your personal information.
ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, MAKING CHANGES
OR REQUESTING DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may at all times object or restrict
www.itworx.co.za’s use of your personal data for
direct marketing purposes. You may also request
access to, correction of or deletion of personal
data. For instructions on changing any of your
privacy preferences, accessing your information or
for any privacy or data protection related question
or concern click here for assistance.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy and the
choices that you indicate when registering on this
web site will not necessarily apply to personal
information you may have provided to
www.itworx.co.za or its vendors or business partners
as part of other, separately-operated web sites or
services.
Generally, when we contact you, we will try to
provide you with an easy and convenient way to
notify us if you would not like further similar
communications.