Privacy Policy
Before accessing, browsing or using this website please be sure to review this privacy policy carefully. On this page, you’ll find all the information about what data we collect about our visitors and customers and how that data is used.
We regularly review and, where necessary, update our privacy information. If we plan to use personal data for a new purpose, we update our privacy information and communicate the changes to individuals before starting any new processing.
Personal Information will be understood in accordance with the definition provided in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“the Act”). In agreeing to this privacy policy you are giving consent as contemplated in section 69 of the Act.
If there is anything in this policy that you do not agree with, please do not continue to access, browse or use this website.
What Data We Collect
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site, your IP address.
THE ROAM ZONE supports and respects a person’s right to privacy and to the careful management of any personal information that THE ROAM ZONE is required to collect in order to provide products and services.
We will do all that is reasonable to ensure your personal information is kept secure and up to date. However we are unable to guarantee that your personal information will be 100% secure.
Wherever possible we will only request personal information that is required for us to complete the related task. Your information will not be stored for longer than is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as required by applicable legislation.
How we use your data
By agreeing to the terms contained in this Privacy Policy, you consent to the use of your Personal Information in relation to:
- performing and providing the services of THE ROAM ZONE
- informing you of changes made to our Web site
- sending you a quote, electronic tools and downloads requested by you
- providing you with support and requested information
- improving our service to you by analysing it for trends
- sending you marketing material (including electronic communications) relating to other solutions you might be interested in. You can unsubscribe from our communications at any time and thereafter we will not market to you.
- For security, administrative and legal purposes
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Cookie Use for Retargeting
We may use Google Analytics and the Google advertising network as well as other advertising networks to display ads across the Internet, based on your visit to our website.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on sites across the Internet. Our site and third-party vendors, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on past visits and pages visited on this website.
Our site as well as third-party vendors may use third-party audience data to further optimize advertisements displayed. You can opt-out of this kind of advertising anytime, here and here.
IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as “traffic data” so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.
Data we Collect in More Detail
The following third parties have limited access to some of your data:-
- Google Analytics (privacy policy)
- We use Google analytics to gain an overview of how our site is being used, how to improve user experience, what content to create and similar decisions all focused on improving the experience for our visitors.
- We may integrate Google Analytics with Google Adwords so that we can measure the performance of our paid advertisements.
- Facebook
- We may use Facebook conversion tracking to understand how our Facebook ads are performing.
- Social sharing tools
- Some of the content on the site includes social sharing widgets to quickly allow you to share content with your network. Some of these services gather data about you, if you are logged in to these social networks while visiting our website. Please see the privacy policies of the social networks for further information.
Purchasing a Product from Us
When purchasing a product from us, we may collect the following data:-
- First name
- Last name
- IP address
- Email address
- Billing address
- Shipping Address
- Country of residence
- Post code
Any payments made on our Website are processed by our partner payment gateways. Your credit card details are encrypted and stored with the payment gateway and so these details are not visible or available to THE ROAM ZONE or the staff of THE ROAM ZONE
. If you have a query please contact the payment gateway directly.
Please note that this data is captured when you submit an order on our checkout page regardless of whether you complete the purchase of the product through our payment processor.
This data is required for the following reasons:-
- Compliance – we have a duty to understand what country you are resident of so that we can charge the correct VAT amount. We must also keep a record of this data for tax audit purposes.
- Integration with our payment processor – we collect address personal data such as your name, email and address to integrate with our payment processor (the service we use to collect payments)
- Product delivery – In order to give you access to the products that you purchase and to our support team, we need to create an account using your name and email address.
Product or Services Review
When you provide a rating or review of a Product or service, you consent to us using that rating or review as we deem fit, including without limitation on our Web site, in newsletters or other marketing material. Your first name that will appear next to that rating or review. If you do not agree to this, please do not put any ratings or reviews on the Website. We will not display your Last Name, nor any of your contact details, with a rating or review.
Who has access to your data
Your personal information will be kept as secure as reasonably possible and not sold, rented or shared with any 3rd party other than in the execution of providing you with goods and services in line with this privacy policy.
Your personal information will be available only to those THE ROAM ZONE employees, consultants or representatives that are required to provide the goods or services that you have requested. These individuals are trained in the requirements of the POPI act.
Your Right to View Your Data
You have the right to see the data that we store about you. To request a file containing all your data, let us know by contacting via our contact page. We will reply to your request within 24 hours and will provide you with a file to your email address as soon as we’ve gathered the data. The data will be provided to you in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format for portability.
Your Right to Have your Data Deleted
You have the right to request that we delete data that we store about you.
We can delete all of your data from all systems that we own and operate. This includes all of the above. Please note that if you’ve purchased a product or membership from us we are obliged to keep a record of the purchase. This will mean keeping a record of your billing address, contact details and purchase details. We do this to fulfil our obligations to the tax authorities and remain compliant.
Privacy Policy: Summary
- We don’t sell your data to any company for further processing, marketing, profiling or any other reason
- We integrate with certain third party services for the purpose of improving the overall user experience and to optimize certain business processes.
- Any data we hold about you, we do so for necessary and legitimate business reasons
- You can request to view, modify and delete any data that we hold about you.
Policy Changes
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
If you have any concerns or questions about anything in this policy, please email info@theroamzone.co.za