Effective date: 1 March 2025
Art of Africa CC trading as Africa’s Legends
Your Privacy is important to us. We are committed to protecting your privacy and to ensuring that your personal information is collected and used properly, lawfully and transparently. This document explains how we obtain, use and disclose your personal information, in accordance with the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
We are committed to protecting your Personal Information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure but, whilst we make every effort to secure our website, you should note that the internet is not completely secure; thus when you submit or post Personal Information online, you should be aware that we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of any personal information that you submit or post online. We will inform you if we become aware of your privacy ever being compromised.
By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you provide us with your express consent and agreement that we may collect, get, receive, record, organise, collate, store, update, change, retrieve, read, process, consult, use and share your Personal Information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.
The information we collect
We collect and process your personal information mainly to contact you for the purposes of understanding your requirements and delivering services accordingly. For this purpose we will collect contact details including your name, address, email address, phone numbers and organisation.
We collect information directly from you where you provide us with your personal details. Where possible, we will inform you what information you are required to provide to us and what information is optional.
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Cookies
Website usage information may be collected using “cookies” which allows us to collect standard internet visitor usage information and for security and analysis purposes.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Africa’s Legends uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of www.africaslegends.co.za and their website access preferences. Should visitors not wish to have cookies placed on their computers they should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Africa’s Legends websites, however certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
You are able to instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
By continuing to navigate our website, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Africa’s Legends use of cookies.
How we use your information
We will use your personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and agreed with you. In addition, where necessary your information may be retained for legal or research purposes.
For example:
- To gather contact information;
- To confirm and verify your identity or to verify that you are an authorised user for security purposes;
- For the detection and prevention of fraud, crime, money laundering or other malpractice;
- To conduct market or customer satisfaction research or for statistical analysis;
- For audit and record keeping purposes;
- In connection with legal proceedings.
Disclosure of information
We may disclose your personal information to our service providers who are involved in the delivery of products or services to you. The information disclosed is limited to what is necessary for the service provider to carry out their function on your behalf.
We may also disclose your information:
- Where we have a duty or a right to disclose in terms of law or industry codes;
- Where we believe it is necessary to protect our rights;
- To protect against legal liability.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service.
- Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Information security
We are legally obliged to provide adequate protection for the personal information we hold and to stop unauthorized access and use of personal information. We will, on an on-going basis, continue to review our security controls and related processes to ensure that your personal information remains secure.
Our security policies and procedures include:
- Secure communications;
- Physical security;
- Computer and network security;
- Access to personal information;
- Retention and disposal of information;
- Acceptable usage of personal information;
- Governance and regulatory issues;
Access to information
You have the right to request in writing a copy of the personal information we hold about you. To do this contact
Correction of your information
You have the right to ask us in writing to update, correct or delete your personal information. We will confirm your identity before making changes, in terms of law, to personal information we may hold about you. We would appreciate it if you would keep your personal information accurate.
Children's Privacy
The use of our website does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Definition of personal information
According to the POPIA ‘‘personal information’’ means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via a prominent notice on our this website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
How to contact us
If you have any queries about this notice; you need further information about our privacy practices; wish to withdraw consent; exercise preferences or access or correct your personal information, please contact us at the phone number or email address listed on our website.