PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION POLICY
Lozo Innovations (Pty) Ltd.
(registration number 2016/139611/07) (“LOZO INNOVATIONS”) adheres to the
highest standards of protecting your personal information when you use www.lozoinnovations.co.za
or any of its related blogs, websites, applications or platforms (collectively,
“the Website”) or any Lozo Innovations services (“Services”). As such, we have
created this specific and detailed Privacy Policy for you to read and
appreciate exactly how we safeguard your personal information and respect your
privacy (“Policy”).
• For more information regarding
your personal information lawfully stored or used by the Website or Lozo
Innovations, please contact info@lozoinnovations.co.za.
• This Policy complies with, and
facilitates the obligations required from, the South African Protection of
Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013 (“POPI”), as amended.
1. Introduction and Our Role:
1.1. In some circumstances, Lozo
Innovations is the “responsible party” (as defined in POPI) and is responsible
for your personal information (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”
in this Policy) in instances where we decide the processing operations
concerning your personal information.
1.2. Sometimes we also operate as
an “operator” (as defined in POPI) of personal information on behalf of a third-party
responsible party, where that responsible party’s privacy terms will apply. The
terms "user", “you", “data subject” and “your” are used
interchangeably in this Policy and refer to all persons accessing the Website
or engaging with Lozo Innovations for any reason whatsoever.
1.3. We have appointed a data
representative at Lozo Innovations who is responsible for overseeing questions
in relation to this Policy. If you have any questions about this Policy,
including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the
representative using the details set out below.
1.4. Our full details are:
1.4.1. Full name of legal entity:
Lozo Innovations (Pty) Ltd.
1.4.2. Name or title of data
representative: Ronnie Mac Donald
1.4.3. Email address: info@lozoinnovations.co.za
1.4.4. Postal address: PO Box 28852,
Edenglen, Edenvale
1.4.5. Telephone number: 011 452-8377
1.5. You have the right to make a
complaint at any time to the South African data regulator’s office (Information
Regulator’s Office of South Africa). We would, however, appreciate the chance
to deal with your concerns before you approach any such regulator, so please
contact us in the first instance.
2. Personal information we
collect from you:
2.1. Should you decide to
register with or function as a user on the Website, engage with us and/or use
any Lozo Innovations Services, you thereby expressly consent to, and opt-in to Lozo
Innovations collecting, collating, processing, and using the following types of
information about you when you use the Website (“personal information”):
2.1.1. Information provided by
the user or from a user’s other authorised responsible party:
Lozo Innovations processes
personal information (that is information about the user that is personally identifiable
like the user’s name, address, date of birth, age, gender, email address,
company name, company registration number, contact details, phone number(s) and
other unique information such as service preferences and contact preferences
that are not otherwise publicly available) which Lozo Innovations either
processes as its own responsible party, or which is received from another
responsible party to whom you have provided your personal information with your
permission to be shared with Lozo Innovations as the operator; and
2.1.2. Information that is
collected automatically:
Lozo Innovations receives and
stores information which is transmitted automatically from the user’s computer
when the user browses the internet and accesses the Website. This information includes
information from cookies (which are described in clause 14 below), the user’s
Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, embedded web links, and other
commonly used information-gathering tools. These tools collect certain standard
information that your browser sends to the Website such as your browser type
and language, access times, and the address from which you arrived at the
Website.
2.2. Should your personal
information change, please update it by providing us with updates to your
personal information as soon as reasonably possible to enable us to update it. Lozo
Innovations will, however, not be able to update any personal information of
yours attained from another responsible party, where should you want to update
same, you must approach the relevant responsible party to do so. Lozo
Innovations is under no obligation to ensure that your personal information or
other information supplied by you is correct.
2.3. We do not process the
personal information of children when a data subject user is below the age of
18 (eighteen). Do not provide us with any such information, where same is
considered a material breach of these Terms.
2.4. You warrant that the
personal information disclosed to Lozo Innovations is directly from you as the
user on the Website or in connection to the Services, and all such personal
information is lawfully yours to provide. You also warrant that any personal
information provided to us from a third-party responsible party, was attained from
you lawfully and provided to us with your express consent to the relevant responsible
party to do so.
2.5. You may choose to provide
additional personal information to us, in which event you agree to provide accurate
and current information, and, generally, not to impersonate or misrepresent any
person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation
with anyone or anything.
3. When do we collect your
personal information:
We will process your personal
information in the following circumstances:
3.1. you submit an enquiry and/or
contact us or request that we contact you;
3.2. you visit or browse our
Website;
3.3. when you contract with us to
be a provider of services to Lozo Innovations;
3.4. you complete any Lozo
Innovations document including its client form, Terms of Engagement or surveys;
and/or
3.5. you make use of our various
legal and other Services.
4. How we use your personal
information:
4.1. Any processing of your
personal information will be reservedly for our legitimate business purposes
and as a necessary function of your engagement with the Website and/or our
Services, and you have expressly consented to this by using our Website and/or
Services, but we will not, without your express consent:
4.1.1. use your personal
information for any purpose other than as set out below:
4.1.1.1. in relation to the
provision to you of the Services and/or access to the Website;
4.1.1.2. to fulfil orders for
products and Services;
4.1.1.3. to contact you as
requested by you;
4.1.1.4. to enable you to provide
us with your contracted services;
4.1.1.5. for internal record
keeping of responsible party third parties and the development of metrics of
third-party searches;
4.1.1.6. to contact you regarding
current or new Services or any other product offered by us (unless you have
opted out from receiving marketing material from us, possible through that same
correspondence to you); and/or
4.1.1.7. to improve our Website
by, for example, monitoring your browsing habits, or tracking your activities
on the Website; or
4.1.2. disclose your personal
information to any third party other than as set out below:
4.1.2.1. to our employees and/or
third-party service providers who assist us to interact with you via our
Website, email or any other method, for your use of the Services, and thus need
to know your personal information in order to assist us to communicate with you
properly and efficiently;
4.1.2.2. to external responsible
parties who already have your express consent to process and/or attain such
personal information from and/or with us;
4.1.2.3. to our professional
services providers (such as our insurers or lawyers where we believe that it is
required under our contractual relationship with our insurance provider to do
so);
4.1.2.4. to law enforcement,
government officials, fraud detection agencies or other third parties when we
believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary
to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report or support the investigation
into suspected illegal activity or the contravention of an applicable law, or
to investigate violations of this Policy and/or the Website’s other policies;
and
4.1.2.5. to our service providers
(under contract with us) who help with parts of our business operations (fraud
prevention, marketing, technology services etc). However, our contracts dictate
that these service providers may only use your information in connection with
the services they perform for us, not for their own benefit and under the same
standards as how we operate.
4.2. We are entitled to use or
disclose your personal information if such use or disclosure is required in
order to comply with any applicable law, subpoena, order of court or legal
process served on us, or to protect and defend our rights or property. In the
event of a fraudulent online payment, Lozo Innovations is entitled to disclose relevant
personal information for criminal investigation purposes or in line with any
other legal obligation for disclosure of the personal information which may be
required of it.
5. Our legal justifications for
processing your personal information:
5.1. Your use of the Website
and/or any of our Services constitutes your explicit opt-in consent to our
processing of your personal information. Further, we also rely on our
contractual arrangements with you as the lawful basis on which we collect and
process your personal information when you make an order for products and Services.
Alternatively, in some cases, we
rely on our legitimate interests as a business (for example, to measure user
satisfaction and troubleshoot user issues). Where we rely on our legitimate
interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against
your rights.
5.2. Subject to the other
provisions in this Policy, the following constitutes our reasons for processing
your personal information:
5.2.1. To make our legal products
and Services available to you:
5.2.1.1. We use your personal
information to provide you with information, legal products and Services that
you request or purchase from us (i.e. to complete certain tasks, processes or
orders on our Website, take payment online (where applicable) and deliver your
products or Services), and to communicate with you regarding those legal
products and Services that you acquired from us and respond to your questions and
comments.
5.2.1.2. We may also use your
personal information to measure how satisfied our users are and provide user
service (including troubleshooting in connection with purchases or your
requests for Services or when you ask us questions on social media).
5.2.2. To allow third parties to
make their independent services available to you:
5.2.2.1. Should you make use of
third-parties’ services accessed via the Website (such as a payment gateway
with a plug-in on our Website), we provide them with your necessary data in
order for them to provide you with their services.
5.2.2.2. You expressly understand
and agree that same third-party companies may have their own privacy policies
governing how they process personal data, which you may be compelled to adhere
to.
5.2.3. When you make use of our
Website and features thereon:
5.2.3.1. We require your
information in order to provide the Website to you and deliver our services and
fulfil our contract with you.
5.2.3.2. We also process your
information when you sign-up for our newsletter.
5.2.4. When you take part in a
feedback survey:
5.2.4.1. When you take part in
our feedback survey, we record certain types of your data and your answers to
questions we ask about your opinion of, and use of, our Website and services.
5.2.4.2. We use this information
to develop and improve our Website and services and our user relationships.
Your job role, organisation and some or all of your comments may be publicly
displayed on our website as a testimonial. We will do this based on our legitimate
interest in explaining our Website and services.
5.2.5. For administrative and
internal business purposes:
5.2.5.1. We may use your personal
information for our internal business purposes, such as administrative
fulfilment of orders, administrative fulfilment of invoices, project management
and internal reporting. We may also use your data to monitor the use of our
Website and ensure that our Website is presented in the most effective and relevant
manner for you and your device and setting default options for you.
5.2.5.2. It is in our legitimate
interests as a business to use your personal information in this way. For
example, we want to ensure our Website is user-friendly and works properly and
that our Services are efficient and of high quality. We also want to make it
easy for you to interact with us.
5.2.6. For security and legal
reasons:
5.2.6.1. We use your personal
information to:
5.2.6.1.1. ensure the personal
and financial information you provide us is accurate;
5.2.6.1.2. conduct fraud checks
or prevent other illegal activity;
5.2.6.1.3. protect our rights or
property (or those of others); and
5.2.6.1.4. fulfil our legal and
compliance-related obligations.
5.2.6.2. In some cases we will
use your personal information because it’s necessary for us to comply with a
legal obligation (such as if we receive a legitimate request from a law
enforcement agency). In other cases (such as the detection of fraud) we will
rely on our legitimate interests as a business to use your personal information
in this way. Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we will always make
sure that we balance these interests against your rights.
5.2.7. In relation to your Lozo
Innovations user relationship:
5.2.7.1. We use your personal
information to personalise your experience with Lozo Innovations to:
5.2.7.1.1. provide you with
non-marketing correspondence via SMS, post and email as you have given us your
consent to this;
5.2.7.1.2. contact you when
requested by you or in relation to a legal service we are providing you;
5.2.7.1.3. process your website-use
data to analyse how you use our Website and Services. This may include
information on Services you have viewed and historical transactions. This
allows us to provide a browsing experience which is relevant to you;
5.2.7.1.4. carry out limited
automated decision making (segmentation) based on the information you have
given us when we segment our Lozo Innovations user database to determine which
offers that you may be interested in.
6. Links to Other Websites:
6.1. Our Website may contain
hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by us. These hyperlinks are
provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any
endorsement of the activities of these thirdparty websites or any association
with their operators.
6.2. We do not control these
websites and are not responsible for their data or privacy practices. We urge
you to review any privacy statement posted on any site you visit before using
the site or providing any personal information about yourself and others.
7. Original and updated purposes
for processing:
7.1. We will only use your
personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we
reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason
is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as
to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original
purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your personal information for an
unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which
allows us to do so.
8. International Transfer of
personal information:
8.1. We may share your personal
information within the Lozo Innovations group of companies and this may involve
transferring and processing your data outside of South Africa.
8.2. Whenever we transfer your
personal information out of the country, we ensure a similar degree of
protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following
safeguards is implemented:
8.2.1. we will only transfer your
personal information to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate
level of protection for personal information;
8.2.2. where we use certain
service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission
which give personal information the same protection it has in Europe under the GDPR;
or
8.2.3. where we use providers
based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy
Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal information
shared between Europe and the US.
9. How we treat your personal
information and Data Security:
9.1. We will ensure that all of
our employees, third party service providers, divisions and partners (including
their employees and third-party service providers) having access to your
personal information are bound by appropriate and legally binding
confidentiality obligations and process your personal information at standards
equal to or higher than Lozo Innovations’s in relation to your personal
information.
9.2. We will:
9.2.1. treat your personal
information as strictly confidential, save where we are entitled to share it as
set out in this Policy;
9.2.2. take appropriate
technical, security and organisational measures to ensure that your personal information
is kept secure and is protected against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental
loss, destruction or damage, alteration, disclosure or access;
9.2.3. provide you with
reasonable access to your personal information to view and/or update personal details;
9.2.4. promptly notify you if we
become aware of any unauthorised use, disclosure or processing of your personal
information;
9.2.5. provide you with
reasonable evidence of our compliance with our obligations under this Policy on
reasonable notice and request; and
9.2.6. upon your request,
promptly correct, transfer, return or destroy any and all of your personal information
in our possession or control, save for that which we are legally obliged or
entitled to retain (acknowledging that some Website and/or Service
functionality might be lost if certain personal information is amended or
destroyed).
9.3. We will not retain your
personal information longer than the period for which it was originally needed,
unless we are required by law to do so, or you consent to us retaining such
information for a longer period. In some circumstances, other applicable
national laws require us to retain your data beyond your request for its deletion,
or beyond your direct engagement with Lozo Innovations. As such, we may retain
your personal information in adherence with compulsory instructions from other
applicable national laws, notwithstanding your application to have it deleted
or amended.
9.4. Whilst we will do all things
reasonably necessary to protect your rights of privacy, we cannot guarantee or accept
any liability whatsoever for unauthorised or unlawful disclosures of your
personal information, whilst in our possession, made by third parties who are
not subject to our control, unless such disclosure is as a result of our gross
negligence or fraud.
9.5. If you disclose your
personal information to a third party, such as an entity which operates a
website linked to the Website or anyone other than Lozo Innovations, Lozo
Innovations shall not be liable for any loss or damage, howsoever arising,
suffered by you as a result of the disclosure of such information to the third party,
including another user. This is because we do not regulate or control how that
third party uses your personal information. You should always ensure that you
read the privacy policy of any third party.
9.6. We are committed to
implementing the necessary measures to keep your data secure, where we have implemented
current industry-setting standards to keep your data secure.
10. User rights and obligations:
10.1. The user is entitled to
request access to any relevant personal information held by Lozo Innovations
and where such access is necessary for you to exercise and/or protect any of
the user’s rights. For any personal information held by any third-party
responsible party, the user must approach that responsible party for the realisation
of the user’s personal information rights with them, and not with Lozo
Innovations.
10.2. Under POPI, you have rights
in relation to your personal information. Please contact us to find out more about,
or manifest, these rights:
10.2.1. have your data processed
in a fair, lawful and transparent way;
10.2.2. be informed about how
your personal information is being used, an example being this privacy
policy;
10.2.3. access personal
information we hold about you;
10.2.4. require us to correct any
mistakes in your personal information;
10.2.5. require us to delete
personal information concerning you in certain situations where there is no good
reason for us to continue to process it;
10.2.6. request that we transfer
your personal information to you or another service provider in a simple, structured
format;
10.2.7. object at any time to
processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes;
10.2.8. object to automated
decision making which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly
affects you;
10.2.9. object in certain other
situations to our continued processing of your personal information; and/or
10.2.10. otherwise restrict or
temporarily stop our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
10.3. You will not have to pay a
fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other
rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly
unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with
your request in these circumstances.
10.4. We may need to request
specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your
right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other
rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not
disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you
to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our
response.
10.5. We try to respond to all
legitimate requests within one week. Occasionally it may take us longer than a week
if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests.
In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10.6. Users with citizenships
from jurisdictions other than of South Africa, please note that Lozo
Innovations complies with all South African data protection laws when
processing your personal information pursuant to the Services as we are a South
African entity operating in the South African market. Should foreign law be
applicable in any regard to your use of the Services and/or the Website in any
way, including how we may process your personal information, please contact Lozo
Innovations at info@lozoinnovations.co.za who will gladly engage you on its
application and your rights.
10.7. Users acknowledge that any
content provided by users on the Website, including via a messaging system, enters
an open, public forum, and is not confidential, where the author of which will
be liable for that content, and not Lozo Innovations.
10.8. Users understand that there
are risks involved in sharing personal information. By disclosing personal information
such as the user’s name and email address, users acknowledge and understand
that this information may be collected and used by an authorised third party to
communicate with you.
10.9. By accepting this Policy,
you have opted-in to receive emails from Lozo Innovations, where your email
address will be used to contact you from time to time and may also use it for
security reasons to confirm your identity.
10.10. You have the right to
opt-out of receiving email communication by following the directions posted on
every email communication or by emailing info@lozoinnovations.co.za and asking
to not be contacted from then on.
11. Lozo Innovations’s rights
relating to personal information:
11.1. Lozo Innovations will
disclose the user’s personally identifiable information if it reasonably believes
that it is required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority
or to protect the rights and property of Lozo Innovations, its affiliates or
the public. Lozo Innovations may also co-operate with law enforcement in any
official investigation and may disclose the user’s personally identifiable
information to the relevant agency or authority in doing so.
11.2. Circumstances may arise where,
whether for strategic or other business reasons, Lozo Innovations decides to
sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize its business. Such a transaction may
involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual
purchasers, or the receipt of it from sellers. It is Lozo Innovations’s
practice to seek reasonable protection for information in these types of
transactions and notify you prior to any disclosure of personal information.
Such disclosure will also be subject to this Policy.
11.3. Lozo Innovations strives to
keep the user’s personal information accurately recorded. Lozo Innovations
provides a user with the reasonable ability to review and correct it or ask for
anonymization, blockage, transfer or deletion, as applicable. Please contact
info@lozoinnovations.co.za to engage Lozo Innovations on such actions or
requests.
11.4. We also collect, use and
share aggregated data or de-identified data such as statistical or demographic data
for any purpose. Such de-identified or aggregated data may be derived from your
personal information but is not considered personal information in law as this
data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may
aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a
specific Website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data
with your personal information so that it can directly or indirectly identify
you, we treat the combined data as personal information which will be used in
accordance with this Privacy Policy.
12. Feedback:
12.1. If you have any questions
or complaints about this Privacy Policy or any part of our service, please
contact us by e-mailing info@lozoinnovations.co.za.
12.2. If you have a complaint
about our use of your information, please contact us directly so that we can
address your complaint.
13. Notification of Changes:
13.1. We are continually
improving our ways of work and our existing Services and Website. We regularly
review and, if appropriate, update our Privacy Policy from time to time, and as
our services and use of personal data evolves. Because of these ongoing
changes, changes in the law and the changing nature of technology, our data
protection practices may also change from time to time. If and when our data
protection practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy to describe our
new practices.
13.2. If we want to make use of
your personal data in a way that we have not previously identified, we will
contact you to provide information about this and, if necessary, to ask for
your consent.
13.3. If we do, we will notify
you next time you visit our Website. We encourage you to check this policy
regularly.
13.4. We will update the version
number and date of this document each time it is changed.
14. Cookies provisions:
14.1. The Website may make use of
“cookies” to automatically collect information and data through the standard operation
of the Internet servers. “Cookies” are small text files a website can use (and
which we may use) to recognise repeat users, facilitate the user’s on-going
access to and use of a website and allow a website to track usage behaviour and
compile aggregate data that will allow the website operator to improve the functionality
of the website and its content, and to display more focused advertising to a
user by way of third party tools.
14.2. The type of information
collected by cookies is not used to personally identify you. If you do not want
information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure
in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature. Please
note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features
available on our Website, and thus if you disable the cookies on your browser
you may not be able to use those features, and your access to our Website will
therefore be limited. If you do not disable “cookies”, you are deemed to
consent to our use of any personal information collected using those cookies, subject
to the provisions of this Policy and the Website’s other policies.
14.3. For more information on the
exact Cookies and technical data used, please contact info@lozoinnovations.co.za
who will gladly provide a full technical breakdown of same cookies and
technical data.