Date of Last Review: 9 May 2018
THIS WEB SITE SUBSCRIBES TO AND COMPLIES WITH THE VOLUNTARY PRIVACY PRINCIPLES CONTAINED IN THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONS ACT 25 OF 2002.
Definitions
“AVA Financial Concepts” means AVA Financial Concepts (Pty) Ltd.
“user” means any person accessing any part of the web site
- This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms and Conditions of Use of this web site.
Collection of personal data
- Where personal information (such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address) is submitted to the site by the user (e.g. through sending an e-mail) the following principles are observed in the handling of that information:
- a. No information is specifically requested on this web site – all information received by AVA Financial Concepts is voluntarily submitted;
- b. AVA Financial Concepts will not use the personal information submitted for any other purpose other than the efficient provision of services, including this web site, without obtaining the prior written approval of the user or unless required to do so by law.
- c. AVA Financial Concepts will not disclose any personal information regarding a user to any third party unless the prior written agreement of the user is obtained.
- d. If information is released with the user’s consent AVA Financial Concepts will retain a record of the information released, the third party to which it was released, the reason for the release and the date of release, for a period of one year.
- e. AVA Financial Concepts will destroy or delete any personal information which becomes obsolete.
- Note that, as permitted by the ECT Act, AVA Financial Concepts may use personal information collected to compile profiles for statistical purposes and trade in these profiles. No information contained in the profiles or statistics will be able to be linked to any specific user.
Collection of anonymous data
- In order to provide the best possible service, AVA Financial Concepts may use standard technology to collect information about the use of this site. This technology is not able to identify individual users but simply allows AVA Financial Concepts to collect statistics.
- This web site utilises temporary or session cookies that collect the first level domain name of the user. This means that if your e-mail address is user@email.com, the cookie will collect the “email.com” part of the address.
Cookies are small pieces of information sent to the user’s browser and stored on the user’s hard drive. Temporary or session cookies expire and are deleted when your browser is closed.
Cookies by themselves cannot be used to personally identify users.
If necessary users can alter the manner in which their browser handles cookies.
Links to other web sites
- We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party sites to which hyperlinks may have been provided and we strongly recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit before using it further.
Security
- While reasonable measures are taken to ensure the security and integrity of information submitted to this site, AVA Financial Concepts can not under any circumstances be held liable for any loss or other damage sustained by a user or users as a result of the intentional or accidental release of information by an employee of AVA Financial Concepts or any third party.
Queries
- If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy please contact us by mailing info@avafin.co.za