PRIVACY POLICY.

First For Rhinos NPC treats your personal information obtained through whatever means as private and confidential and we provide secure access to our online services if and where applicable.

By using our website, or any of our online services (if and where applicable) you agree to be bound to this notice.

 

If you do not agree to be bound, please refrain from using our website but know that if you choose not to share your personal information we may not be in a position to offer you the best service.

 

The nature of the personal information collected and processed by us.

Some of this information is usually collected automatically whenever you visit our website. This process is largely used for analytics purposes to better understand how visitors are using the website, but may include your IP address, browser and/or operating system information, the date and time you visited the website, the amount of time you spent browsing the site, your geographic location (if you have enabled this functionality on your browser) the pages you view while using the website, and any search terms you enter using the website’s search bar. This information is automatically aggregated (which means the data is grouped together and summarised in an anonymised format) and therefore individual personal information, or usage patterns cannot be identified.

 

The purpose for which we collect personal information

Collection of your personal information is used exclusively for the following reasons:

• Administration of First For Rhinos NPC corporation;

• to manage donors, sponsors, and membership records; and

• for safety and security reasons,

Therefore, in general to meet our obligations to you and also to contact you should we need to. 

We will not use your information for any other purposes without your consent.

 

Electronic Communications and records

Your visiting our website constitutes automatic consent to receive electronic communications from us.

You can always stop receiving electronic communications from us should you wish to. Users can “opt out” of receiving newsletter and/or emails by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in newsletter emails. 

 

Cookies

On some parts of our website, we use so-called “cookie” technology. Cookie technology consists of small pieces of data or a small text file, which is given to your browser by our webserver when you visit our website. All users of our website consent to the use of cookies when landing on any page of our online platform for the first time. This data is stored on your browser. Cookies cannot gather information or function on their own. They cannot collect any personal information about you or your machine and cannot gather data or information about what you do on the Internet. Cookies merely enable us to provide a more valuable online experience to you. While you can set up your Internet browser to disable cookie technology, we do not recommend that you do this since some parts of this website and our online services may not function properly, or at all.

 

Offshore processing

The collection and processing of your personal information may be conducted outside the borders of South Africa. Should this happen, your personal information will be processed according to the requirements and safeguards of applicable privacy law or privacy rules.

 

Our website may contain links to or from other sites.

While we try to link only to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content, or the security or privacy practices employed by other websites. We recommend that you always read the privacy and security statements on such websites. This includes any social media organisations who may collect data from you should you choose to use any social media sharing buttons on our website.

 

When we will disclose personal information without consent

Personal information supplied to or collected by us is kept strictly confidential and will not be given to any unauthorised third parties. We will only disclose or report personal information when required to do so by law or any regulatory authority, to our employees, or third parties who require such information to carry out their duties and to our auditors as needed, so that they can perform their duties to us.

Access to your personal information held by us may also be requested by yourself. The relevant legislation regulates and sets out the procedure for such a request and under what circumstances such access may be refused

 

Storing personal information

Personal information collected via the website is stored in a secure environment and is not available to any person outside of First For Rhinos NPC.

We only keep your personal information for as long as needed for lawful purposes.

Once we are no longer authorised to keep your information, we will take one of the following actions:

• destroy the information;

• delete the information in such a way that it cannot be recovered; or

• de-identify the information in a manner that cannot be linked back to you or used to identify you.

 

Our security practices.

We are committed to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information.  We implement all reasonable measures to keep your information secure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. We will do our best to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee 100% security of your data transmitted to our servers; any transmission is at your own risk.

We accept no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage (whether direct, indirect, special, or consequential) and/or expenses of any nature whatsoever which may arise as a result of, or which may be attributable directly or indirectly from information made available on these pages or links, or actions or transaction resulting therefrom.

 

Data Breaches

In the event that we become aware that your personal information has been compromised in any way, we will notify you and the relevant Regulatory Authorities within the prescribed timelines, so that you are aware of the nature of the breach and what actions you may need to take in order to protect yourself.

 

Regular revision of this Privacy Policy

This policy will be revised as necessary from time to time. It remains your responsibility to check in on our website regularly and make sure you stay informed as to the most recent version of the privacy policy.

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Your rights as a data subject

As a data subject, you have the right to: 

• request and obtain a copy of your data

• require incorrect or incomplete data be corrected/completed

• require First for Rhinos to delete or stop processing your data, where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing

• object to the processing of your data by First for Rhinos 

 

How to contact us

If you need to access, correct or update your information with us or should you need to exercise any of your rights in terms of this policy or the laws pertaining to protection of personal information, you can email us at: info@firstforrhinos.com