Arnold & Wessels

Privacy Policy

 

  1. Introduction

Welcome to our privacy policy. This is our plan of action when it comes to protecting your privacy.  We respect your privacy and take the protection of personal data/information very seriously.  The purpose of this policy is to describe the way that we collect, store, use, and protect data that can be associated with you or another specific natural or juristic person and can be used to identify you or that person (personal data | information).

  1. Audience

This policy applies to you if you are:

  • A visitor to our business located at 30B Ian Street, Klerksdorp
  • a visitor to our website; 
  • a prospect who contacts us by phone or email; or
  • a customer who has ordered the goods or services that we provide. Goods include:
    • Electronic files or services
    • Printed material
    • Signage or Display material
  1. Personal data | information 

3.1.  Personal data | information includes:

  • certain information that we collect automatically when you visit our website;
  • certain information collected on registration (see below);
  • certain information collected for use on your printed material
  • optional information that you provide to us voluntarily (see below);

3.2.  Personal data | information excludes:

  • information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person;
  • permanently de-identified information that does not relate or cannot be traced back to you specifically;
  • non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us; and
  • information that you have provided voluntarily in an open, public environment or forum including any blog, chat room, community, classifieds, or discussion board (because the information has been disclosed in a public forum, it is no longer confidential and does not constitute personal data | information subject to protection under this policy).

3.2.1.  Common examples

Common examples of the types of personal data | information which we may collect and process include your:

  • identifying information – such as your name, date of birth, or identification number of any kind;
  • contact information – such as your phone number or email address;
  • address information – such as your physical or postal address;

 

3.2.2.  Sensitive personal data | information

Depending on the goods or services that you require, we may also collect sensitive personal data | information like your bank account details.

  1. Acceptance

4.1.  Acceptance required

You accept all the terms of this policy when you contact us through: 

  • phone;
  • email;
  • our website; 
  • all other communication channels; or by
  • placing an order or using any of our goods or services.

You may not order or use any of our goods or services, or our website if you do not accept this policy.

4.2.  Legal capacity

You may not access our website to order our goods or services if you are younger than 18 years old or do not have legal capacity to conclude legally binding contracts.

4.3.  Deemed acceptance

By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of its terms.

4.4  Your obligations

You may only send us your own personal data | information or the personal data | information of another data subject where you have their permission to do so.

  1. Changes

We may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating this web page. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website or by sending you an email detailing the changes that we have made and indicating the date that they were last updated. If you do not agree with the changes, then you must stop using the website, and our goods or services. If you continue to use the website or our goods or services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted those updated terms.

  1. Collection

6.1.  On registration

Once you register / contact us at our premises, via telephone, messaging app, e-mail or on our website, you will no longer be anonymous to us. You will provide us with certain personal data | information.

This personal data | information may include:

  • your name and surname;
  • your email address;
  • your telephone number;
  • your company name, company registration number, and VAT number;
  • your postal address or street address; and
  • your bank account number
  • your medical practice number in the case of Medical practitioners

We will use this personal data | information to fulfil your account, provide additional services and information to you as we reasonably think appropriate, and for any other purposes set out in this policy.

6.2.  When you contact us

When you contact us, you may be asked to provide certain personal data | information on a voluntary basis. This may include:

  • your name and surname;
  • your email address; and
  • your telephone number.

This information is automatically stored and we will use this personal data | information to provide additional services and information to you, as we reasonably think appropriate, and for any other purposes set out in this policy.

6.3.  On order

When you order any goods or services from us, you will be asked to provide us with additional information on a voluntary basis (goods information or services information).

6.4.  Reseller

When you become one of our resellers, you will be asked to provide us with additional information on a voluntary basis (services information).

6.5.  From browser

We automatically receive and record Internet usage information on our server logs from your browser, such as collected by Google Analytics.

Some of our business partners use their own cookies or widgets on our website. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.

6.6.  Optional details

You may also provide additional information to us on a voluntary basis (optional information). This includes content or products that you decide to upload or download from our website or when you enter competitions, take advantage of promotions, respond to surveys, order certain additional goods or services, or otherwise use the optional features and functionality of our website.

6.7.  Recording calls

We may monitor and record any telephone calls that you make to us. We will delete the recording at your request.

 

6.8.  Purpose for collection

We may use or process any goods information, services information, or optional information that you provide to us for the purposes that you indicated when you agreed to provide it to us.

Processing includes gathering your personal data | information, disclosing it, and combining it with other personal data | information. We generally collect and process your personal data | information for various purposes, including:

  • goods purposes – such as collecting orders for, supplying, and supporting our goods;
  • services purposes – such as providing our services;
  • marketing purposes – such as pursuing lawful related marketing activities;
  • business purposes – such as internal audit, accounting, business planning, and joint ventures, disposals of business, or other proposed and actual transactions; and
  • legal purposes – such as handling claims, complying with regulations, or pursuing good governance.

We may use your usage information for the purposes described above and to:

  • remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the website;
  • monitor website usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and
  • track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities in connection with your usage of the website.

6.9.  Consent to collection

We will obtain your consent to collect personal data | information:

  • in accordance with applicable law;
  • when you provide us with any
    • registration information
    • Information upon ordering printed matter
    • Information contained in your printed matter
    •  or optional information.
  1. Privacy by design

When we decide to develop a new product or start a new activity that involves the processing of personal data | information, we take the privacy and data protection laws and principles into account and try to build them into the product or activity.

  1. Use

8.1.  Our obligations

We may use your personal data | information to fulfil our obligations to you.

8.2.  Messages and updates

We may send administrative messages and email updates to you about our service. In some cases, we may also send you primarily promotional messages. You can choose to opt-out of promotional messages.

8.3.  Targeted content

While you are logged into the website, we may display targeted adverts and other relevant information based on your personal data | information. In a completely automated process, computers process the personal data | information and match it to adverts or related information. We never share personal data | information with any advertiser, unless you specifically provide us with your consent to do so. Advertisers receive a record of the total number of impressions and clicks for each advert. They do not receive any personal data | information. If you click on an advert, we may send a referring URL to the advertiser’s website identifying that a customer is visiting from the website. We do not send personal data | information to advertisers with the referring URL. Once you are on the advertiser’s website however, the advertiser is able to collect your personal data | information.

  1. Disclosure

9.1.  Sharing

We may share your personal data | information with:

  • other divisions or companies within the group of companies to which we belong so as to provide joint content and services like registration, for transactions and customer support, to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies, and to guide decisions about our products, services, and communications (they will only use this information to send you marketing communications if you have requested their goods or services);
  • an affiliate, in which case we will seek to require the affiliates to honour this privacy policy;
  • our goods suppliers or service providers under contract who help supply certain goods or help with parts of our business operations, including fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, technology services (our contracts dictate that these goods suppliers or service providers only use your information in connection with the goods they supply or services they perform for us and not for their own benefit);
  • credit bureaus to report account information, as permitted by law;
  • banking partners as required by credit card association rules for inclusion on their list of terminated merchants (in the event that you utilise the services to receive payments and you meet their criteria); and
  • other third parties who provide us with relevant services where appropriate.

9.2.  Regulators

We may disclose your personal data | information as required by law or governmental audit.

9.3.  Law enforcement

We may disclose personal data | information if required:

  • by a subpoena or court order;
  • to comply with any law;
  • to protect the safety of any individual or the general public; and
  • to prevent violation of our terms of service.

9.4.  No selling

We will not sell personal information. No personal data | information will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this privacy policy.

9.5.  Marketing purposes

We may disclose aggregate statistics (information about the customer population in general terms) about the personal data | information to advertisers or business partners.

 

9.6.  Employees

We may need to disclose personal data | information to our employees that require the personal data | information to do their jobs. Any of our employees or personnel that handle your personal data | information will have signed non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements.

9.7.  Change of ownership

If we undergo a change in ownership, or a merger with, acquisition by, or sale of assets to another entity, we may assign our rights to the personal data | information we process to a successor, purchaser, or separate entity. We will disclose the transfer on the website. If you are concerned about your personal data | information migrating to a new owner, you may request us to delete your personal data | information.

9.8.  Unauthorised disclosure

We cannot accept any liability whatsoever for unauthorised or unlawful disclosure of your personal data | information by third parties who are not subject to our control.

  1. Security

We take the security of personal data | information very seriously and always do our best to comply with applicable data protection laws. We will implement and maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the security and confidentiality of the personal data | information. We host a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced security measures to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. All personal data | information is securely stored in our customer database. We authorize access to personal data | information only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities. We implement disaster recovery procedures where appropriate.

  1. Accurate and up to date

We will try to keep the personal data we collect as accurate, complete and up to date as is necessary for the purposes defined in this policy. From time to time we may request you to update your personal data on the website. You are able to review or update any personal data that we hold on you by accessing your account online or emailing us. Please note that in order to better protect you and safeguard your personal data, we take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your account or making any corrections to your personal data. Throughout your interaction with us you retain the right to rectify personal data that is incorrect or inaccurate. This does not apply if we process your personal data in our capacity as a Processor | Operator on behalf of you or the Administrator when you or the Administrator act as the Data Controller | Responsible Party.

  1. Retention & Storage

We may retain your personal data in physical or electronic records at our discretion. We will retain your personal and company data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes of your contact with us, or for the production of current and future jobs.

Storage of the date will be both electronic and physical:

  • Personal and company data will be stored in our estimating software archive.
  • All samples provided to us containing personal or company data will be physically stored in an archive for referral for present or future jobs.
  • Samples of all printed matter will be stored in Job cards in the archive for future referral.

During the period of retention, we will continue to abide by our non-disclosure obligations and will not share or sell your personal data. Be reminded that your data will be visible to workers handling printed matter.

 

All printed matter including but not limited to the following is considered public domain and may during the printing or production process end up as misprints or scrap and processed by the relevant scrap processing and/or paper recycling company:

  • Commercial stationery including but not limited to Invoice, Receipt, Quotation and Credit Note books
  • Annual reports, Brochures, Company Profiles etc.
  • Signage, banners, flags etc
  • Vehicle and window branding substrates containing Company information.

 

By making contact with us in any way you consent to the above unless we are specifically given notice of the contrary in writing.

  1. Updating or removing

You may choose to correct or update the personal data you have submitted to us by contacting us via email, Whatsapp or via the website.

You are entitled to a right to be forgotten. We will delete any personal data that you don’t want us to have.

  1. Restriction of processing

You may request that we restrict the use of your personal data. When we restrict your personal data, we still have the right to store it but not use it.

  1. Enquiries

If you have any questions or concerns arising from this Privacy Policy, please contact us on admin@print.org.za or phone 018 468 3807