Privacy Policy

Find out more about our Privacy Policy here. This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for the KZN Women Authors Forum site. We at KZN Women Authors Forum take our users privacy seriously and we will only collect and use your personal information as outlined below and in our terms and conditions. We shall take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information.

DEFINITIONS

“consent” means any voluntary, specific and informed expression of will in terms of which a user agrees to the processing of personal information relating to him or her;

“personal information” means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person, including, but not limited to:

i) information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the person;

ii) information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person;
any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number or other particular assignment to the person;

iii) the personal opinions, views or preferences of the person;

iv) correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence;

v) the views or opinions of another individual about the person; and
the name of the person if it appears with other personal information relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the person;

Personal information collected

i) What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personal identification is collected from you via this site

ii) The organization collecting the information

iii) How the information is used

iv) With whom the information may be shared

v) What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information

vi) What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information

vii) The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of Information under our control

viii) How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information

Collection of Personal Information

When you register an account the personal information we collect may include your:

i) Name and Surname

ii) Delivery Address

iii) Email Address

iv) Store information;

v) Telephone Number

vi) Date of Birth

vii) Gender

viii) ID number / passport number

ix) Non-personal browsing habits and click patterns

x) Product description and images

Disclosure of Personal Information

i) We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information. We share such Personal Information in personally identifiable form with third parties as described below:
Trusted Third Parties: We may employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide the Services to you. Unless we tell you differently, such third parties do not have any right to use the Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. This includes third party companies and individuals employed by us to facilitate our Services, including the provision of maintenance services, database management, Web analytics and general improvement of the Services.

ii) Business Transfers: We may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Also, if we (or substantially all of our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, Personal Information would be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party.

iii) Protection of KZN Women Authors Forum and Others: We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we reasonably believe is necessary to comply with law or a court order; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Bev’s Beauty and Wellness , our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

iv) With Your Consent: Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your Personal Information may be shared with third parties, and will be able to prevent the sharing of this information in line with our privacy policy.

How we may use your personal information

i) We may use your personal information to send you marketing and/or promotional materials from time to time

ii) If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email..

Updating Your Personal Information

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Security of Your Personal Information

KZN Women Authors Forum ensures that all information collected will be safely and securely stored. We protect your personal information by:

i) Restricting access to personal information

ii) Maintaining technology products to prevent unauthorised computer access and security vulnerabilities

iii) Securely destroying your personal information when it’s no longer needed for our record retention purposes

iv) All passwords are stored using a one-way SHA-512 hashed encryption mechanism

v) KZN Women Authors Forum uses a 256 – bit SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption technology when processing your details. SSL encryption is the industry standard.

When you visit KZN Women Authors Forum, our company servers will automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This data may include:

i) Your computer’s IP address.

ii) Browser type.

iii) The web page you were visiting before you came to our site.

iv) The pages you visit on our site.

v) The time spent on those pages, items and information searched for on our site, access times and dates, and other statistics.

vi) This information is collected for analysis and evaluation in order to help us improve our site and the services and products we provide.

vii) This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

viii) If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

ix) KZN Women Authors Forum tracks personal information about users via the use of cookies. These are used to enhance your experience on the site. These cookies are stored on your computer and may be deleted by you at any time. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you log out or close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. Users may also elect to disable cookies, but we take no responsibility for a loss of functionality in this case.

x) For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Amendments to the Privacy Policy

KZN Women Authors Forum reserves the right to modify and change the Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes to this policy will be published on our site.



Complaints about breaches of privacy

If you are not satisfied with the way in which we handle your privacy, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@kznwomenauthorsforum .co.za