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Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information we gather when you visit the central web site and explains how that information is used.

It is important for you to appreciate that the central web site provides extensive links to other independent sites. This policy applies only to direct accesses to the central web site – URLs starting http://infoguidesouthafrica.com/. You will need to consult the appropriate information on other sites for information on their policies.

Links To Other Websites

This website contains links to and from third-party sites. This policy only covers the use of cookies on this site. You should consult privacy and cookie policies on third-party sites before you submit any personal data. InfoGuideSouthAfrica is not responsible for any cookies that may be set by third-party websites that are linked to from pages on http://infoguidesouthafrica.com/

Disclosure and Uses of Personal Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device by gathering aggregate information about our users using it to analyse the effectiveness and popularity of this website
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances:

  • If we have obtained your consent to do so
  • When we are required or authorised by law, court order, regulatory or governmental authority to disclose your personal data
  • If required to protect the rights, property or safety of our users or others.

Relevant subsets of this data may be passed to computer security teams as part of investigations of computer misuse involving this site or other computing equipment in the website.

In addition, this site uses Google Analytics to help us analyse site usage and to improve it. To support this, selected information about your interaction with the site is sent to Google for them to analyse on our behalf.

Cookies

This website uses cookies, which are small pieces of information that are issued to your computer or other internet-enabled device when you visit the website. Cookies are stored by your browser and hard drive and are used to distinguish you from other visitors to the site.

For more details about cookies, how to disable them and the cookies we use (including Google Analytics cookies), there is a page with URLs starting http://infoguidesouthafrica.com/

ACCESSING OUR SITE:

Access to the site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserves the right to withdraw or amend the services provided on the site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason the site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the site through your internet connection are aware of these terms and that they comply with them.

You may use the site only for lawful purposes. You must not use the site:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material that does not comply with Content Standards (see below)
  • To transmit or procure the sending of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam)
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses or any other computer code, programs or files designed to destroy, interrupt or limit the functionality of any computer, computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

Making Contributions To Our Site

In submitting a contribution to the site:

  1. You grant a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free licence to copy, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, display and perform by all means all or part of your contribution on the site for the entire period of copyright in your contribution and all renewals, extensions or revivals thereof; and
  2. You warrant that:
  • Your contribution is your own original work or you have a licence from the author/s or copyright owner/s of the work granting the University use of the work on the terms of the foregoing licence granted by you; and
  • You will comply with the Content Standards (below); and
  • Your contribution does not infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of any person or organisation, which includes your having obtained sufficient rights (by written permission/licence or consents as appropriate) for we ought to exercise the foregoing licence granted by you –
    1. From rights holders of third party copyright materials that you may have included in your contribution in whole or in part, e.g. others’ literary works, photographs or other artistic works, dramatic works, musical works, sound recordings, films or broadcasts, and/or that others’ materials are used in your contribution under statutory (legislative) exemption such as fair dealing for the purposes of criticism or review.