Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY | COLABDEV

Effective as of June 15, 2021

The website located at www.COLABDEV.co.za, its sub-domains, and certain affiliated websites (the “Site”) is a collection of various intellectual properties that belong to COLABDEV Pty Ltd, and its agents, employees, contractors, affiliates, subsidiaries, parent company, and other related companies (“COLABDEV”, “us”, “Our”, and “we”). This COLABDEV Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes personal data we gather from you when you use the Site and COLABDEV mobile application (Mobile App), and how we use, process, and disclose that personal data. The Site and Mobile App collectively referred to as Services.

Data Controller

COLABDEV Pty Ltd, with registered address at 1 SANDLER ROAD, Johannesburg, Gauteng, RSA, 2192, shall be data controller for personal information collected through the Site and Mobile App.

Categories of collected personal data

We collect the following types of personal data:

• Identity data: name, surname;
• Contact data: phone number, email, state;
• Third party accounts data: Apple ID, social media profile, friends list, birthday
• Technical data: IP address, geo-location information, your browser type, language and identifying information, your operating system and application version, device types, device model and manufacturer, device identifiers, and your device operating system type and version

Information We Collect from You through Your Use of our services

• We collect your Identity data and Contact data when you are using our Site.
• We collect your Identity data, Contact data and Third party accounts data when you are creating an account with our Mobile App.
• We collect your Contact data when you are subscribing for our newsletters.
• We collect your Third party account data when you are creating an account with our Mobile App through your social media (like Facebook or Tweeter).
• We are collecting Technical data when you are using our Site or Mobile App.

We may collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us. This includes your comments and other information you share through our Site.

We do not sell personal information we collect from you or about you.

Data Security, Retention and Transfer

Please be aware that your personal data may be processed in our operating offices located in the Republic of South Africa. We take all reasonable steps to protect the information we receive from you from loss, misuse, or unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and/or destruction. We have put in place appropriate physical, technical administrative and organizational measures to safeguard and secure your information, and we make use of privacy-enhancing technologies such as encryption. We ensure the ‘confidentiality, integrity and availability’ of our systems and services. However, no company can fully prevent security risks. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Generally, we will retain your personal data as long as you are using our Site or you are subscribed to our newsletters. We will retain your personal data not more than 3 years after you contacted us. This does not apply to technical data which is stored during sessions and deleted from time to time.

How COLABDEV Uses Your Information

COLABDEV generally uses your information to:

• Provide, personalise, and improve the Services;
• Communicate with you about your use of the Services;
• Develop new products and services,
• Customise the advertising you view and recommend content;
• Fulfill your requests;
• Send newsletters, surveys, offers, and promotional materials related to the Services and for other marketing purposes of COLABDEV using your contact information;
• To contact you when necessary or appropriate in relation to the Services being provided to you.
• Protect, investigate, and prevent potentially fraudulent, unauthorised, or illegal activities;
• Protect our rights and the rights of other users; and
• As otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or in notices we provided to you.

We may also use your information to verify your geographic location. We may use your geographic location data to personalise our Service, to recommend content, determine whether the information you have requested is available in your location. If Information is aggregated or de-identified so it is no longer reasonably associated with an identified or identifiable natural person, COLABDEV may use it for any business purpose.

Sharing of your personal data

We may share your information, including personal information, as follows:

• Service Providers. We may rely on service providers to support or provide some of the services that are available through the Site. We may also rely on service providers to perform certain services for us in connection with your use of our Site, such as communications and hosting services, network security, technical and customer support, tracking and reporting functions, quality assurance testing, website analytics, notifications campaigns, and other functions. We may share information from or about you with these third party providers so that they can perform their services or complete your requests. These third party providers may share information with us that they obtain from or about you in connection with providing their services or completing your requests. Third party providers may also share this information with their subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control. Some of our web pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to you from our third party providers, while preserving the look and feel of the Site. In such cases, please note that the information you provide is being provided to the third party. Purpose of processing – make our Site available to you and ensure its safe and smooth performance. Legitimate interest – to provide you with our Site, to execute our rights and enforce our Terms of Use.
• We may share data with our contractors and service providers, who act either as processor or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers. Purpose of processing – make our Site available to you and ensure its safe and smooth performance. Legitimate interest – to provide you with our Site, to execute our rights and enforce our Terms of Use.

As far as the transmitting of personal data to a third party is not explicitly permitted by law, you agree that we may, if necessary, transmit personal data to law enforcement offices when relevant to defend against a governmental and public safety threat or the prosecution of a criminal act. Furthermore, you agree that we may, if necessary and related to legitimate law enforcement or criminal prosecution interests, transmit personal data to a third party. Transmission of data is not necessary and will not occur if a preliminary legal or law enforcement proceeding can be initialised or has already been initialised.

We also disclose information in the following circumstances:

• Business Transfers. If (i) we or our affiliates are or may be acquired by, merged with, or invested in by another company, or (ii) if any of our assets are or may be transferred to another company, whether as part of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding or otherwise, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the other company. As part of the business transfer process, we may share certain of your personal information with lenders, auditors, and third-party advisors, including attorneys and consultants.
• In Response to Legal Process. We disclose your information to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.
• To Protect Us and Others. We disclose your information when we believe it is appropriate to do so to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
• Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We share aggregate, anonymised, or de-identified information about users with third parties for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes.

How COLABDEV Discloses Your Information

We may share your information as follows:

• We may share your personal information with your consent or at your direction.
• We may also share your personal information with others who perform services on our behalf (for example, if you make a call or receive/respond to a text using the Service).
• We may share your information with third-party service providers to fulfill your requests, including product requests.
• We may disclose your information if we believe we are required to do so by law, or to comply with a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant.
• We also may disclose your information if we believe doing so is appropriate or necessary to prevent any liability, or fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses or to protect COLABDEV and our Services; or any rights, property, or personal safety of COLABDEV or others.
• In the event that COLABDEV is or may be acquired by or merged with another company or involved in any other business deal (or negotiation of a business deal) involving sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets, we may transfer or assign your information as part of or in connection with the transaction. Finally, in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or business closure, information may be transferred as a business asset.

We may also share aggregated and anonymized data with our partners, advertisers, and other third parties.

Third-Party Links

Our Site contains links to third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties. You should check the privacy policy of the third-parties controlling the third party website to determine how it handles information it separately collects from you.

Data Security and Transfer

Your personal data is stored on servers of companies we hire to provide services to us. We take reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to help protect against loss, misuse or unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of your Personal Data. However, no company can fully prevent security risks. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. To help protect yourself and your information, choose a unique password for our Services and do not use a password on our Services that you would use on any other website or online service.

Our policy towards children’s information

This Service is not directed to anyone under the age of consent. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of consent. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us. If we become aware that anyone under consent has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files.

To the extent that COLABDEV’s processing of your personal information is subject to the General Data Protection Regulations, COLABDEV relies on your consent, given through affirmative assent upon visiting the COLABDEV Site, to process your information data. COLABDEV may also process information that constitutes your personal information for direct marketing purposes and you have a right to object to COLABDEV’s use of your personal information for this purpose at any time.

Information Choices

You may opt out of receiving marketing/promotional emails or SMS messages from COLABDEV by emailing us at info@COLABDEV.co.za. If you opt out of receiving marketing/promotional emails and/or text messages, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about our ongoing business relations. You may also send requests about your personal information, including changes to your contact preferences, changes to or deletions of your information or content you post, and requests to opt-out of sharing your personal information with third parties by emailing info@COLABDEV.co.za. Please note that deletion of your personal information or content does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information posted on the Servers.

When you visit the Site, we and others give you the following choices about use of mechanisms for tracking, including tracking of your online activities over time and across different websites and online services by third parties. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies from our Site or from third parties. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Site. To opt-out of Google Analytics web tracking for certain browsers, you can download Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You may opt out of other cookies that may be present on the Site by following the directions on Google’s opt-out page.

You can also choose to opt-out of the use of cookies by some of our third-party advertising partners to deliver ads tailored to your profile and preferences. However, while we and others give you choices as described in this policy, there are many ways in which Web browser signals and other similar mechanisms can indicate your choice to disable tracking, and our Site may not be aware of or honour every mechanism.

You may decline to share certain data with COLABDEV, in which case we may not be able to provide you with some of the features and functionality of the Site or Service. You may have the right to know what personal information COLABDEV has about you and to correct any inaccuracies. Please direct any such requests by email to info@COLABDEV.co.za.

Third Party Links

Our Website and Mobile App may contain links to other websites, services, and web addresses. Our privacy policy applies only to our Website and Mobile App, not those external websites and services. We are not responsible for these external websites and services and their privacy policies and practices, as well as their compliance with applicable data protection laws. In addition, if you linked to our Platform from an external site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that external website and recommend that you check the privacy policy of that external website.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may revise the Policy. To help you stay current of any changes, we note the date the Privacy Policy was last updated above. Also, we will inform you about updates of our Privacy Policy in case you provided us with your contact data.

Dispute Resolution

If you believe that COLABDEV has not adhered to this Policy, please contact COLABDEV by e-mail at info@COLABDEV.co.za. We will do our best to address your concerns. If you feel that your complaint has been addressed incompletely, we invite you to let us know for further investigation.

COLABDEV Contact Information

Please contact COLABDEV with any questions or comments about this Policy, your information, our third-party disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email at info@COLABDEV.co.za.

Cookies

We use cookies, Web beacons, and URL information to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information for which you searched and which you viewed. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We use necessary and security cookies to ensure smooth and safe use of our Site. We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which usually stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. We also use cookies for data analytics purposes, including from Google Analytics. You can find more information on how Google uses data from these cookies at google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You should consult your web browser to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete or choose not to accept cookies from us, you may be missing out on certain features of our Site. Web beacons are digital images that are used to log information on the Site or in our emails. We use Web beacons to manage cookies, count visits, and to learn what marketing works and what does not. We also use Web beacons to tell if you open or act on our emails.

Others, including third-party analytics service providers and advertising partners, may also collect personal data about your online activities over time and across different web sites when you use our Site, including as described in this Privacy Policy. This Policy does not apply to and we are not responsible for those other parties. Third-party analytics services may use cookies and web beacons through our Site (for example Google Analytics) to provide us with information about how you use and interact with our Site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties to learn about your choices about the information they collect from you.