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Inspired Azure

Privacy Policy

1. Introduction
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We respect your privacy, and the protection of your personal information is important to us.

We are not in the business of selling personal information and therefore we will not disclose your personal information to anyone except as provided in this policy.

This privacy policy is for this website served by Inspired Azure, and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

2. The Website
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This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all SA national laws and requirements for user privacy.

By using the website, you consent to the collection, usage, processing, and storage of personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and/or in compliance with the law.

3. Collection and use of Personal Information
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Your personal information that is collected by the Website may be used for the following purposes:

  1. Provide our products, which includes updating, securing, and troubleshooting, as well as providing support. It also includes sharing data, when it is required to provide the service or carry out the transactions you request;
  2. Improve and develop our products;
  3. Personalise our products and make recommendations;
  4. Advertise and market to you, which includes sending promotional communications, targeting advertising, and presenting you with relevant offers;
  5. We also use the data to operate our business, which includes analysing our performance, meeting our legal obligations, developing our workforce and doing research;
  6. In carrying out these purposes, we combine data we collect from different contexts (for example, from your use of multiple Inspired Azure products) or obtain from third parties to give you a more seamless, consistent and personalised experience, to make informed business decisions, and for other legitimate purposes;
  7. In relation to the ordering, purchase and/or sale, and delivery of goods and/or services;
  8. For record-keeping purposes;
  9. To improve our goods, services, and your experience on our Site and/or Apps, for example, by processing technical information such as your browser version and operating system;
  10. To provide us with a better understanding of our target market, for example, processing information gathered through cookies and code;
  11. For the purposes of research and statistics to assist in our business operations;
  12. Some voluntarily-provided personally-identifiable information may be captured for a specific, clearly- defined/obvious purpose, and processed in accordance with and in furtherance of this purpose;

We take the confidentiality of your personal information seriously, and we will ensure that all of our employees, who may have access to your personal information, are bound by confidentiality and POPI compliance agreements in relation to all personal information we share with them.
  1. Whilst we take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information, we cannot accept any liability whatsoever for unauthorised or unlawful disclosures/processing of your personal information, made by/as a result of third parties who are not subject to our control.
  2. We do not regulate or control third parties, and if you disclose your personal information to a third party, we cannot accept liability whatsoever suffered as a result thereof. You should always read a third party’s privacy policy before sharing your personal information with them.

4. Use of Cookies
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This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

5. Contact & Communication
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Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

6. Email Newsletter
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This website may operate an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with SA Spam Laws detailed in the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (Act 25 of 2002). All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely. No personal details are passed on to third parties or shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity.

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with SA Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (Act 25 of 2002) subscribers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated unsubscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to unsubscribe will be detailed instead.

7. External Links#

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text, banner, image, links to other websites.)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

8. Social Media Platforms
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Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

9. Shortened Links in Social Media#

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls.

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

10. Security
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The security of your personal information is important to us, and we have adopted commercially reasonable security measures to protect your personal information, including reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures. Only authorized staff have access to your personal information and are required to honour its confidentiality. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and despite taking all reasonable steps to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its full and absolute security, and by continuing to use our website, and/or in providing us with your information, you agree that you will not hold us liable for data leaks that may occur.

We will notify you if we become aware of any unauthorized use, disclosure, or processing of your personal information. Should you become aware of such a privacy breach, you agree that you will take all necessary steps to mitigate any damage that may occur as a result thereof.

If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us and/or the personal information you have provided to us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us via email at: [email protected].