Beukes Attorneys
PRIVACY POLICY
By using this website and instructing us to provide services to you and providing us with your personal information, you consent and agree to this Privacy Policy and the basis upon which we process your personal information. When the term “you” is used below, we refer to “you” as an individual, and you along with your end-users if you are a business entity.
Your Consent and Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, in our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to you. All revisions will be posted on this page. We urge you to review the Privacy Policy for changes. Your continued instructions to us and use of any of this website means that you accept any changes. We request that you regularly check our Privacy Policy to remain updated on any changes.
Reference to “consent” shall include any electronic means by which you convey your acceptance and acknowledgement that you agree to us usings and processing your personal information through any means.
What Information Do We Collect?
When contacting us or dealing with us in any manner, we will require certain personal information necessary for us to provide you with the Product/Services and to protect and ensure our legitimate business interests. This may include all of the categories of personal information listed in POPIA such as names, identity numbers, gender, nationality, contact details, photograph and proof of address.
Identifier information such as your passport or national identity number: utility provider details, bank statements and tenancy agreements.
Contact details such as correspondence address, telephone number and email address.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us
We require this information in the ordinary course of business of providing legal and related services and to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
Security
We recognize the importance of protecting your privacy in respect of your personal information provided to us.
To balance our legitimate business interest and your reasonable expectation of privacy we will take appropriate and reasonable organizational and technical steps to prevent unauthorized access to, or disclosure of your personal information. However, we do not guarantee that your personal information shall be 100% secure.
We have established appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information we collect via this website. We cannot enforce or control the security of devices and networks that you may use to submit information to us. We are not responsible for the disclosure or interception of your information before we receive it.
Where Do We Store Your Personal Information
All the information you provide to us is stored manually, and/or on our secure cloud-based platform and/or servers operated, maintained and protected in the Republic of South Africa.
Records of personal information will not be retained for longer than necessary for operational or archiving purposes, unless retention of record is so required or authorised by law.
Do We Disclose Any Information to Outside Parties?
We will not disclose any of your personal information to any person, except when we have your consent and/or permission to do so or where we are required to do so in terms of law or if same is in your best interest.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Your Rights
You have the right to request that we correct, destroy or delete any of your personal information that we have processed on our Product/Service and/or our Site. This is personal information that has been processed in accordance with these terms and that is inaccurate, excessive, irrelevant, misleading, out of date, obtained unlawfully or that we are no longer authorised to retain.
You have the right to withdraw your consent of processing your personal information at any time on the condition that the withdrawal does not affect the processing of your personal information before the withdrawal of your consent or if the processing is in compliance with an obligation imposed and required by law on us or the processing is necessary for the proper performance of a public law duty by a public body and does not affect the process as required to finalize the performance of a contract in which you are a party.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you use our website, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.
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