Revised 29.06.2021
STATEMENT
“We” or “us” means Riot Network (Pty) Ltd – 2015/394125/07, Signa Academy (Pty) Ltd – 2012/016842/07, Signa Group (Pty) Ltd – 2015/220495/07, Signa Advisors (Pty) Ltd – 2004/028804/07, Signa Opportunity (Pty) Ltd – 2016/233562/07, Signa Institute For Higher Education (PTY) Ltd – 2019/325807/07, Fibre Institute (Pty) Ltd – 2015/404517/07, Artisans in Motion (Pty) Ltd – 2002/023263/07, B1SA BEE Software Management Solutions (Pty) Ltd – 2005/002855/07, Yobi Code (PTY) Ltd – 2015/186650/07, Mantis Networks (PTY) Ltd – 1998/020229/07 and Invequity (Pty) Ltd – 2016/153278/07 collectively and individually.
We are strongly committed to protecting personal information and we attach great importance to your right to privacy. We want you to feel secure that when you deal with us, your personal information is in good hands.
We protect your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and our information privacy policies. In addition, we maintain the appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized or unlawful processing and/or against accidental loss, alteration, disclosure or access, or accidental or unlawful destruction of or damage thereto.
The use of our website is also subject to our Website Disclaimer, and our Cookie Policy. Your relationship with us is further subject to and governed by the separate contractual terms and conditions that may exist between us.
When used in this Privacy Statement, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”), applicable in the Republic of South Africa. Generally, personal information is any information that can be used to personally identify you. If any information that we collect personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, we will treat it as confidential.
LAWFUL PROCESSING
The following conditions of lawful processing of personal information are the principles in terms of which we will be processing the collected personal information. They are:
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will collect your personal information in the following ways:
If we do not obtain your personal information directly from you, we may obtain it from the following sources:
Specifically we may collect your personal information via our website in the following ways:
WHICH CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
The personal information we collect includes the categories of personal information referred to in this Privacy Statement or in other statements you have received.
Below is a chart describing certain categories of personal information that we may collect:
Category of personal information | Types of personal information captured by category |
Personal details, contact details, and identifiers | Name, pronoun, all types of identifiers and contact details (such as e-mail, phone numbers, physical address) and occasionally, when necessary for specific purposes, gender, date of birth, age, place of birth. |
Commercial information | History and records of the products and services you have obtained from us. |
Marketing and research information |
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Special personal information | We may also collect certain types of special personal information when permitted by local law or with your consent, such as health/medical information or biometric information, for example as when you elect to use fingerprint authentication. |
Audiovisual materials | Photograph, and images/footage captured/recorded on CCTV or other audio, video and related security/monitoring systems or captured during marketing/public filming events/sessions (including recording of virtual or live workshops or similar events/sessions). |
Position and professional or employment-related information | Professional or employment-related information, such as description of current position, job title, employer, location, and our contact(s). |
System and application access information and Internet and electronic network activity information | Where you are provided with access to our systems, we may collect information required to access such systems and applications such as System ID, LAN ID, e-mail account, instant messaging account, mainframe ID, system passwords, and internet or other electronic network activity information, including access logs, activity logs, and electronic content produced using our systems. |
We also may derive inferences about you based on the information described above and also collect other information about you as described in this privacy statement. If you provide us with personal information of another person, you are responsible for ensuring that such person is made aware of the information contained in this privacy statement and that the person has given you his/her consent for sharing the information with us.
The above-mentioned categories of personal information have been obtained either directly from you (for example, when you provide information to sign up for a newsletter or register to comment on a forum website) or indirectly from certain third parties (for example, through our website’s technology). Such third parties include our affiliates, public authorities, public websites and social media, suppliers and vendors. Except where certain information is required by law or by our policies, your decision to provide any personal information to us is voluntary. Please note that if you do not provide certain information, we may not be able to accomplish some or all of the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement, and you may not be able to use certain tools and systems which require the use of such personal information.
We will not intentionally or knowingly collect personal information directly from minors (anyone under the age of 18). The personal information of minors will be collected through their legal guardian or parent only where products or services are obtained for the minors.
WHEN CAN WE PROCESS OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will process your personal information if you give us your consent willingly or according to the grounds of lawful processing highlighted below. If we need your consent, we will notify you through our product and services agreements or application processes. To the extent you are asked to click on/check “I accept”, “I agree” or similar buttons/checkboxes/functionalities in relation to a privacy statement, doing so will be considered as providing your consent to process your personal information.
FOR WHICH PURPOSES AND ON WHICH LEGAL BASIS DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will only use and share your personal information where it is necessary for us to carry out our lawful business activities. To enable you to fully understand the way in which we process your personal information, we have described the different lawful grounds for such processing in detail below:
Please view the table below for: (i) a non-exhaustive list of specific purposes for which we may use your personal information and (ii) an overview of the legal basis for each such purpose:
Purpose | Legal basis |
Managing our contractual relationship with you | Necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party. |
Recruitment | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring that we recruit the appropriate employees. |
Facilitating communication with you (including facilitating meetings; communication in case of emergencies, and to provide you with requested information) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring proper communication and emergency handling within the organization. |
Operating and managing our business operations including or being part of the provision of our services to our clients and their employees/contractors and their customers, for example in collecting their information as part of surveys, information analytics, Marketing research or other purposes | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring the proper functioning of our business operations. |
Complying with legal requirements | Necessary for the compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. |
Monitoring your use of our systems (including monitoring the use of our website and any apps and tools you use) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests of avoiding non-compliance and protecting our reputation. |
Social listening (Identifying and assessing what is being said about us and our clients on social media (only publicly accessible content) to understand sentiment, intent, mood and market trends and our stakeholders’ needs and thereby improving our services. We do this through key-word searches and our goal is to gain insights in conversation trends over a specified period and not to identify an individual. To achieve this, we analyze and monitor conversation streams and monitor publicly available opinions, statements or other interactions on social media channels.) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interest of protecting our assets and our brand on social media |
Improving the security and functioning of our website, networks and information | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring that you receive an excellent user experience and our networks and information are secure. |
Undertaking information analytics, i.e. applying analytics to business operations and information to describe, predict and improve our business performance and/or to provide a better user experience. (more details on how we run analytics on our website can be found in our Cookie Policy. | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring the proper functioning of our business operations. |
Marketing our products and services to you (unless you objected against such processing) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring that we can conduct and increase our business. |
Legitimate interest means that we have reasonable grounds to process your personal information. Where the above table states that we rely on our legitimate interests for a given purpose, we are of the opinion that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests, rights or freedoms, given (i) the transparency we provide on the processing activity, (ii) our privacy by design approach, (iii) our regular privacy reviews and (iv) the rights you have in relation to the processing activity. If you wish to obtain further information on this balancing test approach, please contact our information officer or deputy information officer(s).
WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES?
We will only share your personal information if:
As specified by the above purposes, we may share your personal information with any of the parties mentioned below:
We may also share your information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of a website, a merger, consolidation, asset sale, initial public offering, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy.
We will not share your personal information to organisations outside the borders of South Africa that are not our service providers, unless business operations require the processing of your personal information in other countries, either to carry out processing based on your instructions or for ordinary business purposes. Any third party, who is located outside of South Africa and receives your personal information, will need to comply to either a law, or binding corporate rules or a binding agreement which states that they will provide an adequate level of protection to your personal information. This means that they have to agree to lawfully process your personal information and protect your personal information in the same manner as we do.
WHAT ABOUT SPECIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We do not generally seek to collect special personal information as defined in POPIA through our website or otherwise. In the limited cases where we do seek to collect such information, we will do this in accordance with legal requirements and/or ask for your consent.
STORAGE
We will store and keep your personal information according to the retention periods defined by law for legitimate business purposes and will take reasonably practicable steps to make sure that it is kept up to date and deleted and archived as appropriate.
We maintain specific records management and retention policies and procedures, so that personal information are deleted after a reasonable time. Refer our POLICY ON RETENTION AND DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS – [ITEM 2.3 OF OUR POPIA COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORK – MANDATORY ITEMS] for further details.
INFORMATION SECURITY
The security of your personal information is important to us. We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational measures to prevent loss, unauthorised destruction, damage or access to your personal information by unauthorised third parties. The security of your personal information is important to us. We make sure that we implement organisational and technical procedures to keep your personal information safe. We have protocols, controls and relevant policies, procedures and guidance to maintain these arrangements taking into account the risks associated with the categories of personal information and the processing we undertake.
Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of information over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure. We endeavour to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to or by us.
MARKETING BY ELECTRONIC MEANS
We would like to share information about our own products, services and special offers that are similar to the products or services used by you, via your preferred method of communication (as indicated to us), such as email, text message, social media platforms or notification on your mobile application. We may also share information with you about similar products, services and special offers of our partner companies.
If you have opted-in to receive marketing communications, you may always opt out at a later stage using the link shared below or clicking on the “Unsubscribe” option included in every marketing communication sent to you. You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your information to other members of our group.
If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please request for us to mark you as ‘No’ to Marketing by calling us on +27 (0) 87 230 0329 or emailing us on popia@signa.co.za.
USE OF COOKIES
Please refer our Cookie Policy.
YOUR RIGHTS
You are entitled (in the circumstances and under the conditions, and subject to the exceptions, set out in applicable law) to:
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may include:
This privacy statement does not apply to any third party websites which may be accessible through links on our website.
We do not make any representation and/or warranties about the privacy of any third party websites and do not accept any responsibility or liability for them. Third party website provides are responsible for informing users about their own privacy practises and we suggest that you review the privacy policies of any third party provides whose sites you access.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may update this Privacy Statement at any time by publishing an updated version here. To ensure that you know when we make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will amend the revision date. The new modified or amended Privacy Statement will apply from the revision date. Therefore, we encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to be informed about how we are using your information.
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