Privacy Policy Agreement

Last Updated: 28 May 2024

Simon Dippenaar & Associates Inc. (“we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.sdlaw.co.za (“Website”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Website.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

• Register on the Website.
• Contact us via email or through our contact forms.
• Subscribe to our newsletters or other communications.
• This information may include your name, email address, phone number, and any other details you provide.

2. Use of Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our Website.
• Improve, personalise, and expand our Website.
• Understand and analyse how you use our Website.
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
• Process your transactions and manage your orders.
• Send you emails.
• Find and prevent fraud.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

• By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

4. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

5. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal information.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

6. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at sdippenaar@sdlaw.co.za.