PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to the Nexus^AG‘s privacy policy.

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how NexusAG collects and processes your Personal Information.

In terms of our website – this website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing Personal Information about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

1. Important information and who we are

a) Responsible Party: NexusAG (Pty) Ltd is the Responsible Party and responsible for your Personal Information (collectively referred to as “NexusAG”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).

b) Contact details

i) If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our Information Officer in the following ways:

1. 1. 1. 1. Full name of legal entity: NexusAG (Pty) Limited
         2. Email address: info@nexusag.net
         3. Postal address: PO Box 3549, Paarl, 7620
         4. Telephone number: 021-860 8040

ii) You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Regulator’s office (IR), the Republic of South Africa’s authority for data protection issues (http://www.justice.gov.za/inforeg/). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the IR so please contact us in the first instance.

c) Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes

i) Any changes made to our Privacy Policy in future will be posted on our website. The new version will apply the moment it is published on our website.
ii) It is important that the Personal Information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your Personal Information changes during your relationship with us.

d) Third-party links: This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

2. The data we collect about you
Personal information means the information as per the Definitions. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Information about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• • Identity Data includes [first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender].
  • Contact Data includes [billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers].
  • Financial Data includes [bank account and payment card details].
  • Transaction Data includes [details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us].
  • Technical Data includes [internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website].
  • Profile Data includes [your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses].
  • Usage Data includes [information about how you use our website, products and services].
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes [your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences].

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your Personal Information but is not considered Personal Information in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your Personal Information so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as Personal Information which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not collect any Special Personal information about you.

Submission of Personal Information on behalf of another: If you provide information on behalf of someone else, then it is your responsibility to obtain the necessary consent from the person/ User before making the Personal Information available to us. On receipt of Personal Information we assume that the necessary consent has been obtained and will process the Personal Information as per your instructions. By submitting such Personal Information on behalf of another person/ User, you indemnify us against any third-party claim, where such third party claim relates to Personal Information that has been processed without the necessary consent or other available exception allowed by law.

If you fail to provide Personal Information: Where we need to collect Personal Information by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services (including services for no charge)). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. How is your Personal Information collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

a) Direct interactions. You may give us your [Identity, Contact and Financial Data] by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by [post], phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Information you provide when you apply for our products or services;

• • • create an account (login facility) on our website (where available);
    • subscribe to our service or publications (i.e. newsletters);
    • request marketing to be sent to you;
    • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
    • give us feedback or contact us.

b) Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this Personal Information by using cookies (see section 4) below), server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.

c) Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive Personal Information about you from various third parties [and public sources] as set out below

• • • Technical Data from the following parties:
      1. analytics providers such as Google;
      2. advertising networks; and
      3. search information providers.
    • Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
    • Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators.
    • Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as CIPC.

4. Cookies

a) Our Sites make use of cookies to help us understand our users better. Cookies are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. Cookies do not harm your computer or any files on your computer. Depending on the type of cookie we use, cookies also allow us to make our websites more user friendly.

b) NexusAG may use third party vendors, including but not limited to Google and MSN/ Bing to show NexusAG-related ads on sites on the internet. Third party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to Our sites or other websites. Users may opt-out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google Advertising Settings Page or the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page for other third-party vendors’ use of cookies.

c) You should be able to adjust your browser so that your computer does not accept cookies. If you do this, you will still be able to browse the website but the functions that allow you to access an existing account or page that requires a username or password will not be available.

d) You can, alternatively, adjust your browser to notify you when a website attempts to put a cookie on your computer. How you adjust your browser to stop it accepting, or to notify you of, cookies will depend on the type of internet browser programme your computer uses.

e) Please remember, cookies do not contain Identity, Contacts, Financial Information. We do not exchange cookies with any third-party websites or external data suppliers

5. How we use your Personal Information

a) We will not sell your Personal Information.

b) We will only use your Personal Information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

i) Where you have consented to it; or
ii) Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;
iii) Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests; or
iv) Where we need to comply with a legal obligation

c) Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your Personal Information although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us. However take note that reference to “consent”, “your consent” or “your explicit consent” shall include the ticking of a tick box or clicking on a “submit” button or “I agree” button on our sites.

d) Purposes for which we will use your Personal Information

i) We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your Personal Information, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
ii) Note that we may process your Personal Information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your Personal Information where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

e) Marketing: We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain Personal Information uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

i) Promotional offers from us

• • • 1. We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
      2. You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or acquired goods or services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

ii) Third-party marketing

• • • 1. We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your Personal Information with any third party for marketing purposes.
      2. TAKE NOTE: We may provide (without your consent) third party marketing parties/advertisers with anonymous aggregate information about our users (for example, We may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on a specific product or advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in Gauteng). We may make use of the Personal Information we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience. IMPORTANT: We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers.

iii) Opting out

1. 1. 1. 1. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time [by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences OR by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time].
         2. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to Personal Information provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.

iv) Cookies: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

f) Change of purpose

i) We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
ii) If we need to use your Personal Information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
iii) Please note that we may process your Personal Information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

6. Disclosures of your Personal Information

a) We may share your Personal Information with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above.

i) Internal Third Parties as set out in the Definitions. Where we share your Personal Information to our group we ensure your Personal Information is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow this policy when processing your Personal Information.
ii) External Third Parties as set out in the Definitions.

7. International transfers

a) Some of our external third parties may be based outside the RSA so
their processing of your Personal Information could involve a transfer of data outside the RSA.

b) Whenever we transfer your Personal Information out of the RSA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented

 i) We will only transfer your Personal Information to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Information.
ii) Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts which give Personal Information substantially similar protection it has in the RSA.
iii) Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide protection to Personal Information similar to POPI Act.

c) By submitting your Personal Information to us you consent to the transfer of Personal Information outside the borders of the RSA (when required).

8. Data security

a) We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your Personal Information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

b) We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Information breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

9. Data retention

How long will you use my Personal Information for?

a) We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your Personal Information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

b) To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

c) In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see [your legal rights] below for further information.

d) In some circumstances we will anonymise your Personal Information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

10. Social Media

a) Our website(s) may, in certain circumstances, provide you with social plug-ins from various social media networks. If you choose to interact with a social network such as Facebook or Twitter (for example by registering an account), your activity on our websites will also be made available to that social network. This is necessary for the performance of your contract with Us which allows you to interact with a social network.

b) If you are logged in on one of these social networks during your visit to one of our websites or are interacting with one of the social plug-ins, the social network might add this information to your respective profile on this network based on your privacy settings. If you would like to prevent this type of information transfer, please log out of your social network account before you enter one of our websites, or change the necessary privacy settings, where possible.

c) Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media networks that we participate in are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

d) You are advised to use social media networks wisely and communicate/engage with them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy policies (if any). PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL NEVER ASK FOR PERSONAL OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS AND ENCOURAGE USERS, WISHING TO DISCUSS SENSITIVE DETAILS OR TO RESOLVE ISSUES/CONCERNS, TO CONTACT US THROUGH PRIMARY COMMUNICATION CHANNELS SUCH AS BY TELEPHONE OR EMAIL.

e) Our social media network page(s) may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy URL’s. You are advised to exercise caution and due care before clicking on any shortened URL’s published on social media platforms by this website. Despite our best efforts to ensure that only genuine URL’s are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore our website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

11. Your legal rights

a) Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Information:

i) Request access to your Personal Information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). Currently you have this right under the PAI Act. There may be a fee associated with this request – see below. This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

ii) Request correction of the Personal Information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

iii) Request erasure of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your Personal Information to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

iv) Object to processing of your Personal Information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

v) Request restriction of processing of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your Personal Information in the following scenarios:

1. 1. 1. 1. If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy.
         2. Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
         3. Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
         4. You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

vi) Request the transfer of your Personal Information to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

vii) Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Information. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

b) If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please use the contact details under paragraph 1).

c) Fee required: Apart from the prescribed fees under the PAI Act, you will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

d) What we may need from you: We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

e) Time limit to respond: We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

12. Definitions

a) Data Subject means the person to whom Personal Information relates and, in this document, refers to you, as the party providing Personal Information that will be processed by NexusAG or a relevant third party.

b) Information Officer: a person appointed to manage and coordinate the obligations under the PAI Act and the POPI Act that may apply to NexusAG.

c) Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your Personal Information for our legitimate interests. We do not use your Personal Information for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

d) Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

e) PAI Act means the Promotion of Access to information Act 2 of 2000.

f) Personal Information means information as defined under the POPI Act.

g) POPI Act means the Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013.

h) Special Personal Information means information as defined under section 26 of the POPI Act (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and biometric information or criminal convictions and offences.

i) THIRD PARTIES

i) Internal Third Parties: Other companies in the NexusAG Group [acting as joint responsible parties or operators] and who are based [SPECIFIC COUNTRIES] and provide [IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting].

ii) External Third Parties

• • • 1. Service providers acting as operators who provide IT and system administration services.
      2. Professional advisers acting as operators or joint Responsible Parties, including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
      3. The South African Revenue Services, regulators and other authorities acting as operators or joint Responsible Parties based in the Republic of South Africa who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
      4. Court of law or any other authority where we have an obligation under law to share your Personal Information;
      5. In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your Personal Information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.