Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd Privacy Policy

Please take a few minutes and review our privacy policy. If you have any questions, please contact us. If you do not accept this revised policy, Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may not be able to provide you with our services. Accordingly, you may close your account.

This privacy policy describes how the Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd website, tools, applications, and services (“Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd”) handle your personal information. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd collects, uses, and shares personal information to help Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd work and to keep Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd safe (details below).

Binding Corporate Rules. In addition to the privacy practices set out in this Privacy Policy, Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd, has established a set of Corporate Rules (also referred to as Binding Corporate Rules), approved by a number of European Union privacy regulators. These Corporate Rules are a commitment by Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd, to adequately protect your personal information regardless of where the data resides, and depending upon your location, may provide additional privacy rights through your privacy regulator or a court. If you would like additional information regarding the Corporate Rules contact us via the contact details below.

Collection.

Information posted on Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd is obviously publicly available. Our servers are located in South Africa, European Union, and elsewhere in the world where Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd has facilities. Therefore, if you choose to provide us with personal information, you are consenting to Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd’s collection, use, disclosure of your personal information and to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers in South Africa, the Europe Union and elsewhere in the world where Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd has facilities. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd collects and stores the following personal information:

• email address,
• phone numbers,
• physical contact information,
• and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information;
• computer sign-on data,
• statistics on page views,
• traffic to and from Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd and ad data (all through cookies - you can take steps to disable the cookies on your browser although this is likely to affect your ability to use the site);
• other information, including users IP address and standard web log information.

Use.

Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd uses users’ personal information to:

• provide our services
• resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
• encourage safe trading and enforce our policies;
• customize, measure, and improve user experience and our services, content, and advertising deliver targeted marketing, service updates and promotional offers to you according to your preferences;
• do other things for users as described when Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd collects the information.

Disclosure.

Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd doesn’t sell or rent users’ personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without users explicit consent. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a posting or other content violates other’s rights, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may also share personal information with:

• corporate affiliates who help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint services. (Our corporate affiliates will market only to users who ask them to).
• service providers who help with our business operations.
• third-party websites and publishers so ads (or the content of the ads) published on Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd can also be published on a broader array of venues or information vehicles.

Registration and sharing through third-party services.

Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may offer single sign-on services that allow you to use third party login credentials to sign into Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd, With your permission, Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may also transfer profile information contained in your third-party profile. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may also, for your use, enable you to import information about who you are connected, as well as enable you to share information with those third-party sites (other than listings), at your discretion. If you wish to discontinue such sharing, you will be able to do so through your preference page.

Communications and email tools.

You agree to receive marketing communications from us unless you tell us that you prefer not to receive such communications. If you don’t wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate your preference by following directions provided with the communication. You may not use our site or communication tools to harvest addresses, send spam or otherwise breach our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may automatically scan and manually filter email messages sent via our communication tools for malicious activity or prohibited content, but Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd does not permanently store such messages. If you use our tools to send content to a friend, Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd doesn’t permanently store your friends’ addresses or use or disclose them for marketing purposes. To report spam from other users, please contact customer support.

Access, Modification, and Deletion.

You can see, modify or erase most of your personal information by reviewing and modifying your posting or account status page, by signing on to “Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd” or by contacting customer support to review any personal information Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd stores that is not available on Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd. There may be a charge associated with such requests but these will not exceed the amounts permitted by law. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd deletes personal information when Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd no longer need it for the purposes we described earlier. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd retains personal information as permitted by law to resolve disputes, enforce our policies; and prevent bad guys from coming back. If you have further questions, you can write to the Data Controller admin@alpha.ubermedia.co.za or you may contact customer support.

Transfer of Personal Data to Other Companies.

We may share your information with members of the Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd corporate family, to provide joint content and services (like registration, transactions and customer support), to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies, and to guide decisions about their products, services and communications. Members of our corporate family will use this information to send you marketing communications only if you’ve requested their services.

Security.

Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd uses lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security) to protect your personal information against unauthorised access and disclosure, but as you probably know, nothing’s perfect, so Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd makes no guarantees.

Cookies.

Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd or our service providers may use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of our pages to help analyse our web page flow; customise our services, content and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

• Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd offers certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
• Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd uses cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
• You are always free to decline cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services. For more information on your choices about accepting cookies, consult your browser help function.
• Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd sometimes work with service providers who may place cookies on your computer to serve and measure the effectiveness of ads on our or our advertising partners behalf and collect anonymous information about how you use websites owned by Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd and its affiliates. This information allows them to help us customise our content and advertising. Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd does not allow these companies to collect any personal information about you using these cookies. For more information about why we use cookies, see Cookies, Web Beacons, and Your Privacy.

General.

Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may update this policy at any time, with updates taking effect when you next use the site or after 30 days, whichever is sooner. If Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd or our corporate affiliates are involved in a merger or acquisition, Ubermedia (Pty) Ltd may share personal information with another company, but this policy will continue to apply. Send questions about this policy to customer support.