Introduction
Welcome to our privacy policy. This is our plan of action when it comes to protecting your privacy. We respect your privacy and take the protection of personal data very seriously. The purpose of this policy is to describe the way that we collect, store, use, and protect data that can be associated with you or another specific natural or juristic person and can be used to identify you or that person (personal data).
Who we are
Mahlori fasteners
Our website address is: https://mahlorifasteners.com
Audience
This policy applies to you if you are:
a visitor to our website; or a customer who has ordered the goods or services that we provide.
Personal data
Personal data includes:
certain information that we collect automatically when you visit our website;
certain information collected on registration (see below);
certain information collected on submission; and optional information that you provide to us voluntarily (see below);
Personal data excludes:
information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person;
permanently de-identified information that does not relate or cannot be traced back to you specifically;
non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us; and information that you have provided voluntarily in an open, public environment or forum including any blog, chat room, community, classifieds, or discussion board (because the information has been disclosed in a public forum, it is no longer confidential and does not constitute personal data subject to protection under this policy).
Common examples
Common examples of the types of personal data which we may collect and process include your:
identifying information – such as your name, date of birth, or identification number of any kind;
contact information – such as your phone number or email address;
address information – such as your physical or postal address;
Sensitive personal data
Depending on the goods or services that you require, we may also collect sensitive personal data like your bank account details.
Acceptance
Acceptance required
You must accept all the terms of this policy when you order or use any of our goods or services, or our website – https://mahlorifasteners.com/. You may not order or use any of our goods or services, or our website if you do not accept this policy.
Legal capacity
You may not access our website to order our goods or services if you are younger than 18 years old or do not have legal capacity to conclude legally binding contracts.
Deemed acceptance
By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of its terms.
Your obligations
You may only send us your own personal data or the personal data of another data subject where you have their permission to do so.
Changes
Mahlori fasteners may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating this web page. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website or by sending you an email detailing the changes that we have made and indicating the date that they were last updated. If you do not agree with the changes, then you must stop using the website, and our goods or services. If you continue to use the website or our goods or services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted those updated terms.
Collection
On registration
Once you register on our website, you will no longer be anonymous to us. You will provide us with certain personal data.
This personal data may include:
- your name and surname
- your email address
- your telephone number
- your company name, company registration number, and VAT number
- your postal address or street address
- your username and password
- Mahlori fasteners will use this personal data to fulfil your account, provide additional services and information to you as we reasonably think appropriate, and for any other purposes set out in this policy.
On order
When you order any goods or services from Mahlori fasteners, you will be asked to provide us with additional information on a voluntary basis (goods information or services information).
Reseller
When you become one of our resellers, you will be asked to provide us with additional information on a voluntary basis (services information).
From browser
We automatically receive and record Internet usage information on our server logs from your browser, such as your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browsing habits, click patterns, version of software installed, system type, screen resolutions, colour capabilities, plug-ins, language settings, cookie preferences, search engine keywords, JavaScript enablement, the content and pages that you access on the website, and the dates and times that you visit the website, paths taken, and time spent on sites and pages within the website (usage information).
Please note that other websites visited before entering our website might place personal data within your URL during a visit to it, and we have no control over such websites. Accordingly, a subsequent website that collects URL information may log some personal data.
Cookies
Mahlori fasteners may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal data, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal data with a certain device. These files serve a number of useful purposes for you, including:
tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences;
improving how our website performs online; allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and helping us deliver targeted advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.
Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. However, no longer accepting cookies or deleting them will prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary.
Third party cookies
Some of our business partners use their own cookies or widgets on our website. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.
Optional details
You may also provide additional information to us on a voluntary basis (optional information). This includes content or products that you decide to upload or download from our website or when you enter competitions, take advantage or promotions, respond to surveys, order certain additional goods or services, or otherwise use the optional features and functionality of our website.
Recording calls
Mahlori fasteners may monitor and record any telephone calls that you make to us. We will delete the recording at your request.
Purpose for collection
Mahlori fasteners may use or process any goods information, services information, or optional information that you provide to us for the purposes that you indicated when you agreed to provide it to us.
Processing includes gathering your personal data, disclosing it, and combining it with other personal data. We generally collect and process your personal data for various purposes, including:
- goods purposes – such as collecting orders for, supplying, and supporting our goods;
- services purposes – such as providing our services;
- marketing purposes – such as pursuing lawful related marketing activities;
- business purposes – such as internal audit, accounting, business planning, and joint ventures, disposals of business, or other proposed and actual transactions; and legal purposes – such as handling claims, complying with regulations, or pursuing good governance.
- Mahlori fasteners may use your usage information for the purposes described above and to:
remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the website;
monitor website usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities in connection with your usage of the website.
Consent to collection
Mahlori fasteners will obtain your consent to collect personal data:
in accordance with applicable law;
when you provide us with any registration information or optional information.
How do we protect your information?
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
We use a SSL certificate in order to keep user data secure, verify ownership of the website, prevent attackers from creating a fake version of the site
Privacy by design
When we decide to develop a new product or start a new activity that involves the processing of personal data, we take the privacy and data protection laws and principles into account and try to build them into the product or activity.
Use
Our obligations
We may use your personal data to fulfil our obligations to you.
Messages and updates
We may send administrative messages and email updates to you about our service. In some cases, we may also send you primarily promotional messages. You can choose to opt-out of promotional messages.
Targeted content
While you are logged into the website, we may display targeted adverts and other relevant information based on your personal data. In a completely automated process, computers process the personal data and match it to adverts or related information. We never share personal data with any advertiser, unless you specifically provide us with your consent to do so. Advertisers receive a record of the total number of impressions and clicks for each advert. They do not receive any personal data. If you click on an advert, we may send a referring URL to the advertiser’s website identifying that a customer is visiting from the website. We do not send personal data to advertisers with the referring URL. Once you are on the advertiser’s website however, the advertiser is able to collect your personal data.
Disclosure
Sharing
We may share your personal data with:
other divisions or companies within the group of companies to which we belong so as to provide joint content and services like registration, for transactions and customer support, to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies, and to guide decisions about our products, services, and communications (they will only use this information to send you marketing communications if you have requested their goods or services); an affiliate, in which case we will seek to require the affiliates to honour this privacy policy; our goods suppliers or service providers under contract who help supply certain goods or help with parts of our business operations, including fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, technology services (our contracts dictate that these goods suppliers or service providers only use your information in connection with the goods they supply or services they perform for us and not for their own benefit); credit bureaus to report account information, as permitted by law; banking partners as required by credit card association rules for inclusion on their list of terminated merchants (in the event that you utilise the services to receive payments and you meet their criteria); and other third parties who provide us with relevant services where appropriate.
Regulators
We may disclose your personal data as required by law or governmental audit.
Law enforcement
We may disclose personal data if required:
- by a subpoena or court order;
to comply with any law; - to protect the safety of any individual or the general public; and
- to prevent violation of our terms of service.
No selling – Personal data
We will not sell personal data. No personal data will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this privacy policy.
Information Marketing purposes
We may disclose aggregate statistics (information about the customer population in general terms) about the personal data to advertisers or business partners.
Unauthorised disclosure
We cannot accept any liability whatsoever for unauthorised or unlawful disclosure of your personal data by third parties who are not subject to our control.
Data breaches
We will notify our customers of any confirmed data breaches that has occurred. It is our customers’ responsibility to notify relevant supervisory authority and any affected data subjects of the data breach.
Limitation
We are not responsible for, give no warranties, nor make any representations in respect of the privacy policies or practices of linked or any third-party websites.
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en
We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:
Demographics and Interests Reporting
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt. Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt. Out Browser add on.
CAN SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
- To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honour opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at charles@mahlorifasteners.com and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Enquiries
If you have any questions or concerns arising from this privacy policy, please contact us on charles@mahlorifasteners.com
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
Mahlori fasteners
Unit 24 Moddercrest Office Park
1 High Street
Modderfontein
Gauteng
South Africa
Contact – charles@mahlorifasteners.comhttps://mahlorifasteners.com/