Privacy Policy | Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Your privacy is critically important to us.

Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Physical address: 1 Canal Close, Century Falls Road, Century City, 7441
P O Box 204, Cape Town, South Africa, 8000
General email: info@capechamber.co.za
Telephone: +27 21 402 4300

It is Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://capechamber.co.za (hereinafter referred to as “us” or “we”.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on the website. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s websites choose to interact with Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry in ways that require Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

Depending on how you interact with us, the personal data we collect may include:

your first and last name, email address, job title/position, company name, postal address, phone number, mobile number and other contact information;
log-in and account information for authentication purposes and account access;
your marketing preferences;
demographic data such as your gender, age, country and preferred language;
data about how you and your PC or device interact with the Chamber, including web pages you visit when you use our websites and device, connectivity and configuration data; and
any other information reasonably required in order to enable the Chamber to render its services adequately and efficiently.

We do not generally collect sensitive personal data about you, including information relating to your health, religion, political beliefs, race or sexual orientation, except with your consent or unless we are required to do so by law.

If we link other data with your personal data, we will treat that linked data as personal data.

Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, however, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links to External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Https://capechamber.co.za uses Google AdWords for remarketing
Https://capechamber.co.za uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that
(i) need to know that information in order to process it on Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s behalf or to provide services available at Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s website, and
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://capechamber.co.za and have supplied your email address, Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics
Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalised content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry uses cookies to help Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry identify and track visitors, their usage of https://capechamber.co.za, and their website access preferences. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s use of cookies.

E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry – by purchasing Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s sole discretion. Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email: info@capechamber.co.za or phone : +27 21 402 4300.