Privacy
Notice
This Privacy Notice applies to personal information that Just Brands Africa (PTY) Ltd, Reg. 2013/228381/07, (‘Just Brands Africa’) may process in regard to any or all of the services contemplated by this notice directly, through and to the benefit of the platform TOPIC, or contracted third party affiliates which will be collected through this website: https://topic.co.za/ (‘website‘).
Just Brands Africa is committed to deal responsibly with your personal information. Just Brands Africa provide you with this privacy notice in order for you to make an informed decision about whether you want to use our website or not and/ or provide your personal information. The use of the website and the provision of any personal information is of your own volition.
Please note that by using our website you implicitly consent to this privacy notice and should you provide any personal information then you will be asked to make your consent explicit.
If you do not consent to this privacy notice you and proceed using the website, you consent will be taken as implicit.
1. Definition of Personal Information
According to the Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 (hereinafter referred to as ‘POPIA’), Personal information means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person, including, but not limited to –
- Information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, nationality, ethnic-or social-origin, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the person;
- Information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person;
- Any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier or other particular assignment to the person;
- The biometric information of the person;
- The personal opinions, views or preferences of the person;
- Correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence;
- The views or opinions of another individual about the person; and
The name of the person if it appears with other personal information relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the person.
2. How Just Brands Africa (PTY) collects, shares and stores information
To the extent permissible under POPIA and any other applicable law, Just Brands Africa collects, shares and stores information about you and any other party whose detail you provide to us when you:
- use our online services; this may include your name (including business name),
- address, email address and telephone number;
- register to use our applications;
- provide us with testimonials; and
- interact with us using social media.
The list above is non-exhaustive and may form the basis for any incidental processing deriving thereof.
3. How Just Brands Africa (PTY) uses your information
Just Brands Africa (PTY) will only use personal information that you provide through this website for the purposes for which you provided it. To the extent permissible by law and POPIA, Just Brands Africa (PTY) uses your information to:
- provide any information or services that you have requested;
- manage and administer your use of the services you have asked us to provide;
- manage our relationship with you (for example, customer services and support activities);
- detect and prevent illegal or prohibited activities or to otherwise protect our legal rights (including liaison with law enforcement agencies for these purposes);
- contact you to see if you would like to take part in our customer research;
- deliver electronic communications to you which may be useful to you, based on your use of our services; and
- assist Just Brands Africa improve the functionality and content of the website
4. Securing your information
Just Brands Africa has reasonable security measures in place to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, being altered or being destroyed and Just Brands Africa regularly check our systems for vulnerabilities.
5. Social media platforms and external links
Our website makes use of links to other platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like, and you should be aware that those platforms are governed by their own privacy procedures that Just Brands Africa has no control over.
6. Child users
Just Brands Africa (PTY) may amend this privacy notice at any time. The amended privacy notice will be posted on this website and the current notice will replace all previous versions of this notice. It is your responsibility to make yourself familiar with the content of this notice when you visit our website.
7. Changes to the Privacy Notice
The Just Brands Africa (PTY) Ltd may provide links to other websites or resources. This does not imply the Just Brands Africa (PTY) Ltd’s endorsement of such sites. The Just Brands Africa (PTY) Ltd does not have any control over these websites and will, therefore, not be liable for any damages whatsoever arising from the utilisation of these websites by users.
The Just Brands Africa (PTY) Ltd does not prohibit third-party sites to link to publicly visible content on this website. However, it is expressly prohibited for any third party to frame any page on this website in any way whatsoever without the prior written approval of the Just Brands Africa (PTY) Ltd.
How to contact us
Information Officer:
Francois van Louw
E: francois@jbafrica.com
T: +27 73 102 4961
Deputy Information Officers:
Nicholas Manuel
E: nick@jbafrica.com
T: +27 76 546 7153
Ben Henning
E: ben@jbafrica.com
T: +27 63 802 2173
Nicholas Curtin
E: nicholas@jbafrica.com
T: +27 81 454 9493