This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from everydayoffers.co.za.


What Personal Information We Collect

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

  • Personal Data - Personally identifiable information, such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as online chat and message boards. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site.
  • Derivative Data - Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
  • Financial Data - Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g. valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor, Payfast, and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
  • Facebook Permissions - The Site may by default access your Facebook basic account information, including your name, email, gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other information that you choose to make public. We may also request access to other permissions related to your account, such as friends, checkins, and likes, and you may choose to grant or deny us access to each individual permission. For more information regarding Facebook permissions, refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference page.
  • Data From Social Networks - User information from social networking sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, including your name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account to such social networks.
  • Mobile Device Data - Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the Site from a mobile device.
  • Third-Party Data - Information from third parties, such as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the third party and grant the Site permission to access this information.
  • Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys - Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.


How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site. We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).

Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

  • Communicate with you in general
  • Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud
  • Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties
  • Create and manage your account
  • Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you
  • Email you regarding your account or order
  • Enable user-to-user communications
  • Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the Site
  • Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits to the Site more personalized
  • Increase the efficiency and operation of the Site
  • Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site
  • Notify you of updates to the Site
  • Offer new products, services, mobile applications, and/or recommendations to you
  • Perform other business activities as needed
  • Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity
  • Process payments and refunds
  • Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Site
  • Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems
  • Respond to product and customer service requests
  • Send you a newsletter
  • Solicit support for the Site


Sharing Your Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use everydayoffers.co.za. When you post reviews, comments, contributions or other content to the Site, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.


Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. When you access the Site, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site. You may not decline web beacons. However, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered, permitting you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.


Internet-Based Advertising

We may use third-party software to serve ads on the Site, implement email marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us.


Website Analytics

We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as Cloudfare, Google Analytics and others, to allow tracking technologies and re-marketing services on the Site through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyse and track users’ use of the Site, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor.


Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Site.


Security Of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorised parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.


Behavioural Advertising

We use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. You can of course opt out of targeted advertising by unsubscribing from our newsletter.


Your Rights

You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information is corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us. Additionally, we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.


Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.


Minors

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 years.


Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.


If you have questions and/or require more information, do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected]