Privacy policy

Toyota Trader

Audience

This policy applies to all visitors to our Facebook pages as well as our website and customers who have subscribed to the services we offer (“you” and “your”).

Purpose of this policy

We adhere to all direct marketing laws and respect your privacy and take the protection of personal information seriously. The purpose of this policy is to describe the way we collect, store, use and protect information that can be associated with a specific natural or juristic person and can be used to identify that person (“personal information”). Personal information: includes

      • Certain information collected on registration ; and
      • information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person;
      • non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us and information that you have provided voluntarily in an open, public environment or forum including (without limitation) 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 information subject to protection under this policy.

Acceptance of terms

You must accept all the terms of this policy when you register for any of our services. If you do not agree with anything in this policy, then you may not register for and use any of the services. You may access our website but may not use our services if you are younger than 18 years old and do not have parental consent. By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all its terms.

Changes

We may change the terms of this policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website or by email. If you do not agree with the change you must stop using the services. If you continue to use the services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted such terms.

Collection

On submission of personal information

Once you submit your personal information on our website, you will no longer be anonymous to us as you will provide us with personal information.

This personal information may include:

      • Name, surname
      • Telephone number
      • Car Model, Year, Type etc.

Collection on us

In order to provide the services to you, you may be asked to provide us with additional information on a voluntary basis such as (“Service information”).

Purpose for collection

We may use any service information and optional information provided by you for such purposes as indicated to you at the time you agree to provide such optional information.

Consent to collection

We will obtain your consent to collect personal information: In accordance with applicable law; and at the time you provide us with any registration information and optional information.

Use

We may send messages regarding your request. In some cases, we may also send you primarily promotional messages. You can choose to opt-out of promotional messages.

Sharing

Our service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations (fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, technology services). Our contracts dictate that these service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit;

Credit bureaus to report account information, as permitted by law; Regulators. If you contact us regarding your experience with using any of our products, we may disclose your personal information as required of by law or governmental audit.

Law enforcement

We may disclose personal information if required:

      • by a subpoena or court order;
      • to comply with any law;
      • to protect the safety of any individual or the general public;
      • to prevent violation of our terms of service.

No selling

We will not sell personal information. No personal information will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this privacy policy.

Marketing purposes

We may disclose aggregate statistics (information about the customer population in general terms) about the personal information to advertisers or business partners.

Employees

We may need to disclose personal information to our employees that require the personal information to do their jobs.

Security of personal information

We protect your personal information using computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption to protect personal information, and we authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities.

At the time you provide us with any registration information and optional information.

Disclosure

Retention of personal information:

We will only retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes of your request:

      • retention of the record is required or authorised by law; or
      • you have consented to the retention of the record.

During the period of retention, we will continue to abide our non-disclosure obligations and will not share or sell your personal information.

Updating or removing

You may choose to correct or update the personal information you have submitted to us, by clicking the menu in any of the pages on our website.
Personal information will be removed from our servers within 14 working days upon receiving a request for the deletion of an account via official communication channels.

Limitation

We are not responsible for, give no warranties, nor make any representations in respect of the privacy policies or practices of any third-party websites.

Enquiries

If you have any questions or concerns arising from this privacy policy or the way in which we handle personal information, please contact us. complaints@shopinsure.co.za

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