Acknowledging our privacy policy is vital, but it’s paramount that you comprehend all the terms and services prior to acceptance. We place great emphasis on ensuring the security of our website and protecting your personal data, utilizing a variety of safeguards. Therefore, your acceptance of our terms and services is a crucial prerequisite for using our site and its offerings.
How Do We Collect Information?
This section outlines the process applysassa.co.za employs in collecting and handling your personal information digitally when you sign up on our website for updates and services. Personal information refers to any data that is explicitly connected to you, such as your name and email address.
Here’s an overview of our data processing methods for the information you provide:
Comments Section
When a user leaves a comment on our website, their username appears alongside the message they wish to share. Upon approval of your comment, your message is made public in the comments section.
Media Files
If you choose to upload an image on our website, ensure that it doesn’t contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). This precaution prevents website visitors from extracting your location data from the images you post on the site.
Aggregated Data
We gather data for the purpose of analyzing overall site traffic and understanding the usage of our features. This information aids us in tracking visitor numbers and frequency to our site and its individual pages. The aggregated statistical reports derived from these traffic statistics allow us to better comprehend our site’s traffic, manage our platform, and troubleshoot potential issues. These statistics don’t contain any personally identifiable information about users.
IP Addresses
An IP address is a unique number that identifies a device on the internet, facilitating the exchange of information between devices on a network. Therefore, we may utilize IP addresses for analytical and performance reviews, given your consent or request.
Cookies
Cookies are tiny files that are generated by websites you visit and saved onto your computer via your web browser. These files allow the web server to distinguish one user from another. Many websites employ cookies when a user accesses the website, and most web browsers are set up to accept cookies by default. We utilize cookies solely to enhance your online experience, permitting data to persist only while your browser is open, much like a session cookie.
Google Analytics
For analytical purposes, we employ Google Analytics when you visit our site. This service, provided for free by Google, primarily collects data related to access, user behavior, and navigation to facilitate detailed traffic analysis. Google Analytics gathers data about your browser, operating system, gender, age, device category, mobile device details, country, user type, service provider, the site you visited before ours, number of users, new users, sessions, average session duration, average pages accessed per session, and user bounce rate. All this data is collected strictly for analytical purposes. Google Analytics does not collect any sensitive or personal information (such as email addresses or other personally identifiable information).
Reasons for Google Analytics Tool
Our objective is to refine our services and cater to your information needs in the most accurate manner possible. We achieve this by utilizing data related to publishing, news reporting, advertisements, and associated research and statistics. The goal is to comprehend your needs and desires so that we can tailor our content accordingly. Here’s why we use Google Analytics tools:
Google Adsense
Some of the advertisements you see may be delivered by Google. As a third-party provider, Google utilizes cookies to display ads on Applysassa.co.za. Google uses a specific type of cookie, known as DART, which tailors ads to users based on their activity on Applysassa.co.za and other internet sites. DART does not collect any personal identifiable information such as your name, email address, or physical location, instead, it works with “non-personally identifiable information.” Users have the option to opt out of the DART cookie by visiting Google’s ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. Applysassa.co.za does not have control or access to these third-party cookies used by third-party advertisers.
Privacy Policy and Data We Do Not Collect
We acknowledge and respect your privacy. It’s not our policy to gather any personal or sensitive information such as unauthorized third-party data. We proactively monitor user data to guard against any illicit activities and take steps to shield your information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized changes. User information (name and email) is kept secure in our databases, appearing only in the comments section.
Data Retention Policy
If you sign up on our website and leave a comment, your name and email will remain visible unless you choose to edit or remove them. While website administrators have the authority to delete your comments, they will not gather any additional information about you. You are always in control of your data, and can delete, edit, or update it at any time.
Changes To Our Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy may undergo occasional updates. In the event of any changes, we will inform you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on this page.
We will also notify you through an email or a highlighted announcement on our platform, before these changes take effect. The “Last updated” timestamp at the start of this Privacy Policy will be modified accordingly.
We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy at regular intervals to stay informed about any modifications. The changes to this Privacy Policy come into effect as soon as they are published on this page.