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Privacy Policy


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1

Introduction

1.1 This privacy policy explains how we will treat your personal information.
1.2 By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2

Collection of personal information

2.1 We may collect, store and use the following:
(a) Information about your computer, your visits, and use of this website, including your IP address, Geographical location, browser and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
(b) Information you provide to us when registering/filling out forms on this website;
(c) Information you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notification sand/or newsletters;
(d) Information that you provide to us when using the services on our website;
(e) Information relating to any purchases you make of our goods/ services;
(f) Any other personal information that you choose to send to us;
2.2 Before you disclose personal information of another person, you must obtain consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that information in accordance with this policy.

3

Use of personal information

3.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
3.2 We may use your personal information to:
(a) Administer the Auto Pedigree website and business;
(b) Personalise the Auto Pedigree website for you;
(c) Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(d) Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(e) Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it;
(f) Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
(g) Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
(h) Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
(i) Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website;
3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
3.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
3.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.

4

Disclosing of personal information

4.1 We may disclose your personal information to [any of our employees, officers,insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors] insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies(this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.3 We may disclose your personal information:
(a) To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d) [To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are(or are contemplating) selling; and]
(e) [To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.]
4.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

5

International data transfers

5.1 Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
5.2 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.

6

Retaining of personal information

6.1 This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
6.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3 Not withstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a) To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

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Security of personal information

7.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
7.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password-and firewall-protected) servers.
7.3 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

8

Amendments

8.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website without notice.

9

Your rights

9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you;provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.
9.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
9.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
9.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purpose.

10

Third party websites

10.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
10.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

11

Updating of information

11.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

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Cookies

12.1 Our website uses cookies.
12.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers)that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
12.3 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session,when the web browser is closed.
12.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
12.5 We use only session cookies on our website.
12.6 The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

We use session cookies on our website to recognise a computer or device when a user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a vehicle shortlisting on the website / improve the website's usability / analyse the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalise the website for each user / target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users.
12.7 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
(a) In Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
(b) In Firefox (version 36) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools","Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and un-ticking "Accept cookies from sites";
(c) In Chrome (version 41), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
12.8 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
12.9 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
12.10 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
(a) In Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at https://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11 );
(b) In Firefox (version 36), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools","Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies";
(c) In Chrome (version 41), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking"Clear browsing data
12.11 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

13

Our details

13.1 This website is owned and operated by Auto Pedigree.
13.2 We are registered in South Africa under registration number 1983/009088/06 and our registered office is at 81 Steel Road, Spartan, Kempton Park, 1619.
13.3 Our principal place of business is at 81 Steel Road, Spartan, Kempton Park, 1619.
13.4 You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by email to [email protected] or by telephone on 011 230 9000.

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Credit

14.1 This document was created using a template from SEQLegal.

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