Who we are
Our website address is: https://modernmagnets.co.za.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirementsWebsite Privacy Policy
The Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (“POPI”) came into complete
commencement on 1 July 2021, in this regard we have a number of obligations
and duties in terms of POPI that we must comply with. The protection of your
personal information is a high priority for us, and we have taken steps to ensure
that your personal information is protected and remains private.
Our company is an early adopter to initiatives of greater transparency and
control for users. In addition to this document serving as our privacy policy, this
document will also serve as our data subject notification as contemplated in
section 18 of POPI. In this regard, this document will inform you of what personal
information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it and what safety
measures are in place to protect it.
Where we refer to “process”, it means how we collect, use, store, make available,
destroy, update, disclose, or otherwise deal with your personal information. As a
general rule we will only process your personal information if this is required to
deliver or offer a service, provide a product or carry out a transaction.
We may combine your personal information and use the combined personal
information for any of the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.
In this document any reference to “we” or “us” or “our” is reference Modern
Magnets (Pty) Ltd. More information about the business can be accessed by
visiting our website: https://modernmagnets.co.za.
If you use our services, goods and/or products, you agree that we may process
your personal information as explained under this Privacy Policy.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time if the law or our business
practices requires it. The version of the Privacy Policy displayed on our website at
the time of your interaction with us will be applicable.
What Is Personal Information?
Personal information refers to any information that identifies you or specifically
relates to you. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, the following
information about you:
Age Financial history Personal views
Belief Gender Physical address
Birth Identity number Physical health
Biometric Language Pregnancy
Colour Location information Race
Conscience Marital Status Religion
Correspondence Mental Health Sex
Criminal history Medical History Sexual orientation
Culture Name Social origin
Disability National Origin Symbol
Education Online identifier Telephone number
E-mail address Other particular assignment Well-being
Employment history Personal opinions
Ethnic origin Personal preferences
Is the Supply of Personal Information Voluntary or Mandatory?
The supply of certain personal information is mandatory, meaning we have to
collect this personal information from you by law. If you do not supply this
information, we cannot comply with our legal obligations. In this regard, if you do
not supply this personal information, we cannot do business with you. We collect
personal information as is required by the following legislation:
Basic Conditions of Employment Act, No 75 of 1997
Continuing Education and Training Act (previously known as Further Education
and Training Colleges Act) 16 of 2006
Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, No. 130 of 1993
Credit Agreement Act, No. 75 of 1980
The Criminal Procedure Act, No. 51 of 1977
Debt Collectors Act, No. 114 of 1998
Employment Equity Act, No. 55 of 1998
Financial Intelligence Centre Act, No. 38 of 2001
Higher Education Act 101 of 1997
Income Tax Act 58 of 1962
Labour Relations Act, No 66 of 1995
National Credit Act, No. 34 of 2005
NQF Act No 67 of 2008
Pension Funds Act, No. 24 of 1956
Skills Development Act 97 of 1998
Unemployment Insurance Act, No. 63 of 2001
Financial Advisory and Intermediary Service Act, No. 37 of 2002
Occupational Health and Safety Act No. 85 of 1993
Prevention of Organised Crime Act No. 121 of 1998
In other instances, the supply of personal information is voluntary, which means
there is no law imposed on us to collect this personal information. Even though
there is no law that imposes the collection of the personal information, we
require the personal information to deliver the products and/or services to you. In
this regard, if you do not supply the personal information, we cannot do business
with you.
When will we process your Personal Information?
We will only process your personal information for lawful purposes relating to our
business if the following applies:
if you have consented thereto.
if a person legally authorised by you, the law, or a court, has
consented thereto.
if it is necessary to conclude or perform under a contract, we have with you.
if the law requires or permits it.
if it is required to protect or pursue your, our or a third party’s
legitimate interest.
What is Special Personal Information?
Special personal information is personal information about the following:
Biometric information Philosophical beliefs
Criminal behaviour Political persuasion
Ethnic origin Race
Health Religious beliefs
Sex life Trade union membership
When will we process your Special Personal Information?
We may process your special personal information in the following
circumstances:
if you have consented to the processing.
if the information is being used for any Human resource or
payroll requirement.
if the processing is needed to create, use, or protect a right or obligation
in law.
if the processing is for statistical or research purposes and all legal
conditions are met.
if the special personal information was made public by you.
if the processing is required by law.
if racial information is processed, and the processing is required to identify
you; and / or if health information is processed, and the processing is to
determine your insurance risk, or to comply with an insurance policy or to
enforce an insurance right or obligation.
When and from where we obtain Personal Information about you?
We may collect personal information about you from the following sources:
We may collect personal information directly from you.
We may collect personal information from a public record.
We may collect personal information from an area where you have
deliberately made it public.
We may collect information about you based on your use of our
products, services, or service channels.
We may collect information about you based on how you engage or
interact with us such as via our support desk, emails, letters, telephone calls
and surveys.
We may collect personal information from a third party.
We may collect personal information from another source if you give us
consent to do so.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the
comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent
string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your
email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service
to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available
here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment,
your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images
with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website
can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name,
email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so
that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another
comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your
browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is
discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login
information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days,
and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your
login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login
cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your
browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post
ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images,
articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact
same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional
third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded
content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if
you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If the law requires us to do so, we will ask for your consent before collecting
personal information about you from third parties.
The third parties from whom we may collect your personal information include,
but are not limited to, the following:
Partners of our company for any of the purposes identified in this
Privacy Policy.
your spouse, dependents, partners, employer, and other similar sources.
attorneys, tracing agents, debt collectors and other persons that assist with
the enforcement of agreements.
payment processing services providers, merchants, banks, and other
persons that assist with the processing of your payment instructions, like EFT
transaction partners.
insurers, brokers, other financial institutions, or other organisations that
assist with insurance and assurance underwriting, the providing of
insurance and assurance policies and products, the assessment of
insurance and assurance claims and other related purposes.
law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies and other persons tasked
with the prevention and prosecution of crime;
regulatory authorities, industry ombudsman, governmental departments,
local and international tax authorities.
trustees, Executors or Curators appointed by a court of law.
our service providers, agents and sub-contractors like couriers and other
persons we use to offer and provide products and services to you.
courts of law or tribunals.
Reasons we need to process your Personal Information
We will process your personal information for the following reasons:
to provide you with products, goods, and services
to market our products, goods, and services to you.
to respond to your enquiries and complaints.
to comply with legislative, regulatory, risk and compliance requirements
(including directives, sanctions, and rules), voluntary and involuntary codes
of conduct and industry agreements or to fulfil reporting requirements and
information requests.
to conduct market and behavioural research, including scoring and
analysis to determine if you qualify for products and services or to
determine your credit or insurance risk.
to develop, test and improve products and services for you.
for historical, statistical and research purposes, like market segmentation.
to process payment instruments.
to create, manufacture and print payment issues (like a payslip)
to enable us to deliver goods, documents, or notices to you.
for security, identity verification and to check the accuracy of your
personal information.
to communicate with you and carry out your instructions and requests.
for customer satisfaction surveys, promotional offerings.
insurance and assurance underwriting and administration.
to process or consider or assess insurance or assurance claims.
to provide insurance and assurance policies and products and
related services.
to enable you to take part in customer loyalty reward programmes, to
determine your qualification for participation, earning of reward points,
determining your rewards level, monitoring your buying behaviour with our
rewards partners to allocate the correct points or inform you of appropriate
products, goods, and services you may be interested in or to inform our
reward partners about your purchasing behaviour.
to enable you to take part in and make use of value-added products
and services.
to assess our lending and insurance risks; and / or
for any other related purposes.
How we use your Personal Information for Marketing
We will use your personal information to our products and services to you.
We will do this in person, by post, telephone, or electronic channels such as
SMS, email, and fax.
If you are not our customer, or in any other instances where the law
requires, we will only market to you by electronic communications with your
consent.
In all cases you can request us to stop sending marketing communications
to you at any time.
When how and with whom we share your Personal Information?
In general, we will only share your personal information if any one or more of the
following apply:
if you have consented to this.
if it is necessary to conclude or perform under a contract, we have with
you;
if the law requires it; and / or
if it’s necessary to protect or pursue your, our or a third party’s legitimate
interest.
Under what circumstances will we transfer your information to
other countries?
We will only transfer your personal information to third parties in another country
in any one or more of the following circumstances:
where your personal information will be adequately protected under the
other country’s laws or an agreement with the third-party recipient.
where the transfer is necessary to enter into or perform under a contract
with you, or a contract with a third party that is in your interest.
where you have consented to the transfer; and / or
where it is not reasonably practical to obtain your consent, the transfer is in
your interest.
This transfer will happen within the requirements and safeguards of the law.
Where possible, the party processing your personal information in the other
country will agree to apply the same level of protection as available by law in
your country or if the other country’s laws provide better protection the other
country’s laws would be agreed to and applied.
How we secure your Personal Information
We will take appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational steps
to protect your personal information according to industry best practices.
Our security measures (including physical, technological, and procedural
safeguards) will be appropriate and reasonable. This includes the
following:
keeping our systems secure (like monitoring access and usage);
storing our records securely.
controlling the access to our buildings, systems and/or records; and
safely destroying or deleting records.
Ensure compliance with best practice standards.
Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection
service.
How long do we keep your Personal Information?
We will keep your personal information for as long as:
the law requires us to keep it.
a contract between you and us requires us to keep it.
you have consented for us keeping it.
we are required to keep it to achieve the purposes listed in this
Privacy Policy.
we require it for statistical or research purposes.
a code of conduct requires us to keep it.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained
indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up
comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal
information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete
their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their
username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
we require it for our lawful business purposes.
Take note: We may keep your personal information even if you no longer have a
relationship with us, for the historical data that may be required by your
employer or employee.
Our Cookie Policy
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from our websites or applications to your
computer or device hard drive or Internet browser where it is saved. The cookie
contains information to personalise your experience on our websites or
applications and may improve your experience on the websites or applications.
The cookie will also identify your device, like the computer or smart phone.
By using our websites or applications you agree that cookies may be forwarded
from the relevant website or application to your computer or device. The cookie
will enable us to know that you have visited the website or application before
and will identify you. We may also use the cookie to prevent fraud and for
analytics.
Your duties and rights about the personal information we have about you.
You must provide proof of identity when enforcing the rights below.
You must inform us when your personal information changes.
Please contact our Information Officer to give effect to any of the below rights.
You have the right to request access to the personal information
we have about you by contacting us
This includes requesting:
confirmation that we hold your personal information.
a copy or description of the record containing your personal information;
and
the identity or categories of third parties who have had access to your
personal information.
We will attend to requests for access to personal information within a reasonable
time. You may be required to pay a reasonable fee to receive copies or
descriptions of records, or information about third parties. We will inform you of
the fee before attending to your request.
Please note that the law may limit your right to access
information
You have the right to request us to correct or delete the personal information we
have about you if it is inaccurate, irrelevant, excessive, out of date, incomplete,
misleading, obtained unlawfully or we are no longer authorised to keep it. You
must inform us of your request in writing. It may take up to 15 business days for
the change to reflect on our systems. We may request documents from you to
verify the change in personal information.
A specific agreement that you have entered into with us may determine how you
must change your personal information provided at the time when you entered
into the specific agreement. Please adhere to these requirements. If the law
requires us to keep the personal information, it will not be deleted upon your
request. The deletion of certain personal information may lead to the termination
of your business relationship with us.
You may object on reasonable grounds to the processing of your
personal information
We will not be able to give effect to your objection if the processing of your
personal information was and is permitted by law; you have provided consent to
the processing and our processing done according to your consent or the
processing is necessary to conclude or perform under a contract with you.
Where you have provided your consent for the processing of your personal
information, you may withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we
will explain the consequences to you. We may proceed to process your personal
information even if you have withdrawn your consent if the law permits or
requires it. It may take up to 15 business days for the change to reflect on our
systems, during this time we may still process your personal information. You
must inform us of any objection in writing.
You have a right to file a complaint with us or any Regulator with jurisdiction
about an alleged contravention of the protection of your personal information by
us. We will address your complaint as far as possible.
The Contact Details for the Information Regulator
Email: Complaints.IR@justice.gov.za
Postal Address: P.O. Box 31533, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017
Physical Address: JD House, 27 Stiemens Street, Braamfontein,
Johannesburg, 2001.
How can you get in touch with Us?
For any queries in relation to this letter or our processing of your persona
information in general, you can contact our Information Officer and/or Deputy
Information Officer at the following details:
Information Officer Saroja Perumal
Contact Number 011 315 4957
Email Address info@modernmagnetics.co.za
Physical Address Unit 4 Umthombo Business Park
5 Kelpie Street
Glen Austin
Midrand, 1685