At CyberM8 Initiative NPC, herein referred to as CyberM8, (“We”, “Our” and “Us”) know you care about your personal privacy and about the terms and conditions that govern your use of this website (this “Site”). Because we are dedicated to serving your needs and respecting your preferences, we have adopted the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use.
- Our Collection and Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information
In general, we collect and use information about you for stakeholder administration, and to deliver stakeholder benefits, such as informing you of CyberM8-related material, benefits and/or other opportunities. Except as described herein, we do not sell, rent or otherwise share or disclose your private, personally identifiable information to third parties.
By engaging our services, you agree to abide by our Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use.
We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information from children, without the content of a parent or responsible party.
CyberM8 specifically collects information from you at several different points, including but not limited to the following:
1.1 Information You Provide To Us
CyberM8 primarily collects information in connection with CyberM8 services, and products. CyberM8 will treat any information of its clients, partners and stakeholders as confidential and will not disclose it to any third party (other than those in connection with CyberM8 to which they will be updated on the CyberM8 website as and when an agreement is finalised) without consent. We do not rent, sell or otherwise disclose personal information. If you do not wish to receive correspondence from us or have specific contact preferences, you may express your preferences by email our administration email address (info@cyberm8.org.za).
1.2 Correspondence
If you correspond with us via e-mail, the postal service, or another form of communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained therein and use such to respond to your enquiry and/or notify you of CyberM8 services, products, and or other related opportunities. Importantly, e-mail and postal address information are never sold, given, or otherwise shared or disclosed to third parties except as set forth herein.
1.3 Information From Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, such as our agents, vendors and service providers, and from publicly available sources. For example, sometimes we receive information from third parties when we process payments made by you for products or services bought directly or indirectly from CyberM8.
1.4 URL and IP Address
Like many other websites, we collect information about our users’ usage and navigation of our site. This information helps us to design our website to better suit our users’ needs. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, analyse trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences.
1.5 Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are pieces of data that a website transfers to a user’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Web beacons are transparent pixel images that are used in collecting information about website usage, e-mail response, and tracking.
The website uses cookies and Web beacons to provide enhanced functionality on the website (e.g., contact us form) and aggregate traffic data (e.g., what pages are the most popular). These cookies may be delivered in a first-party or third-party context. CyberM8 may also use cookies and web beacons in association with e-mails delivered by CyberM8 Our website also captures limited information (user-agent, HTTP referrer, last URL requested by the user, client-side and server-side clickstream) about visits to our website; we may use this information to analyse general traffic patterns and to perform routine system maintenance. You have many choices about the management of cookies on your computer. All major browsers allow you to block or delete cookies from your system. To learn more about your ability to manage cookies and web beacons, please consult the privacy features in your browser.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
- Restrictions on Disclosing Information to Third Parties
We may disclose all of the information (described above) that we collect, as stated above and in accordance with the terms outlined in this section. We do not reveal personally identifiable information about you to third parties for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorise; (2) in connection with CyberM8 services and products as highlighted in this website; (3) the information is provided to comply with the law (for example, to comply with a search warrant, subpoena or court order), enforce an agreement we have with you, or to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our employees or others; (4) the information is provided to our agents, vendors or service providers who perform functions on our behalf; (5) to address emergencies or acts of nature or (6) to address disputes, claims, or to persons holding a legal or beneficial interest. We may also gather aggregated data about our clients and website visitors and disclose the results of such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to our partners, service providers, advertisers and/or other third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.
CyberM8’s website uses interfaces with social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and others. If you choose to “like” or share information from CyberM8 website through these services, you should review the privacy statement of that service. If you are a member of a social media page, the interfaces may allow the social media pages to connect your website visit to your personally identifiable information.
From time to time we may partner or enter into arrangements with another party to provide specific benefits and/or services to our clients. We will provide to such partners the information that we believe is reasonably necessary for them to provide such benefits or services to you. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from our partners or us, you may express your preference not to be contacted by e-mailing info@cyberM8.org.za.
2.1 Our Security Measures to Protect Information
To help protect the privacy of data and personally identifiable information you transmit through use of this website, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards (e.g., we encrypt many of our online services using SSL). We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your personally identifiable information to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you. Also, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. We commit to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees’ privacy responsibilities.
2.2 Inapplicability of Privacy Statements of Any Linked Websites or Other Third Parties
This Privacy Statement only addresses CyberM8’s use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information. As this website may contain links to other Websites, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites, and we are not liable for their misuse of personally identifiable information. We encourage you to be aware that when you go to another website you should carefully read their privacy statement.
2.3 General Legal Notice and Disclaimer
Access to the information contained on this website is provided by CyberM8 to its client and non-clients as a service. References herein to any product, process or service do not constitute or imply endorsement or recommendation by CyberM8. While we makes every effort to present accurate and reliable information on this website, CyberM8 does not approve or certify such information nor does it guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness or correct sequencing of such information. Use of such information is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its applicability, accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness concerning the specific needs and uses.
- Conditions of Use, Notices, and Changes to Our Privacy Statement
By using this website, you agree to the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use and/or any other agreement that we might have with you. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions, you should not use this website or any CyberM8 benefits or services. You agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use, or any other agreement we have with you, will be governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. You also agree to arbitrate such disputes in accordance with the rules of the High Court of South Africa and to abide by any limitation on damages contained in any agreement we may have with you. The arbitration shall be held in the City of Pretoria, Gauteng.
As our organisation, services, and benefits change from time to time, this Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use is expected to change as well. We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use at this website. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and terms and conditions and we may e-mail CyberM8 clients of material changes to it, but you should check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use that is in effect and any changes that may have been made to it. The provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices or statements regarding our privacy practices and the terms and conditions that govern the use of this website.
3.1 Questions Regarding the Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use
If you have any questions about our Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use or any concern about privacy at CyberM8 or the use of this website in general, please contact us by e-mail at info@cyberm8.co.za