Website Privacy Policy

Who we are

This Website Privacy Policy sets out the personal information that Hallmark Professional Solutions CC (“HPS”), an authorised financial services provider (FSP 6850), may collect from you in relation our website “www.hallmarkpro.co.za” as well as how HPS processes and protects your Personal Information as required by the Protection of Personal Information Act (Act no. 4 of 2013) (“POPIA”).

HPS is a Responsible Party in respect of your Personal Information, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting and managing your personal information responsibly.

If you have any questions regarding this Policy or your personal information, please see our contact details below. HPS may amend this Policy from time to time and it is your responsibility to ensure that you are aware of any changes that may have been made. The latest Website Privacy Policy will be available on our website www.hallmarkpro.co.za and should HPS make any material changes to this Policy we will notify you.

Please see our General Privacy Policy.

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.

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

Our Contact Details

Should you have any questions or require any further information, you may contact us at:

Information Officer
Wedgefield Office Park Regus Building
17 Muswell Road South
Bryanston
Gauteng
2021

E-Mail: compliance@hallmarkpro.co.za
Tel:+27(0) 11 781 028