Swimming Pools and Pool Accessories

Privacy Policy

Overview:

Your privacy is important to us. We strive to ensure that our use of your personal information or personal data is lawful, reasonable, and relevant to our business activities, with the goal of improving our services and your experience.

This privacy notice sets out what personal information we collect from you when you use our platform (which could be our online platform, mobile site, an application or any other electronic platform), how we collect your personal information, why we collect it and how we use it, and related matters.

Please read this privacy notice carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it (even if you're a long-standing site user) and contact us if you need any clarity or assistance, using the contact details set out at the end of this policy.

This privacy notice is applicable to Lopes Construction Pools and Spa Centre CC T/A:

 Lopes Pools. 

This privacy notice should be read in conjunction with our company Terms and Conditions.

Privacy Notice:

Application of this notice:

This privacy notice applies to you as a customer or as a guest, namely a person who accesses or registers on our platforms, regardless of the device which you use to access it (e.g. a computer, mobile phone, tablet etc).

This privacy notice does not apply to other parties' sites, products or services, such as sites linked to, from or advertised on our site, or sites which link to or advertise our site.

What is personal information?

Personal information refers to information about an identifiable person, such as your name and surname, gender, age, date of birth, contact details (phone number and email) and address, physical location, ID number among other identifiers.

Other information which might be “personal” information may include:

How we collect your personal information:

We collect your personal information in four ways, namely

Active collection of personal information

Some areas of our site may require you to submit certain information in order for you to register for certain services or benefit from specified features, such as when you register on our platforms, request to receive any newsletters or similar subscriptions or tips/pointers, or participate in a particular activity, such as a game, promotional competition or other promotion (collectively referred to as the “value added services”). If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

If you want to take advantage of any of our site sharing features, we will ask you to create a publicly visible profile, indicating, for example, your username, e-mail address and, if you so wish, your photo.

Our site may also collect personal information from you by asking you specific questions and by permitting you to communicate directly with us, for example via e-mail, feedback forms, site comments and forums.

In these situations, we will

The information we may actively collect from you may include your:

 

Passive collection of personal information from your device

We passively collect some of your personal information from the device which you use to access and navigate through our platform(s), using various technological means.

One of the key ways in which we collect information passively is using server logs to collect and maintain log information.

We also use cookies and anonymous identifiers which enable our computer system to recognise you when you next visit our site, to distinguish you from other site users and to improve our service to you. Please refer to our Cookie Policy below.

Passive collection of personal information from social networking sites (with your permission)

We may allow you to log onto our site, or create a profile on our site, by using Facebook Connect, Google or Yahoo.

By collecting information from social networking sites we enable you to enrich your profile on our site, your game-play and your social experience by enabling you to share your information (e.g. posts, photos, videos, contacts, etc) which is stored on that site without you having to actively give us all that information – all you need to do is login using your username and password and give us your permission to access and use that information.

There are two kinds of information which we collect from social networking sites, namely basic information and extended information.

Basic information

Basic information is information which you have put on a social networking site which you have made public in accordance with your privacy settings on the relevant social networking site.

This could include your name and surname, username or user-ID number, your profile picture or its URL, your e-mail address, the physical location of your device, your gender, your date of birth, and any other information which you have decided to share publicly (i.e. the information which you have put on your social networking site profile for anyone to see).

We will access your basic information from a social networking site only:

Extended information

Extended information is information which you have put on a social networking site over and above the basic information. This could include your additional identifying information and contact details, biographical information, educational history, personal preferences, your “friends” or contacts on the social networking site, your “likes” and “dislikes”, information you have “shared”, your recommendations to your friends or other social networking site contacts, your game scores and rankings, and any other information which you have put on, or actions you have done, on a social networking site, and any other information which you permit us, from time to time, to passively collect from a social networking site.

You can decide the layers of extended information which you want to share with us and manage it either through our site or the relevant social networking site (e.g. you might decide, depending on your personal preferences, to allow us to post on your wall when you win a game or to send a notification to your Facebook friends on your behalf.

We may offer you the ability to import your address book contacts or to manually enter third parties' contact details in order to populate your invite list on our site (“your contacts”). You may authorise us to send your communications to your contacts on your behalf (e.g. to send your contact an e-mail or notification from you or on your behalf inviting him/her to join your online game sports pool).

Each application on our site will have its own default privacy setting. You can manage your settings at the time of giving us your permission or at any time thereafter by clicking on ”My Privacy” on the applicable platform, or in any other manner which we make available from time to time.

Your permission will expire if you do not access our site for a period of 60 continuous days. If it expires, you will need to refresh it when you next log in to our site.

We only receive information from social networking sites – we do not give them access to any of your personal information.

Passive collection of personal information from our affiliates and third-party service providers

We collect some personal information passively from our affiliates and third-party service providers, purely to supplement information which you have already agreed to give us, to supplement your user profile on our site to assist us with enhancing your viewing experience.

 

Why we collect your personal information and how we use it:

We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services, to develop new ones, and to protect us, our services and our users. We constantly strive to improve our users' experience, and so we also use the information we collect in order to offer you information and content which is more appropriately tailored for you.

We may collect and use your personal information to:

We will get your permission before collecting or using your personal information for any other purpose.

Compulsory and optional information:

Only the following information is compulsory: Your name, surname, registered e-mail address or mobile number.

All other information is optional. If you do not agree to share your compulsory information with us, then you will not be able to make full use of the features that are offered to registered users. If you do not agree to share your optional information with us, then you may not be able to enjoy all our platform features and functionality.

How long do we keep your personal information?

We retain all personal information which we collect from you (except for the information referred to below) unless there is a valid technical, legal or business reason for us to delete, destroy or de identify it (“retained information”).

We will not retain the following information if you ask us not to –

We may keep all retained information for as long as you continue to access our site and for five years thereafter:

Notwithstanding the above, and any other provision of this privacy notice, we may keep some or all your personal information if and for as long as:

Disclosure of your personal information:

We will not disclose, for commercial gain or otherwise, your personal information other than as set out in this privacy notice or with your permission.

We may disclose or share your personal information to or with:

We may use your personal information to compile profiles for statistical purposes and may freely trade with such profiles and statistical data, provided that the profiles or statistical data cannot be linked back to you by a third party.

We will get your permission before disclosing your personal information to any third party for any other purpose.

Direct Marketing:

When you register on our platforms you may choose whether to receive marketing communications from us. You may also manage it in your privacy settings on our site.

You may refuse to accept, require us to discontinue, or pre-emptively block any approach or communications from us if that approach or communication is primarily for the purpose of direct marketing (“marketing preference”).

You may opt out of receiving direct marketing communications from us:

If you have opted out in accordance with the above, we will:

You may (in terms of the Consumer Protection Act, 2008) register a pre-emptive block against direct marketing communications. If you do so, we will not send you direct marketing communications unless you have expressly consented to receiving direct marketing communications from us.

We will not send you direct marketing communications at home at any period during which it is prohibited by law to do so, unless you have expressly or implicitly requested or agreed otherwise.

Security:

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or those of our trusted partner services.

We implement appropriate, generally accepted technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage, including encryption where appropriate.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. We will do our best to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee 100% security of your data transmitted to our servers using the internet and any transmission is at your own risk.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to secure the integrity of information we collect about you, using accepted technological standards to –

In particular:

 

Linking to third party sites:

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of a third-party site to which there may be a link on our site or to which you may log in from our site (e.g. integrated social networking services).

We advise you to read the privacy notice of each site which you visit and to determine your privacy settings in accordance with your personal preferences.

In certain instances, we may give you the option to manage some of your privacy settings on integrated social networking sites from our sites (e.g. to enable you to determine which of your personal information you would like to share via our site).

Your rights as a data subject:

At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. Access to this information may be subject to an administrative fee if your request is manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive.

You have a right to insist that we correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.

In certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.

Where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing of your data, for instance how we market to you.

You have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation or provided to you in a machine-readable word format.

You have the right to object or remove your consent for certain types of processing such as direct marketing.

You have the right to complain if you have cause to be concerned about the way we capture, treat or process your personal information.

Changes to this policy:

We may change this privacy notice from time to time. If we do so, we will post the revised policy on our site and take reasonably practicable steps to ensure that you are aware of the updated privacy notice (including, if we have your e mail address, e-mailing you notifications of the updated privacy notice).

Privacy Notice Version: Version 1.0

Effective Date: 1 July 2021

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