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    Privacy Policy Statement
    Online Property SA (Online Synergy cc (CK 2004/054474/23)

    1. INTRODUCTION
      1. Online Property South Africa (OPSA), owned by Online Synergy cc (CK 2004/054474/23) who owns and operates the website, which can be accessed at https://www.online-property.co.za/ (“the Website”)
      2. This privacy policy forms part of, and must be read together with, OPSA’s Standard Terms of Use available at https://www.online-property.co.za.
      3. This privacy policy applies to all persons and entities that use the Website and regulates the collection, storage of data including your name, contact details, banking details, company details, addresses, contact numbers, email addresses, location information, property searches, sales statistics, valuations, prices, rentals and any other information which relates to you, collectively referred to as “Personal Information.”
    2. COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
      1. You can use the Website to access various services (“Services”) offered by OPSA.
      2. To provide you with these Services, OPSA may require you, or any third party, to provide it with certain Personal Information. OPSA may also use Personal Information to compile the Website. This Personal Information must be provided to OPSA to enable it to provide the Website and/or the Services.
      3. OPSA may also ask you to provide information that is not required to provide Services to you, but will assist in enhancing those Services, such as personal or professional interests. Such information is provided voluntarily and is not necessary to enable OPSA to provide the Services to you.
      4. By accessing and using the Website, you agree that OPSA may at any time and without further reference to you:
        1. collect, receive and record from any source, collate, store, update, modify, disseminate and otherwise use your Personal Information in any manner and in any form, reasonably required to enable OPSA to provide the Services to you, and for any reasonably related purpose;
        2. store your Personal Information in any format and in any database hosted anywhere in the world, for as long as OPSA considers it necessary for the aforementioned purposes, and thereafter destroy or de-identify your Personal Information;
        3. use your Personal Information to contact you for market research purposes or to provide you with marketing information OPSA thinks would be of particular interest.
      5. You may at any time request OPSA not to contact you or to object to OPSA using your Personal Information for any particular purpose.
      6. You are entitled, at any stage, to opt out of receiving any marketing or promotional material by clicking on the “unsubscribe” option on email correspondence. This will redirect you to the unsubscribe page where you will be able to unsubscribe from the communication you received.
    3. THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
      1. OPSA may be required to give third parties access to your Personal Information to be able to provide the Services to you. Their use of your Personal Information is also subject to this privacy policy, and/or terms and conditions substantially similar to this privacy policy.
      2. OPSA does not permit any third party to collect, use or store any of your Personal Information for purposes unrelated to the purpose for which it is provided by OPSA, or permitted by law.
      3. Although OPSA takes reasonable steps to ensure that third parties with whom OPSA shares your Personal Information treat it with the same degree of care as OPSA does, OPSA does not have any direct control over the manner in which such persons use and/or store your Personal Information.
      4. You agree that OPSA is not liable for any loss or damage which you suffer as a result of the manner in which a third party accesses, uses and/or stores your Personal Information, except to the extent that such loss or damage is directly related to a grossly negligent or intentional and unlawful act or omission of OPSA or any of its shareholders, directors, officers, employees, subcontractors and/or agents (collectively “Personnel”).
      5. If OPSA elects to sell its business, you agree that OPSA may freely transfer your Personal Information to the purchaser thereof. You agree that you will not have any claim against OPSA and/or its Personnel arising from or as a consequence of the sale by OPSA of its business to a third party.
      6. The OPSA site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
    4. COOKIES
      1. The Website may use “cookies” to track your preferences. A cookie is a small piece of information which enables the Website to identify you and personalize your visit to the Website by personalizing web pages for you.
      2. 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.
      3. If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
      4. 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.
      5. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies in relation to the Website, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. You can personalize your browser settings by using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. If you modify your browser preferences in relation to cookies, this may reduce the functionality of the Website.
      6. OPSA may allow third parties to either display advertising on the Website or to manage its advertising on other sites. Such third party may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on the Website and other sites in order to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. To opt out of this, please email [email protected].
    5. LOG FILES You agree that OPSA may gather certain information automatically and store it in log files, including internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
    6. HYPERLINKS
      1. The Website may contain hyperlinks to other sites. OPSA is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected via the Website.
      2. OPSA and its Personnel do not have any control over the nature or content of any website to which you may gain access through a hyperlink contained on the Website and are not liable to you for any loss, damages, costs, claims or expenses of any nature due to your use of any such hyperlinked website.

    What Personal Data We May 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.