The Blom Collective (Pty) Ltdis committed to protecting the Personal Information of data subjects processes in line with the requirements of global data protection laws and regulations. To this end The Blom Collective created this Policy to demonstrate its commitment to Privacy and Information Protection.

This External Privacy Policy , together with our Website Terms (collectively, the “Terms”) form a written contract between you and The Blom Collective F. These apply to all users of any of our Platforms and Services. Our Platforms refers to websites, mobile sites, mobile applications, social media platforms, emails, telephone lines or any other technology or channel you may use to interact with us”. “Services” refer to any products, goods, services or functionality offered, owned or operated by The Blom Collective via our Platforms.

All reference to “we” , “us” and “our” refers to The Blom Collective (Pty) Ltd (“The Blom Collective”), affiliates, parent companies and any of their respective associated companies and related businesses.

The purpose of this External Privacy Policy is to describe how we collect, use, store and disclose Personal Information that Data Subjects provide to us, what we learn about Data Subjects from their visit to our Platforms or Services, as well as to explain the choices and rights that Data Subjects have regarding the processing of their Personal Information by The Blom Collective .

By using our Platforms and Service you acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms outlined to the terms outlined in this Policy. Therefore, you consent and agree to the processing of your Personal Information in compliance with this Policy.

The Blom Collective takes reasonable steps to protect Personal Information and handles such information in compliance with applicable Data Protection laws. In the context of South Africa, does so in compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (“POPIA”) 2014 as the countries Data Protection legislation.

The Blom Collective reserves the right to modify, add or remove certain sections of this External Privacy Policy without notice. We encourage you to visit this Policy on a continuous basis to familiarise yourself with this External Privacy Policy.

While using our Platforms or Services, you may be requested to provide certain Personal Information, which identifies you as an individual (including, but not limited to, your name and contact details).

Such information may be collected in following ways:

• Voluntary Disclosures of Personal Information

This includes any Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us directly, whether through our website or via telephone, text messages, social media, fax or any other medium, this may include information you give to us:

• by filling in forms on our Platforms (e.g. when you register on our Platforms or subscribe to use services on our Platforms);
• when you enter a competition, promotion or complete a survey; by posting comments or content on our Platforms; when you purchase one of our products or services;
• when you contact us and when you otherwise provide information directly to us.
• Personal Information we collect or receive when you use our Platforms or Services

We collect Personal Information when you use our Platforms or Services by using Cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier which we transfer to your hard drive through your web browser when you visit our Platforms. It enables our own system to recognise you when you visit our Platforms again and improve our service to you.

Cookies may also be used to compile aggregate information about areas of our Platforms that are visited most frequently. This traffic information can be used to enhance the content of our Platforms and make your use of it easier. Depending on how you access and use our Platforms, we may receive the following information:

• Log information (for example information about your interactions with our Platforms and other Services you use, the content you view and the search queries you submit);
• Information we infer about you based on your interaction with our products and services;
• Device information (for example the type of device you’re using, how you access our Platforms, your browser or operating system and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address).

You can delete cookies at any time or you can set your browser to reject or disable cookies. If you do disable cookies some functions of the website may not work correctly.

No information which personally identifies you will be collected through cookies.

• Information from third-party sources

We may receive additional information about you that is publicly or commercially available and combine that with the information we have collected or received about you in other ways. We may also receive information about you when you choose to connect with social networking services while using our Platforms.

We may process your Personal Information in a number of ways including, but not limited to the following:

• enable you to make use of our Platforms in the manner described on our Platforms,
• enable us to make relevant recommendations on a personalised basis;
• communicate information to you, for example through newsletters, you have the option to opt-out of such communication.
• compile and maintain our Platforms and client database;
• register and/or authenticate users of and/or visitors to our Platforms;
• identify and take reasonable measures to prevent fraudulent use of or access to our Platforms;
• compile non-personal statistical information about browsing habits, click patterns and access to our Platforms;
• attract suppliers by showing de-identified information about the database, for example demographics;
• participate in affiliate marketing relationships by tracking visitor origin through the use of cookies;
• track client database size and growth.

Processing includes collecting, receiving, recording, organising, collating, storing, updating, modifying, retrieving, altering, consulting or using, disseminating, distributing or making available and merging, linking, blocking, degrading, erasing, destroying Personal Information. Processing of Personal Information is also performed to comply with applicable laws.

We may keep your Personal Information in either electronic or hard copy form. In both cases, we take reasonable and appropriate steps to ensure that the Personal Information is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Moreover, we will only keep your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this External Privacy Policy, unless you have given us permission to keep it longer or we are otherwise legally permitted to do so.

We are not in the business of selling Personal Information and therefore we will not disclose your Personal Information to anyone except as provided in this Website Privacy Policy

• Third party Disclosure

We may disclose Personal Information to third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to give effect to a contract with you or where we have a legitimate interest in doing so. These are some of the instances where we may share your Personal Information with third parties, who may include:

• our affiliates, business partners in other words, other companies owning or own by us; Business partners.
• website support providers such hosting partners;
• Companies that provide services to us or act on our behalf may have access to information about you.
• Some of the content, advertising, and functionality on our Platforms may be provided by third parties that are not affiliated with us. Such third parties include: advertising providers, which help us provide ads that are tailored to users’ interests and understand how users respond to those ads; Audience-measurement companies, which help us measure the overall usage of our Platforms and compare that usage to other online services; and Social networking services (like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram) that enable you to register and log into certain of our services and to share things you find on our Platforms with your social network. This is only applicable if you choose to connect with a social networking service; we may provide other registration and login methods.
• We may share information with third-parties where you provide consent in the form of explicit opt-in for a service facilitated by a third party e.g. Entry into a competition sponsored by a third-party where the provision of your information is a condition for entry to the competition, or where you express your interest in a product or service for which you would like more information; These companies are limited in their ability to use information they receive in the course of providing services to us or you. These third parties may collect or receive information about your use of our Platform, including through the use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies, and this information may be collected over time and combined with information collected on different websites and online services. It’s important to remember that we don’t control the privacy practices of these (or any other) third-party services. So we encourage you to read the privacy policies of these services before connecting to them. These parties may be situated in a different country to you. You agree that your information may be shared with any of the above mentioned parties in another country and you consent to the cross border transfer of your information to another country, whose privacy laws may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence
• Mandatory Disclosure

We may disclose your information if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect our Platforms. We may also disclose your information during the process of debt collection, or to our attorneys in connection with any potential, threatened or actual litigation, or to our auditors for the purpose of auditing our accounts; Other parties in connection with certain business transactions.

In the event that we restructure or sell any of our businesses or assets, we may disclose your personal information to the prospective buyer of such business or assets or other transacting party; Companies that provide services to us.

Although no one can guarantee the security of the information collected and received, we do employ a number of safeguards intended to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access or disclosure of your information. We will do our best to protect your personal information and we will use up to date technology that will help us to do this.

As a Data Subject of The Blom Collective you have the right and responsibility to ensure that the Personal Information we hold about you is accurate. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we will assume that the information you provided to us is accurate. At your request, where the law requires us to do so, you can exercise your Data Subject rights as per the following, subject to verification and validation of your identity:

• Request access to your Personal Information that The Blom Collective holds about you as set out in our PAIA manual.
• Request rectification of your Personal Information that The Blom Collective holds about you.
• Request erasure, as permitted by law, of your Personal Information that The Blom Collective holds about you.
• Request restriction of processing of your Personal Information.
• Object to processing of Personal Information as permitted by law.
• Lodge a complaint as it pertains to the processing activities of your Personal Information.

Further to the above, in relation to the use of Our Platforms and Services, you have the right to:

• Ask us not to contact you for marketing purposes. You can exercise this right at any time by using any of the various “opt-out” options that we will always provide to you when we communicate with you.
• Reject our cookies, you can do so by configuring your browser to do so.

Our Platforms contain links to and from websites, mobile applications or services of third parties, advertisers or affiliates. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other parties and advise you to read the privacy statements of each website you visit which collects personal information.

The Blom Collective is based in and operates from South Africa, and, regardless of where you use or access our Platforms, products, or services, your information may be transferred to and maintained on servers located in South Africa (or elsewhere in the world). Please note that any information we obtain about you will be stored in accordance with South African privacy laws, regulations and standards, which may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence. By using our Platforms you consent to this collection, transfer, storage and processing of information to and in South Africa.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you in the appropriate manner.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy should be addressed to marguertie@blomcollective.co.za