top of page
Privacy Policy
1.   Our details
This website is owned and operated by SSASS Holdings (Pty) Ltd ("the Company", "we", "us", "our"), a private company registered in South Africa under company registration number 2015/189330/07 and whose registered office and main trading address is Unit 1, Oxford Office Park, 3 Bauhinia Street, Highveld Technopark, Centurion, 0157, Pretoria, South Africa.
2.   Introduction

The Company is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice, together with our Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms"), our Cookie Notice and any other documents referred to in it, sets out the basis on which any Personal Data we collect from you or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Personal Data and how we will treat it.

​

Each time you access, use, log into or browse https://www.ssass.co.za, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Notice. If you do not accept this Privacy Notice, please do not access, use or browse this website, take any of the foregoing steps or otherwise interact with the Company.

3.   Definitions

For the purpose of this Privacy Notice, the following definitions have been adopted from the EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).

​

"Personal Data" means any information relating to a person (a "data subject") who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person.

​

‘Processing, in relation to Personal Data, means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data (whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure, dissemination, restriction, erasure or destruction).

​

"Controller" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal Data. Only Controllers need to pay the data protection fee.

​

"Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which Processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.

4.   Information we collect and hold about you
 
4.1.       Information you give us
​

Most of the personal information we Process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • You become a Partner of the Company.

  • You become a Supplier of the Company.

  • You are corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This also applies for using the contact section of our websites for sending a message or calling our customer service number.

  • You subscribe to our newsletter.

  • You browse and access content or express an interest in any service listed on our websites.

 

The information you may give us includes without limitation the following:

  • identity data: full name, title, identification numbers

  • contact data: email address, phone number

  • location data: country, city, postal address and code

  • profile data: company name, current position in the company

  • marketing and communication data: newsletter subscription

4.2.      Information we collect about you
​

When you visit our websites, we may automatically collect the following information without limitation:

  • technical data: the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

  • website usage data: the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our websites (including date and time); pages you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number; and

  • other information: collected if necessary, for our legitimate business interests to ensure the proper functioning of our websites and the prudent operation of our business.

 

Not all the above information is Personal Data on its own but if combined with Personal Data, we will treat the combination as Personal Data.

​

Most of the above information will be collected via cookies. Please review our Cookie Notice for more information.

​

We do not collect any special categories of Personal Data about you (special categories include details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data).

4.3.      Information we receive from other sources
​

We may receive information about you from other websites operated by the Company.

 

We also work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

​

We also may receive information about you from other sources, such as social and business networks, blogs, public resources, third parties and other website users. This can include information about you, for example when others share or comment on a post of you or share your contact information.

5.   Why do you collect such personal information?

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

​

  1. To provide and operate the Services;

  2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

  4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

6.   How do we store, use, share and disclose our site visitors' personal information?

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

8.   How can you  withdraw your consent?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at info@ssass.co.za.

9.   Privacy Policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

bottom of page