Privacy Policy
Welcome to the WinThis Privacy Policy. WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY and know how important it is to you.
WinThis is an online competitions website on which you can find all the best free online competitions all centralized in one place (the “Services”). This privacy policy explains the privacy practices for the Services provided on our website: www.winthis.co.za (the "Website"). It describes the ways we collect and use your information and how you can verify or control the use of the information you provide to us on the Website.
The Website is not directed at children under the age of 16, therefore, if you are under 16, you may browse the Website but may not provide us with any of your personally identifiable information. We advise that parents monitor their children's use of the Website. We will delete any child’s personally identifiable information if a parent requests so by sending an e-mail to info[at]winthis.co.za. If we are informed or learn that a child under the age of 16 years has provided personally identifiable information to the Website without verifiable parental consent, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our databases.
Information that we collect
We do not knowingly and/or intentionally collect your personal identifiable information, which is not provided by you, without your consent.
Nevertheless, when you visit the Website, and in order to provide you with the Services, we may ask you to provide us with certain details, for example, in order to receive our daily emails you are required to provide us with your email address.
By subscribing, you agree to receive promotional emails from the WinThis Website. You are free to unsubscribe whenever you wish.
Further personally identifiable information may be collected when we exchange communications with you through the contact page or by email. Thus for example, we may ask you to provide us with your name, title, contact details, subject and message in order to better assist you.
We may automatically collect information through the use of log files and other means. We will not knowingly make use of your personally identifying information, except as specifically indicated in this policy, or at the Website.
What we do with your information
We may use your information for the following purposes:
to provide you with the Services and to enable you to use them;
to improve and customize your experience with the Services;
to develop and improve the Website;
to enforce the Website's Terms of Use;
to better learn and understand which competitions customers prefer;
to provide you with support and assistance;
to handle inquiries and complaints;
to prevent fraud, misappropriation, infringements, identity thefts and any other misuse of the Services;
to send you notices, to provide you with information relating to the Services and to provide you with further marketing and advertising material - such as information about new services that may interest you, subject to your subscription and you providing us with your contact details. If you do not wish to receive such marketing material you may request to be removed from our mailing list.
to facilitate communications between you and us and between you and others;
to contact you as and when we believe it to be necessary;
to comply with any applicable law and assist law enforcement agencies as required;
to take any action in any case of dispute, or legal proceeding of any kind between you and us, or between you and other users or third parties with respect to, or in relation with the Services;
For any other purpose stipulated in this policy, or in the Website's Terms of Use.
Information we share with others
We do not sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable information to third parties for any of their marketing purposes.
We may share your information with others in any of the following instances, or subject to your consent:
In order to provide you the Services and to the extent required to facilitate your use;
If we reasonably believe that you have breached the Website's Terms of Use, or abused your rights to use any of the Services, or performed any act or omission that we reasonably believe to be violating any applicable law, rules, or regulations. In these cases, we may share your information with law enforcement and other competent authorities, and with any third party, as may be required to handle any result of your wrongdoing;
If we are required, or reasonably believe that we are required by law to share or disclose your information;
In any case of dispute, or legal proceeding of any kind between you and us, or between you and other users or third parties with respect to, or in relation with the Services;
In any case where we may reasonably believe that sharing information is necessary to prevent immediate physical harm or damage to property;
If we organize the Services within a different business or legal framework, or entity, or if we are acquired by, or merged with another entity, provided however, that those entities agree to be bound by the provisions of this policy, with respective changes taken into consideration;
We may also share your information with companies or organizations connected, or affiliated with us, such as subsidiaries companies and the like, provided that their use of such information complies with this policy.
Log files and aggregated information
When you use the Website and/or the Services, we may use various technological measures to collect further information about your habits and store such information in web server log files, to maintain and enhance the Services, and to customize your experience. For example, we may record the scope and the frequency of your use of the Website, the web pages that you visit, the information that you read, the duration of your sessions, the competitions that you view, products that you are interested in or that you purchase, advertisements that you view or click on, whether you have visited our Website before, and the geographic location of the computer system that you are using to sign-in or use the Website. We may collect and organize such information either by ourselves or by using other third party services, such as Google Analytics, for internal purposes, such as tracking the number of visitors, competition views, category views and etc. In any event, the information collected will be used solely under the provisions of this policy.
We may use anonymous, statistical or aggregated information, including by posting, publishing, transmitting or otherwise communicating or making available such information through the Services, and by providing the information to users, suppliers, business partners, affiliates and any other third party, at our sole discretion, provided however, that the information will not identify you personally and that we will not knowingly, or intentionally use such information to reveal your identity without your consent, under the terms of this policy.
We may also use anonymous, statistical or aggregated information to properly operate and administer the Services, to enhance your experience, to improve the quality of the Services, and customize the Services, to create new services or new competitions, to change or cancel existing content or Services and to facilitate other internal, functional and statistical purposes.
Changing your email preferences
At any time, you may change your email settings by clicking on the applicable link in the daily email. Please keep in mind that incorrect, incomplete, false or out dated information that you provide may prevent you from subscribing to the Services, using the Services, impair our ability to provide you with the Services, provide you with support and contact you when required.
Data retention
At any time, we may review, retain and disclose any information as we deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, as well as our internal needs. However, by doing so we do not either expressly or impliedly endorse, affirm or in any manner assume any responsibility for such information.
Opt Out and deletion of your information
At any time you may opt out of our mailing lists, by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our daily email or by sending us an email to: info[at]winthis.co.za In any case, we will not share your personally identifiable information with any advertisers, without your explicit consent. It may take up to 7 business days for your opt-out request to take effect although it will usually be done much sooner.
Information security
We implement certain information security systems and procedures, to secure the information stored on our servers when using the Services. Such systems and procedures reduce the risk of security breaches, but they do not provide absolute security. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that our services are immune to unauthorized access to the information stored therein and to other information security risks.
Cookies
We may use cookies on the Website. Cookies are packets of information sent by our servers to your web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses our servers. We may use cookies on your web browser whether you are a subscriber, or not.
We may use cookies for various purposes, such as to save you the need to re-enter your user name and password each time you log-in, to facilitate the use of the Services, to collect statistical information with respect to the use of the Services, to verify information, to customize the Services to your personal preferences and for information security purposes.
Some of the cookies may expire when the session ends and you exit your browser. Other cookies are saved on your computer’s hard drive. If you wish to block our cookies, then please use the help button in your browser and follow the necessary instructions. However, please take into account that disabling cookies may complicate or even prevent your use of the Services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change and update the terms of this policy from time to time and therefore recommend that you read it from time to time. All substantial changes that we make to this policy will be notified on the Website and/or via email and take effect 30 days following their initial posting. Other changes will take effect 7 days after their initial posting on the Website or their notification via email. In the event that we change the policy in order to comply with legal requirements, the changes will become effective immediately upon their initial posting, or as required.
Continuing to use the Services will indicate your consent to the amended policy. If you do not agree to the amended policy, please refrain from using the Website.
Contact us
We hope that you enjoy the Services on the Website.
You are welcome to contact us with requests, comments and questions regarding this privacy policy by email at: info[at]winthis.co.za.
Last update: [December 2011]
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