Ask SA: Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

It is The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://irr.org.za (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://irr.org.za"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s visitors use its website. From time to time, The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://irr.org.za blog posts. The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s websites choose to interact with The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in ways that require The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://irr.org.za to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Google AdWords for remarketing

https://irr.org.za uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven't completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s behalf or to provide services available at The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://irr.org.za and have supplied your email address, The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) uses cookies to help The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) identify and track visitors, their usage of https://irr.org.za, and their website access preferences. the visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s use of cookies.

Business Transfers

If the The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR)'s sole discretion. The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Giveaway Introduction

Ask SA (the promoter) runs competitions, contests or prize draws (promotions) on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AskSANow

By entering into any promotion you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, including any specific entry instructions (together with the terms and conditions)

  1. You can enter any promotion on the https://www.facebook.com/AskSANowFacebook Page if you meet the entry criteria set out below and any specific entry instructions.

  2. You can enter a promotion if you’re living in South Africa.

  3. You must be 18 years of age or older to enter.

  4. You must have a valid Facebook account.

  5. You must submit your entry via Ask SA’s Facebook Page.

  6. You cannot take part if you or a member of your immediate family works for the promoter. You cannot take part if you or a member of your immediate family works for the third-party prize suppliers or prize-handlers.

  7. The promoter reserves the right to check that participants are eligible for the promotion and to disqualify any participant who is not eligible in the promoter's reasonable opinion. The promoter may disqualify winners who are ineligible and award their prize to another participant.

How can I enter?

  1. You don’t need to buy anything to take part in a promotion but you must have internet access and a valid Facebook account.

  2. You must follow the specific entry instructions as outlined in the relevant post on the Ask SA Facebook Page.

  3. You may only enter the promotion once, based on name, same address, email, IP address, unless the promotion specifies otherwise. If you enter more than once, you may be disqualified.

  4. You may not submit bulk entries or submit on behalf of third parties.

  5. Your entry must be original, and cannot infringe on the rights of any third parties.

  6. When you submit your entry, you grant the promoter an unlimited, freely assignable, royalty-free licence in any intellectual property rights or other rights vested in your entry.

What can I win? What happens if I win?

  1. The prizes you could win will be specified in the relevant post on the Facebook Page. The number of prizes may be specified in advance.

  2. After the promotion’s closing date, winners will be drawn at random from all eligible entries, unless the promotion specifies otherwise.

  3. The promoter will notify winners via a reply to their comment or private message within 7 days of winning the prize. If you win, you’ll receive your prize by email within 28 days of being notified.

  4. If you win, it is your responsibility to supply the correct email address to which a prize is to be sent via direct message to the promoter on Facebook. If your prize is returned to the promoter or prize-handler due to incomplete delivery, the promoter will contact you to check your address before re-sending. If your prize is returned to the promoter or prize-handler a second time, or the promoter or prize-handler cannot contact you, you will forfeit your prize and will no longer be able to claim it.

  5. If you win and cannot take up a prize, the promoter will not be liable or responsible and you will not be entitled to an alternative prize.

  1. The promoter’s decision is final in all matters relating to the promotion.

  2. If you win, you may be required to take part in promotional activities. The promoter

reserves the right to publish names, photographs and city of the winner(s) to announce them without the need for additional payment or permission.

What about my personal information?

  1. The promoter collects your personal information to manage and administer the promotion. This includes contacting you via Facebook, and email. Your personal information will be shared with the Institute of Race Relations.

Liability

  1. To the fullest extent permissible by law, the promoter shall not be liable for any loss or damage, injury or disappointment whatsoever which is suffered or sustained as a result of participation in the promotion. This includes any damage to the participant’s or any other person's computer or mobile phone equipment as a result of downloading or accessing any materials.

  2. The promotion is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook. When you enter the promotion, you agree to release Facebook from any liability associated with the promotion.

  3. The promoter will not be responsible for third-party products and services offered as prizes and such prizes will be subject to third-party providers' standard terms and conditions.

General

  1. To ensure fairness and the integrity of the promotion to all participants, the promoter will not enter into discussions on the running of any promotion via posts on the Ask SA Facebook Page, but will respond to questions via direct message to the Ask SA Facebook Page.

  2. Any participant posting or seen to be posting comments on the promoter’s Facebook page or elsewhere during the promotion that are considered illegal, bullying, spiteful or upsetting to other participants and fans of Ask SA, or which disparage the promoter, will have their comments removed and will be disqualified from the promotion. The promoter reserves the right to alert Facebook to such behavior, and participants or Facebook members may have their Facebook accounts frozen pending investigation.

  3. The promoter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to withdraw or amend any promotion owing to exceptional circumstances outside its reasonable control.

  4. If the promoter has any reasonable grounds to believe that a participant has breached these terms and conditions, it has the sole discretion to invalidate the relevant entry and disqualify the participant, at all stages of the promotion.

  5. The draw is open for entry starting June 20, 2023.

  6. The prize is a R1,000 Takealot voucher.

  7. To enter, you need to: Complete the form on Facebook.

  8. The prize will be drawn by 1 May, 2024.

  9. The winner will be notified by email.

Promoter

Ask SA
222 Smit Street, 21st Floor, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa