Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Bees Hair is a subsidiary of GRANDTOUCH TRADING AND PROJECTS (PTY)LTD. Bees Hair Virgin Store is a revolutionary beauty supply store. Offering an array of customers exclusive and affordable beauty/hair products to create that unique look.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We believe you deserve a safe and secure environment and the peace of mind in knowing how we use your personal information, so we have described our privacy policy as clearly as possible in the summary below.

Our Privacy Policy applies to all current as well as former customers. This policy may change from time to time. It is important for you to read the terms and conditions of your agreement with us (“your agreement”) as it provides more specific details of how we collect, process and use your personal information. The terms of your agreement should therefore be read together with this privacy policy.

Your Consent

By submitting your details and/or using our service you accept this privacy policy and expressly provide voluntary, specific and informed consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described below. If you object to any of the potential uses described in this privacy policy, please don’t register on our website to apply for a loan or any other offering from Bees Hair.

Which laws apply?

This privacy policy will be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of South Africa. To the extent that a court has jurisdiction over any dispute which may arise out of or in connection with this privacy policy, we both submit to the jurisdiction of the South African courts.

Electronic Communications and Transactions Act

We also voluntarily subscribe to the principles, outlined in Section 51 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 2002 (‘ECT Act’), which govern your right to having your personal information kept private. We briefly outline these principles below:

  • We will only collect, collate, process and store (“use”) your personal information with your permission as set out in this privacy policy, unless legally required to do so, and will only use such information for the lawful purpose for which it is required as set out in this privacy policy;
  • We hereby disclose in writing, the specific purpose for which we use, request and store your personal information. We will also keep a record of that personal information and the specific purpose for which we have used it; and
  • We will not use your personal information for any purpose, other than that which we disclosed to you herein, unless you give us your express written permission to do so, or unless we are permitted/required to do so by law.

Further to the requirements of the ECT Act; we will disclose your personal information without your consent:

  • If we are required to do so by law or a court order;
  • If disclosure is in the public interest;
  • If disclosure is in Bees Hair’s interest;
  • with your implied consent.

In terms of the Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (“CPA”), The Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013 (“POPI”) and section 45 of the ECT Act, you understand that you have the option to opt out of any mailing list maintained by Bees Hair for commercial and marketing communications.

Security and confidentiality

We understand the value of your personal information and therefore will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or unauthorised alteration. Your personal information is stored in databases that have built-in safeguards and firewalls to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of that information.

We recognise the need for appropriate protection and management of the personal information you share with us. We protect that information using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology and by limiting employee access on a need-to-know basis. We store data in encrypted form on computers and control access via secure web pages. We employ firewalls and other security technologies to protect our servers from external attack.

Our security systems meet or exceed industry standards and we are constantly monitoring internet developments to ensure our systems evolve as required. We also test our systems regularly to make sure our security mechanisms are up to date.

We are subject to South African data protection laws including, but not limited to, those contained in the National Credit Act 2005 read with the National Credit Amendment Act 2014 (“NCA”), Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (“CPA”), POPI, Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (“CPA”), CPA as well as ECT Act, which we fully comply with.

Personal information

Personal information is information that identifies or relates specifically to you and includes your financial information, for example, your name, age and identity number, your purchases and your payment records. We consider any information that we have about you to be regarded as your personal information.

Collecting your data

We collect information about you in two ways – directly from you through your online application and from external providers, such as the registered Credit Bureau’s through our payment providers. We may use data that identifies your personal information for a number of reasons including:

  • statistical analysis;
  • to develop and improve our products;
  • to assess lending risks;
  • to update your records;
  • to identify which of our products, or our partners’ products which might interest you;
  • to identify and prevent fraud, money laundering and other criminal activities;
  • for market research in terms of the products and services which we offer on behalf of third parties.
  • Collection and use of your personal information

We are a responsible retailer and want to ensure that your use of our products, as well as the electronic service offered, runs as successfully as possible. The following are some of the reasons why we would collect your personal information:

  • to identify you;
  • in order for us to process your instructions or requests;
  • once we have collected and analysed your personal information, we may send you promotional material or details which we think may be of interest to you. If any of this promotional information relates to products, promotions, news or services of a third party, and if you indicate that you would like more details, we may inform the third party to contact you directly. We will, however, only inform a third party to contact you directly if you have indicated that this is agreeable to you.
  • In addition, we utilise your personal information for the other purposes set out in this privacy policy.

Additional data collection

In addition to the personal information you submit, we may collect information about your computer including, where available, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your device’s operating system and browser type. We use this system administration for fraud detection as well as aggregate this information to our advertising partners which allow us to have a better understanding of our customer requirements and/or preferences by using cookies to track users as they travel from website to website recording what commercial advertisements they view and select while browsing.

This is statistical data about browsing actions and patterns and does not specifically identify you or any other any individual.

We may also obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies enable us to improve our service to you, estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences and recognise you when you return to our site.

You can set your web browser to refuse cookies, but if you do this you may not be able to enjoy full use of the site and you may not be able to take advantage of certain promotions we may run from time to time. Please note that third parties who advertise on our site may also use cookies, but we do not have access to, or control over them and therefore cannot take responsibility for them.

We want to provide you with the best possible service, so calls to us may be recorded and/or monitored for quality checks and staff training. Recordings may also be used to help us combat fraud.

“PIN/PASSWORD”

When you use the Bees Hair Website and the services provided by us, you may be given an access number, username, password and/or personal identification number (“PIN”). You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy and confidentiality of your username, access card, password and/or PIN.

Selling and disclosing your data to third parties

We may also sell your data (or otherwise pass it on) to selected third parties who may receive it as part of products or services which we offer and/or otherwise use it to contact you by post, telephone, email, SMS or other reasonable method in relation to offers they feel might interest you, whether or not we enter into an agreement with you.

By clicking the “I Accept” box, you hereby agree that we may disclose your personal information:

  • in the event we sell or buy any business or assets (in which case we may disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such a business or assets)
  • if our business or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party (in which case personal information held about customers will be one of the transferred assets)
  • if we have a duty to disclose your personal information in order to comply with a legal request, or in order to enforce any of our terms and conditions
  • where we are in law allowed to do so
  • in relation to the implementation, administration and/or enforcement of any agreement entered into with us.
    Right to request access to your personal information
  • are entitled to request access to your information at a prescribed fee and to request that inaccurate, irrelevant, excessive, outdated, misleading or unlawfully obtained information be corrected.

Foreign parties

Because we work with some carefully selected partners outside of South Africa, in order to offer you our services, we may also need to transfer your personal information abroad, to countries whose data protection laws are less strict than in South Africa.

If and whenever this is the case, we will ensure the information is held securely to standards as least as good as those in South Africa and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

Contact from Bees Hair and third parties

As part of the application process, we ask you whether we or any of our partners may contact you about our products and services by telephone, post, email and SMS (or other reasonable method). If you ticked “yes” but no longer wish to receive such communications, please visit the relevant page, login and change your communication preference at any time, or follow the instructions in the message itself.

You may also register on the National “Opt Out” register of the Direct Marketing Association of South Africa by going to their website.

We may transfer your personal information to selected third parties (see “Selling and disclosing your data to third parties” above). If at any time you wish to stop receiving such contact from a third party, you will need to follow the instructions about unsubscribing provided at that time by the third party. Please note that we only partner with trusted companies who will respect your right to unsubscribe from any such marketing communications, but we will not be responsible for managing that process or any disputes.

Third party links

Our site may contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own terms and privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for them. By registering at Bees Hair you may receive follow-up contact and offers from third party companies as you have agreed to do by accepting this privacy policy and, while we only work with selected partners, we are not responsible for the services or representations of third parties.

Because we are not responsible for any representations or information or warranties or content on any website of any third party (including websites linked to this website or websites facilitated by us), we do not exercise control over third parties’ privacy policies and you should refer to the privacy policy of any such third party to see how such party protects your privacy.

Age

To register with us you must be 18-years of age or older. Minors are strictly forbidden from using our services.

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion to update, modify or amend (including without limitation, by the addition of new terms and conditions) this privacy policy from time to time with or without notice. You therefore agree to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the Bees Hair’ website for any such change. Save as expressly provided to the contrary in this privacy policy, the amended version of the privacy policy shall supersede and replace all previous versions thereof.

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.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

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