Your Privacy is Paramount
The Friends of Brander Park appreciate your interest in our work and welcome you to visit and explore our website. We respect your privacy and recognise the importance to safeguard all information we receive from you. The following paragraph, paragraph 1, provides an overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit this website. The term “personal data” comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information, please consult the Data Protection Declaration in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 included below.
1. Collection of your personal information
You are able to visit and navigate this website without revealing who you are or providing any information about yourself. However, the web server will collect information (standard information that your browser sends to every website visited) for statistical purposes, such as the number of visits, the pages viewed, which website you came from before clicking into the Interchange website, the key words used to find this site, your IP-address, the browser type and language, access time, etc. The website operator uses this information for improving sites and services.
Data collection on this website
The data on this website is handled by the website operator, i.e. the Friends of Brander Park Committee.
How is data collected?
Data may be collected when you submit it to us, e.g. when you get in touch by calling, whatsapping or emailing. The data collected is the data provided by you.
Data may also be collected automatically through the IT-system. The data thus collected contains primarily technical information, e.g. internet browser, operating system, time and number of page views, etc. The data is collected automatically when you visit this website.
What is the data used for?
The data is partly used to ensure and improve the performance of this website. Data may also be used to analyse user behaviour (subpages visited, time spent on subpages and on website in total, usage of links etc.).
What are your rights regarding your data?
At any time, you have the right to request information free of charge on the sources, recipients and use of your personal data. You have the right to request that your personal data shall be changed, rectified or deleted. If you have agreed to the collection and handling of your data, you may revoke your consent any time. The withdrawal of consent will affect all future handling and processing of your data. If you have any questions regarding the use of personal data, you may contact the website operator.
Analytical tools and third party tools
When visiting this website, your surf behaviour on this website may be statistically analysed by using analytical tools and cookies. For more information, please refer to the cookie section below.
Security of your personal information
When transmitting personal information over the internet, please bear in mind that no transmission over the internet can ever be guaranteed secure. Therefore, please note that I cannot guarantee the security of any personal information that you transfer over the internet to me.
Changes to this privacy statement
This privacy policy may be changed at any time without notification. The revised policy will be posted to this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how it is used, and conditions of disclosure. We encourage website visitors to periodically review this statement to know how their privacy is protected.
2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
External hosting
This website is hosted by an external server (Bluehost). Personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the host. Data may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract information, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated through a website.
The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with potential and existing clients (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).
The host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil performance obligations and to follow instructions with respect to such data.
In order to guarantee processing in compliance with data protection regulations, the operator of this website and the host have concluded an agreement for contract data processing.
3. General and legally mandatory information
Data protection
The operator of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Statement.
Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. The Privacy Statement outlines which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is collected.
We hereby remind you that the transmission of data via the Internet (i.e. through contact forms or e-mail communication) may be prone to security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against third party access.
Information about the responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the GDPR)
The data processing controller on this website is:
Friends of Brander Park Committee
Brander Park, Cape Town, 7441
South Africa
The controller is the natural person or legal entity that single-handedly or jointly with others makes decisions as to the purposes of and resources for the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
4. Data collection on this website
Cookies
This website and its pages use so called cookies, to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on this site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or they are permanently archived on your device (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted once you terminate your visit. Permanent cookies remain archived on your device until you actively delete them or they are automatically eradicated by your web browser.
In some cases it is possible that third party cookies are stored on your device once you enter our site (third party cookies). These cookies enable you or us to take advantage of certain services offered by the third party (e.g. cookies for the processing of payment services).
Cookies have a variety of functions. Many cookies are technically essential since certain website functions would not work in the absence of the cookies (e.g. the shopping cart function or the display of videos). The purpose of other cookies may be the analysis of user patterns or the display of promotional messages.
Cookies, which are required for the performance of electronic communication transactions (required cookies) or for the provision of certain functions you want to use (functional cookies, e.g. for the shopping cart function) or those that are necessary for the optimization of the website (e.g. cookies that provide measurable insights into the web audience), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless a different legal basis is cited. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimized provision of the operator’s services. If your consent to the storage of the cookies has been requested, the respective cookies are stored exclusively on the basis of the consent obtained (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR); this consent may be revoked at any time.
You have the option to set up your browser in such a manner that you will be notified any time cookies are placed and to permit the acceptance of cookies only in specific cases. You may also exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general or activate the delete function for the automatic eradication of cookies when the browser closes. If cookies are deactivated, the functions of this website may be limited.
In the event that third party cookies are used or if cookies are used for analytical purposes, we will separately notify you in conjunction with this Data Protection Policy and, if applicable, ask for your consent.
Contact by e-mail, telephone or WhatsApp
If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or WhatsApp, your request, including all resulting personal data (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass these data on without your consent.
These data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR if your inquiry is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is required for the performance of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the data are processed on the basis of our legitimate interest in the effective handling of inquiries submitted to us (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR) if it has been obtained.
The data sent by you to us via contact requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage lapses (e.g. after completion of your request). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.
Last update of the privacy statement: November 2024