ACCOMMODATION
Student Stay now offers secure, well-positioned accommodation in the heart of university communities.
Pristine living quarters provides students with a comfortable “Home away from Home”.
STUDENT STAY PRIVACY POLICY
(VERSION 1 26/05/2021)
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.studentstay.co.za/ (the “Site”). This Privacy Notice applies to the website of Student Stay as well as to the associated online services of Student Stay. It does not apply to possibly existing links to external companies.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an address and phone number.
When you visit the Site for the purpose of system security, we collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
We also use the device information, Including: Advertising & Retargeting of potential sales.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not share your Personal Information with third parties. We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
Unsubscribing to email campaigns
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
We note that we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator if you believe that we are not processing your personal data properly.
DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
SECURITY
We take all necessary technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss or abuse. Your data is stored in a secure operating environment inaccessible for the public. In case you wish to contact us by email, please be aware that privacy of the transmitted information cannot be guaranteed as the email content may be seen by third parties. We thus recommend using postal mail whenever you wish to transmit confidential information.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We archive all previous versions of this Privacy Notice for your access on demand.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us:
Information Officer
Pierre Jacobs
+410110040
e-mail: info@studentstay.co.za
PO Box 7960, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth, EC, 6055, South Africa
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an address and phone number.
When you visit the Site for the purpose of system security, we collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
We also use the device information, Including: Advertising & Retargeting of potential sales.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not share your Personal Information with third parties. We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
Unsubscribing to email campaigns
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
We note that we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator if you believe that we are not processing your personal data properly.
DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
SECURITY
We take all necessary technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss or abuse. Your data is stored in a secure operating environment inaccessible for the public. In case you wish to contact us by email, please be aware that privacy of the transmitted information cannot be guaranteed as the email content may be seen by third parties. We thus recommend using postal mail whenever you wish to transmit confidential information.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We archive all previous versions of this Privacy Notice for your access on demand.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us:
Information Officer
Pierre Jacobs
+410110040
e-mail: info@studentstay.co.za
PO Box 7960, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth, EC, 6055, South Africa
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