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Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers
  • This policy covers how Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd treats personal information that Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd does not own or control or to people that Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd collects personal information when you register with Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd and when you visit the Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd website. Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

  • When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation and industry. Once you register with Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.

  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd automatically receives and may record information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd cookie information, and the page you request.

  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd communicate with you about new products from Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

    • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

    • We transfer information about you if Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd is acquired by or merged with another company.

Cookies
  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd may set and access Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd cookies on your computer.

  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd may use web beacons to access Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
  • General

    • You can edit your Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd Account Information at any time.

    • New categories of data may be added to our database from time to time. Users who visit our website can opt to receive updates on the new data items by registering under My Email Alerts

    • We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd service, such as service announcements and administrative messages.

Confidentiality and Security
  • We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in place to ensure the privacy of your personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
  • Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd account or by placing a notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at:

Business Data Services (Pty) Ltd
Private Bag 173
Gaborone
Botswana

+267 3188886

Effective Date: October 1, 2006