Pools.co.za (hereafter known as the “Website”) is an online service owned and operated by Comtech Internet Services CC. Reg. No CK 2005/049242/23 (hereafter known as “Comtech”), registered in terms of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 and Companies Amendment Bill 40 of 2010 on 20 June 2014
Our website address is: https://pools.co.za.
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.
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.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your privacy is important to Comtech. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that Comtech collects, and the ways in which Comtech uses that personal information.
Comtech may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:
Comtech may use your personal information to:
Where Comtech discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, Comtech may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.
Comtech will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
Comtech will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.
Information relating to electronic transactions entered into via this Website will be protected by encryption technology as provided by our third party payment gateways. Under NO circumstances do we store any credit card details on this Website.
This Website contains links to other websites.
Comtech is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.
Comtech has the right to update and make changes to this and any other legal documents on this Website at any time, and have no obligation to notify users of this Website of such changes directly, as all changes will be publically available on the respective URLs of all legal documents.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or Comtech’s treatment of your personal information, please write:
This document was created on 5 February 2024 and last updated on 5 February 2024.
