STATEMENT
“We” or “us”
means Auto Investments (Pty) Ltd –
2004/028721/07.
We are strongly committed to protecting
personal information and we attach great importance to your right to privacy. We want you to feel secure that when you deal with us, your personal
information is in good hands.
We protect your personal information in accordance with applicable laws
and our information privacy policies. In addition, we maintain the appropriate technical and
organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized or unlawful
processing and/or against accidental loss, alteration, disclosure or access, or accidental or
unlawful destruction of or damage thereto.
The use of our website is also subject to
our Website Disclaimer available on website, and our Cookie Policy available at on website. Your relationship with us is further
subject to and governed by the separate contractual terms and conditions that may exist between
us.
When used in
this Privacy Statement, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the
Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”), applicable in the Republic of South
Africa. Generally, personal information is any information that can be used to personally
identify you. If any information that we collect personally identifies you, or you are
reasonably identifiable from it, we will treat it as confidential.
LAWFUL PROCESSING
The following
conditions of lawful processing of personal information are the principles in terms of which we
will be processing the collected personal information. They are:
- Accountability – we will make sure that your
personal information is processed in a lawful and responsible manner;
- Processing limitation– we shall lawfully
collect your personal information for a defined purpose and where applicable, with your
consent;
- Purpose specification – we will only use your personal information for the purposes that you
expect us to use it for.
- Further processing limitation – where a processing activity is seen as
further processing (means a new purpose for processing your personal information) and this new
purpose is inconsistent with the original purpose (original reason we collected your personal
information), we will make sure that our processing activities meet the requirements of the
applicable information protection laws;
- Information quality – we will take reasonable
steps to ensure your personal information is accurate, complete and updated and not
misleading;
- Openness – from the start, we will be open, clear and honest with you on how and why we use
your personal information and how we protect your personal information
- Security
safeguards – we will apply and follow appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational
measures to make sure that the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal
information are secured. These measures will also be applied to protect your personal information
against loss, damage, unauthorised destruction or unlawful access
- Information subject participation – we have
processes in place for you to access, correct and delete personal information and exercise your
rights in terms of applicable information protection laws.
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
We will collect
your personal information in the following ways:
- directly from you; and
- where lawful and
reasonable, from third parties and public sources.
If we do not obtain your
personal information directly from you, we may obtain it from the following sources:
- publicly available
sources (registers or the internet);
- our employees, contractors, (prospective) members of
board of directors and/or shareholders;
- our affiliates, subsidiaries and newly acquired
businesses;
- employers of our contractors;
- public authorities, public websites and social
media;
- previous employers, educational institutions, suppliers and vendors
(including third party information providers).
Specifically we may collect your personal
information via our website in the following ways:
- directly if you provide the information in response
to a request (for example, when you
provide personal information to sign up for a newsletter) or if you otherwise provide same
(for example via any postings, comments other content that you upload of post on our
website); and/or
- indirectly through the
use of technologies such as cookies. Please refer our Cookie Policy available at on website.
WHICH CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
The personal
information we collect includes the categories of personal information referred to in this Privacy
Statement or in other statements you have received.
Below is a chart describing certain
categories of personal information that we may collect:
Category of personal
information | Types of personal information captured by
category |
Personal details, contact details, and identifiers | Name, pronoun, all types of
identifiers and contact details (such as e-mail, phone numbers, physical address) and occasionally,
when necessary for specific purposes, gender, date of birth, age, place of birth. |
Commercial information | History and records of the products and services you have obtained from
us. |
Marketing and research information | a. Identifiers – the IP address, social media handle or other online
identifiers of a person, e-mail address/mobile number if used for direct marketing, and name and
address b. Demographic information - (e.g. income, family status, age bracket,
gender, interests, pets, home ownership, health, current service providers) c. Browser/web history information and preferences expressed through
selection/viewing/purchase of goods, services and content. d. Social media content –
blogs, posts and anything posted by an individual online or which mentioned/references an
individual e. Analytics and profiles of the individuals based on the information
collected on them |
Special personal information | We may also collect certain types of special personal information when permitted
by local law or with your consent, such as health/medical information or biometric information, for
example as when you elect to use fingerprint authentication. |
Audiovisual materials | Photograph, and images/footage
captured/recorded on CCTV or other audio, video and related security/monitoring systems or captured
during marketing/public filming events/sessions (including recording of virtual or live workshops
or similar events/sessions). |
Position and professional or employment-related
information | Professional or employment-related information, such as description of current
position, job title, employer, location, and our contact(s). |
System and application access
information and Internet and electronic network activity information | Where you are provided with access to our systems, we may collect information
required to access such systems and applications such as System ID, LAN ID, e-mail account, instant
messaging account, mainframe ID, system passwords, and internet or other electronic network
activity information, including access logs, activity logs, and electronic content produced using
our systems. |
We also may
derive inferences about you based on the information described above and also collect other
information about you as described in this privacy statement. If you provide us with personal
information of another person, you are responsible for ensuring that such person is made aware of
the information contained in this privacy statement and that the person has given you his/her
consent for sharing the information with us.
The above-mentioned categories of
personal information have been obtained either directly from you (for example, when you provide
information to sign up for a newsletter or register to comment on a forum website) or indirectly
from certain third parties (for example, through our website’s technology). Such third parties
include our affiliates, public authorities, public websites and social media, suppliers and
vendors. Except where certain information is required by law or by our policies, your decision to
provide any personal information to us is voluntary. Please note that if you do not provide certain
information, we may not be able to accomplish some or all of the purposes outlined in this
Privacy Statement, and you may not be able to use certain tools and systems which require the use
of such personal information.
We will not intentionally or knowingly collect personal information
directly from minors (anyone under the age of 18). The personal information of minors will be
collected through their legal guardian or parent only where products or services are obtained for
the minors.
WHEN CAN WE PROCESS OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will process your personal information
if you give us your consent willingly or according to the grounds of lawful processing highlighted
below. If we need your consent, we will notify you through our product and services agreements or
application processes. To the extent you are asked to click
on/check “I accept”, “I agree” or similar buttons/checkboxes/functionalities in relation to a
privacy statement, doing so will be considered as providing your consent to process your personal
information.
FOR WHICH PURPOSES AND ON WHICH LEGAL BASIS DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
We will only use and share your personal information where it is necessary
for us to carry out our lawful business activities. To enable you to fully understand the way in
which we process your personal information, we have described the different lawful grounds for such
processing in detail below:
- Consent – We may process your personal information for a specific and explicitly
defined purpose where you, or a competent person in the case of personal information relating to a
minor, provide us with your express consent for such processing or where law requires;
- Contractual need – We may
process your personal information where it is necessary to enter into a contract with you in order
for us to provide our products or services to you or to perform our obligations under that
contract. Please note that if you do not agree to provide us with the requested personal
information, it may not be possible for us to continue to provide products or services to
you;
- Compliance with an obligation imposed by law – When you apply for a product or service, we
are required by law to collect and process certain personal information about you. Please note that
if you do not agree to provide us with the requested personal information, it may not be possible
for us to continue to provide products or services to you;
- Legitimate interests – We
may process your personal information where it is in our legal interests to do so as an
organisation and without harming your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms (for example,
for marketing purposes, site maintenance, etc.).
Please view the
table below for: (i) a non-exhaustive list of specific purposes for which we may use your
personal information and (ii) an overview of the legal basis for each such purpose:
Purpose | Legal basis |
Managing our contractual relationship with you | Necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party. |
Recruitment | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring that we recruit the
appropriate employees. |
Facilitating communication
with you (including facilitating meetings; communication in case of emergencies, and to provide you
with requested information) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for
ensuring proper communication and emergency handling within the organization. |
Operating and managing our business operations including
or being part of the provision of our services to our clients and their employees/contractors and
their customers, for example in collecting their information as part of surveys, information
analytics, Marketing research or other purposes | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring the proper functioning of
our business operations. |
Complying with legal requirements | Necessary for the compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. |
Monitoring your use of our systems (including monitoring
the use of our website and any apps and tools you use) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests of avoiding non-compliance and protecting
our reputation. |
Social
listening (Identifying and assessing what is being
said about us and our clients on social media (only publicly accessible content) to understand
sentiment, intent, mood and market trends and our stakeholders’ needs and thereby improving our
services. We do this through key-word searches and our goal is to gain insights in conversation
trends over a specified period and not to identify an individual. To achieve this, we analyze and
monitor conversation streams and monitor publicly available opinions, statements or other
interactions on social media channels.) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interest of protecting our assets and our brand on
social media |
Improving the security and
functioning of our website, networks and information | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for ensuring that you receive an
excellent user experience and our networks and information are secure. |
Undertaking information analytics, i.e. applying analytics
to business operations and information to describe, predict and improve our business performance
and/or to provide a better user experience. (more details on how we run analytics on our website
can be found in our Cookie Policy available at on
website) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for
ensuring the proper functioning of our business operations. |
Marketing our products and services to you (unless you objected against
such processing) | Justified on the basis of our legitimate interests for
ensuring that we can conduct and increase our business. |
Legitimate
interest means that we have reasonable grounds to process your personal information. Where the
above table states that we rely on our legitimate interests for a given purpose, we are of the
opinion that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests, rights or freedoms,
given (i) the transparency we provide on the processing activity, (ii) our privacy by design
approach, (iii) our regular privacy reviews and (iv) the rights you have in relation to the
processing activity. If you wish to obtain further information on this balancing test approach,
please contact our information officer or deputy information officer
(s).
WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES?
We will only
share your personal information if:
- the law requires it;
- we have a public duty to share the personal
information;
- our or your legitimate interests require us to share the personal
information;
- it is necessary to conclude or perform due to an agreement between you and us;
or
- you
agreed that we may share your personal information.
As specified by the above
purposes, we may share your personal information with any of the parties mentioned
below:
- Any member of our
group;
- Professional advisers like auditors, third-party vendors, or independent
contractors who process personal information on our behalf to support our business;
- Our business partners who
provide their products and services to you;
- Service providers that provide services to us,
including billing, payment processing, customer service, email deployment, advertising and
marketing, security and performance monitoring, maintaining or servicing accounts, processing or
fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, research, information hosting,
auditing, and information processing;
- Any individual who needs your personal information
due to foreign or local law or regulation;
- Any court of justice, regulatory body, taxation
authority (including any authority investigating an offence) or their agents;
- Any debt collection
agency, credit bureau, insurer or broker, direct or indirect provider of credit protection and
fraud prevention agencies;
- Any financial institution to conduct credit checks,
anti-money laundering related checks, for fraud prevention and detection of crime purposes for our
group.
We may also share your information in connection with a substantial
corporate transaction, such as the sale of a website, a merger, consolidation, asset sale, initial
public offering, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy.
We will not share your personal
information to organisations outside the borders of South Africa that are not our service
providers, unless business operations require the processing of your personal information in other
countries, either to carry out processing based on your instructions or for ordinary business
purposes. Any third party, who is located outside of South Africa and receives your personal
information, will need to comply to either a law, or binding corporate rules or a binding agreement
which states that they will provide an adequate level of protection to your personal information.
This means that they have to agree to lawfully process your personal information and protect your
personal information in the same manner as we do.
WHAT ABOUT SPECIAL PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
We do not generally seek to collect special personal information as
defined in POPIA through our website or otherwise. In the limited cases where we do seek to collect
such information, we will do this in accordance with legal requirements and/or ask for your
consent.
STORAGE
We will store and keep your personal information according to the
retention periods defined by law for legitimate business purposes and will take reasonably
practicable steps to make sure that it is kept up to date and deleted and archived as
appropriate.
We
maintain specific records management and retention policies and procedures, so that personal
information are deleted after a reasonable time. Refer our POLICY ON RETENTION AND DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS – [ITEM 2.3 OF OUR POPIA COMPLIANCE
FRAMEWORK – MANDATORY ITEMS] for further
details.
INFORMATION SECURITY
The security of your personal information
is important to us. We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational
measures to prevent loss, unauthorised destruction, damage or access to your personal information
by unauthorised third parties. The security of your personal information is important to us. We
make sure that we implement organisational and technical procedures to keep your personal
information safe. We have protocols, controls and relevant
policies, procedures and guidance to maintain these arrangements taking into account the risks
associated with the categories of personal information and the processing we undertake.
Although we use
appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of
information over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure. We endeavour
to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to
or by us.
MARKETING BY ELECTRONIC MEANS
We would like to
share information about our own products, services and special offers that are similar to the
products or services used by you, via your preferred method of communication (as indicated to us),
such as email, text message, social media platforms or notification on your mobile application. We
may also share information with you about similar products, services and special offers of our
partner companies.
If you have opted-in to receive marketing communications, you may always
opt out at a later stage using the link shared below or clicking on the “Unsubscribe” option
included in every marketing communication sent to you. You have the right at any time to stop us
from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your information to other members of our
group.
If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please
request for us to mark you as ‘No’ to Marketing by calling us on +27 (0) 12 8801 777 or emailing us on
ops@autoigroup.co.za.
USE OF COOKIES
Please refer our Cookie Policy available at on website.
YOUR RIGHTS
You are entitled (in the circumstances and under the conditions, and
subject to the exceptions, set out in applicable law) to:
- Right to access – You have a right to get access to
the personal information that we hold about you. If you would like a record or description of the
personal information that we hold about you, please request this from our information officer or
deputy information officer(s) at ops@autoigroup.co.za. We may, if allowed by law, charge a fee for this.
- Right to rectify/correct/
update – You have a right to correct inaccurate personal information and to update incomplete
personal information. Please request this through our information officer or deputy information officer(s) at ops@autoigroup.co.za.
- Right to be notified – You have the right to be
notified that your personal information is being collected by us or has been accessed or acquired
by an unauthorised person.
- Right to withdraw – You have the right to withdraw
your consent to us processing your personal information. Please note that if you withdraw your
consent to us processing your personal information, we may have to stop or suspend the provision of
the products and services we provide to you. Please note that where the law requires us to process
your personal information, we will have a legal obligation to do so. Please note that where the law
permits us to process your personal information, we may continue to do so. Please request this
through our information officer or
deputy information officer(s) at ops@autoigroup.co.za.
- Right to object – You have a right to object to us processing your personal
information where we have relied on one of the lawful grounds above for legitimate interest or
where we perform a public law duty (and to request us to restrict processing). Please note that if
you request us to restrict processing your personal information, we may have to stop or suspend the
provision of the products and services we provide to you. Please note that where the law requires
us to process your personal information, we will have a legal obligation to do so. Please note that
where the law permits us to process your personal information, we may continue to do so. Please
request this through our
information officer or deputy information officer(s) at ops@autoigroup.co.za.
- Right to deletion - You have a right to request that
we delete your personal information. Despite your request, may still have a legal right or
obligation to retain your personal information. Please note that if you request us to delete your
personal information, we may have to stop or suspend the provision of the products and services we
provide to you Please request this through our information officer or deputy information officer(s) at ops@autoigroup.co.za.
- Right to object to the processing of personal
information for the purposes of direct marketing – You have a right to object at any time to the
processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, including profiling you for
the purposes of direct marketing. Please request this through our information officer or deputy information officer(s) at ops@autoigroup.co.za.
- Right to lodge a complaint with the Regulator. If
you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal information, you can contact our
information officer or deputy
information officer(s) at ops@autoigroup.co.za who will investigate the
matter. We hope that we can address any concerns you may have.
THIRD PARTY
WEBSITES
Our website may include:
- Links to and from the sites of our partner networks, advertisers and
affiliates
- Certain programs (widgets and apps) of third parties. Where this is the case,
note that such third parties may process your personal information collected through such programs
for their own purposes.
This privacy statement does not apply to
any third party websites which may be accessible through links on our website.
We do not make
any representation and/or warranties about the privacy of any third party websites and do not
accept any responsibility or liability for them. Third party website provides are responsible
for informing users about their own privacy practises and we suggest that you review the privacy
policies of any third party provides whose sites you access.
CHANGES TO THIS
PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may update this Privacy Statement at any time by publishing an updated
version here. To ensure that you know when we make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will
amend the revision date. The new modified or amended Privacy Statement will apply from the
revision date. Therefore, we encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to be
informed about how we are using your information.
Version | Date | Description | Approved By |
1.0 | 30.06.2021 | First Draft | |
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Mileage44000 Km
TransmissionAutomatic
Year2022
FuelPetrol
Doors5
Body Type
Kilowatts105kw
Drive TypeF
Seats5
