Privacy Policy
FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd site. By using the findmysub.co.za website and accepting the User Agreement you also agree to this Privacy Policy, and hereby give us consent to store and process your personal information in our servers and application for the purposes of providing the FindMySub service to you. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must not use the findmysub.co.za site or mobile application. The terms “Company”, "We," "Us," "Our," or " FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd" and refer to the same legal entity.
1. What information do we collect?
FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd collects your information when you register on the findmysub.co.za website.
Personal Information: We may collect the various forms of personal information in order to provide you with the use and access to the FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd site, services and tools, and for any additional purposes set out in this Privacy Policy:
Full Name, and contact information, such as email address, phone number, mobile telephone number, ID details, physical address, qualifications, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information for processing subscription payments.
We may also collect and store:
- Transactional information based on your activities on the site, content you generate or that relates to your account, billing and other information you provide to us;
- Personal information you provide to us through correspondence, chats, dispute resolution, or shared by you from other social applications, services or websites;
- Additional personal information we ask you to submit to authenticate yourself if we believe you are violating site policies (for example, we may ask you to send us an ID to answer additional questions online to help verify your identity);
- Information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including, but not limited to, device ID, device type, location, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information.
Aggregate Information: FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd collects non-identifying, general, generic and aggregate information to better design our Web site and services.
Non-Personal Information: FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd may collect non-personal information as you use FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd. When you use the site, findmysub.co.za, third-party service providers (e.g. Google Analytics), and partners may receive and record non-personal information from cookies, server logs, and similar technology from your browser or mobile device, including your IP address.
We may combine some Non-Personal Information with the Personal Information we collect. Where we do so, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information if the resulting combination may be used to readily identify or locate you in the same manner as Personal Information alone.
2. How do we store your information?
We use our own secure server to host the services we provide; therefore, your personal information is stored on servers inside of South Africa. FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd maintains control of your information. We protect your information using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres, and information access authorisation controls.
3. How do we use your Information?
When you use the findmysub.co.za site, we may request certain information. Where such information is Personal Information as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act no. 4 of 2013 (PoPI), FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd will hold and process such data in accordance with PoPI requirements. FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd may share your personally identifiable information, contact details, qualifications and educational information with schools and educational institutions who may be interested in securing your teaching services, so that they may evaluate your fit for the temporary teaching position they are seeking to fill, and so that they may be able to contact you. For schools, we will share your contact details with the prospective teachers you are trying to contact via our platform. By using our services, you agree that we may do so in order to provide the findmysub.co.za services to the schools and educational institutions seeking to make use of your teaching services.
Email and other Communications: We may send you a welcome email to verify your account and other transactional emails or messages for operational purposes, such as billing, account management, or system maintenance. You may only stop those emails by terminating your account. We may also send you promotions, product announcements, surveys, newsletters, developer updates, product evaluations, and event information or other marketing or commercial e-mails. You can opt out of receiving these email communications from FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd at any time by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe link within each email, updating your email preferences on your findmysub.co.za account or emailing us to have your contact information removed from our email list or registration database.
SMS communications: We may send you SMS messages to your secure phone number for operational purposes, such as notifying you about the status of your services. You can opt out of receiving these SMS messages from FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd at any time by updating your notifications preferences on your findmysub.co.za account.
Marketing: You agree that we may use your personal information to tell you about our services and tools, deliver targeted marketing and promotional offers based on your communication preferences, and customize measure and improve our advertising. You can unsubscribe from emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in the email.
We do not rent, sell, or share Personal Information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies for marketing purposes (including direct marketing purposes) without your permission. We may use and share Non-Personal Information for our marketing purposes, including, without limitation, marketing on other websites. For example, we may use the information to control the number of times you have seen an ad, deliver ads tailored to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. You can prevent us from tailoring our ads to you on other websites by deleting your cookies (see further info below).
4. Sharing your Information
We may disclose personal information to schools or educational institutions to provide the findmysub.co.za services. We may also respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety. Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. As stated above, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
Our software development team is Lava Lamp Labs, South Africa, and they make use of secure remote access facilities to access our local South African server. They are responsible for ensuring the platform is performing correctly and providing software upgrades to the system.
As part of their operational duties, as well as for troubleshooting any issues that may arise, they may require access from time to time to your personal data, but they will not disclose your personal information to third parties. Certain parts of your personal information is stored in encrypted format in our electronic database.
We may disclose your personal information upon a business transition; At the sale or transfer of FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd and/or all or part of its assets, your personal information may be among the items sold or transferred.
We may share aggregate data with advertisers and other third parties. FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer and transaction data exchanged with our site.
5. Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data assigned by a web server that uniquely identify the browser on your PC. FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd uses cookies called "persistent" cookies to enable the site to remember you on subsequent visits, speeding up or enhancing your experience of services or functions offered. Cookies also enable our systems to gather information about your navigational patterns through the site. You have the option to disable cookies at any time through your browsers. We may also store your website activity in cookies which may be used by third party vendors, including Google, to serve ads based on your behaviour on our website.,/p>
The third-party vendors (e.g. Google Analytics) may receive and record non-personal information from cookies, server logs, and similar technology from your browser or mobile device, including your IP address. You may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
If you access our Services with your login credentials from a social networking site (e.g., Facebook or Twitter) or if you otherwise agree to associate your FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd account with a social networking account, we may receive personal information about you from such social networking site, in accordance with the terms of use and privacy policy of the social networking site. For example, Facebook may share with us your friend list, birthday, information about the interests of you or your friends or other personal information, in order to help us establish your account, tailor services to you and find other current or potential site users that you know. We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via other aspects of the Site. You are also subject to the social networking site's terms of use and privacy policy. We use the OAuth (open authorization) protocol to enable us to access this information without collecting your password when you agree to allow another application to access your account information.
6. Accessing and updating your Information
You can update your information through your account profile settings. If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete, or inaccurate, then you may request us to amend it.
Additionally, you may request access to any personal information we hold about you at any time by contacting us at support@findmysub.co.za. Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you). We may charge you a fee to cover our administrative and other reasonable costs in providing the information to you. We will not charge for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information.
There may be instances where we cannot grant you access to the personal information we hold. For example, we may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or if it would result in a breach of confidentiality. If that happens, we will give you written reasons for any refusal.
7. FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd - POPI clause
In accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act no. 4 of 2013 (PoPI), FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd will only collect personal information consistent with the purpose for which it is required. The specific purpose for which the information is collected will be apparent from the context in which the information is requested and by using our Website or mobile application, the User hereby grants FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd consent to store and process their personal information.
The nature of the personal information which will be collected relates to contact details (such as name, address, ID number, telephone number and e-mail address), qualifications and experience information.
In providing the personal information to FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd, the User acknowledges that the information has been collected directly from them and that they have consented to its processing by FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd. Where the User is providing another person’s personal information to FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd, the User acknowledges that it has obtained such person’s consent to processing of their personal information for purposes of FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd providing the relevant platform services (“Services”).
Provision of personal information to FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd is voluntary, and in the event that the requested information is not provided, FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd may not be able to provide the services as offered by the application. The personal information shall only be used for the purpose for which it was collected, unless the User has agreed to an alternative purpose in writing or as allowed by any applicable law.
FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd will only process personal information in a manner that is adequate, relevant and fit for purpose.
FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd will take such steps as may be required to ensure that it complies with any law in respect of transfer, storage, security, and use of personal information.
Following 5 years of non-activity by a User, FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd will delete and destroy the relevant Personal Information from their system.
8. Children
FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children (individuals under the age of 18). If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Data via our Website or mobile applications. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide any personal data on our website or via our mobile application. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Data to FindMy Holdings (Pty) Ltd, please contact us at support@findmysub.co.za , and we will endeavour to delete that information from our system.
9. Changes to our privacy policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any updated versions of this privacy policy will be posted on our website. Please review it regularly.
