IMPORTANT NOTICE - Closed 15 December 2023 / Open 15 January 2024
1. Introduction
GIMTRAC is a registered company that specialises in the manufacturing of sports goods. The legal entity information is available on the website www.gimtrac.co.za The company has been in existence for 40 years and has a footprint not only in South Africa but also in many African countries.
2. Definitions
In this document references to GIMTRAC and its subsidiary divisions includes the steel / metal, wood, PVC , apparel and administrative sections.
“ Process “ means how GIMTRAC acquires, stores, uses, makes available , updates, discloses or otherwise deals with information of staff, service providers and customers’ personal information.
As a general rule, GIMTRAC will only process a service provider and a customer’s personal information if this is required to deliver or provide a solution to a customer. GIMTRAC respects the customers’ privacy and will treat their personal information confidentially at all times.
Personal information of staff members will similarly only be used to benefit of the company and with the permission of the staff member(s ).
3. Purpose of the Document
This document outlines how GIMTRAC undertakes to collect, use and store personal information of staff, service providers and customers. It also outlines service providers and customers’ privacy rights and how the law protects these rights. GIMTRAC adheres to general principles in accordance with applicable privacy laws. GIMTRAC will change this document content from time to time if required to do so by law or by its business practices. If such change is required staff, service providers and customers will be allowed a reasonable time to raise objections before the change is made. The latest version of this document will be displayed on the company’s website. www.gimtrac.co.za
4. Responsible Party and Operator
5. Personal Information
Personal information refers to any information that identifies an individual person ( juristic entity ) or specifically relates to an individual. Personal information includes but is not limited to:
6. Processing Personal Information
GIMTRAC may process service providers, customer’s and or/ staff members personal information for the following reasons:
7. Obtaining Personal Information About Service Providers, Staff and Customers
GIMTRAC collects personal information of service providers, customers and staff from:
8. Sharing Customers and Staff Members Personal Information
GIMTRAC will only share customer and staff members personal information under the following conditions:
9. The Use of Customers and Staff Members Information for Marketing Purposes
GIMTRAC will use customers personal information to:
10. Service Providers, Staff and Customers Duties and Rights Regarding the Personal Information that Gimtrac has about them
10.1 Duties – Service Providers, Staff and Customers Neet to:
10.2 Rights – Staff and customers have the following rights:
11. Security Protocols
GIMTRAC has the following security protocols I place to prevent access to personal information of service providers, staff and customers:
12. Website Security Protocols
The Gimtrac website (https://www.gimtrac.co.za) is owned and operated by “Gimtrac”. By using the Gimtrac website site, you agree to the Internet Privacy Policy of the website (“our website – https://www.gimtrac.co.za”). The Internet Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your conduct through our website.
We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors through our website, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual (“personal information”). The Internet Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through the website, will be dealt with. The Internet Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes.
Collection of Personal Information
Personal information about visitors on our site is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted. For example, we may need to collect such information to provide you with further services or to answer or forward any requests or enquiries. It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in South Africa.
Use of Personal Information
Personal information that visitors submit through our site (https://www.gimtrac.co.za) is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted or for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose. Copies of correspondence sent from the website, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.
Disclosure
Apart from where you have consented or disclosure is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was submitted, personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.
We may engage third parties to provide you with goods or services on our behalf. In that circumstance, we may disclose your personal information to those third parties in order to meet your request for goods or services.
Security
We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.
Collecting Information for Users
Access to Information
We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us to have the information corrected.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.
Problems or questions
If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our websites, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us.
Advertising – Google Adwords
In accordance with some of Google’s recent compulsory policies, we herewith inform you that we might be tracking your cookies as our web site / company is currently undertaking Google AdWords remarketing of any other Google AdWords feature that tracks such cookies.
By visiting this site, you agree that certain of our Google AdWords remarketing and or other advertisements can follow you as you visit other web sites that forms part of Google’s Display Network (GDN).
Note that we shall under no circumstances be utilizing any personally identifiable information as obtained through our Google AdWords remarketing campaign in any other related marketing endeavours – online or otherwise. (Such restricted utilization of information includes the sharing of such with third parties.)
The Company shall under no circumstances be using any sensitive information of any nature on any of our remarketing tags.
The Company shall duly endeavour to adhere to all of the current in-effect policies of Google related to remarketing or any other form of Google advertising in all of its Google AdWords marketing campaigns. (In instances of possible non-conformity to such, the Company shall endeavour to rectify such in a prompt manner.)
You may opt out of seeing advertisements for web site, by simply clicking here: – http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
13. Keeping Information
GIMTRAC will keep personal information for as long as:
This policy was approved during a management meeting held on Monday 28 June 2021.
Important Notice - Closing Date 14 December - Opening Date 15 January 2024
Please take note that manufacturing orders are closed for 2023.
You can continue to place orders and purchase goods on our website as per normal, but your goods will only be manufactured when we open in 2024.
Kind Regards,
The Gimtrac Team