PRIVACY POLICY

 

Protection of personal data

 

Certain parts of the burgeonfinancial.co.za website (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”) collects users' personal data, but only if users provide these voluntarily. The Website facilitates the exchange of product and/or service offers from the service providers to those Users who request such offers (“the Service”); and the Service is not possible without the Website forwarding the Users’ data to third parties. Nonetheless Burgeon Financial (Pty) Ltd the owner and operator of the Website (“burgeon financial”) will endeavour to protect the User’s personal information as required by data privacy legislation applicable to it , such as the Protection of Private Information Act in South Africa, European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related legislation.

  1. For the purpose of preparing a Quote and/or concluding a business deal with a User, including the preparation of any written contract or terms of engagement and the like.

  2. Each Provider undertakes that they will not under any circumstances forward the Users’ personal data to other users or third parties, unless they are obliged in law to do so or this is necessary for the purpose of preparing a Quote. The same applies for other (non-personal) data that is contained in the request for a Quote.

Natural persons’ data is not shared with other companies and we do not sell them to data processors that have no connection to the products or services you ordered.

 

When may a Burgeon Financial use your data?

Cookies and services in use

As almost all websites, the Website uses cookies as well. A cookie contains a sequence of letters and numbers; it is loaded on your computer when you visit a website.

Our cookies & why we use them:

  1. For purposes of the basic website operation (submitting requests for quote, registration, inspecting offers).

  2. We modify the Website according to a User’s needs.

In some cases, we wish to change the Website, but we are not sure how Users will react. To determine this, we use testing tools (Google optimize) which only shows these changes to a small percent of Users. Based on the results we decide whether the change is worth adopting.

When we wish to show a map with the location of a Provider or User, we use the Google maps service.

For sending emails, storing data, backups, and website hosting we use the following services of data processors:

  • Hetzner Online GmbH – hosting

  • Square Space (Pty) Ltd - hosting

Request for deletion of personal data

If you no longer wish to receive communication from Burgeon Financial, you may contact matthew@burgeonfinancial.co.za at any time and request that we stop sending you communication. You may also request your data to be deleted, rectified or transmitted.