Kanetwen cc protects the user’s privacy. No personal information will be disclosed to third parties without the user’s permission or due process.

Data Gathering

Kanetwen cc gathers and will be in possession of the following private and personal information:

  1. Information provided by the user voluntarily – this information is used to provide a better service to users.
  2. Information automatically provided (e.g. cookies) – this information is gathered to better your browsing and interaction with Kanetwen cc.
  3. 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. Visitor comments may be checkd through an automated spam detection service.
  4. Articles on this site may include embedded ontent (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.
  5. Kanetwen cc makes use of Google analytics. You can opt in or out of analytical data on our Cookie Opt In bar at the bottom of this site. Read more about Google’s privacy policy. Analytical data is retained for 14 months.

Data Retention

  1. Google Analytics data is retained for 14 months.
  2. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follo-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  3. For users that register on our website, 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.

User Rights over Data

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.

Data Protection and Data Breach

  1. Kanetwen cc has put reasonable steps in place to protect User data. If you require
    specifics, you can contact us at info@kanetwen.co.za.
  2. In the
    case of a data breach, all users will be informed within 48 hours

Consent

By using this website the User consents to the following:

  1. Kanetwen cc may use your personal information to communicate with the user from time to time. Users may indicate if they do not wish to receive such communications.
  2. Kanetwen cc may use user’s information for non-personal statistical purposes.
  3. Kanetwen cc retains the copyright in databases of personal information of users.