PRIVACY POLICY
Disclaimer
Thank you for visiting the Basterfield Engineering (Pty) Ltd (forthwith known as the "Company") website located at the url basterfieldonline.com (forthwith known as the "Site"). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy explaining our online information practices.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site, and covers information collected on or through or in connection with your use of the Site. We reserve the right to modify the terms and conditions of this Provacy Policy or to change, modify or otherwise alter any feature of the Site in our sole discretion at any time. Changes my be communicated to you via one of the following methods: (1) by sending an e-mail alerting you to the revised Privacy Policy; or (2) by otherwise making the revised Privacy Policy available for you perusal. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will sepersede the prior provisions for all activity occurring after the revised version has been made available in the manner described above. Your continued use of the Site after the revised version is made available constitutes your agreement to the revision. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy you may not access or otherwise use this service.
The Information We Collect
When you send us personally identifying information in an e-mail, we use the information you provide only to help us gather the information you might request. In an effort to respond to your request, information you submit may be viewed by various people within Basterfield Group or one of its divisions. Once received, the information to your email is protected in accordance with South African law, (e.g. the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act). Details submitted via user registration forms are treated in the same manner.
When you visit our web site to read web pages or download information, we automatically collect and store the following non-identifying information:(1) the Internet protocol (IP) address from which you access our web site. An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you are surfing the web; (2) the type of browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla, and operating system, such as Windows Vista or MacOs, used to access our site; (3) the date and time our site is accessed, for the purpose of traffic and statistical monitoring; and (4) the pages visited, for the purpose of improving the usefulness of our web site by providing helpful links and removing pages that redundant. This information does not identify you personally.
How We Use This Information
We maintain the above information in system logs. We use this information to make our site more useful to visitors by learning the number of visitors to our site, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for specific pages. We do not track or record information about identifiable individuals and their visits. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency´s request.
Spam
Spam refers to unsolicited, bulk or indiscriminate messages, typically sent for a commercial purpose. The company has a zero-tolerance spam policy. Messaging systems automatically scan all incoming email and other messages (including those submitted via online forms), and filter-out messages that appear to be spam. No message filtering system is 100% accurate, and from time to time legitimate messages will be filtered-out. You can reduce the risk of a message being caught by the spam filters by sending the message in plain text (i.e. no HTML).
Cookies
To enhance your experience with the Site, many of our webpages on the Site use "cookies". Cookies are text files we place in your computer´s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. However, once you choose to furnish the Site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
Security
We take information security seriously and use resonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. Of course, no data transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and any message or information you send to the Site may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notic that a particular transmission is encrypted, so please be aware that you provide your personally identifiable information at your own risk.
Collection of Information of Children
The company does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information submitted to the Site from individuals under the age of 13.
