Privacy Policy

Last updated: 30 June 2021

Who we are

Global Africa Network Media (Pty) Ltd (GAN) is a business-to-business print and digital media company based in Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please see the About us section of this website.

Global Africa Network Media (Pty) Ltd (“GAN”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates this website: https://www.southafricanbusiness.co.za.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact forms

We use Mailchimp’s GDPR signup forms and double opt-in to collect contact information of subscribers and use Mailchimp to store the information. For more information, please view the Mailchimp Privacy Policy here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

We use Google reCAPTCHA to protect users’ information when they opt-in to receive communication from us. reCAPTCHA is a free service that protects your website from spam and abuse. reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on our site. It does this while letting our valid users pass through with ease. See the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for more details.

Cookies

Our website makes use of cookies to save and retrieve information about your visit to our site. Cookies are small files of software which save and retrieve information about your visit to a website or application. They reside in your internet browser to help remember your preferences and previous activity. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (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.

Analytics

We use Google Tag Manager (GTM) to manage JavaScript and HTML tags for tracking interactions and other analytics on our website. Tags are small code elements that, among other things, are used to measure traffic and visitor behaviour: to understand the effect of online advertising and social channels; to set up remarketing and orientation towards target groups; and to test and optimize websites.

This data does not include user IP addresses or any user-specific identifiers that could be associated with a particular individual. Other than data in standard HTTP request logs, all of which is deleted within 14 days of being received, Google Tag Manager does not collect, retain, or share any information about visitors to our customers’ properties, including page URLs visited. Our website uses the following tracking tool:

  • Google Analytics

For more information about GTM’s privacy practices can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and the Google Tag Manager terms of use at https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/.

Who we share your data with

We will not sell your information to third parties and will only market to you in accordance with our legal obligations and your marketing preference.

Email newsletters

Global Africa Network (GAN) produces business and investment related email newsletters. We ensure that our email newsletter service complies with applicable law, and we do not share personal information with third parties for their marketing or any other purposes. Recipients of these email newsletters may unsubscribe at any time.

How long we retain your data

For users that sign up for our newsletters or to receive other communications from us we store the personal information they provide on the sign-up form. This information is kept until the user unsubscribe from our mailing list, after which the information is kept for one year before being deleted. Website administrators can see and edit that information.

For users that register on our website (if any), we 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.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or provided us with your personal contact details via a form on our site, 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We use MailChimp for sending email marketing campaigns to subscribers who have opted in to receive our newsletters or other communication.

How we protect your data

We use Mailchimp’s GDPR signup forms and double opt-in to collect contact information of subscribers and use Mailchimp to store the information. For more information, please view the Mailchimp Privacy Policy here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

We use Google reCAPTCHA to protect users’ information when they opt-in to receive communication from us. reCAPTCHA is a free service that protects your website from spam and abuse. reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on our site. It does this while letting our valid users pass through with ease. See the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for more details.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 30 June 2021 and will remain in effect except concerning any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments, and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the website or its email newsletters after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgement of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Information

If you have any privacy-specific concerns, please contact us: info@gan.co.za