This Notice is an assurance to you that Sekgala and Njau Attorneys (S&N) is concerned about how your Personal Information is collected, processed, stored, transferred, and destroyed. S&N secures your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. This Privacy Notice explains how S&N collects and uses Personal Information regarding the rights of natural and juristic persons.
What is Personal Information?
Personal Information is any information that personally identifies you, this information may include but is not limited to your name, race, gender, pregnancy, marital status, mailing address, phone number, email address, education, employment history, and financial history (such as your credit history).
What is Special Personal Information?
Special Personal Information is any information relating to your religious or philosophical beliefs, race or ethnic origin, trade union membership, political opinions, health, sexual life, biometric information or criminal behaviour.
How does S&N Protect Your Personal & Special Personal Information?
S&N assures you that it has put stringent IT security measures and access controls in place to protect your Personal Information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. S&N further assures you that it will not use or share your Personal/Special Personal Information with any service providers, or third parties outside of the limitation to which you have consented.
S&N collects personally identifiable information, such as your ID number, e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number to provide legal services to clients. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by S&N. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by S&N for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the S&N website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose Personal information or personally sensitive data through S&N public social media platforms, this information may be collected and used by others. Please note: S&N does not read any of your private online communications. S&N is not responsible for the Privacy Notices or other content on Web sites outside of S&N Holdings Group Web site.
Use of Your Personal Information
S&N does not sell, rent or lease its client lists to third parties. The purposes for which S&N processes personal information include, but are not limited to:
- marketing and promotion of S&N’s services;
- providing and improving services to clients;
- improving users’ experience when using S&N’s websites;
- communicating with persons for S&N’s internal purposes;
- enabling S&N’s internal operations;
- exercising and defending legal rights.
In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, S&N may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail. All such third parties are prohibited from using your Personal Information except to provide these services to S&N, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
S&N keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within S&N, in order to improve the quality of our services. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within S&N to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. S&N Websites will disclose your Personal Information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
(a) comply with legal process served on S&N or the site;
(b) protect and defend the rights or property of S&N; and
(c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of S&N, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The S&N website use "Cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A Cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the Cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of Cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. You can accept or decline Cookies. If you choose to decline Cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the S&N services or websites you visit. For more information please see our Cookie Policy
What are Your Legal Rights?
You have the right to:
- Access your Information;
- Update your information;
- Restrict the processing or sharing of your information;
- Object to the use of your data, including the use of your personal data for direct marketing;
- Withdraw consent and
- To lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator.
S&N encourages you to review the Privacy Statements/Notices of websites you choose to link to from S&N so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your Personal Information. For more information on your rights are and how you can exercise them, you can access our Privacy Policy here.
Please note that by using this website you consent to this Privacy Notice. If you do not consent to this Privacy Notice, you must stop using this website immediately.
How to lodge a complaint?
All comments, questions, concerns or complaints regarding your Personal Information should be forwarded to the S&N Information Officer:
Information Officer
Sekgala and Njau Attorneys
114 Duxbury Road
Hillcrest,
Pretoria
Telephone: +27 87 164 0469
E-mail: njau@snatlaw.co.za
This privacy notice may be updated from time to time, and you will always be able to find the most recent version on this site.
Queries can also be directed to the Information Regulator:
Website: http://justice.gov.za/inforeg/
Tel: 012 406 4818
Fax: 086 500 3351
Email:
Last updated: 30 June 2021