At GS1 South Africa, we believe in and protect your right to privacy of your personal and business information.  We will not release information about you to any third party without your consent.  The information you enter on our site (www.gs1za.orga or www.ean.co.za ) will only be viewed by GS1 South Africa alone.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

1.1 You can visit our web site without furnishing us with your information or reveal personally identifiable information to us.

1.2 GS1 South Africa uses personally identifiable information for 2 (two) main purposes: (i) to fulfill your requests for certain products and services; (ii) to tell you about special events and new products and/or services.

1.3 On some parts of our website or our product websites we use so-called "cookie" technology. Cookie technology consists of small pieces of data or a small text file which is given to your browser by our webserver when you visit our website. This data is stored on your browser. The cookie is sent back to our webserver each time you visit our website. Cookies are not computer programs and do not run on a computer like programs do. They cannot gather information or function on their own. They cannot collect any personal information about you or your machine and cannot gather data or information about what you do on the Internet. Cookies merely enable us to provide a more valuable online experience to you. While you can set up your Internet browser to disable cookie technology, we do not recommend that you do this since some parts of this website and our online services may not function properly, or at all.

1.4 Mail or email promotions
Provided that you have agreed to this, we may use your personal or other information to send you information on new services or products that may be of interest to you and from time to time will mail or email information to you about us, our products and services, or our partners and their products or services. If you do not wish to continue receiving this information you may contact us and we will remove you from our mailing list.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

1.5 GS1 South Africa will not sell or disclose your personally identifiable information to anyone.

1.6 GS1 South Africa will not share personally identifiable information with other companies or individuals unless: (i) we have your express permission to share the information; (ii) we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; or (iii) we respond to subpoena's, court orders or legal process.

SECURITY MEASURES

1.7 GS1 South Africa operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection. Whilst GS1 South Africa may have security measures in place to attempt to protect user data from any hacking, physical or virtual, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be fully secure. Consequently we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

GS1 South Africa updates this policy from time to time.