PRIVACY POLICY

By submitting personal information through the Focalcom.co.za website, you expressly consent to the processing of your personal information according to this Privacy Policy. Your personal information may be processed by Focalcom.co.za in the country where it was collected, as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Focal Communications CC (Focalcom) reserves the right to use the general data (not personally identifiable) it obtains from Users' use of the system, including all statistical information. You acknowledge that such data belongs to Focal Communications CC and that Focal Communications CC shall have the right to use such general data as it determines in its sole discretion. Focal Communications CC may send you email communications including information that we may think may be of interest to you. We do not send any of your Personally Identifiable Information to our advertisers, and your Personally Identifiable Information will never be released to a third party without your express consent, with the exception of our credit card processing and payment partners where release is required to receive or make payments.

Security

We will use commercially reasonable methods to keep Personally Identifiable Information securely in our files and systems. Our Payment System is operated using secure Internet connections, including SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, to help protect your financial data.

Information gathered during registration

If you register to buy Services using Focalcom.co.za, we collect and store information that specifically identifies you or your account ("Personally Identifiable Information"). At this time, the most information you would be required to submit is information about your company name, your first name, last name, password, address, city, state, zip/postal code, country and email address.

Credit card information and any bank information will be transmitted via SSL encryption for your protection. We do not store any credit card information on our servers.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We use Personally Identifiable Information for our own internal purposes including contacting you via email to inform you about updates to the Focalcom.co.za Platform and providing you with services and information relating to e-commerce transactions that you conduct on the site. We reserve the right to disclose your information as required by law. Focal Communications CC will never rent, sell or provide personally identifiable information to third parties unless required to provision a service explicitly requested and agreed to by the User. Any Personally Identifiable Information you agree to provide may be received by third party and could be stored and used by the party according to their privacy policy.

Links to other sites

Focal Communications CC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other web sites to which the site links or which link to the site. By clicking on a link, logo or other item, please note that you may no longer be on the Focalcom.co.za Platform. To check what Internet location you are on, note the URL at the top and/or bottom of your browser. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement of that web site whenever interacting with any site.

Automatically gathered information

Focalcom.co.za automatically collects your browser type and browser software version to tailor the presentation of the Focalcom.co.za Platform to your platform and to maintain a record of your activity on the site. We use cookies to enable Users to specify unique preferences and to track User trends and patterns. Users always have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences. If you disable cookies on your browser, please note that some parts of our site may not function as effectively or may be considerably slower. As an automatic process, our webserver software records a log file of IP addresses that access the Focalcom.co.za Platform. We also collect IP address and other system information for purposes of statistical analysis and to maintain the trust and security of the Focalcom.co.za Platform. We will not use IP addresses or other system information to identify a User unless we determine, in our sole discretion, that it is necessary to enforce compliance without various policies to protect our service, site, customers and others. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Focal Communications CC gathers only that information that is reasonably necessary for it to operate the Focalcom.co.za Platform and otherwise conduct its business. Focal Communications CC uses commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that its collection of such relevant information does not interfere with the operation or security of your system.

Do we share your information?

Focal Communications CC does NOT sell or share your personally identifiable information (including name and email address). We are permitted to utilize general information about you, including statistical data generated by your use of our system, at our discretion.

Important Exception: We must share certain private information with our vendors for the limited-use purpose of processing of credit card payments, ACH transfers, and wire or other bank transfers.