Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to the African Democratic Congress website. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users. This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:

• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths).
• Information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address).
• Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address).
• Information that you provide when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service use).
• Information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication).
• Any other personal information that you choose to send to us.

3. How We Use Your Information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

• Administer our website and business.
• Personalize our website for you.
• Enable your use of the services available on our website.
• Send you non-marketing commercial communications.
• Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
• Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
• Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.
• Keep our website secure and prevent fraud.
• Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service).

4. Sharing of Your Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
• In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
• To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
• To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

We use cookies to help us analyze the use and performance of our website and services, and to store your preferences.

6. Security of Your Information

We take the security of your personal information seriously and implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect it. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal information.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

8. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.