YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS TO US.
Cogent Proprietary Limited (“Cogent”) is committed to maintaining the privacy of information supplied to us by clients, partners, suppliers, employees and other third parties.
This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which we will collect, process, store, and/or disclose any information that can be associated with you or another specific natural or juristic person and can be used to identify you or that person (“Personal Information”) in accordance with all relevant data protection laws, including but not limited to the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013. By providing us with your Personal Information, you will be deemed to have accepted this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with anything in this Privacy Policy, please do not use this website or provide us with your Personal Information.
PURPOSE AND LEGAL BASIS:
The Personal Information we collect is either necessary for us to be able to provide our Intelligent Automation services (our “Services”) or for us to be able to communicate with you.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT:
The Personal Information we collect depends on whether you just visit our website or whether you use our Services. If you visit our website, you do not need to provide us with any Personal Information. However, your browser transmits some data automatically, such as the date and time of retrieval of one of our web pages, your browser type and settings, your operating system, the last web page you visited, the data transmitted and the access status, and your IP address.
If you use our Services, we may collect:
• Banking Details
• Confidential Correspondence
• Digital Images
• Email
• Financial Details
• Location Information
• Name
• Online Identifiers
• Photographs together with Identifiers
• Telephone contact details
• Visual Images
WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:
We process Personal Information only for the purpose for which it is collected. The purpose is dependent on whether you use our website, our Services, you are a supplier or work in direct partnership with us or as part of IEIT Holdings Proprietary Limited and/or its group of companies.
If you use our Services, you are required to provide us with your contact details and we collect your Personal Information. We use this Personal Information for the provision of our Services or the performance of the service contract entered into between us.
We may also use Personal Information for other purposes, including market research, service experience surveys and communications, but that will only occur in the case we have your consent or legal justification for doing so.
HOW DO WE LOOK AFTER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:
We limit the amount of Personal Information collected only to what is fit for the purpose, as described above. We restrict, secure and control all of our information assets against unauthorised access, damage, loss or destruction; whether physical or electronic. We take and will continually take the appropriate, reasonable technical and organisational measures to prevent: (a) loss of, damage to or unauthorised destruction of Personal Information; and (b) unlawful access to or processing of the Personal Information. We retain Personal Information only for as long as is described above, to respond to your requests, or longer if required by law. While in our possession, together with your assistance, we try to maintain the accuracy of your Personal Information..com