The (not so) Small Print
Privacy & cookie policy
INTRODUCTION
We take your privacy very seriously and value it as much as we do our own!
We intentionally do not ask you for any personal information apart from your name and email address to register for certain downloads or to access parts of our site.
For a promotion, or special event, we may also require details of where you work and what you do.
We DON’T and we WON’T share this information with anyone, unless of course we’re required by law to disclose it.
We will explain these and all the other areas where privacy is concerned – outlining both our and your obligations, and requirements – and detail how we store data and protect your personal information.
If anything is unclear, please don’t hesitate to contact us, we’ll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
WHO’S WHO?
ST‑AND (“We” and “Us”) is owned by Steve Andrews and registered under the Companies Act, 2008 (South Africa) as ST‑AND Brand & People Development (Pty) Ltd, Reg No. 2014/132014/07.
This website is owned and managed by us.
“You” and “Your” refers to you, the viewer or user of this website.
COOKIES
Like the majority of the other websites you visit, this site uses cookies to help us improve its performance and your experience.
Cookies (also referred to as HTTP cookies or Browser Cookies) are small text files that are stored in your browser.
They are generated by the server which hosts the site you visit, and are used by that server again whenever you visit the same site from the same browser.
Cookies are not executable – that means they don’t run programs – so they can’t carry viruses or change how your computer works.
The most common types of cookies are authentication cookies, which servers use to determine whether a user is logged into a site or not.
Cookies serve many useful purposes, such as remembering items you had in a shopping cart, logging visited pages on the site and remembering login details so you don’t have to enter them every time you visit the website.
OUR USE OF COOKIES
There are three types of cookies used on our website:
1) OUR OWN COOKIES
We’ve tested our site, and to the best of knowledge we do not use any cookies in the day-day running of st-and.co.za. If you find any… please let us know.
2) THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties:
a) Videos
YouTube powers the videos on our site and their cookies are placed when you click to view a video. Information on how Google (the owners of YouTube) use cookies can be found here and their privacy policy here.
b) Social Sharing
So you can easily share content on social networks, we use social share buttons across our site.
The cookie (and privacy) implications of this will vary from social network to social network, and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks. We encourage you to read the policies of each social network you use, and to check your privacy settings.
3) ANONYMOUS VISITOR STATISTICS COOKIES
We use Google Analytics to provide us with anonymous statistics on the use of our website. This includes how many people visit us, how they have arrived (e.g. by search engine), what pages they visit, how long they spend with us and what type of technology they are using (for example operating system, mobile, tablet etc.).
We use this information to continually improve our online activities.
If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics for all the sites you visit Google have a plugin (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) available for various browsers.
The typical cookies that Google Analytics uses from the latest scan of our site are:
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _gid | 1 day | Identifies how many visitors, how they arrived at the site (e.g. search engine, link etc.), and what pages were visited – it’s completely anonymous. |
| _ga | 2 years | A Universal Analytics cookie used to store a unique identifier (a randomly generated number) used by Google Analytics servers to calculate user, session, and campaign data. |
| _gat | Session | Used to throttle the request rate back to Google Analytics servers. |
TURNING COOKIES OFF
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies.
However this will limit the functionality of our site and a large proportion of the other websites you visit as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
GRANTING US PERMISSION TO USE COOKIES
If the settings of the browser you are using to view this website are set to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, as your consent to our use of cookies.
PRIVACY & DATA PROTECTION
1) CONTACTING US
‘Contact Us’ buttons are located throughout our site. Clicking on one of these buttons will open up a new email addressed to us in your usual email programme. For your convenience the subject line will also be pre-populated depending on which section of the site the contact button was placed.
We only use your email address for the purpose it was intended – to reply with an answer to your query. We DO NOT and WILL NOT sell, rent or share your email address.
2) TAKING PART IN PROMOTIONS
Depending on the promotion, our sign-up form will require your first name, last name and email address, together with other details relevant to the promotional activity, such as your the company you work and your role. Please check the terms and conditions for each promotion for further information.
We use MailChimp to manage our promotional data. This enables us to use a double opt-in process to verify your email address, and offer additional security and privacy to your information. MailChimp will NOT, under any circumstances, sell your information, contact you directly, market to you or share your information with any other party, unless they’re required to do so by law.
Similarly we will only use your information for the purpose it was provided. We DO NOT and WILL NOT sell, rent or share your details. Depending on the type of promotion, you may also receive further promotional/newsletter mailings from us.
To unsubscribe simply click on unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email and follow the instructions. This will delete your details from distribution list.
AND FINALLY
The normal operation of this web site may result in the capture and logging of a user’s IP address.We’ve no intention of using that information to track or identify you as an individual.
The only exception to this is if we suspect that someone is attempting unauthorised access to our server, when we will work with our hosting company to identify and take legal action.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| boxilla_ | 1 day to 1 year | We use scroll-triggered boxes on various pages throughout our site for subscription to our *Viewpoint newsletter and promotion of various site content. This cookie enables us to hide the box for a variable duration, depending on it’s content and your interaction with the site. For example if you subscribe to our newsletter, you won’t see a message box asking you to subscribe again!. |
| mc4wp_subscribed | 1 year | We use MailChimp to manage our promotional data. This plugin tells us that you have subscribed so we don’t need to show you the sign-up form in our blog navigation. |
| wfvt_ | Session | Groups page views together for the duration of a visit, part of our site’s security system. |
