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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to Best of Mossel Bay.

It is Best of Mossel Bay's policy to respect its users' privacy regarding any information that may be collected while operating its website and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide Best of Mossel Bay through its website. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains what information may be collected on Best of Mossel Bay's website, how Best of Mossel Bay uses this information, and under what circumstances Best of Mossel Bay may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through the website and does not apply to the collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Website Terms and Conditions posted on Best of Mossel Bay's website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of Best of Mossel Bay's website. Depending on your activities when visiting Best of Mossel Bay's website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Best of Mossel Bay offers services through its website that may require certain visitors to interact with Best of Mossel Bay in ways that require the gathering of personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Best of Mossel Bay gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. 

Best of Mossel Bay will never sell, rent, transfer to a third party, make available to a third party or in any way misuse any and all personally identifiable data/information collected. Any such information collected is used mainly (but not limited to) for the operation of Best of Mossel Bay's services.

Information collected may include your personal details such as your name, surname, email address and contact number; geographical location; IP address assigned by your ISP, billing address, hardware and software details. Best of Mossel Bay does not collect credit card details via its website and credit card details are never stored on its servers.

Website Visitors

Best of Mossel Bay collects non-personally identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available for statistical purposes, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Such information is collected and processed by software such as server software, locally hosted statistical software, Google Analytics and other such services.  Best of Mossel Bay collects such non-personally identifying information to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, Best of Mossel Bay may release aggregated statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Best of Mossel Bay may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Best of Mossel Bay does not disclose your personally identifying information.

Best of Mossel Bay also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users. We only disclose IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described in this policy.

External Links & Third Party Services

Best of Mossel Bay's website contains links to external sites that are not operated by us. By clicking on any third-party links, you will be directed to that third party's website. Best of Mossel Bay strongly advise you to review the Privacy Statements, Disclaimers and Terms & Conditions of every site you visit. Best of Mossel Bay has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites, products or services.

Best of Mossel Bay reserves the right to import and manage its e-mail into/through international mail servers such as Gmail.  Such service providers' servers are usually located outside of South Africa.

Storage & Data Retention

Best of Mossel Bay's website service providers host its website on local web servers.  However, any or all information may be stored in encrypted format on S3-compatible backup servers outside of South Africa. By using this website you acknowledge and consent.

Best of Mossel Bay retains and archives data collected through its website and connected sources for the maximum allowable period to satisfy its legal obligations and for statistical purposes.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to Best of Mossel Bay, however, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While Best of Mossel Bay strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, Best of Mossel Bay cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Best of Mossel Bay's e-mail and the contents therein are confidential and privileged information intended for the sole use of the addressee(s). Best of Mossel Bay does not guarantee e-mail to be secure, error-free, untampered, uncorrupted, created or originated from unauthorized persons/sources or virus-free. It is important to remember that no system is 100% secure and that information could be intercepted, amended, corrupted, destroyed, lost, incomplete or arrive late.

Spam

Best of Mossel Bay maintains a strict anti-spam policy. If e-mail was received as a result of spamming or phishing, please direct complaints to [email protected].

Best of Mossel Bay may use your e-mail address to send you updates and information from time to time as required to fulfil its service obligations to you. 

Cookies

To provide its users with the best online experience, Best of Mossel Bay's website uses necessary-only "Cookies" which are stored on your computer as a text string of information. This information is retrieved and provided by your browser each time you return. These "cookies" are used by Best of Mossel Bay's website for functionality.

Children Online Privacy Protection

Best of Mossel Bay does not specifically market to children under the age of 18 years old.