Privacy Policy
SSA Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors Incorporated’s (SSA Inc.) Privacy Policy
Our clients’ privacy is important to us and we take seriously our responsibility to protect your personal information. At SSA Inc. we have strict compliance procedures in place dealing with how we collect and process your personal information.
By engaging with SSA Inc. you consent to our Privacy Policy as set out hereunder.
SSA Inc operates the SSA Inc South African website.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our website, we collect information that your browser sends to us this is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies are text files with small pieces of data — like a username and password — that are used to identify your computer. Specific cookies known as HTTP cookies are used to identify specific users and improve your web browsing experience. Data stored in a cookie is created by the server upon your connection. This data is labelled with an ID unique to you and your computer.
Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information. You will know when a cookie is sent to your computer as you will have the choice to either accept or refuse these cookies. If you choose to refuse our cookies, this may restrict your use of our website.
The type of personal information we collect depends on the type of service we are engaged to render to you.
How We Collect your Personal Information
The personal information we collect is normally supplied by you. However, there are certain situations in where we will be required in terms of our mandate to collect personal information about you from public sources, related companies, your organisation, your representatives, and information service providers.
We collect personal information about you to carry out your mandate to SSA Inc.
SSA Inc. is committed to keeping your personal information safe and secure. We have engaged the services of third parties who operate under strict instructions and who are only permitted to process your personal information for the purpose intended.
SSA Inc. may use or disclose your personal information with your express consent following a notification to you of the intended use or disclosure. SSA Inc. may be required by law to disclose your personal information, which may include assisting law enforcement agencies.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. SSA Inc. will immediately advise you should a system compromise affecting you come to our attention.
Your personal information will be destroyed by SSA Inc. always in compliance with South African law.
Information Regulator
For further information about the Protection of Personal Information in South Africa, or if any of your concerns are not resolved to your satisfaction, you may contact the Office of the Information Regulator whose responsibility it is to ensure that businesses, such as us, manage your personal information responsibly. The Information Regulator is located at:
SALU Building, 316 Thabo Sehume Street, Pretoria
Tel: 012 406 4818
Fax: 086 500 3351
Email: inforeg@justice.gov.za
This Website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. Be aware that this Privacy Policy only applies to SSA Inc. and that we are not responsible for the collection, storage and/or processing of personal information by any such third-party websites. You should review the Privacy Policy of any third party website you may visit.
This website is a South African based website.
This Privacy Policy is governed by South African law, irrespective of where you may be located when accessing this website.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.