Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies to the website https://scholarmedia.africa
This privacy policy defines how The Scholar Media Digital uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website. The Scholar Media Digital commits itself to ensure that your privacy is protected. Any information that we may ask of you by which you can be identified when using this website will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. The Scholar Media Digital may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
The Scholar Media Digital is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
The Scholar Media Digital may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
Your Name and contact information including email address and phone number
Demographic information such as postcode and physical residence
Permission to send you emails from our site.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to help us understand your needs and provide you with a better service, for a number of reasons:
For record keeping
To enable us periodically send to you promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting.
To enable us to periodically contact you for market research purposes, we may contact you by email or phone. The information you give will help us to customise the website according to your interests.
You have control of your personal information
You now have full control of the data stored on our site, if new to the site you can select or deselect ways to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Marketing Preferences:
Any time you are asked to fill in a form on the website, you are at liberty to decline and help us know that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes. You may at any time unsubscribe from our marketing correspondences, this can be done via the marketing emails, contacting us direct or removing yourself via your online account.
Your Personal Data:
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes or for any orders, you have the right to remove this from our system at any point. In order to do this you can now login to your online account and choose the data you want to share with us. If you do not want any information stored on our site then you can request to have this deleted, our IT team will do so and inform you of the deletion.
By logging in to your online account you may correct and /or complete any information we have about you that needs amending. You may also have the amendment done by contacting us on email. We will promptly respond to your request.
We assure you of security of information
We promise that all the information that you give us will be secure. We have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures so as to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of the information we collect online.
We may use your personal information only in cases where you need the information to be used to send you promotional information about third parties. We however will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so.
We use cookies
A cookie is a small file which, only with your permission, is placed on your computer’s hard drive to help analyse web traffic or to let you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies enable web applications to tailor their operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Information collected by cookies is only used for statistical analysis purposes after which the data is removed from the system.
Cookies therefore help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to observe which pages you find useful and which ones you do not. A cookie only allows us to access the data you choose to share with us.
You are at liberty to accept or decline cookies. Cookies are automatically accepted by most web browsers, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may however prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.