Privacy Policy Statement

1.1. “EZ-Drive” means EZ-Drive Closed Corporation 2000/020374/23.

1.2. “Personal Information” means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person and where it is applicable, identifiable, existing juristic person, including all information as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013.

1.3. “Processing” means the creation, generation, communication, storage, destruction of personal information as more fully defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013.

1.4. “You” or the “user” means any person who accesses and browses this website for any purpose.

1.5. “Website” means the website of EZ-Drive at URL www.ez-drive.co.za or such other URL as EZ-Drive may choose from time to time.

2.1. EZ-Drive respects your privacy. This privacy policy statement sets out EZ-Drive's information gathering and dissemination practices in respect of the Website.

2.2. This Privacy Policy governs the processing of personal information provided to EZ-Drive through your use of the Website.

2.3. Please note that, due to legal and other developments, EZ-Drive may amend these terms and conditions from time to time. The version of this Privacy Policy are indicated by the effective date incorporated in the title of this Privacy Policy. It is your duty to remain appraised of the current version of this Privacy Policy. The date indicated in the heading of this Privacy Policy is the effective date that governs the browsing and use of this Privacy Policy from that date until the next revision of this Privacy Policy becomes effective.

2.4. By continuing to browse or use thie Website after a revised Privacy Policy becomes effective constitutes your agreement to observe this Privacy Policy as may be revised.

3.1. By providing your personal information to EZ-Drive, you acknowledge that it has been collected directly from you and consent to its processing by EZ-Drive. In addition, where necessary your information may be retained for legal or research purposes.

3.2. Where you submit Personal Information (such as name, address, telephone number and email address) via the website (e.g. through completing any online form) the following principles are observed in the processing of that information:

3.2.1. EZ-Drive will only collect personal information for a purpose consistent with the purpose for which it is required. The specific purpose for which information is collected will be apparent from the context in which it is requested.

3.2.2. EZ-Drive will only process personal information in a manner that is adequate, relevant and not excessive in the context of the purpose for which it is processed.

3.2.3. Personal information will only be processed for a purpose compatible with that for which it was collected, unless you have agreed to an alternative purpose in writing or EZ-Drive is permitted in terms of national legislation of general application dealing primarily with the protection of personal information.

3.2.4. EZ-Drive will keep records of all personal Information collected and the specific purpose for which it was collected for a period of at least 1 (one) year from the date on which it was last used.

3.2.5. EZ-Drive will not disclose any personal information relating to you to any third party unless your prior written agreement is obtained or EZ-Drive is required to do so by law.

3.2.6. If personal information is released with your consent, EZ-Drive will retain a record of the information released, the third party to which it was released, the reason for the release and the date of release, for a period of 1 (one) year from the date on which it was last used.

3.2.7. EZ-Drive will eventually destroy or delete any personal information that is no longer needed by EZ-Drive for the purpose it was initially collected, or subsequently processed.

3.3. Note that, as permitted by the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, EZ-Drive may use personal information collected to compile profiles for statistical purposes. No information contained in the profiles or statistics will be able to be linked to any specific user.

4.1 We may disclose your personal information to our service providers who are involved in the delivery of products or services to you. We have agreements in place to ensure that they comply with the privacy requirements as required by the Protection of Personal Information Act.

4.2 We may also disclose your information:

4.2.1 Where we have a duty or a right to disclose in terms of law or industry codes;

4.2.2 Where we believe it is necessary to protect our rights.

5.1. EZ-Drive may use standard technology to collect information about the use of this website. This technology is not able to identify individual users but simply allows EZ-Drive to collect statistics.

5.2. EZ-Drive may utilise temporary or session cookies to keep track of users’ browsing habits. A cookie is a small file that is placed on your hard drive in order to keep a record of your interaction with this website and facilitate user convenience.

5.2.1. Cookies by themselves will not be used to identify users personally but may be used to compile identified statistics relating to use of services offered or to provide EZ-Drive with feedback on the performance of this website.

5.2.2. The following classes of information may be collected in respect of users who have enabled cookies:

5.2.2.1. The browser software used;

5.2.2.2. IP address;

5.2.2.3. Date and time of activities while visiting the website;

5.2.2.4. URLs of internal pages visited; and

5.2.2.5. Referrers.

5.3. If you do not wish cookies to be employed to customize your interaction with this website it is possible to alter the manner in which your browser handles cookies. Please note that, if this is done, certain services and/or experiences on this website may not be available.

6.1. EZ-Drive takes reasonable measures to ensure the security and integrity of information submitted to or collected by this website, but cannot under any circumstances be held liable for any loss or other damage sustained by you as a result of unlawful access to or dissemination of any personal information by a third party.

6.2 EZ-Drive has in place reasonable commercial standards of technology and operational security to protect all information provided by users from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. All reasonable steps will be taken to secure a user's information. Authorised employees, who are responsible for the maintenance of any sensitive data submitted, are required to maintain the confidentiality of such data. The policy applies to all employees of EZ-Drive or public bodies that may receive such information from EZ-Drive. It is expressly prohibited for any person, business or entity to gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any page on this website, or to deliver or attempt to deliver any unauthorised, damaging or malicious code to this website. If a person delivers or attempts to deliver any unauthorised, damaging or malicious code to this website or attempts to gain unauthorised access to any page on this website, a criminal charge will be laid against that person, and, if EZ-Drive or any public body should suffer any damage or loss, civil damages will be claimed.

7.1 EZ-Drive may provide links to other websites only as a convenience. The inclusion of any link does not imply EZ-Drive's endorsement of such sites.

7.2. EZ-Drive has no control over and accepts no responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party websites to which hyperlinks may have been provided and EZ-Drive strongly recommends that you review the privacy policy of any website you visit before using it further.

8.1. If you have any queries about this privacy policy please contact us.

9.1 You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. To do this, simply contact us at the numbers/addresses as provided on our website and specify what information you require.  We will need a copy of your ID document to confirm your identity before providing details of your personal information.

9.1.2 Please note that any such access request may be subject to a payment of a legally allowable fee.