Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to Digitread Media.

It is Digitread Media’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 Digitread Media through its website. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains what information may be collected on Digitread Media’s website, how Digitread Media use this information, and under what circumstances Digitread Media may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through the website and does not apply to collection of information from other sources.

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

Digitread Media offers services through its website that may require certain visitors to interact with Digitread Media in ways that require the gathering of personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Digitread Media gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, Digitread Media ask visitors who submit the contact form on its website to provide a name, contact number and email address.

Digitread Media 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 Digitread Media’s services, facilitating consultations and account management.

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. Digitread Media does not collect credit card details via its website and credit card details are never stored on its servers.

Digitread Media 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. Digitread Media collects such non-personally identifying information to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, Digitread Media may release aggregated statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Digitread Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Digitread Media does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Digitread Media 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.

Digitread Media’s website may contain 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. Digitread Media strongly advise you to review the Privacy Statements, Disclaimers and Terms & Conditions of every site you visit. Digitread Media has no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Digitread Media 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.

Digitread Media’s website service providers host its website on local and Namibian 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.

Digitread Media 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.

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

Digitread Media’s e-mail and the contents therein are confidential and privileged information intended for the sole use of the addressee(s). Digitread Media 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.

Please note due to internet fraud and hacking:
Digitread Media will never change its banking details via e-mail without providing a bank-issued and verifiable Confirmation of Banking letter. Should you have any queries, please contact Digitread Media before making any payments. Should you make payment based on a fraudulent e-mail, Digitread Media cannot be held responsible for any losses incurred and will you still remain liable to pay amount due to Digitread Media.

Digitread Media maintain a strict anti-spam policy. If e-mail was received as a result of spamming or phishing, please direct complaints to [email protected].

Digitread Media 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. 

To provide its users with the best online experience, Digitread Media’s website uses “Cookies” and/or similar technologies and/or services provided by third parties to display personalized content and store your preferences 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 Digitread Media’s website to help it identify and track visitors and their usage of the website. If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your computer, please set your browser to refuse cookies before using Digitread Media’s website. However, in doing so please note that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of “cookies”.

By continuing to use Digitread Media’s website without changing your browser’s “cookie” settings, you hereby acknowledge and consent to the use of “cookies”.

Digitread Media does not specifically market to children under the age of 18 years old.