Privacy Policy

Nelson Mandela Aventis Project for Combating TB

THIS WEB SITE SUBSCRIBES TO AND COMPLIES WITH THE VOLUNTARY PRIVACY PRINCIPLES CONTAINED IN THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONS ACT 25 OF 2002.

Definitions
"Nelson Mandela Aventis Project for Combating TB" means NMA
"user" means any person accessing any part of the web site

1. This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms and Conditions of Use of this web site.

Collection of personal data
2. Where personal information (such as your name, and e-mail address) is submitted to the site by the user (e.g. through our "contact us" form) the following principles are observed in the handling of that information:

a. Only information necessary for the efficient operation of the site and services offered through it is requested;

b. NMA will not use the personal information submitted for any other purpose other than the efficient operation of the site or any other service offered on it, without obtaining the prior written approval of the user or unless required to do so by law.

c. As required by the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act ("ECT Act"), NMA will retain a record of the information and the purpose for which it was requested for a period of one year from the date that the information is last used.

d. NMA will not disclose any personal information regarding a user to any third party unless the prior written agreement of the user is obtained.

e. If information is released with the user's consent NMA 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 one year.

f. NMA will destroy or delete any personal information, which becomes obsolete.

3. Note that, as permitted by the ECT Act, NMA may use personal information collected to compile profiles for statistical purposes and trade in these profiles. No information contained in the profiles or statistics will be able to be linked to any specific user.

Collection of anonymous data
4. In order to provide the best possible service, NMA uses certain standard technology to collect information about the use of this site. This technology is not able to identify individual users but simply allows NMA to collect statistics.

5. This web site utilizes temporary or session cookies that collect the first level domain name of the user. This means that if your e-mail address is user@email.com, the cookie will collect the "email.com" part of the address.

Cookies are small pieces of information sent to the user's browser and stored on the user's hard drive. Temporary cookies expire and are deleted when your browser is closed. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to personally identify users.

If necessary users can alter the manner in which their browser handles cookies.

Links to other web sites
6. NMA has no control over and accepts no responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party sites to which hyperlinks may have been provided and NMA strongly recommends that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit before using it further.
Security

7. While reasonable measures are taken to ensure the security and integrity of information submitted to this site, NMA cannot under any circumstances be held liable for any loss or other damage sustained by a user or users as a result of the intentional or accidental release of information by an employee of NMA or any third party.
Queries

8. If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy please contact us by mailing info@tbfree.org.