Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is set up so you understand what we do with your data and where it goes. We have also included a summary of the POPI Act.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://sunshinedevelopers.co.za.

Comments

 When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. When you close your browser, we discard this cookie as it contains no personal data.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. If you have an account and log in to that website, we track your interaction with the embedded content.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

We retain any comments and its metadata indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This excludes any data we need for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where does your data go

We use an automated spam detection service to check Visitor comments.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION ACT (‘POPI’)

Personal Information means personal information as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013;

Protection of Personal Information

  1. You hereby authorize Sunshine Developers, to collect your Personal Information as it is relevant to this Agreement and/or service which we are providing for you or is deemed to be relevant for the provision of such service.

Sunshine Developers is committed to adherence to national legislation and regulations pertaining to the safeguarding of data privacy.

Sunshine Developers shall use information previously provided by you to perform our services and to among other things, process invoices, credit notes, statements and any other document related to the services.

You confirm that we may share your personal information with the following persons, who have an obligation to keep the personal information secure and confidential:

Employees of Sunshine Developers are required to be informed of the personal information in order to attend to the services supplied and all third parties may assist us in supplying the services.

We undertake not to disclose your personal information unless it is legally or contractually required to do so.

We agree to use all reasonable efforts to ensure your personal information in our possession is kept confidential, stored in a secure manner, and processed in terms of POPI.

You hereby acknowledge and warrant that:

  1. Sunshine Developers is entitled to process and store any such Personal Information in the manner set out in Sunshine Developers’ Privacy Policy, available on the website www.sunshinedevelopers.co.za;
  2. Sunshine Developers is entitled and authorised by you to transfer any Personal Information to any of its Operators; and
  3. Sunshine Developers is entitled to store and back up your Personal Information on its servers.