privacy policy
Last Updated: October 2008
Introduction
breadandbutter takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable
precaution to safeguard the personal information you supply to it.
breadandbutter recognizes that your privacy and the protection of
your personal information is important to you, this statement discloses how breadandbutter
helps to protect your personal information while using the breadandbutter
website: http://www.breadandbutter.co.za
Collection of your personal information
In order to use this website, you must first complete the registration form and
choose a password. During registration you are required to give contact information
(such as a name and email address) as well as other information (such as location
and banking details). We use this information to contact you about the services
on our site in which you have expressed interest as well as to provide you with
a more personalized experience on our site and to provide you with the service of
generating qualified leads for your business.
Use of your personal information
breadandbutter will not use or share your personal information in
a manner that differs from what is described within this Privacy Statement and within
the registration opt-in statement without your prior consent. The following statement
is prominently displayed before you can join breadandbutter: "By registering
and entering your details you consent to breadandbutter and its members
contacting you and sending you information about products and/or services on your request.
You also agree to the terms and conditions of the privacy statement that governs how
your information will be processed."
Your date together with that of other subscribers to breadandbutter
maybe aggregated for the purposes of the building of statistical and analytical
tables. At no time will your data be individually identifiable in such tables.
Managing your personal information
The data you provide to breadandbutter will be held as you have provided
it. You may at any time amend or update your data by logging into your account and
clicking on the "My Settings" link where you'll find the page on which you can amend
or update your details.
Deregistration and un-subscribing from emails
You may at any time deregister from breadandbutter by logging into
your account and clicking on the "My Settings" link where you'll find the panel
indicating where you can close your account immediately. The consequences of deregistration
are that your account details will be placed in a suppression file and you will
not receive any further email communication from breadandbutter.
There is information on how you can unsubscribe at the bottom of every email that
breadandbutter sends out either on behalf of breadandbutter
or its members in the breadandbutter network.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications,
you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each
newsletter or communication.
Security and storage of your personal information
The Internet is not a 100% secure medium for communication and, accordingly, breadandbutter
cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to breadandbutter
via the Internet. breadandbutter is not responsible for any loss or
damage you or others may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of such
information.
breadandbutter is commmitted to protecting the security of your personal
information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect
your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example,
we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access,
which are located in controlled facilities. Your must the correct password to access
your breadandbutter account information. It is your responsibility
to ensure the security of your breadandbutter password and not to
reveal this information to others.
Personal information collected by breadandbutter may be stored and
processed out the Republic of South Africa.
Use of cookies
A cookie is very small text file that a Web site saves to your computer's hard disk
to store information that you provide about yourself or to store your preferences.
breadandbutter uses cookies whenever you login to breadandbutter.
breadandbutter stores your unique ID number, and the time you signed
in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from
page to page at site without having to login in again on each page. breadandbutter
uses session cookies to store data on our server that individually identifiable
when you log out of breadandbutter, these session cookies are deleted
from your computer.
breadandbutter also uses cookies to improve the login experience.
For example, breadandbutter may store your login details in a cookie
that will remain on your computer after you log out. This cookie allows you to be
automatically logged in the next time you visit breadandbutter. If
you are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to be
stored, you can un-check the "remember me" tick box when you log-in or register,
and this cookie will not be used.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using the settings on your browser.
If you have cookies disabled in your browser you are sill able to use the breadandbutter
site but you will not have the benefit of an automatic login.
The functionality of breadandbutter depends upon your browser accepting
session cookies. breadandbutter tracks visitors to and on the breadandbutter
site by using referrer tracking. breadandbutter uses click thru and
open mail tracking when sending emails. This process allows breadandbutter
the ability to profile the recipients of their commuications.
On this website we use Google Analytics to measure and analyse information with
respect to visits on our website. To that effect we use or IP address to collect,
among other things, internet traffic data and data regarding your browser type and
computer. In addition cookies are used. A cookie is a small file that is stored
on your computer when you visit a website. If you visit the website again, it is
recognized as a repeat visit by means of the cookie. The cookie contains merely
a unique number and therefor no personal data. The cookie cannot be used to indentify
you on websites of third parties.
It is possible to configure your web browser to refuse cookies or to be informed
if a cookie is set. We refer to the manual of your web browser.
We will not use the IP address or cookies to identify you personally.
We use the services of Google Analytics in order to increase the efficiency of our
websites.
Referral Service
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will
ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your
friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. breadandbutter
stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and
tracking the success of our referral program.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
breadandbutter will occasionally update this Privacy Statement. When
we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top and bottom of the
Privacy Statement. breadandbutter will advise you if changes to this
Privacy Statement materially expand the sharing or use of your personal information
in ways not disclosed in this Privacy Statement at the time of collection.
Last Updated: October 2008