GDPR PRIVACY POLICY, TERMS & CONDITIONS

PRIVACY
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in creativestation.co.za. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information We Collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an “Account”, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Improve, personalize, and expand our website
Understand and analyze how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Send you emails
Identify and prevent fraud

Log Files
creativestation.co.za follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, creativestation.co.za uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of creativestation.co.za.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on creativestation.co.za, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that creativestation.co.za has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third-Party Privacy Policies
creativestation.co.za Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. This access will be given to you once an access request form has been completed in full and sent back to us via email. This email should be sent to info@creativestation.co.za
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
creativestation.co.za does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.

COOKIES
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time.
Most Internet browsers support cookies; however, users can set their browsers to decline certain types of cookies or specific cookies. Further, users can delete cookies at any time.

Many websites use cookies and you can find out more about them at All About Cookies.

Why do we use cookies?
These files serve a number of useful purposes for you, including:

granting you access to restricted content;
tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences, location or device type;
improving how our website performs;
understanding who our audience is so that we can provide content most relevant to you;
allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and
helping us deliver interest-based advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.

The types of cookies we use
We use different types of cookies on our website. Some of these cookies are placed by us, while others are placed by our third-party plug-ins, suppliers or advertisers. These cookies may be erased from your device at various times, such as at the conclusion of your browsing session (when you exit the website) or after a predetermined period of time, or they may remain on your device until you delete them.

We use the following types of cookies on our website:
Essential cookies – these are cookies that allow our website to perform its essential functions. Without these cookies, some parts of our websites would stop working.
Site analytics cookies – these are cookies that monitor how our website is performing, and how you interact with it. We use them to know how best to improve our website or services.
Functional cookies – these are cookies that remember who you are as a user of our website. We use them to remember any preferences you may have selected on our website, like saving your username and password or settings.
Our cookies
You can see the cookies we use in the following table:

Cookie type & Cookie function

Essential
Allows our website to perform its essential functions. Without these cookies, some parts of our websites would stop working.

Site Analytics
Monitors how our website is performing, and how you interact with it. We use them to know how best to improve our website or services.

Functional
Remember who you are as a user of our website. We use them to remember any preferences you may have selected on our website, like saving your username and password or settings.

Deleting cookies
Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. You can read how to do this at Digital Trends.

Deleting or no longer accepting cookies may prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary or because the website forgot your preferences.

Updates to this policy
This policy may be updated from time to time. We will provide you with a conspicuous notice on our website or send you an email if we make major changes to this policy. We may give you advance notice.