The Privacy Policy of this Website
Introduction
This Privacy Policy is designed to publicly declare our practices regarding the collection and the use and the disclosure of information that you may be providing to us via this website.
It is important for you to fully familiarize yourself with this Privacy Policy before using this website and / or submitting any personal information to this website.
Specifically note that the term ‘personal information’ is to be understood to mean ‘personally identifiable information’.
Your Consent
By using this website you are thereby agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you are submitting personal information via this website, then you are consenting to the collection and the use and the disclosure of all such personal information in accordance with the provisions and the stipulations of this Privacy Policy.
The Intended Use of this Website
As stated in the Website’s Terms of Use, this website is not intended to be used by children that are younger than 13 years. As such, we will not knowingly collect any personal information from any visitors to this website that are less than13 years old. In this regard, we are encouraging the parents to appropriately educate their children with regards to the correct use of the Internet in general and the kind of confidential information that they might otherwise be inadvertently disclosing to any whichever website.
Active Information Collection
Like many other websites, this website is actively collecting the information that you, its visitor, are directly communicating to us via e-mail or the feedback forms or the remittance and payment forms. Some of that information may and / or will be personal information such as your full name, address, e-mail address, phone number, your credit card account details, and so on. At every such information collection point, the entry field will indicate what information is required and what information is optional. The Christian Academy of Truth is keeping such data only for as long as is reasonably required for the intended purpose and always in exact accordance with the applicable legal requirements and ethical reporting requirements and documentation retention requirements. As such, any personal information that you are relaying to us will be kept strictly confidential and will not be relayed to any third party, excepting:
- to the credit card processor utilizing your personal information to process your remitted payments but who is legally obliged to maintain the confidentiality of all your personal information
- to the South African Information Protection Regulator, in the event that there has been any suspected or real attempt by any person to try to circumvent the security measures of our website
- to protect the rights and property and safety of all staff members of The Christian Academy of Truth and, where applicable, also of others
- to those government departments that are responsible for the enforcement of the laws pertaining to court orders and search warrants and subpoenas and any other such legislative statutes as stipulated in the POPI Act (The South African ‘Protection of Personal Information’ Act) or as might be enforced unto us by similar foreign jurisdictions
In this regard, let it be duly noted that if such a foreign jurisdiction is not upholding the same kinds of legislative statutes as stipulated in the POPI Bill, then you will always be requested via e-mail to give your written consent for us to transfer / disclose your personal information to that foreign jurisdiction.
To ensure the confidentiality of your personal information, The Christian Academy of Truth is maintaining all kinds of physical and technological and administrative safeguards. We are updating and testing all security technologies on a regular basis. It ought to furthermore be duly noted that the access to your personal information is only being given to those staff members who are in definite need of such personal information so as to render their services to you. We are also training these staff members so as to ensure that they are at all times remaining acutely aware of the importance of maintaining the confidentiality and the privacy and the security of all your personal information.
When making any payment to The Christian Academy of Truth, its website gathers credit card information using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which is encrypting the information that you are inputting and transmitting. When confirming an order, then we will only be revealing the last four digits of the credit card number. But we are transmitting the entire card number, using SSL, to our credit card processor and the credit card company.
Passive Information Collection
Whilst you are navigating this website, certain anonymous information (i.e. which you are not knowingly and actively providing) is being collected from your computer using various technologies (such as by means of cookies, internet tags or web beacons and other navigational data collection systems) which anonymous information is then automatically transmitted to our website (such as the last URL that you requested and your Internet Protocol [IP] address). The Christian Academy of Truth is only collecting such anonymous information as is required to compile those kinds of statistics and trends that are enabling it to regularly improve as well the appeal as the contents of its website and to thusly provide a better service to all of the visitors to its website. Specifically note that all such so-called passively-obtained information is being kept in separate files from all actively-submitted personal information.
Links to Other Websites
This Privacy Policy is specifically applicable to this website only. Therefore, if you do activate on our website a link to any other website, then the Privacy Policy of the Christian Academy of Truth is no longer applicable. Instead, you will then have to abide by the Privacy Policy of the other website that you access.
The Enforceability of this Privacy Policy
By using this website, you are agreeing to all of the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy of The Christian Academy of Truth. In the event that you are not agreeing to any one or more of these terms and conditions, then you should not access The Christian Academy of Truth website.
This Privacy Policy is governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of South Africa, without reference to its provisions concerning conflicts of law. You are hereby expressly waiving trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim on any matters whatsoever arising out of or related to this Privacy Policy (“Claim”). You are hereby agreeing to submit any such Claim to binding arbitration, to be held at a mutually-agreed juristic venue in Pretoria, South Africa.
If during such an arbitration any one part of these terms and conditions should be found to be unlawful or void or unenforceable, then such will not affect either the validity or the enforceability of all the other terms and conditions. The Academy of Truth reserves the right to make any changes to these terms and conditions at any time by way of updating this posting.
In the unlikely event that the Claim be deemed by a court not to be subject to arbitration, then it will be submitted to a court of competent jurisdiction located in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, which shall then constitute the only venue for the resolution of any such one or several disputes.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Whenever The Christian Academy of Truth decides to effect any changes to this Privacy Policy, then a notification to that effect will be posted for a duration of 6 months in the form of a news item that can be accessed via the homepage. So, please check such news items on a regular basis so as to fully familiarize yourself with the relevant changes.
The Contact Details with Regards to this Privacy Policy
E-mail: thechristianacademyoftruth@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 01 December 2021.
