Privacy Policy

This privacy statement was last updated on September 27, 2021 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of South Africa.

In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via www. stefansjewellery.com. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:

we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.

If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.

Purpose, data and retention period

Contact – Through phone, mail, email and/or webforms

For this purpose we use the following data:

Name, Address and City
Email address

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.

Payments

For this purpose we use the following data:

Name, Address and City
Email address
Financial data
IP Address

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Retention period
We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: We are legally obligated to retain invoices of Stefan’s Jewellery and Gems purchases for 10 years after purchase.

Registering an account

For this purpose we use the following data:

Email address
Username, passwords and other account specific data
IP Address

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

To support services or products that a customer wants to buy or has purchased

For this purpose we use the following data:

Name, Address and City
Email address
Username, passwords and other account-specific data

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

To sell data to Third Parties

No data will be sold to Third Parties

What if you don’t provide us with your personal information?

If you don’t provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with the information, products or assistance that you are seeking

Sharing with other parties

We only share or disclose this data to operators for the following purposes:

Operators

Name: Nedbank
Country: South Africa
Purpose: Direct Deposits into our Capitec Bank Banking Account

If you don’t provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with the information, products or assistance that you are seeking.

Name: PayFast
Country: South Africa
Purpose: Payment provider for online payments

If you don’t provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with the information, products or assistance that you are seeking.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy. We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google. Google may not use the data for any other Google services. The inclusion of full IP addresses is blocked by us.

Security

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorised access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

Third-party websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.

Amendments to this privacy statement

We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.

Accessing and modifying your data

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person.

Submitting a complaint

If you are not satisfied with the way in which we handle (a complaint about) the processing of your personal data, you have the right to submit a complaint to the Information Regulator South Africa:
P.O Box 31533,
Braamfontein,
Johannesburg,
2017
Complaints email:[email protected]

Children

Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intent to collect personal data from children under the age of consent in their country of residence. We therefore request that children under the age of consent do not submit any personal data to us.