PRIVACY POLICY

1.1 Sportsite will take all reasonable measures to respect, protect, maintain and uphold the privacy of its Clients, in accordance with the Privacy Policy detailed below.

1.2 All End-Users will be required to provide Sportsite with their Personal Information in order to create an accurate profile, and provide a verification method for user safety, which includes but is not limited to:-

1.2.1 name and surname;

1.2.2 email address;

1.2.3 physical address;

1.2.4 gender;

1.2.5 mobile number; and

1.2.6 date of birth.

1.3 The Client warrants and undertakes to inform Sportsite of any changes to their Personal Information as soon as is reasonably possible so that Sportsite may maintain updated Personal Information on all Clients.

1.4 The provisions of Section 51 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, No. 25 of 2002 apply, as if specifically incorporated herein.

1.5 Sportsite warrants and undertakes that it shall:

1.5.1 Maintain the strict confidential nature of all personal information, subject to these Terms and Conditions;

1.5.2 Take appropriate technical and organizational measures in order to ensure that the Client’s Personal Information is kept secure and is protected against unauthorised or unlawful processing, access, disclosure, accidental loss, destruction, damage or alteration;

1.5.3 Notify the Client immediately, in writing, upon becoming aware of any unauthorised use, disclosure or processing of the Client’s Personal Information;

1.5.4 Upon reasonable notice and request, provide the Client with reasonable evidence of compliance with Sportsite’s obligations in terms of these Terms and Conditions;

1.5.5 At the request of the Client and within 30 (thirty) days of written request, destroy or return any of the Client’s Personal Information under Sportsites control except that which Sportsite shall be legally obliged to retain.

1.6 In order to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of a Client’s Personal Information, Sportsite warrants and undertakes that it shall:

1.6.1 Identify all reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks to Personal Information in its possession or under its control;

1.6.2 Establish and maintain appropriate safeguards against the risks identified;

1.6.3 Regularly verify that the safeguards are effectively implemented; and

1.6.4 Ensure that the safeguards are continually updated in response to new risks or deficiencies in previously implemented safeguards.

1.7 Sportsite warrants and undertakes that it shall not, without obtaining the Client’s express prior consent, utilise the Client’s Personal Information for any purposes other than:

1.7.1 if the Client is an Advertiser, in relation to the requesting, placement and payment of an advert;

1.7.2 to contact the Client in relation to new services offered by Sportsite or the Website and the provision of marketing or promotional material, unless the Client has expressly opted out from receiving marketing material from Sportsite and the Website;

1.7.3 to improve the Clients interaction with and experience on the Website.

1.8 Sportsite warrants and undertakes that it shall not, without obtaining the Client’s express prior consent, dispose of the Client’s Personal Information to any third party, other than as set out hereunder:

1.8.1 to Sportsite’s third party service providers who provide fraud prevention, marketing and technology services to Sportsite and who, under contract with Sportsite, are prohibited from utilising the Client’s Personal Information for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was provided;

1.8.2 to Sportsite’s employees, agents and service providers where such Personal Information may be required for effective and efficient communication between Sportsite, the Website and the Client;

1.8.3 upon or in contemplation of the sale, merger or change in control of Sportsite to a third party, subject to the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

1.9 Notwithstanding the aforementioned, Sportsite shall be entitled to use or disclose the Client’s Personal Information if such use or disclosure is required in order to comply with any applicable law, subpoena, order of court or legal process with which Sportsite is ordered to comply.

To delete your account, navigate to settings – delete account.

To delete individual posts without deleting your account – tap on the 3 dots underneath your post and select “delete”. Once removed, the activies may remain on Sportsite’s systems until you delete your account.

After a user has been deleted from system, the user’s login will Not Work for the user. All posts previously posted by that user will be deleted from the system and upon redirection to that user’s profile, will reflect as "User Not Found" from Comments, Likes, Notification List, Mail/Chat, etc. Deleted user will not be visible in search by other users. Any comments, likes, notification lists, mail /chat will not be removed following the deletion of their account.

After you make a deletion request, we permanently and irreversibly delete your personal data from our systems, libraries and databases, including backups. Once deleted, your data, including your account and posts cannot be reinstated. Following your deletion of your posts or your account, it may take up to 90 days to delete your personal information and system logs from our systems. Additionally, we may retain information where deletion requests are made to comply with the law and take other actions permitted by law.

Note that content you have shared with others, such as photos, comments, likes, notifications, mails and chats or that others have copied may also remain visible after you have deleted your account or deleted specific information from your own profile. Your public profile may be displayed in search engine results until the search engine refreshes its cache