POPI, Privacy Policy & Website Cookies


By continuing and using our website we will assume that you are happy with our policies below:

POPI website disclaimer

By viewing this website you hereby acknowledge that you have read and accepted the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) disclaimer. Kaytrad Commodities Pty Ltd shall take all reasonable measures to protect personal information and for the purpose of this disclaimer “personal information” shall be defined as detailed in the Promotion of Access to Information Act, Act 2 of 2000 (“PAIA”) and the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013 (“POPI”)

The PAIA and POPI Acts are available online at www.gov.za/documents/acts

Privacy Policy

Kaytrad Commodities Pty Ltd is committed to protecting the privacy and security of our employee and client’s personal data. This privacy policy describes how we collect and use personal data in accordance within accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR).

This Privacy Policy ensures Kaytrad Commodities Pty Ltd to:

  • Comply with relevant data protection legislation and all other applicable laws;

  • Be open and transparent about how we use your personal data;

  • Only collect personal data that may be required;

  • Make sure you can access and exercise your other rights under relevant data protection legislation;

  • Protect your personal data and keep it secure;

  • Train our staff on the importance of privacy and making them aware of the correct processes to follow in relation to privacy and the handling of personal data.

  • We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner;

  • We will only collect for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not use in any way that is incompatible with these relevant purposes and limited only to those purposes;

  • Accurate and kept up-to-date;

  • We will maintain only for as long as necessary for the purposes we require;

  • Kept securely and protected against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against loss or destruction using appropriate technical and organizational measures.

What personal data we collect

We will only collect personal data from you which we need to fulfill the requirements of our company service to you, our client.

The categories of personal data we may collect and hold about you may include but are not limited to the below:

Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, or personal email addresses; date of birth, gender, marital status, nationality, country of residence, business name etc., as we require for Accounting, consulting, statutory records and changes and SARS requirements for all taxes;

Where applicable, your rights include, among others:

  • Be informed regarding what data is being held, and why

  • Any time access to the personal data we hold about you

  • To be able to rectify errors in the data

  • To request the erasure of the data being held

Updates to our Privacy Policy

Kaytrad Commodities Pty Ltd reserves the right to review, revise, amend or replace the contents of this Privacy Policy at any time in case of any legal requirements relating to personal data protection come into force.

How to contact us

If you have any questions, complaints, objections, requests to restrict processing of your personal data, or if you would like to exercise your rights as an affected person and withdraw consent to the processing of your personal data, send your request in writing to: caroline@kaytrad.co.za

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.

Further details may be obtained from the formal letter of acceptance and maybe viewed on request.

Form Submitters

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. When you a submit a form on this website, we collect personal information from you to enable to contact you. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

  • Message request

We share this information with Squarespace, our online website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go submit your information on the webform, this site may auto-complete your details by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your webform experience.

For Website Visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

For Blog Comments

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

Marketing Emails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address