Your privacy is vital to us. At Real Earth, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.

Burkea africana Kwekery Pty Ltd (“Real Earth”) uses the website realearth.co.za. It is Real Earth’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Real Earth collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Real Earth’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Real Earth’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Real Earth may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Real Earth also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Real Earth only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Real Earth’s website choose to interact with Real Earth in ways that require Real Earth to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Real Earth gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. We collect their emails for those who wish to receive Real Earth updates via email. In each case, Real Earth collects such information only as far as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Real Earth. Real Earth does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Real Earth may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. For instance, Real Earth may monitor the most popular pages on the Real Earth.co.za site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Real Earth may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Real Earth does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Real Earth discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information to process it on Real Earth’s behalf or to provide services available at Real Earth’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Real Earth’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Real Earth will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Real Earth discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Real Earth believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Real Earth, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Real Earth website and have supplied your email address, Real Earth may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Real Earth and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Real Earth takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need to. We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information from our live systems. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honour your request.

When deletion is requested or otherwise required, we will anonymize the data of data subjects and/or remove their information from publicly accessible sites if the deletion of data would break essential systems or damage the logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archival records.

If you would like to request deletion of your account and associated data, please visit our Contact Form and submit a request for deletion. We will reply once the process is complete.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Real Earth uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of Real Earth’s website, and their website access preferences. Real Earth’s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Real Earth’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Real Earth’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Real Earth or substantially all its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Real Earth goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Real Earth may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Real Earth and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Real Earth may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Real Earth’s sole discretion. Real Earth encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.