1. DEFINITIONS
   1. Anonymous Information – information that does not directly or indirectly identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual user.
   2. Application – a program or service operated by us (or on our behalf) that may be displayed on various online, mobile, or other platforms and environments, including those operated by third parties, which permits us to interact directly with our users.
   3. Children – refers to individuals under 18 years of age.
   4. Data Processor – is a person or entity that processes personal information on behalf of a data controller (or data controllers) and is permitted to perform data processing only as directed by the data controller(s).
   5. IP Address – is associated with the access point through which you enter the Internet and is typically controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or your company. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which users visit various parts of our sites and applications, and we may combine IP addresses with personal information.
   6. Personal Information – means information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual, such as the individual’s name, postal address, email address, and telephone number. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, the resulting information is also treated as personal information.
   7. Public Forums – Our sites and applications may offer message boards, conversation pages, blogs, chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other forums that do not have a restricted audience (for example links to Facebook; Twitter and Instagram). If you provide personal information when you use any of these platforms, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party.

2. INTRODUCTION

Dr. P Roux Oogheelkunde Praktyk is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.

This policy applies when we act as a data controller concerning your personal data.

We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and/or services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

In this policy, “we”; “us” and “our” refer to Dr. P Roux Oogheelkunde Praktyk.

3. SCOPE OF THIS POLICY

This privacy policy describes the treatment of information provided or collected on the sites and applications where this privacy policy is posted whether on our digital properties or on applications we make available on third-party sites or platforms. We follow this privacy policy under applicable laws in the places where we operate.  In some cases, we may provide additional data privacy notices specific to certain products, practices, or regions. Those terms are to be read in conjunction with this policy.

Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform, the information you provide may be separately collected by the third party.

The information we collect is covered by this privacy policy, and the information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on the third-party site or platform will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our applications.

Please also keep in mind that our sites and applications may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our sites or applications and to read the privacy policies of other sites that may collect your personal information.

4. 4. TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect two basic types of information – personal information and anonymous information – and we may use personal and anonymous information to create a third type of information, aggregate information. For example, we collect:

4. 1. transaction information – information you provide us with when you request more information, contact us, such as your postal address, telephone number;
   2. information you provide in public forums on our sites and applications, such as your public posts;
      • information sent either one-to-one or within a limited group using our message, chat, post, or similar functionalities, where we are permitted by the applicable law to collect this information;
   3. information we obtain from a third party, such as a site or platform provider, about the use of our applications on third-party platforms or devices;
   4. location information – information provided by a mobile device or other device interacting with one of our sites or applications (including through beacon technologies), or associated with your IP address, where we are permitted by law to process this information;
   5. activity information about your use, and the use by any person(s) you authorise through your account, of our sites and applications, such as the content you view or post, how often you use our services, and your preferences; and

• use and view device data when you visit our sites, use our applications on third-party sites or platforms, or open emails we send, including your browser or unique device identifier, and IP addresses.

5. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

We collect information you provide to us when you request or purchase products, services, or information from us, register with us (including when you link your profile on a third-party site or platform with your registration account), participate in public forums or other activities on our sites and applications, respond to guest surveys, or otherwise interact with us using one or more devices.

We collect information through a variety of technologies, such as cookies, analytics tools, flash, pixels, and Web beacons.

You consent to us acquiring information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you provided or we collected automatically, such as when we validate postal address information. Applicable laws may require that you authorise the third party to share your information with us before we can acquire it.

6. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION BY DR. P ROUX OOGHEELKUNDE PRAKTYK
   1. We may process data about your use of our website and services (usage data). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency, and pattern of your service use. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services.
   2. We may process account data, which may include your name and email address. The source of the account data is you or your employer. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases, and communicating with you.
      • We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website (profile data). The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our website and services.
   3. We may process your personal data that is provided in the course of the use of our services (service data). The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you.
   4. We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (enquiry data). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you.
   5. We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (correspondence data).

Please do not supply any additional or irrelevant personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.

7. 7. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION WITH OTHER ENTITIES

We will not share your personal information with a third party outside the Dr. P Roux Oogheelkunde Praktyk except in limited circumstances, including:

When you allow us to share your personal information with another company, such as:

7. 1. Electing to share your personal information with carefully selected companies so that they can send you offers and promotions about their products and services; and
   2. Directing us to share your personal information with third-party sites or platforms, such as social networking sites. Please note that once we share your personal information with another company, the information received by the other company is controlled by that company and becomes subject to the other company’s privacy practices.

• When we share your personal information with third parties in connection with the sale of a business, to enforce our Terms and Conditions, to ensure the safety and security of our guests and third parties, to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our guests and third parties, to comply with legal process, or in other cases if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law.

8. DATA SECURITY, INTEGRITY, AND RETENTION

The security, integrity, and confidentiality of your information are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures that are designed to protect user information from unauthorised access, disclosure, use, and modification. We regularly review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

You consent to us retaining all your personal information for a period of five years after:

• termination of your service being offered to you;
• your last electronic or telephonic communication with us;
• your last electronic or telephonic transaction with us;

9. YOUR RIGHTS

In this section, we summarise your rights under data protection laws. Some of the rights are complex, and not all the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

Your principal rights under the data protection law are:

• (a) the right to access;
• (b) the right to object to processing – you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, Dr. P Roux Oogheelkunde Praktyk  may continue to store your personal data. However, Dr. P Roux Oogheelkunde Praktyk  will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defend of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
• (c) the right to data portability;
• (d) the right to complain to the Regulator;
• (e) the right to withdraw consent;
• (f) you have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified;
• (g) you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data when: you contest the accuracy of the personal data or processing is unlawful;
• (h) You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or the exercise of any official authority vested in us, or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.

If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with Dr. P Roux Oogheelkunde Praktyk ’s Information Officer who is responsible for data protection.

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, we may change this privacy policy to accommodate new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements, or for other purposes. It is your obligation to check on a regular basis whether the policy has changed.

WEBSITE DISCLAIMER

1. INTRODUCTION

This disclaimer governs the use of this website. By using this website, you accept this disclaimer in full.

2. 2. ADVICE

The information on this and other related sites is not legal, financial, or medical advice and should not be viewed or used. You must therefore not rely on the information on this website as an alternative to legal, financial, or medical advice and rather obtain advice from an appropriately qualified professional.

2. 2. 1. Representations or Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to section 5 below, we exclude all representations, warranties, undertakings, and guarantees relating to the website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, we do not represent, warrant, undertake or guarantee:

2. 1. • that the information on this website is correct, accurate, complete, and not misleading; or
      • that the use or guidance on this website will lead to any particular outcome or result.
   2. Limitations and Exclusions of Liability

The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this section and elsewhere in this disclaimer are subject to section 5 below; and govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer or concerning the website, including liabilities arising in contract, delict (including negligence), and for breach of statutory duty.

We will not be liable to you:

• in respect of any losses arising out of any events beyond our reasonable control.
• in respect of any business losses, including without limitation loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill;
• in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software;
• in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

3. EXCEPTIONS

Nothing in this disclaimer shall:

• limit or exclude our liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
• limit or exclude our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• limit any of our liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
• exclude any of our liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

4. SEVERABILITY

If a section of this disclaimer is determined by any South African court with jurisdiction or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other sections of this disclaimer continue in effect.

If any unlawful and/or unenforceable section would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the section will continue in effect.

5. LAW AND JURISDICTION

This disclaimer will be governed by and construed in accordance with South African law, and any disputes relating to this disclaimer will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa.

6. OUR DETAILS

In this disclaimer, “we” means (and “us” and “our” refer to Dr P. Roux Oogheelkunde Praktyk, a personal liability company registered in South Africa). We are registered in South Africa under registration number 2013 / 100932 / 21 and our registered postal address is PO Box 2091, Brooklyn Square, Pretoria 0075.

You can visit us at:

Pretoria: 72 Marais Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria
Johannesburg: 269 Beyers Naude Drive, Northcliff

You can contact us:

by telephone: 012 460 2921 (PTA) or 011 476 3113 (JHB)
by email: brooklyn@drproux.co.za or visiomed@drproux.co.za

DATE OF LAST UPDATE AND REVIEW OF POLICY – August 2024.