Privacy Policy

Wild Republic is committed to protecting the information we hold about you. This notice provides you with information about how, when and why we use your personal information and how we keep it secure. It also sets out your rights under law, our responsibility to you and how you can contact us.

This notice concerns any information that we receive through our website www.wildrepublic.co.za and any additional details that receive as a result of the products or services that we offer, including through our related support services.

Information that we hold about you

  • Your title, full name, your contact details, including for instance your email address, home and mobile telephone numbers; and/or

  • Your home address, delivery address and billing address; and/or

  • Your bank details or financial information used to make payment on our website.

Acceptance required

By registering as a customer and ordering any goods and services through the website, you accept all the terms of this policy.

Legal capacity

You may not access our website or order our goods or request our services if you are younger than 18 years old or do not have legal capacity to conclude legally binding contracts.

Your obligations

You may only send us your own personal information or the information of another data subject where you have their permission to do so.

Changes

We may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating this web page. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website or by sending you an email detailing the changes that we have made and indicating the date that they were last updated. If you do not agree with the changes, then you must stop using the website and our goods or services. If you continue to use the website or our goods or services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted those updated terms.

Collection

Once you register on our website, you will no longer be anonymous to us. You will provide us with certain personal information when you register on our website.

We will use this personal information to fulfil your orders and for any other purposes set out in this policy.

We automatically receive and record Internet usage information on our server logs from your browser, such as your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browsing habits, click patterns, version of software installed, system type, screen resolutions, colour capabilities, plug-ins, language settings, cookie preferences, search engine keywords, JavaScript enablement, the content and pages that you access on the website, and the dates and times that you visit the website, paths taken, and time spent on sites and pages within the website (usage information). Please note that other websites visited before entering our website might place personal information within your URL during a visit to it, and we have no control over such websites. Accordingly, a subsequent website that collects URL information may log some personal information. 

We collect certain information from your web browser, including your Internet usage information when you visit our website.

Purpose for collection

We will process your personal information in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act. Processing includes gathering your personal information, disclosing it, and combining it with other personal information. We generally collect and process your personal information for various purposes, including:

  • goods or services purposes – such as collecting orders or requests for and providing our goods or services;
  • marketing purposes – such as pursuing lawful related marketing activities;
  • business purposes – such as internal audit, accounting, business planning, and joint ventures, disposals of business, or other proposed and actual transactions; and
  • legal purposes – such as handling claims, complying with regulations, or pursuing good governance.

We may use your usage information for the purposes described above and to:

  • remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the website;
  • monitor website usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and
  • track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities in connection with your usage of the website.

We may use your personal information to fulfil our obligations to you.

Sharing

We may share your personal information with:

  • our goods or services providers under contract who help provide certain goods or services or help with parts of our business operations, including fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, technology services (our contracts dictate that these goods or services providers only use your information in connection with the goods or services they supply or services they perform for us and not for their own benefit);
  • credit bureaus to report account information, as permitted by law;
  • banking partners as required by credit card association rules for inclusion on their list of terminated merchants (in the event that you utilise the services to receive payments and you meet their criteria); and
  • other third parties who provide us with relevant services where appropriate.

We may share your personal information with third parties for the purposes of fulfilling our obligations to you among other purposes.

Regulators

We may disclose your personal information as required by law.

No selling

We will not sell personal information. No personal information will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this privacy policy.

Security

We take the security of personal information very seriously and always do our best to comply with applicable data protection laws. Our hosting company will host our website in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced security measures to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. We authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities. We implement disaster recover procedures where appropriate.

Accurate and up to date

Please keep your personal information accurate and up to date by accessing your account online, emailing us, by phoning us.

Enquiries

If you have any questions or concerns arising from this privacy policy or the way in which we handle personal information, please contact us.

Cookie Policy

We may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal information, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal information with a certain device.

Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. However, no longer accepting cookies or deleting them will prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary.

We collect certain information from cookies that we may send to your computer to try and give you a personalised experience.