Privacy Policy

This website privacy policy describes how we process information we collect and/or receive from you.

YOUR CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL

Convergence may collect, receive, record, organise, collate, store, update, change, retrieve, read, process, use and share your Personal Information in the ways set out in this privacy policy. When we perform one or more of the aforesaid actions with your Personal Information, we are deemed to be “processing” your Personal Information (and “process” has a corresponding meaning).

Should you have any concerns regarding any aspect of this privacy policy as it relates to your Personal Information, please discontinue your engagement with our website, and/or contact our Information Officer on details provided herein.

We may, however, where permitted or required to do so by applicable law, process your Personal Information without your knowledge or permission, if sufficient grounds of justification are present, and we will do so in accordance with the
further provisions set out in this privacy policy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND RECEIVE

“Personal Information” refers to private information about an identifiable living natural person or, where applicable, an identifiable existing juristic person. Personal Information excludes information that does not identify you (including instances where that information has been de-identified so that it is incapable of identifying a person). The Personal Information that we collect about you may differ on the basis of your engagement with us or our services or products and services that you provide to Convergence.

We collect and receive information about you in the following ways:

Information you give us
This includes any information that you provide to us directly:
when you sign-up to utilise our services;
by filling in forms on our websites, or those provided to you;
when you enter a competition, promotion or complete a survey;
by posting comments or content on our social media pages; or
when you contact us or we contact you and you provide information directly to us.

What personal information we collect

When you register to use our services or apply to join the internship or CA training programme, you may be required to provide us with the following information, your:
name and surname;
contact number and email address;
physical address;
identity or passport number;
date of birth , or
other relevant data.

Information we collect or receive when you use our website or social media platforms

We collect information when you use websites or social media platforms and other technologies. Depending on how you access and use websites, we may receive:

login information;
information we infer about you based on your interaction with products and services;
device information (for example the type of device you're using, how you access platforms, your browser or operating system and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address);
location information.
Information from third-party sources

We may receive additional information about you that is publicly or commercially available and combine that with the information we have collected or received about you in in other ways.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND RECEIVE

We use the information we collect and receive for the following general purposes:
to provide you with information, products or services you request from us;
in order to refer you to an appropriate third-party service provider;
to communicate with you;

HOW WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND RECEIVE

We don’t sell your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.

We may share information with:
our affiliates, in other words, other companies related to us;
we may disclose your personal information to a limited number of our employees and third party service providers (other than those who we refer you to), who we assist you to interact with;
our business partners. We may share non-personally identifiable information with select business partners;
other parties in response to legal process or when necessary to conduct or protect our legal rights;
companies that provide services to us. Companies that provide services to us or act on our behalf may have access to information about you; and
third-parties where you provide consent. In some cases, third-parties may wish to attain information about you in order to promote their products to you, or for whatever other reason. We may share information with third-parties where you provide consent in the form of an explicit opt-in. Before we ask you to opt-in, we will endeavour to provide you with a clear description of what data would be shared with the third-party. Remember that once you have opted in to allow us to send your information to the third-party, we cannot control what they do with your data; therefore, be sure to investigate their privacy policies before providing permission for us to share your information.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to contact you for marketing purposes. You can exercise this right at any time by using any of the various "opt-out" options that we will always provide to you when we communicate with you. We won’t send you marketing messages if you tell us not to but we will still need to send you service-related messages.

We want to make sure that any data we hold about you is up to date. So, if you think your personal information is inaccurate, you can ask us to correct or remove it.

RETENTION OF DATA

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy or to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

OUR COMMITMENT TO SECURITY

The security of your data is important to us. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal inform ation, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. However, we do employ a number of safeguards intended to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access or disclosure of your information. We will do our best to protect your personal information and we will use up to date technology that will help us to do this.

TRANSFER OF DATA

We are based in and operate from South Africa. Your information, including personal information, may be transferred to and maintained on servers located outside of your country of residence, where the data privacy laws, regulations and standards, may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence.

We might transfer your personal information to places outside of South Africa and store it there, where our suppliers might process it. If that happens, your personal information will only be transferred to and stored in country that has equivalent, or better, data protection legislation than South Africa or with a service provider which is subject to an agreement requiring it to comply with data protection requirements equivalent or better than those applicable in South Africa.

Your use of our website, followed by your submission of information to us,
represents your consent to such transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website or social media platforms may contain links to and from websites, mobile applications or services of third parties, advertisers or affiliates. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other parties and advise you to read the privacy statements of each website you visit which collects personal information.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

To the extent the law permits, we may, in our sole discretion, amend and update this privacy policy from time to time, without notice. Any changes that we may make to our privacy policy will be posted on our website and will be effective from the date of posting. If you continue to engage with us, provide products or services to us or access or use our website and/or products and services after the amendments are made to the privacy policy and displayed on this website, you will be deemed to have accepted the updated privacy policy.

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may at any time request:
confirmation that we hold your personal information;
access to your personal information;
the identities or categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information; or
that we correct or delete any personal information that is incomplete, misleading, inaccurate, excessive or out of date.

Requests may be made in writing to the Information Officer at io@convergencepartners.com.

QUERIES AND CONTACT DETAILS OF THE INFORMATION REGULATOR

Should you feel that your rights in respect of your Personal Information have been infringed, please address your concerns to the Information Officer. If you feel that the attempts by Convergence to resolve the matter have been inadequate, you may lodge a complaint with the South African Information Regulator by accessing their website at https://www.justice.gov.za/inforeg.