Privacy Policy
Learn how MzansiStory processes information in alignment with South African regulatory guidelines.
Last updated: January 2025
1. Data Controller and Scope
MzansiStory s.r.o. ("the Academy", "we", "us", "our") is committed to ensuring the integrity of your personal information. Under the Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2013 ("POPIA") and related South African data protection legislation, our entity operates as the "Responsible Party" or "Data Controller" for user records submitted through registrations.
Registration No: 2018/349012/07
Registered Address: 195 Jan Smuts Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa
E-mail Address: [email protected]
Telephone Number: +27 11 555 0198
2. Classification of Information We Collect
We process several classes of personal details during interactions with our channels:
- Information provided directly by you: Registration data entered through our syllabus inquiry forms including first name, last name, business or personal email, active phone number, and individual input notes detailing your academic background or media aspirations.
- Automatically collected metadata: Standard system interactions collected via server protocols and automated cookies including IP addresses, system operating systems, browser specifications, page access sequences, duration of stay, and referral domains.
- Third-party attribution analytics: Information collected via tracking networks (such as Google advertising tools) documenting click origins, ad interactions, and marketing outcomes.
3. Purposes and Legal Bases for Data Processing
We utilize information exclusively for lawful operational goals. Below is the framework structuring our usage:
| Purpose | Details Handled | Strict Legal Foundation |
|---|---|---|
| Initial admissions profiling & consultative screening | Full Name, Email Address, Contact Number, Syllabus Interest | Processing is required to initiate contract processes under your request. |
| Platform improvement & layout security checks | Metadata, Device Settings, Web Server logs, Cookie interactions | Legitimate interests of the organization to maintain a secure and functional web platform. |
| Targeted informational campaigns | Email address, general cookies, advertising audience statistics | Explicit opt-in consent gathered directly via the cookie interface framework. |
4. Cookies & Tracking Implementations
We utilize the Advanced Google Consent Mode v2 framework. Non-essential analytical components (such as Google Analytics tracking cookies) and marketing identifiers remain restricted from transmitting user logs until you select "Accept All" or configure permission profiles within our Cookie Banner. Your decisions can be fully reset instantly through the "Cookie Settings" option situated in the footer element.
5. Data Distribution & Third-Party Systems
MzansiStory does not monetize or lease any personal data arrays. Information is shared with verified technical processing bureaus (such as secure servers, email management tools, and digital analysis engines) exclusively to maintain platform integrity, run administrative pipelines, or obey binding statutory requirements.
6. Cross-Border File Operations
Our analytical and database service providers operate secure cloud storage structures dynamically distributed across global zones. If information is routed beyond the borders of South Africa, we apply binding Standard Contractual Clauses to lock down absolute compliance parameters and verify that safe processing methodologies are enforced.
7. Retaining Personal Records
We do not hold customer files longer than necessary to resolve their primary educational inquiries or to enforce standard auditing obligations. Regular analytical and system log tracking data is automatically refreshed or scrubbed from database records after 26 months.
8. Rights of the Data Subject
Under POPIA, users hold several critical privacy permissions. These rights include:
- The right to read, revise, update, or correct outdated personal databases.
- The right to demand complete erasure of unnecessary individual logs.
- The right to limit the scope of administrative profiling operations.
- The right to withdraw a previously recorded consent at any juncture.
For inquiries, please coordinate with our Data Integrity Specialist via [email protected]. If your concerns are not resolved, you have a formal right to lodge a regulatory report with the South African Information Regulator (South Africa) (E-mail: [email protected]).
9. Protecting Minor Audiences
We operate focused professional adult professional training modules. No child under 18 years is authorized to use our signup forms. If we identify that structural details of a minor have been submitted, we delete them immediately.