Privacy Policy of Sassastats

Welcome to SASSAStats. We are committed to respecting your privacy. This policy outlines how we handle and protect your information when you visit our site.

When you interact with our site, we may collect personal information that you choose to provide, such as your email address or name. This happens when you sign up for our newsletter, leave a comment, or contact us.

We use the information we collect to provide and improve our services, respond to your inquiries, and send you updates about our work. We may also use your information to understand how users interact with our site and to guide our content development.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit so we can understand how you use our site and serve you content based on preferences you have specified.

When you post a comment on our site, you have the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you won’t have to re-enter your details when you post another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you access our login page, we will create a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie doesn’t contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Upon logging in, we will set several cookies to store your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies are stored for two days, and screen options cookies are stored for a year. If you choose “Remember Me”, your login will be maintained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.

If you modify or publish an article, an extra cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie doesn’t contain any personal data and merely signifies the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

A third-party vendor associated with our website, utilizes cookies (referred to as DART cookies) to deliver ads to our site visitors based on their interactions with sassastats.co.za and other websites. Visitors have the option to opt out of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Our site may include links to other websites. Once you leave our site, we have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

When you post a comment, the comment and its associated metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to automatically identify and approve any subsequent comments instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.

For individuals who sign up on our website (if applicable), we store the personal details they include in their user profile. All users have the ability to view, modify, or remove their personal information at any time (although they are unable to alter their username). Website administrators also have the ability to view and modify this information.

If you possess an account on this site or have posted comments, you have the right to request an exported file containing the personal information we have about you, encompassing any data you’ve given to us. Additionally, you can ask us to delete any personal information we have about you. However, this doesn’t include any data that we’re required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

In the event that you initiate a password reset, the reset email will contain your IP address.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].