Privacy Policy

Introduction

Ci Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Limited (“Ci”) is a private company registered in the Republic of South Africa under registration number 2004/030503/07.

Ci recognises the importance of protecting personal information and therefore actively seeks to protect the privacy and confidentiality of our clients.

We will safeguard any personal information acquired by us in connection with your use of this website, by upholding the privacy principles and procedures set out below.

By using our website, you accept the terms as set out below and you consent to the collection, processing, further processing and storage of your personal information. If you have objections to our Privacy Policy, you should not access or use this website. This Privacy Policy does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities or any other websites.

What is personal information?

Personal information is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains.

Changes in Privacy Policy

All personal information that we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy valid at the time of such collection. Ci reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion, and we shallensure thatthe latest version of the Privacy Policy is available on our website. By using our website after we have updated our Privacy Policy, you will be accepting of these updates or amendments.

The use and collection of personal information

As a visitor to this website, you can manoeuvre around our website without providing any personal information. We may, however, ask you to provide certain information about yourself when accessing certain areas of our website by completing and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, we may ask that you provide us personal information, such as your first and last name, postal address, e-mail address, employer, job title, telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal information. Depending on the activity, some of the information that we may ask for may be mandatory and some may be voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.

We may also collect information about your transactions and experiences as you access this website through the use of “cookies”.

Cookies are small files that websites put on your computer hard disk drive when you first visit. Its job is to notify the website when you have returned.

Cookies tell us how often you visit pages, which helps us learn what information interests you. Cookies let you store preferences and user names, register products and services, and personalize pages, but if you never register or leave personal information on a website, then the server only knows that someone with your cookie has returned to the website. It doesn’t know anything else.

Please note that other third party service providers who upload information to or on our website may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Ci collects your information to record and support your participation in the products and services you select. Your information, and the type of information that we collect, is appropriate and reasonable for the purpose that it is required. We shall not collect any information from you that is not relevant and reasonable.

We may collect and analyse information about the use of our website, such as the types of services used and how many users we receive daily. This information is collected and pooled together without any identifying criteria. Ci may use this non-identifying statistical data for statistical analysis, marketing, or similar promotional purposes.

Sharing your personal information

Ci recognises and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information collected on this website. We respect users’ rights to privacy and confidentiality and therefore undertake not to sell, rent or exchange your personal information with any third party other than for the purposes of obtaining the information from you. Except in the particular circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, Ci will not provide your name to other companies or third parties without your consent.

There are instances where Ci may be required todisclose your personal information. We may provide your personal information:

• To comply with laws or regulations of a governmental or regulatory authority (eg Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) or Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) )
• In response to a valid subpoena, warrant or court order
• To comply with Ci’s legal and regulatory obligations in terms of any legislation or regulation applicable to our business (including fraud prevention, anti-money laundering and tax matters)
• To exercise, protect and defend Ci’s rights and property (including our intellectual property)
• To conduct required credit checks
• On the reasonable request of another company in which you have invested
• In the public interest

Please note that Ci is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of non-Ci websites to which this website may link. You should review the privacy policy of such websites before using the websites.